How Do You Judge The Success Of Your Site?

This is a guest post by Neil Jones who is head of marketing for eMobileScan, who are one of Europe’s Leading providers to the AIDC industry. Specialising in Handheld computers like the Motorola MC9090 and the Datalogic Memor.

You can do this 1 of 2 ways, to count the amount of visitors you receive each day or you can track the actions these visitors take while on your site. One of these methods has outlived its usefulness and the other is what we as webmasters and site owners should be tracking. [read]

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51 Ways To Reward Employees Without Money

Sure, many companies feel strapped right now and may duck their head and run in the other direction at the mere mention of bonuses. But tough times don’t mean that you should just forget about rewarding your employees. There are many ways that you can reward employees without handing them money, and many of these are things you can do right now, with very little effort.

Here are a whopping 51 things you can give your employees that don’t include cutting them a check: [read]

NOTE:  I know why there’s 51, because 3 & 7 are the same thing.  Would like to hear your thoughts.  Would any of these make a difference for you?  For myself, a “thank you” goes a long way.

How to Magically Transform Your Irritations into Personal Development Teachers

The irritations you have are signposts. They are there to help your personal development, or to make your life a living hell. The choice is up to you. If you’re irritated by someone not washing the dishes, you probably want to tell that someone to do the dishes, and not just leave them there. How careless of them. They should know better, right?

When we really look into our irritations, we’ll discover something more profound, and something that can catapult our self-growth to new levels like a supercharged rocket.

It isn’t easy, and it requires a great deal of honesty, but it’s worth it. [read]

Surround Yourself with Passionate People

Last night I had an amazing dinner with my wife Eva and my friends Scott and Jesse and their wives Chelsea and Joanna.

The gathering itself was simple: six people, simple healthy food, a little wine, a little tea, nothing else. Except that we lost ourselves in conversation so deeply that before we knew it, it was 1:30 a.m. and I was shocked at how quickly the time had passed.

The secret is also simple: when you talk with people who are passionate about what they’re doing, passionate about life and the people they love, it is transformative.

The people I talked with last night are incredibly passionate about what they’re doing. And yes, Brett, I mean passionate: excited, fired-up, feeling-strongly-about, thinking-about-it-all-the-time, can’t-wait-to-do-it-when-you-wake-up passion. When you talk with people who are passionate like that, you can’t help but get fired up yourself. You want to go out and do something exciting. [read]

5 Manifestos for Art, Life & Business

Manifestos are a powerful catalyst. By publicly stating your views and intentions, you create a pact for taking action. (Movements from the American Revolution to Dogme 95 film to the Firefox web browser were all launched by manifestos.) If you want to change the world, even in just a small way, creating a personal or business manifesto is a great place to start. [read]

5 Ways Retailers Are Winning Big With Facebook Commerce

Facebook commerce is the topic at the front of every brand marketer’s mind, and retailers are starting to explore how they convert “Likes” into actual purchases. Here’s a look at five ways retailers have had success with Facebook commerce. [read]

Values of the Creative Class

The rise of the Creative Class is reflected in powerful and significant shifts in values, norms and attitudes. Although these changes are still in process and certainly not fully played out, a number of key trends have been discerned by researchers who study values, and I have seen them displayed in my field research across the United States. Not all of these attitudes break with the past: Some represent a melding of traditional values and newer ones. They are also values that have long been associated with more highly educated and creative people. On the basis of my own interviews and focus groups, along with a close reading of statistical surveys conducted by others, I cluster these values along three basic lines. [read]

Will it ‘protect’ our children? ICANN Approves .Xxx Top-Level Domain

IDG News Service — The adult entertainment industry now has a home on the Internet: It’s called .xxx.

The group that manages the Internet’s top-level domains — the .com, .org and .net that we all type at the end of e-mail messages and Web addresses — said Friday that it will establish a .xxx domain, a move that it hopes will add a measure of predictability and security to the wild world of Internet websites. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) signed off on the process at a meeting in San Francisco this week. [read]

Can I Do That On YouTube? Copyright Law & Posting Video

Websites all over the Internet are inviting you to link and embed your YouTube video on blog sites, “share” it with Facebook friends, or “tweet” it to your Twitter followers. But what are the legal limitations on what you can share and where you can post it? I did a web video recording of an hour-long seminar by intellectual property and internal law attorney Daliah Saper of Saper Law Offices, who answered these questions and more. [read]

The World’s Most Innovative Companies 2011

The 50 companies on our 2011 list have chosen a unique path. Today’s business landscape is littered with heritage companies whose CEOs battle their industry’s broken model with inertia, layoffs, lawsuits — anything that squeezes pennies and delays the inevitable. How many of these companies will be dominant in 2025? Few. [read]