Well, not really South Beach (nor the Miami Heat) and I really have nothing in common with Cleveland’s most hated, but after over four amazing years at Vocus, I’m going to be transitioning into more of a consultative role with the company to free up time to focus on a new venture.
Expedia: Redefining Terrible Customer Service
Let me preface this by saying up until last month, I had been an Expedia (NASDAQ:EXPE) customer for the past three years. They had won me over with what I felt to be a better on-site experience than the other major players in the space and consistently lower rates. In the past, I had typically [...]
Chatting from Yahoo! Mail
Dear Yahoo!, I am a big fan… I think Yahoo! News is a fantastics news portal and am still a loyal Yahoo! Mail user. But you have to stop pushing the Yahoo! Mail integration with Windows Messenger every time I log-in to Yahoo! Mail. I don’t mind it appearing the first time but every [...]
Webmaster Radio Interview with Lee Odden
On the most recent episode of Webmaster Radio’s Cover Story, I spend some time chatting with Lee Odden from TopRank Internet Marketing on SEO, social media and the convergence of PR and Marketing.
Press Releases and SEO
We’ve been getting some questions lately as to the SEO benefits of using a news distribution service like PRWeb so I’d like to take this opportunity to address some of these questions. Search Engines and News Distribution – The Basics I’ll begin by underscoring the fundamental role of search engines and news distribution services: In [...]
Review of Intelius
Selling government data is not a bad business to be in however there is a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. As this review of Intelius indicates, there is certainly a pretty sketchy way of monetizing public records.
Introducing UberSpat
A new site announced their launch today. According to the press release, UberSpat.com is “a debating site that allows users to submit articles and blog posts, much like people do on Digg. This evidence can be submitted in support or in opposition to a debate. This evidence is then rated by users.” Based on the [...]
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How Start-ups Should think about PR
November 9, 2011
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The “All New” PitchEngine
November 1, 2011
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Facebook’s approach to privacy in product releases (aka shoot first and ask questions later)
October 13, 2011
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Comcast – Continuing to Fail at Customer Support and Communication
August 29, 2011
- Central Desktop – So Close and Yet So Far August 20, 2011
- Review of Traffic Geyser March 17, 2008
- Thoughts on Marketwire’s “Social Media 2.0″ February 6, 2008
- Vocus Response on White Paper E-Mail May 23, 2007
- Cisco’s Approach to Second Life July 9, 2008
- Getting Started with Social Media April 16, 2007
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Jiyan is co-founder and CEO of BuildZoom.com. Any opinions or insights represented here are likely those of BuildZoom as well unless they are perceived negatively, in which case they are the sole domain of someone not affiliated with Jiyan nor BuildZoom.


