30 09, 2018

Analysts Predict a Big Quarter for the Apple Watch!

By |2018-09-30T17:06:26+00:00September 30th, 2018|Apple, Technology|0 Comments

Apple Watch is eating into the traditional watch business. Now, analysts are predicting that demand for the Apple Watch this holiday season will eat at sales in the already-slowing traditional watch industry. If Apple is looking at wearables, should your business be too?

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28 07, 2018

Yelp Adds Health Inspection Data for Restaurants

By |2018-07-28T10:32:27+00:00July 28th, 2018|Social Media, The Blog|0 Comments

I am no fan of Yelp and have been advising the public for years on how to deal with Yelp without having to actually deal with them. The strategy has been working for me and many others businesses that I consult with. This new strategy by Yelp just reinforces the fact that their business model is not working and they have to up their game. I am not sure how this one will work out, only time will tell. I personally think Yelp should be held liable for LIBEL and SLANDER if the information on the Yelp site is not updated timely.

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28 07, 2018

Twitter shares drop 14 percent after reporting declining monthly active users 

By |2018-07-28T10:33:52+00:00July 28th, 2018|Social Media|0 Comments

Twitter is being accused of shadow banning conservative accounts and the Federal Government is looking into this illegal activity. President Trump himself tweeted about looking into and stopping this illegal activity, and that can't be good. There are also reports throughout social media that Facebook and Twitter are being cut off from any government funding or government contracts they may have and this is accounting for the large losses.

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25 07, 2018

Facebook plunges more than 24 percent on revenue miss and projected slowdown

By |2018-07-28T10:35:39+00:00July 25th, 2018|Facebook, Technology|0 Comments

Facebook Inc’s shares lost as much as a quarter of their value on Wednesday (7/25/18) after executives said that profit margins would plummet for several years due to the costs of improving privacy safeguards and slowing usage in the biggest advertising markets. Worldwide daily user growth for Facebook’s namesake service slid for its sixth straight quarter, bringing it to nearly 1.5 billion users in the second quarter.

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16 04, 2018

Yelp faces a “dilemma” again with one-star Fake Starbucks reviews.

By |2018-04-16T16:57:53+00:00April 16th, 2018|Social Media|0 Comments

You don't have to even visit the location of a business to write a review and that's where the Yelp business model fails. Unlike OpenTable, where you can only leave a review on a restaurant AFTER the restaurant checks you in, Yelp has no such functionality.

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15 04, 2018

Adults Need to Engage in Vigorous Debates. Facebook Should Not Be Policing it.

By |2018-04-16T05:18:37+00:00April 15th, 2018|Facebook, Technology|0 Comments

I was able to watch quite a bit of Facebook CEO's Mark Zuckerberg's testimony in front of the Senate this past week. After years of following facebook issues, I learned nothing new. This is a company that is a monopoly and needs to be regulated along with Google, Amazon and may

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