Mar 28
This is a guest post by Xurxo Vidal. Xurxo is a co-founder and search marketing strategist at Bloom Search Marketing – an agency specialized in paid search campaigns, SEO, Google Analytics and conversion improvement. We are lucky to have him here today to talk about optimizing Adwords campaigns. You can find more of Xurxo’s writings on his company’s blog.
You’re spending your hard earned cash to advertise your products and services on Google, so finding out how well your campaigns are working is critical to your success with AdWords. Today I
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Mar 28
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is calling on landlords to deliver on their promises to “go the extra mile to support firms”.
A recent survey conducted by the BRC shows that only 12% of shop property leases are on monthly rental terms despite landlords’ public commitment to be more flexible on rental terms.
Stephen Robertson, British Retail Consortium Director General, said:
“We welcome this public commitment by landlords to be more flexible, but they need to back up their words with action.
“Our objection to quarterly payments has always been a point of principle – not just about helping businesses through tough times. M
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Feb 24
I attended the February 23rd press conference held by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli where he announced that Wall Street bonuses tallied at least $20.3 billion in 2009 and industry profits could exceed $55 billion for the year – nearly three times the previous record. While a blogger or two from a major political website is occasionally included in such events, this may have been the first time a blogger for an investing/economics site was on the press invitation list.
The Wall Street bonuses revealed by the comptroller were literally that – compensation paid to employees working in New York City.
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Feb 23
With the recent natural disasters and also economic recession, many people are being extra careful to make sure their donations go as far as possible. Earlier this month, BusinessWeek ran an article Philanthropy: Rethinking How to Give which did a good job exploring the many websites now available to help you do just that. Initially, most websites focused on financial factors like what percentage of donations go to administrative or fundraising expenses, whereas now many sites tackle the harder task of measuring actual impact for the dollar.
Here is a list of the links, along with a quick description of that makes them unique, as they each have a slightly different approach.
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