Sunday, July 10, 2016

TPS Consulting Daily


TECHNOLOGY

Research-backed Tips to Get More Followers on Twitter, Facebook

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Ludwik C. Siadlak



blog.bufferapp.com - Follower count is often considered one of the vainest of vanity metrics. I can relate. I’ve had my fair share of ego tied to that golden number on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn—one day...

13 Website Design Mistakes That’ll Ruin Your Conversion Rate with Remedies - Mountnow

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Ludwik C. Siadlak



mountnow.com - ­Many people think that conversion rate optimization is mostly depended on content. The above statement might be true but at the same time you cannot afford to overlook the significance of design a...

This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

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Gregg Luhring



mashable.com - Apple engineer Jordyn Castor has never been one for limitations. She was born 15 weeks early, weighing just under two pounds. Her grandfather could hold her in the palm of his hand, and could even ...

10 amazing Prisma app images that started as simple selfies

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Jefferson Faudan



mashable.com - The Prisma app, which transforms normal photos into amazing images that attempt to replicate the human artistic touch, is officially a hit. First released back in June in the Apple App Store, the ...

Skype Meetings is Microsoft’s new free video conferencing tool for small businesses

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - Microsoft today launched Skype Meetings, a new audio and video conferencing tool specifically designed for small businesses. Skype Meetings is essentially a stripped down version of the Skype for B...

The end of your undivided attention

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - Many things have sought to capture your undivided attention, but that might be the ghost of a goal in today’s reality. And that genie isn’t going back in the bottle, so responsible product design n...

Hype check: Pokémon Go says more about Pokémon than it does about AR

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - Basically everyone is Pokémon Go-ing according to Twitter, and I’m sure basic resources like power and water will soon start to shut down because key staff are out chasing Pikachu. But before we go...

Snapchat Memories is a searchable replacement for your camera roll

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - You can now post old content to your Snapchat Story. That’s just one of the sweeping consequences of Snapchat’s new feature “Memories”. It creates a smart camera roll alternative in Snapchat where ...

ZUtA demos its mobile robotic printer

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - After finding success on Kickstarter, ZUtA Labs is piecing together its mobile robotic printer. Small enough to fit into the palm of your hand, the four-inch wireless device makes it easy to produc...

Face computers slowly find their place in business

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - Remember Google Glass? How could you not? Born with great fanfare just four short years ago, the device quickly became the object of derision. Google finally shut down the Explorer program in Janua...

Content Marketing on a Budget: 9 Tools You Should Use

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Guy Kawasaki



v3b.com - We all know that content is an important part of just about any marketing strategy, and it’s especially important when it comes to your lead gen efforts. In fact, according to a recent study from M...

32 Marketing Tutorials for Facebook, Instagram

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Larry Wentz


practicalecommerce.com - While Facebook is not yet a full-fledged ecommerce platform, its ability to help businesses connect with fans is huge. For example, a mom’s Facebook Live video went viral after she tried on a Chewb...

27 Detailed Ways to Generate New Blog Post Ideas

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Larry Wentz



sugarrae.com - Coming up with good topics for your blog posts can be a struggle, especially after you have been blogging for a while. When I get inspired, blogging is easy for me. When I have to sit down and writ...

Ready, Bargain Hunters? Here's Your Guide To Winning Amazon Prime Day 2016

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Reg Saddler



inc.com - As the world's largest online retailer, Amazon has a history of working outside the box, as the company proved in 2015 with its first-ever Amazon Prime Day sale. On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, Amazon a...

Fake Pirate Movies Annoy Pirates & Anti-Pirates Alike - TorrentFreak

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Reg Saddler


torrentfreak.com - In case readers missed it, copyright holders are very unhappy with YouTube. In recent months the site has developed into a battleground over the DMCA and the entertainment industries’ war with Goog...

