This article was originally published on Huff Post. Vacation means palm trees, tropical weather, and filling recycle bottles with compostable trash to build a children’s school? That doesn’t sound like the classic vaca by the beach we’re used to, but for an increasing amount of people, volunteering has become a way to see the world […]

This article was originally published on Martech. Richard Dawkins originally defined the word meme as “a package of culture.” In more recent history, Dr. Susan Blackmore, psychology scholar and TED lecturer on “memetics,” defines memes as “a copy-me instruction backed up by threats and/or promises.” An example of such a “threat” might be the last […]

This article was originally published on Huff Post. This school used to be a plastic bottle. This school also used to be an empty chip bag, a coffee cup and a candy wrapper. In fact, it used to be a whole village full of inorganic trash that littered the streets and clogged the rivers. This […]

This article was originally published on Multi-Channel Merchant. Many people have heard of memes, or seen the power that they have on the Internet. A recent example includes “Miley Cyrus twerks,” featuring a still image from a recent performance from pop star Miley Cyrus that is Photoshopped into various unrelated situations. Popular ones include “Miley […]

This article was originally published on Multi-Channel Merchant. Much to the fear and chagrin of SEOs, online marketers, and webmasters everywhere, Google has confirmed that it has begun work to encrypt all searches, once again reminding us all that we can either adapt or die. Two years ago, Google began encrypting searches for signed-in users. […]

This article was originally published on Pro Blogger. Web entrepreneur and founder of hugely successful ShoeMoney Media Group and the Shoemoney blog, Jeremy Schoemaker has found incredible success in the use of long form sales pages. Although at an early point in his web-marketing career he questioned the effectiveness of such approaches, once he actually […]

This article was originally published on Digital Marketing News. For many marketers the classic email marketing strategy has been to try to be at the top of their recipients’ inboxes at 8:31 a.m. But as email shifts rapidly from a deskbound activity to an all-day, every-day marathon powered by smartphones, marketers must throw out their […]

This article was originally published on Huff Post. You’re talking to yourself again. Yes, you are and you don’t even realize it. Don’t worry, it’s not out loud, so no one else can hear you. And it doesn’t mean you’re crazy; we all do it. We usually say the same things over and over, like […]

This article was originally published on Huff Post. It’s a familiar scenario for anyone over 35: You walk into a room to get something, and you suddenly can’t remember why you are there. Or you tear the house apart, already late for a meeting and searching frantically for those keys you know you set down […]

This article was originally published on Huff Post. What do Ebenezer Scrooge and Anthony Robbins have in common? That may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but I do have a point and it’s a good one. Let me ask you another question first. Have you ever felt that there was something holding […]