News about Twitter Yahoo and Yelp
These two companies keep popping up.
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One is…. of course… the classic “I told ya so” moment.
And the other is one I have been watching for some shady practices.
The two…
Twitter and Yelp.
Not really in sync – but the topic of today’s message.
Twitter, the recently public and popular social media platform.
Yelp the popular review/search/media company that has been on the radar for not so nice behavior.
First…
Twitter…
Twitter reported their first earnings as a public company last week.
The news was not good.
The stock went way down.
Major issue…
Something we have talked about before.
User growth.
Mainly a problem because of really, really high turn-over.
Overall… the main stream folks… just don’t get Twitter.
But who knows… maybe something will change and Twitter will eventually please Wall Street.
I urge you not to worry about Twitter.
Here’s an article I wrote a while back…
Twitter is a Huge Waste of Time
OK – our Yelpers…
Be on the look out.
They are doing a deal Yahoo.
The deal is about integrating Yelp content to Yahoo searches.
We’ll have to see how this plays out.
About the author
Mike Dolpies (aka Mike D.) owns “Ocean View Publishing, LLC” - a diverse media/Internet Marketing and Consulting Company.
He started his first business when he was just 18 years old. By the time he was 23 that business had generated well over a Million Dollars in sales and was consistently in the top 20% of its industry.
He's the Author of 6 different books. His first book, “Motion Before Motivation, The Success Secret That Never Fails,” became a bestseller on Amazon.com
He's been a guest on the Fox Morning News several times and has been written about in many newspapers.
His work has also appeared on Entrepreneur.com and Fox Businsss.com