4 Often Overlooked Ways to Highlight Video on Social Media

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Reg Saddler


blogs.spectrio.com - More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month, and 8 billion videos are viewed daily on Facebook. Video is one of the fastest growing media trends and marketers are taking notice. But m...

5 Real-Life Push Notifications and Why They Work (or Don't)

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - There’s a lot of buzz around push notifications--how and when to use them and why they’re effective. Though a sizable number of brands have implemented the technology to send them, few have mastere...

American Express Partners with Barclaycard to Augment Customer Experience

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - Communication’s significance within the larger customer experience puzzle cannot be overstated. Simply put, effective brand communication is among the most crucial factors in fostering engagement w...

Red Wing Shoes Transforms the Customer Experience in the Age of the Mobile Consumer

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - Mobile is transforming the global customer experience at this very moment. Many brands are leveraging this phenomenon to augment their collective customer experience in light of mobile users. Red W...

Dunkin’ Donuts Evolves Customer Loyalty Experience Through Mobile

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - After Dunkin’ Donuts launched its mobile app in 2012, the attendant success from that formed the basis for the DD Perks loyalty program that began in 2014. But, as Paul Murray, Senior Manager Digit...

How to Design Your Mobile App for Referral (Part 1)

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - Google’s AdWords used to be the only real player in digital advertising. People would search for specific things from their desktops, the vast majority of the time using Google, and they’d click wh...

Data Deficiencies Continue to Plague Customer Experience

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - Just 6% of survey respondents described their omnichannel readiness as “excellent—fully implemented.” When asked about the holdups in delivering the personalized engagements consumers want, retaile...

Samsung Pay Seeks Greater Customer Engagement

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - Samsung is taking a different approach toward mobile payments. Samsung Pay, which is a mobile payment service that allows Samsung users to make payments using compatible phones, is different from o...

Customer Referrals, Impulse Buys Move Toward a New Era of Customer Loyalty

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - Customers today are constantly bombarded with marketing material. From car commercials to targeted online advertisements, it’s difficult to do anything without being told to buy a new product, shop...

Pollfish : A Survey Web Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Giannis Zaoudis'; CTO of the Cyprus-based start-up “pollfishCom”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted : 1. ...

Talk.io A New Way To Meet People - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas


start-ups.co - Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Tomasz Dominiak'; Project Manager / CEO of Talk.io in Warsaw. Talk.io (http://www.talk.io) is a new product designed for anyone who wants to break free fro...

ZWOOKY : Innovative Contact System - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Thomas Stoll”, CIO at the Uerikon – Switzerland based start-up “ZWOOKY ” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...

Stores.Miscake.com: A Web-Based Service for Creating Online Stores - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - Miscake Stores is a service for creating online stores. It is designed both for small merchants and big resellers. Below is the full interview that we have conducted with Mrs. Richardson regarding...

Limetr.ee: A Web Application that Allows you to Safely Keep Messages, Photos and Videos you Want to Preserve as a Legacy for your Child - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - Limetree is about gathering family and friends around your children’s history. About the legacy you want to pass to your child. About safeguarding memories for the future. Below is the full and in-...

Musistic : Music Technology Company - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas


start-ups.co - We had a nice chat with Mr. “Jimbo Lattimore”, CEO of the Memphis USA-based start-up “Musistic” about his Company. Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do an...

Hubchi : Online Marketplace For Booking and Entertainment - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Prasanthy Gurugubelli”, Founder at the Hyderabad – India based start-up “Hubchi” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you d...

DealTrunk : Browser Extension To Display Best Deals From Online Retailers - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Amanda Wrzeszczynski”, Founder of the Pittsburgh, USA based start-up “DealTrunk” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do...

MonitorBacklinks.com: An Easy Backlink Checker Tool that Notifies you via Email or in your Changelog if Someone Removes your Links or Makes them Nofollow - Start-Ups.Co

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Debbas



start-ups.co - Monitor Backlinks looks to replace the notepad and spreadsheets that SEOs use to keep track of their backlinks, checking their status regulary and notifies when they get removed or nofollowed. “Mon...

