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Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Glenn Jimerson — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:17:15 -0000

Ok. That makes sense. I was thinking too rigidly and not realizing your sheet accounted for the exact day. The KPI thing is a great idea. It's a useful way to sit down at the end of the day and really evaluate if you are on track.

I found it helpful to set up a scoring table so I have a concrete definition of what it takes to get a 1, 2, etc... .

Great template! Thank you Jon.

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:50:23 -0000

Just a heads up, I used the calendar and the week of the year isn't displaying properly. For example today is the 25th week of 2016 yet the "Life Calendar" tab shows it to be the 32nd week.

Re: Selfie-takers tend to overestimate their attractiveness, study finds

Glenn Jimerson — Fri, 20 May 2016 13:47:49 -0000

Doesn't this sample size seem curiously small? 198 college students from which country? Is it in a college in the US, Europe, Asia? Are there any factors taken into consideration for culture? What's the confidence interval? Hell we don't know any of this because the article doesn't specify and the rest of it is behind a paywall.

Frankly, this seems like a blog spewing junk science based on an excerpt of a publication.

Re: The Five Most Important Things I Learned By 25

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 10 May 2016 22:21:27 -0000

You're ahead of the curve Gordon. Luckily you figured this stuff out young.

Re: Google Fetch As Google Submit To Index Now Requires Captcha

Glenn Jimerson — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:15:49 -0000

They've turned up the annoying. I'm now getting those picture Captcha tests where you have to pick all the pictures containing "X".

Re: Royal Bank of Scotland Banks On Facebook at Work

Glenn Jimerson — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:08:39 -0000

I can see the value as Microsoft and a whole host of services are popping up to replace or augment an intranet. With that said, it seems crazy risky to discuss anything sensitive/proprietary info on a platform owned by a company that is synonymous with privacy issues.

Re: Facebook Instant Articles: More Media Partners, More iPhone Users Coming

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:27:22 -0000

I understand why publishers are doing this. This puts more power in FB's hands and frankly, that's rarely a good thing.

Re: Facebook Moments App Helps Users, Friends Swap, Organize Photos

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:56:19 -0000

I like the app and can see how useful it is. The biggest down side right now is lack of publicity which it looks like FB is trying to fix. If more people knew about this, or, better yet, just integrate it with the FB app, usage and therefore utility would skyrocket.

Re: Google Opens Its Domain Registration Service To All U.S. Users

Glenn Jimerson — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:52:32 -0000

If their DNS service is on par with say Route 53 it's worth the extra $ but I get domain registration through Softlayer and they are about $10 for a dot com.

Re: 50 A/B Split Test Case Studies - Advanced Lead Generation Marketing Blog

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:25:25 -0000

What an excellent article. Reading this is like a crash course in Internet marketing.

Re: BarDown: Stream The Tea Party's First New Album In 10 Years

Glenn Jimerson — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:48:53 -0000

Looks like it's Canada only folks. A VPN can get you around that. I'll just have to wait until the US release.

Re: Will Google Reward Secure Websites With Better Search Rankings?

Glenn Jimerson — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:15:37 -0000

What am I missing here? Changing the algo due to potential security threats seems extreme. I'd be more on board with this if getting an SSL was free. I doubt self-signed SSL's will cut it.

Re: WTF is a Tag Management System Anyway? Do You Really Know, Or Just Think You Do?

Glenn Jimerson — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:04:03 -0000

I'm with you on this one. The techie side says, this is easy, just write your own scripts to handle this stuff but most companies/agencies should outsource this. Remove IT from the equation increase Marketing's control. It's a win overall.

By the way, it's nice to see technical topics like this on one the site. It's nuts and bolts stuff like this that often gets overlooked but can generate a lot of benefit.

Re: Facebook Is Not Responsible For Your Stupidity - AllFacebook

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:25:08 -0000

Well said. Blaming the distribution method for revealing peoples poor choices in life is misplaced effort.

Re: Facebook estimates that between 5.5% and 11.2% of accounts are fake

Glenn Jimerson — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:25:59 -0000

You've got a point. I'd be surprised if they were referring to duplicates like the ones you are talking about. Most likely they are trying to put a number on all those fake profiles created by companies that sell Likes.

