Matthew Toren
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Matthew Toren is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, investor and co-founder of YoungEntrepreneur.com. He is co-author, with his brother Adam, of Kidpreneurs.org, BizWarriors.com and Small Business, BIG Vision: Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right (Wiley).
The phrase “above the fold” originated in the newspaper industry and referred to the relative importance of a story according to the position it was placed on the page. This typically referred to the traditional broadsheet style but could also be used with a tabloid. A story that was printed above the fold was more […]
Continue readingSocial media phenomenon Twitter is on everyone’s radar screens these days. Never before have we been able to see so clearly into the eyes of friends, acquaintances, others who share similar interests or corporate marketing people. This newfound freedom and openness of communication has really taken us by storm, even though we are only able […]
Continue readingWe have said it before and we will say it again – marketers avoid or misunderstand social media at their peril. During a recent survey of men in the key age group 18 to 34, 75% said they spend most of their time online versus less than 20% watching TV, according to lifestyle experts askmen.com. […]
Continue readingOne of the drawbacks of Twitter is that it still, fundamentally, appears to be unmanageable, especially from the point of view of a detail oriented marketer. While the intent of its developers may well have been to allow people just to shoot sound bites at each other, its interactive capability endears its potential to the […]
Continue readingFor anyone involved in e-commerce, the product page is the most important of all. You will have spent considerable time and effort and engaged in a good process of education to attract your customer to this point. This represents the narrowest part of your sales funnel and all of your efforts have been directed at […]
Continue readingWhile there’s been precious little to be positive about during this most brutal of recessions, one of the brighter lights in the retail environment has been the continued growth of online marketing. The platform itself may also have suffered during the 2007 to 2009 “great recession,” but it has continued to see growth during the […]
Continue readingAn interesting development has come from a line of communication between the newspaper industry and the mighty Google. As we know, the traditional newspaper business model has been in sharp decline and the industry has been frantically looking for alternative means of collecting revenue within the digital age. Some newspapers have tried their own micro-payment […]
Continue readingAdsense is one of the most popular ways for online marketers to achieve revenues. You are essentially becoming part of Google’s massive moneymaking machine and piggybacking on their proven understanding of what drives people to certain pages in the quest for certain types of information. Adsense is the opposite of Adwords or “pay per click,” […]
Continue readingHave you ever wondered why you are not being successful in your current business or have struggled to really find a path forward? More than ever it seems these days that a growing number of would-be entrepreneurs are seeking to branch out by themselves on their road to fame and fortune. A small number actually […]
Continue readingRule number one for your company blog: make sure that your content is educational, informative or entertaining. Never be tempted to use your company blog as a sales letter or to pitch one product or service in any shape or form. You can certainly talk about your areas of expertise, of course but they should […]
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