Why You Need a Business Strategy, Not a Social Strategy

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Travis Wright



convinceandconvert.com - There’s no shortage of how-to articles and blog posts on leveraging the power of social media. And with this endless sea of social media-touting commentary, it’s natural to think you’ve got to jump...

Top 10 TED Talks for Entrepreneurs

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Jonathan Gunson



inc.com - TEDGlobal 2014 kicked off this week in Rio de Janeiro with panels focusing on how ideas, both good and bad, spread across borders. If you've yet to accumulate enough frequent-flier miles to dash o...

Why Advertisers Are Forking Over Big Bucks for Custom Snapchat Lenses

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Stephan Stavrakis



adweek.com - Snapchat is set to cash in on its surreal selfies. Eight months after securing 20th Century Fox for its first sponsored lens to promote The Peanuts Movie, the number of marketers signing on for Sna...

Armed Robbers Used Pokemon Go App to Target Victims, According to Cops

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Anita Nelson



abcnews.go.com - A string of armed robberies that took place Saturday night in Missouri were perpetrated by suspects who targeted their victims using Pokémon Go, a popular augmented reality game, according to polic...

7 Influencer Marketing Insights You Need to Know Today

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Anita Nelson



jeffbullas.com - Written with a spelling mistake or two and from someone I didn’t know. I went close to ignoring it. “I think you are doing a great job with your blog and hope that you can share that with businesse...

Elon Musk & Sheryl Sandberg Top List Of Leaders Most Admired By MBAs - Poets and Quants

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Swanepoel



poetsandquants.com - A billionaire futurist. A genius go-getter. A patriot and a philanthropist. Sometimes, you wonder if Elon Musk stepped out of a movie. In another universe, the coiffed and sophisticated Musk would ...

Review: 2016 LG OLED TV - TechHuman.com

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Future Lighting



techhuman.com - Posted By Steven Ambrose on Jul 10, 2016 | 0 comments It is not often that a product comes along that knocks your socks off. The new range of OLED TV’s from LG is one of these products. LG’s late...

8 tech gadgets you can buy at your local dollar store

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Future Lighting



finance.yahoo.com - Just because you’re tight on cash doesn’t mean you can’t afford some great gadgets. Most local dollar stores have a tech section, believe it or not, and you might be pleasantly surprised at what yo...

OurMine Strikes Again: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Gets His Twitter Account Hacked

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Jason Cramer



techtimes.com - OurMine, the three-man "security team" that puts the accounts of prominent tech industry celebrities to the test, has done it again, striking at Twitter's core. The hacking trio recently targeted J...

Twitter Busts Tweet-Archiving Website PostGhost

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Jason Cramer



pcmag.com - PostGhost has officially announced that its service is no more, and its creators must have seen this day coming the minute they up with the idea. Twitter, after all, has never been the biggest fan ...

Setting Goals: In Pursuit of Fabulous!

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a Mom Entrepreneur



lainaturner.com - How often do you set a goal and then fail to follow through, get discouraged and give up, or completely forget about it 3 days later and are on to the next? It used to happen to me all the time. I ...

Now the 100 individual privacy settings you need to set on your phone can be done in a single app

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Tamara Dull



qz.com - When it comes to privacy controls, we may now have too much of a good thing. Smartphone owners must now make more than 100 privacy decisions about how how much data their apps can share on Apple’s ...

Have we forgotten to talk? | Pricing Power

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Steve Major



pricingpower.net - Technology is fantastic and is transforming the relationship professionals have with their customers. But recently I have been wondering if we have forgotten something – the art of conversation. ...

Samsung unveils world's first UFS memory cards — the successor to microSD

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Scott C. Lemon



theverge.com - What comes after microSD cards for removable storage? Samsung has the answer: UFS. The company announced today the world's first removable UFS (Universal Flash Storage) memory cards, offering stora...