http://blogs.doublepositive.com The Art of Leads and Lead Generation Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:36:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The article below was sent to me by Sandy Kory of Media Venture Partners. In three years desktops will be irrelevant - Google sales chief http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/15446/business/in-three-years-desktops-will-be-irrelevant-google-sales-chief Here is my reply, my thoughts, and my position: I think that the ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/03/05/hey-google-desktops-may-indeed-be-replaced-by-mobile-phones-but-screensmonitors-wont/ The DoublePositive LIVE Hot Transfers Workshop for Lead Buyers & Lead Sellers: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/26897401/DoublePositive-LeadsCon-Las-Vegas-Presentation-2010   A picture of the LIVE workshop panel discussion (with a killer slide in the background): http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanfenlon/4382869517/sizes/l/   Blog coverage of LeadsCon 2010: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&source=hp&q=leadscon   ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/03/01/leadscon-las-vegas-2010/ DoublePositive posted a Twitter status update merely seconds ago about LeadsCon. Now when I perform a LeadsCon search with the hash tag, I see the actual Twitter post: This is all very interesting. http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2009/12/03/google-alerts-very-interesting/ SPF http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/02/21/google-is-definitely-real-time/ I have no idea, but here's my guess: Rock star, CEO, CXO, President, Founder, SVP, EVP, or VP - 60% All other titles - 40% So those are the odds. The over/under is now 1,700. Did I mention LeadsCon is in Las Vegas? ;-) ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/02/14/so-who-is-coming-to-leadscon/ This screenshot below is evidence as to why Google is excellent at everything EXCEPT predictions and forecasts: Something tells me that the "forecast" area shaded above will be very wrong in the first few months of 2010. Forecasts are difficult.  Especially those that have to ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/02/08/bravo-new-orleans-bravo-saints-not-necessarily-in-that-order/ Back in 2002, Josh Gray invested everything he had to buy Webclients.net, a lead generation firm that had grown to ~$10MM in revenue but was losing money. As the new CEO Josh, focused like a laser on increasing yield (particular on non-monetized inventory) and grew the sales and profits ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/02/02/so-who-bought-webclients-from-valueclick/ I am a personal fan of LeadsCon and this entire blog is as well.  Just ask Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=leadscon&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=100&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=blogs.doublepositive.com LeadsCon 2010 speakers were just announced this week: http://www.leadscon.com/leadscon-las-vegas-2010/full-conference-program.html Here's a partial list of the Rock Star speakers on the list: ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/01/24/leadscon-2010-las-vegas-feruary-23-24-the-mirage/ Lala hosts the most online music. Apple recently bought Lala. Google uses Apple's Lala when you search for a song on Google. It works fabulously well.  If you haven't already, try it for your favorite song. If you don't have a favorite song, ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/01/11/google-i-give-up-your-music-advice-is-non-existent/ Happy New Year Everyone! :-) I am going to try and do a repeat performance to last-year's real-time blogging at the stroke of midnight. I'm using Google again as the clock (EST): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=time I should concede that Google is certainly cyclical if not bullish on Predictions ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/01/01/predictions-for-2010/ Any self-respecting-predicting-blogger always needs to review his past predictions before moving on with the new ones. Let's take a look at my Predictions for 2009: http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2009/01/01/goodbye-2008-review-2008-predictions/ Oops, wait. That was 2008. Here is 2009: http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2009/01/01/hello-2009-predictions-for-2009/ Here's what I predicted. 1. Things Changed ... http://blogs.doublepositive.com/2010/01/01/goodbye-2009-review-of-predictions-for-2009/