How to Make Money Writing!
Here’s an interesting Washington Post article on a Cornell University study on a “pricing trick” that seems to work. The study’s specific to the home real estate market, but it most likely has psychological implications for how we price what we sell (what doesn’t?).
Popularity: 39% [?]
Advertising Age Search Marketing Fact Pack 2007 [AdAge PDF]
The who, what, when, where of search, and how. Some interesting data: 88.5% of the time people don’t pay attention to PPC adverts, making clickthrough rate just 11.5% overall. Small? Not when you consider that there are 2,500 searches performed per second in the US. Get more interesting search marketing-related figures from the PDF.
Popularity: 23% [?]
It must be true, since this link goes to Yahoo! News.
Well, maybe you can’t exactly use this information. But it sure will be interesting to watch how this develops!
Like this post? Maybe you'd like to buy me a cuppa joe! It'll help keep me awake to write more, of course. Thanks!Popularity: 26% [?]
107 Magazine Predictions for 2008 [Folio]
2008 predictions by some of the media industry’s best and brightest.
Popularity: 22% [?]
New Security Rules for Batteries on Planes [CNET]
New rules from the Transportation and Security Administration that take effect this year ban travelers from carrying loose lithium batteries in checked baggage. Passengers are allowed to pack two spare batteries in their carry-on bag, as long as they’re in clear plastic baggies.
Popularity: 24% [?]
New Magazine Launches Decline in 2007 [Folio]
Despite differences in new magazine launch counts among observers, they agree there were fewer new magazine launches this year than last.
Popularity: 59% [?]
The Big Changes in Wedding and Environmental Magazines [AdAge]
Surprisingly, the fastest growing segment of the print magazine market from 2002-2007 was wedding magazines. Even more surprising, despite growing attention and interest, the environmental magazine segment has experienced one of the industry’s steepest declines. Go figure.
Popularity: 21% [?]
Adobe’s New CEO Zeroes in on Web [USA Today]
Shantanu Narayen takes over as Adobe, best known for Photoshop, Acrobat and PDF digital document tools, is shifting many of its wares from boxed software to online services.
Popularity: 27% [?]
Forget Facebook. Search Ads are the Revolution [AdAge]
Unlike social ads and most other types of advertising, search is something people want rather than something that gets in the way.
Popularity: 20% [?]
Amazon eBook Reader Enables Wireless Impulse Buys [MMN]
The difference with the Kindle, Amazon’s new eBook reader, is that folks can buy eBooks wirelessly, directly from the device, without having to sync up to a computer.
Popularity: 25% [?]
Subscribe via email and download Wordpreneur Markets and Wordpreneur Promotion free: 
Subscribe in a reader