Re: Facebook Will Launch Graph Search For Mobile “Pretty Soon”

Glenn Jimerson — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:27:46 -0000

Good point. I'm a heavy desktop FB user and rarely need to use the search function for run-of-the-mill social/keeping up with friends queries. Mobile is a much better fit for Graph search as it has way more utility.

And don't get me started on the limited results Graph search returns when you try to mine it for data. So much potential, such poor results.

Re: Buying Likes: The Cheap and Destructive Price of Friendship

Glenn Jimerson — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:53:30 -0000

You're welcome Phil. I'm glad you liked it. Feel free to share any of my articles and I'll do the same for yours. Between our two posts I hope people will finally be convinced that buying Likers is a poor tactic.

Re: PayPal denies providing payment information to hacker who hijacked $50,000 Twitter username

Glenn Jimerson — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:29:32 -0000

I'm rooting for the guy. If the evidence is overwhelming, I hope Twitter does the right thing and returns the name back over to him.

Re: Buying Likes: The Cheap and Destructive Price of Friendship

Glenn Jimerson — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:59:33 -0000

Those fake Likers negatively impact your reach as well. Getting into people's feeds gets harder due to Facebook post ranking algo. Fake profiles don't like or comment on posts. A large audience giving a collective "meh" to your posts reduces the chances of your real audience from ever seeing it.

You are right, the long hard way is best. Some page owners can bee too short-sighted.

To add some more context to the downside of buying Facebook Likers, take a look at this article: Buying Facebook Likers is Easy Hiding it is Hard http://snakeoilsocial.com/b...

Re: Why Are Dead People Liking Stuff On Facebook? - by Bernard Meisler

Glenn Jimerson — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:19:45 -0000

Sounds like click-jacking. It's possible to have an invisible like button follow a user's cursor around and when they click on say a link on the page they are really clicking the invisible "Like" button. At least that part would explain active users.

The paranoid side of me suspects that users who are inactive for X number of days are thrown into a social marketing gumbo. For example, people who haven't logged in for months are pseudo abandoned so they won't notice if FB uses their profiles to schill for advertisers.

Edit: just looked at the date and saw this article is 2 years old. Damn you Reddit!

Re: How to Improve Your Marketing With Facebook Apps

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:18:43 -0000

Right. I forgot about taking that iframe and implementing it outside of FB for the mobile crowd.

Re: How to Improve Your Marketing With Facebook Apps

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:46:57 -0000

Mike, these are all great tips. The only caveat to considering an investment of time and resources to an app is the growth of mobile use. People who use the Facebook mobile app will not see these apps.

This was a major pain point as we deployed coupon, lead capture, and contest apps.

For folks who are experimenting with FB Apps, I'd advise putting some time into the design of the custom tab image. This is what people will see at the top of the page and since many visitors never return to the page once they have liked it, you need something that pops in order to get that click to your app.

Re: To Respond or Not to Respond to Every Customer Review?

Glenn Jimerson — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:25:19 -0000

Having been in the other camp, I'm now with you on this one. Initially I viewed responding to all positive reviews as an acknowledgement to the reviewer and thus extending the respect due to someone providing feedback.

But now it starts to look like overkill. Frankly, there are just so many ways to say thank you before it starts to look automated. And we all know how unhappy people are to get boilerplate responses.

Re: IP Geolocation Services Showdown

Glenn Jimerson — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:37:51 -0000

+1 for Maxmind. I used the Apache module to redirect traffic to the right landing page. It worked like a charm. Thank you for running these tests.

Re: Porn Industry Could Get a “.xxx” Domain This Week [REPORT]

Glenn Jimerson — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:11:34 -0000

This is a good way for registrars to make money but has limited value in any other way. For example, you can't force entrenched sites to abandon their .com's. Besides who would enforce this moral standard? Who would be the "Internet police"? The logistics of segregation and determination of who should be on a .xxx domain are unwieldy on a global scale.

This just forces webmasters to pay exorbitant registration fees in order to help keep someone from domain squatting.