Today, John Benitez and I decided to try out a new ramen restaurant in Orange County call Motto Ramen. We were a bit apprehensive to try it out because the place doesn’t have a website. I mean, what business today doesn’t have a website? While waiting for our ramen, we decided to see if the […]
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Our workdays are in a permanent state of tug-of-war between deadlines and distractions, waged on a battlefield of meetings, projects, and campaigns—and planning, managing, and creating… Do we ever, these days, have time to pause, contemplate, assess, strategize—to go beyond the day-to-day to delve into some deep thinking? And yet, if we’re ever going to
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Wondering how to get started with Instagram ads for beginners? Spending money Instagram advertising can be majorly intimidating — especially with a limited budget and little experience. But it’s so worth it! Whether you’re looking to grow your Instagram account, make sales, or drive more traffic to your website, a creative and well-targeted Instagram ad campaign
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Australia is currently reviewing its data privacy laws. As with Europe in 2018, there is recognition that laws originally drafted in a semi-pre-digital age need refreshing to be relevant in our current world of Facebook, WhatsApp, re-targeting and artificial intelligence. Proposed recommendations1 include: Broader definition of personal information, including technical and location data Stronger consent
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There is nothing like a great success story about starting from humble beginnings to grow and become a global brand. Growing from a blue-collar business doesn’t often happen instantly. It often requires finding your niche, a lot of hard work and a strong conviction to succeed. A new infographic from Housecall Pro looks at how
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I’ve become addicted to the show Penn & Teller: Fool Us, a reality TV contest where magicians perform magic tricks in front of legendary magician-comedian duo Penn and Teller, and see if they can fool them. Those guys have been performing magic for nearly 50 years, and they know just about all the techniques in
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Retail is changing fast. radically. indelibly. This is particularly true for the toy industry, still reeling from the onslaught of digital commerce and the nationwide closure of Toys ‘R’ Us stores. According to Field Agent’s new holiday preview, it appears Walmart, Amazon, and Target are faring best in a post-TRU, pre-TRU Kids world, but this
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Infosec pros who had no idea of how easily a stolen list of hashed passwords could be cracked got a sobering lesson at this month’s SecTor security conference in Toronto. There, Will Hunt, co-founder of the U.K. based In.security consulting firm, casually talked of systems that can be built around a common (about $1,500) Nvidea
They say life is a marathon not a sprint. You need to take calculated steps if you want to get to your destination. In 2008, Singapore experienced a major digital boom that saw a rapid increase in businesses setting up websites to promote their products. Entrepreneurs also started to embrace the power of social media
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Depending upon your experience, it’s likely that the advent of artificial intelligence — and its most commonly deployed subset, machine learning (ML) — has either been a boon or a boondoggle. I would proffer that the pole at which you reside depends not on your technological savvy, but rather the manner in which ML has
