Author: Sharon Sarmiento

  • Qi Marketing Seminar Series Starts

    Lots of launches these days! My buddy Ellen Britt got tired of all the hackneyed, heavy-handed marketing seminars out there and so forumlated a free seminar series featuring some great marketing experts (and not the usual old tired roster!). The series has started and you can get in on the action over at http://marketingqi.com/

  • Master TypePad. Conquer Google.

    (from the ezine) http://GOblogwild.com/grabitnow You know I’m a push-over. We were doing the preview call for Easy Bake Weblogs yesterday and I announced that folks can grab the course for 50% off in the next few days. Many of them chimed in and asked if they could get the Keywords Essentials course for half off, […]

  • Google Docs Debuts

    This may be old news, I’m still letting my RSS feeds languish… but Google has added a text editor to their office suite (they’d bought Writely a while ago) – a great addition to Spreadsheets.

  • Federal Trade Commissions Stops Qchex Online Bill Pay: Lets Others Raid Your Checking Account

    Nice: The company had been allowing customers to create and send checks without verifying their permission to access the affected accounts, according to a complaint filed today by the Federal Trade Commission. The commission asked the U.S. District Court of Southern California to issue a permanent restraining order to halt the company’s practices, which the […]

  • Matt Taibbi Does a Thomas Friedman Takedown

    How the world being ‘flat’ (a clumsy metaphor anyway) really happens: According to The New York Times, what we need to do to compete with China economically is adopt commensurate “homegrown business practices” that will enhance our performance. What do they have in mind? Eliminating the freedom of speech? Outlawing free trade associations? Legalizing child […]

  • Free Internet Marketing Videos on Google Video with Ken Giddens, Alex Mandossian, Paul Colligan and Declan Dunn

    20 hours of internet marketing videos on Google Video. (via Yaro)

  • Adobe Contribute Now Works with WordPress

    (via Weblogs Tools Collection) Adobe Contribute and WordPress Adobe contribute now works with WordPress and other blogging tools to allow users to post and publish content from within Adobe, Macromedia and Microsoft applications directly to blogs as well as other publishing applications and CMSs. Lots of tricks and features built in, including workflow and authoring […]

  • New Soft Drink Launches: ‘Cocaine’

    I love this kinda stuff. Las Vegas-based Redux Beverages recently rolled out their marketing campaign for the new energy drink Cocaine. It compares in calories to Red Bull (only 70 vs. Red Bull’s 80) but weighs in with 350 percent more caffeine (280 mg, about the same as four espresso shots). The drink also boasts […]

  • Google Launches Ping Service

    From the G-Men: Today we’re launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly. We’ll continue to monitor other pinging […]

  • HOWTO: Use iCalendar Events for Easy Teleseminar Scheduling in MS Outlook

    I always screw up timezones. Usually the night before a call I wake up in the middle of a panic attack and rush to the computer to triple check the timezones for the next day’s call. With the launch of Blogwild!, I experimented with letting people put a reminder to buy my book on their […]