Posts from the ‘Business Rants’ Category

  • Running on Empty

    Running on Empty

    October 10th, 2010 | Business Rants | Giovanna | No Comments

    I can’t sleep. It’s early Monday morning which means I have very little time to recover from last week’s arduous tasks and conflicts. The weekend went by so quickly and I still have not caught up on sleep. The sun has not risen yet but assignments that need completion this week are already piling up. […]

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  • Who's behind America's distrust for big government

    Who's behind America's distrust for big government

    April 20th, 2010 | Business Rants, Meritocracy | Giovanna | No Comments

    Read this as soon as it hit the wires last Saturday. The poll was organized by the non-partisan Pew Research Center but regurgitated by the mainstream media. Well okay 78% of Americans don’t trust big government but the biggest FAIL isn’t Congress or the Obama administration, it’s the stupid media for not vetting Obama’s big […]

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  • CPM Drop

    CPM Drop

    January 22nd, 2009 | Business Rants, Marketing, PPC | Giovanna | No Comments

    A nosedive CPM drop is something I never thought would happen. When I started publishing sites a few years ago, the agenda was to rank and keep ranking. The higher the CPM, the more competitive the industry. Since my goal is sustainability anyway, I went after a pretty competitive yet undeserved niche. Everything was done […]

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  • Three Seminars/Conferences in Two Weeks is Finally Over

    Three Seminars/Conferences in Two Weeks is Finally Over

    April 11th, 2008 | Business Rants, Education, Marketing | Giovanna | No Comments

    Flew back from L.A. a few hours ago and with all the stuff I learned over the last couple of week, I don’t know where and how to start implementing the new found knowledge. First I want to thank John Kirker, everyone at Elite Retreat and Future Now for giving me the opportunity to attend the […]

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  • The Facebook Interview I've Been Waiting For – SXSW 2008

    The Facebook Interview I've Been Waiting For – SXSW 2008

    March 10th, 2008 | Business Rants, Marketing | Giovanna | 6 Comments

    I came across this BusinessWeek article on the “missteps” of facebook and how they got a bit too ahead of themselves. I’ve been waiting for a long time for such article to be published. The article was so-so but I enjoyed the reader’s comments. Zuck’s arrogance and aloofness doesn’t bother me (what can you expect […]

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  • What to do when Your Content is Stolen

    What to do when Your Content is Stolen

    March 6th, 2008 | Business Rants | Giovanna | 6 Comments

    A friend asked for my advice on this matter not long ago. Well, this isn’t new to me as it happened twice already in the last year. With the popularity of RSS, blogs and growing number of plagiarists, it is almost expected to happen. The good news is that there are many ways to handle […]

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  • How to Survive on the Ever Changing, Ultra Competitive Internet

    How to Survive on the Ever Changing, Ultra Competitive Internet

    February 18th, 2008 | Business Rants, Marketing | Giovanna | 8 Comments

    The business climate on the Internet is TOUGH!!! Books that were published a couple years ago on traffic, conversion and SEO are now mostly outdated. In 2004/2005, you can rank really well just on reciprocal links. If you wanted one-way incoming links, all you had to do was submit your article to submission services. There […]

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  • Wanna Make More Money, You Poor Piece of Sh*t?

    Wanna Make More Money, You Poor Piece of Sh*t?

    February 5th, 2008 | Business Rants | Giovanna | 6 Comments

    I’m rich and you’re a loser. If you want to get laid by the prettiest girls, then save the weekly allowance you get from your grandmother and buy my products – you rotting pool of pus. Sound Familiar? I get irked when marketers lobby their products and claim that their strategies are the only valid […]

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  • R-E-E-E-J-E-C-T-E-D!!!

    R-E-E-E-J-E-C-T-E-D!!!

    January 29th, 2008 | Business Rants | Giovanna | 5 Comments

    That was my favorite word to yell out when I was cheering for the team. I played and watched a lot of basketball back in school and for some reason, I would get more excited when shots were blocked than shots made. I would scream…R-E-E-E-J-E-C-T-E-D with so much glee and enthusiasm. I was a point […]

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  • What Happened to The Mighty Greenback?

    What Happened to The Mighty Greenback?

    January 26th, 2008 | Business Rants | Giovanna | 2 Comments

    When I started working after college in my early 20’s, I was very proud of the United States’ progress and the strength of its currency. I have traveled to pre-Euro Europe, Canada and Mexico. The U.S. Dollar went a long way back then and everything seemed “cheaper”. What happened? Aside from the devaluation of the […]

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