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Why Agents Need Good Websites
Do agents need (good) web sites? It depends who you ask. Some agents don’t have web sites at all – and, alarmingly, some agents I’ve spoken to continue to take a fairly dim view of the web as a whole, almost considering it beneath or outside their areas of responsibility.
None (that I know of, [...]
Published: March 31, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 25th through March 27th
SEOmoz | Why Does Your Search Traffic Suck? The 7 Most Likely Reasons – Yup.
Celebrity scandal and Anne Frank: the reading diary of British teenagers | News | guardian.co.uk Books – What do teenagers read (apparently). Look away, publishers…
Hipster Librarians – Featured on BuzzFeed – Oh, look, books are hip again. Kind of. Not. Oh.
Published: March 28, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 22nd through March 23rd
Whatâs The Most Popular T-Shirt For A Mugshot? – OK, it’s the holidays. Enjoy this alongside the “exactitudes” exhibition at Selfriges and www.exactitudes.com/ [again, via Quipsologies]
Karin Fong :: Herman Miller :: Imaginary Forces – Great Saul Bass-y meets Franz ferdinand collage ad for Hermann Miller, via Quipsologies
37signals Product Blog: Thoughtful welcome message for getting clients [...]
Published: March 24, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 20th
Link Building Part 1: Links As A Larger Online Marketing Strategy – “for now, the search engines are using links as one method of figuring out what pages on the web are the most useful, valuable, and relevant for any given query.” Pretty good piece about driving traffic through search [thanks Alex]
The Art of Conversation [...]
Published: March 21, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 19th
Apple sets out strategy to dominate mobile market | Technology | guardian.co.uk – John Naughton is surprisingly optimistic this week. He sees Apple winning everything mobile. It’s hard to argue with his logic.
sxsw2008 Stories, Games and Your Brand « Tea and Scandal – “Penguin has an âinnovations fundâ. So projects like âwe tell storiesâ arenât [...]
Published: March 20, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for March 16th through March 18th
Where ‘Every Book Counts’ – 3/17/2008 – Publishers Weekly – Overview of some of the publishers who make up the Independent Alliance (as opposed to the Evil Empire).
SEOmoz | So Many Ways to Pursue Links and So Little Time – Interesting piece (thanks Alex) on how site editors could engage with an audience to drive [...]
Published: March 19, 2008. Read more →
Coversourcing: last word from here
Just a quick update to anyone still reading this blog looking for updates from Coversourcing. Coversourcing now has its own blog (and RSS feed) – and there are a couple of new posts over there this morning: news of free signed first editions for entrants, and Jeff’s own take on the way the jacket design [...]
Published: March 14, 2008. Read more →
The end of The Wire
I’ve just watched the last episode of season five of The Wire. If you don’t watch or know the show, my apologies – but for me, it’s almost (possibly even) as good as seasons 1-4 of The West Wing – those written primarily by Aaron Sorkin. In fact, all I want to do now is [...]
Apt’s links for March 12th
The Rise of The Ad Man 2.0 : iain tait | crackunit.com – âHire digital nativesâ. Good advice, but weâre in short supply – for now. Luckily this crazy digital thing is getting into the blood stream of the generation coming up.”
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business – Forgot to mark this. Chris [...]
Published: March 13, 2008. Read more →
Crowdsourcing… The Winner is…
Adam Humphrey, marketing manager at Random House and responsible for this campaign for Crowdsourcing, talks us through the final decision that has been reached late into the night…
So, after over 300 total entries, 12,000 visitors and over 20,000 votes, we have a Coversourcing winner.
Published: March 3, 2008. Read more →