*Editor’s warning: Plenty of good Aaron Lee feistiness ahead* I receive a lot of emails from people to test Twitter apps or services; however, I only reply a handful of them (that reminds me, I need to reply some of them after this). A lot of emails are pretty much standard emails which people usually blast-to-everyone kind of emails. They throw in their fishing rod everywhere hoping for a fish to bite. I do bite. I bite back at them. … [Read more...] about Personalization is EVERYTHING
Groupon Deals Make Sense for Merchants
Responding to a great article by Heidi Cohen on Groupon, in her article she stated Groupon was unprofitable for 1/3 of the merchants surveyed and that over 40% of them wouldn’t run a repeat offer according to researched done. Which means 2/3 actually made a profit from it and 60% would repeat offer, fair enough! Heidi also talked about her friends experience with Groupon where they use them to treat themselves to services that they might not do at full price, often a girls’ day out and that it’s not traffic these businesses want. … [Read more...] about Groupon Deals Make Sense for Merchants
Which will DIE first Facebook or Twitter?
I saw a video from @chrispirillo on Youtube where a viewer asked Chris whether Facebook or Twitter will die first? His respond to that question was that Facebook will die first. The reason to that was 1) Complexity In Chris’s opinion, he feels that Twitter is much simpler compared to Facebook. Twitter, in his opinion, is simpler with 140 characters and Twitter keeps it simple for reasons such as simplicity is sometimes more successful. Therefore it will last longer than Facebook. … [Read more...] about Which will DIE first Facebook or Twitter?
Is Quora the biggest blogging innovation? No!
I recently stumbled upon one Robert Scoble's post about Quora being the biggest blogging innovation in 10 years, since he had been blogging for 10 years. If you ask me, I disagree with him completely. I think that Twitter is the best innovation in …well, let’s not give it a year, and say…since I came online. I have been blogging for a year now on Ask Aaron Lee, but I started blogging back in 2006. I even had a blog about coffee which I gave it up after 120 blog posts. Before twitter I wasn’t doing anything at all. I love reading but I didn’t know who Mashable was or Tech Crunch. Most of the blogs I read were on internet marketing. … [Read more...] about Is Quora the biggest blogging innovation? No!
Facebook Reaches 600 Million Users
There had been a lot of questions going as to if Facebook has pass the 600 million users milestone yet. Answer to that question, YES! Facebook passed the 600 million users mark in December 2010 (probably earlier). It was not announced publicly. Maybe not to tech blogs like mashable, techcrunch or RWW, however, when I attended iStrategy Singapore in December, Blake Chandlee the VP & Commercial Director, EMEA, at Facebook announced at the seminar that Facebook has already surpassed 600 million users. Of course we tweeted it out. … [Read more...] about Facebook Reaches 600 Million Users
Starbucks New Logo: Its About Time
Starbucks has unveiled a new logo today. As you can see they remove the most important word in their logo… COFFEE. It is a bold move changing the logo after what had happened to GAP logo. GAP decided to change their logo and people went nuts. Soon after that they implemented back their old logo. Here is a illustrated history of Starbucks logo. … [Read more...] about Starbucks New Logo: Its About Time