Max Kalehoff on Social Media Advertising, Blogging & the Future of Paid Search
One of the most insightful voices in the online marketing industry when it comes to advertising is Max Kalehoff of Clickable. I was introduced to Max at a Search Insider Summit conference several years ago with very high regard by David Berkowitz, another intelligent voice in the industry, so I knew immediately he was someone to [...]
Categories: Online Marketing Tags: Blogging, clickable, interview, Interviews, max kalehoff, munish gandhi, Pay Per Click, search, Social Media Advertising
Kunin on Killing Passivity
"One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection." Madeleine Kunin (1933 - ) Swiss-American diplomat and politician
Categories: All about sales Tags: Action, Kunin, Madeleine, Madeleine Kunin, quot, Quotes, Responsibility, Risk
The Nonsense of “NO” and 3 Reasons You Need to Own a Paddle Boat Factory.
Please stop telling me your ridiculous fairy-tale rhymes about how “yes is the new no”… No means “No.” It means “no way”… It means “you lost”… It means that you have “wasted your time”… It never means “yes”. I am not sure why there is so much cognitive dissonance about this issue. Does our willfully paralytic mental funk [...]
Categories: Sales Blogger Tags: bullying, buyers, craft, Daniel Waldschmidt, I Thought They Said No, mental funk, No, nonsense, prospect
Business Groups, Obama Administration Spar Over Corporate Governance
A dozen business groups are urging lawmakers to vote down corporate governance changes included in the Senate financial regulation bill, one day after an Obama administration official threw his weight behind the measure.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: Bill, Deputy Treasury, neal wolin, Secretary Neal Wolin, U.S. Chamber
Dallas Fed Backed Discount-Rate Increase
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas was in favor of raising the rate charged to banks on emergency loans last month, but it found little support from others in the U.S. central bank.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: Chairman Ben Bernanke, Dallas, federal reserve bank of dallas, President Richard Fisher, rate, U.S., Wall Street, Washington
Economists React: Jump in Imports Outpaces Export Gain
Economists and others weigh in on the expansion in the U.S. trade deficit.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: Deficit, Joseph Brusuelas, Joshua Shapiro, Nigel Gault, Phil Izzo, stock inventories, Ted Wieseman, Tim Quinlan, U.S., U.S.A., Wells, Zach Pandl
Capital-Control Confusion at the IMF
In February, the International Monetary Fund, which had long opposed controls on capital inflows, published a surprising paper that reversed course. Today, the IMF came close to changing its mind again.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: capital, Effie Psalida, global financial stability report
Marron to Become Director of Tax Policy Center
Donald Marron, who worked in the George W. Bush White House, will become the director of the Tax Policy Center, an eight-year-old joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution think tanks that produces widely used analysis of tax trends, data and policy options.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: congressional budget office, Donald, Donald Marron, Eric Toder, George W. Bush, policy, Robert Reischauer, Rosanne Altshuler, William Gale
Secondary Sources: Recession Dating, Recovery Risks, Cap and Trade
A roundup of economic news from around the Web.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: Jeffrey Frankel, Phil Izzo, recession, Robert N. Stavins, Robert W Hahn, Tim Duy
Geithner Pushes Lawmakers on Financial Rules
The Obama administration is intensifying its push on new financial rules, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner penned an editorial in the Washington Post Tuesday to try and drive home his argument.
Categories: Real Time Economy Tags: America, Kansas, Risk, Timothy Geithner, U.S., United States, Washington