http://www.livingroomceo.com Business | Social Media | Tattoos Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:49:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week, Adam Carolla (comedian) went on a rant about Manny Pacquiao and the Philippines during his popular call-in podcast. Basically, he said the country had nothing going for it no except sex tourism and boxing hero Manny Pacquiao. As expected, Filipinos all over the world are outraged. Even the ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/adam-carolla-manny-pacquiao-root-cause-and-reputation-management/ One of my goals this year was to finally put together some data for my Filipino Tattoo website to drive business decisions and validate or invalidate some of my assumptions. Overall, I think I was pretty accurate. After 2 years of tracking, I finally have the ability to compare KPIs ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/2009-data-from-pinoytattoos-com/ Two days before Xmas last year, I was contacted by the woredrobe stylist for Black Eyed Peas who was looking for a Filipino design for Apl. I believe it was for the Grammys. The dude was pretty persistant but without going through the usual process of a ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/did-i-protect-myself-or-blow-a-great-opportunity/ If you use Facebook for your business/personal brand, keep your wall clean. Get rid of all that Farmville and horoscope crap. You wouldn't allow someone to mess up your store, then why allow it on Facebook? Why should you take time to maintain your page? 1) Traffic - With Facebook getting ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/would-you-allow-people-to-shit-on-you-store-floor/ I recently made it to #1 on Google for the keyword "Baybayin" for Baybayin.com. This is my 2nd #1 after "Filipino Tattoos" for PinoyTattoos.com. It took me about a year to do so after using SEO techniques and through social/real-life networking. Basically, the way SERPs (Serch Engine Result Page) work ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/the-importance-of-being-1-in-google/ It's almost the end of the year and I now have time to focus on developing my sites. From spring to fall, I've been busy making the rounds at Filipino festivals around the SF bay area selling/promoting my artwork and recently launched book from my site Baybayin.com. Now that festival ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/5-things-ill-do-by-the-end-of-the-year-what-will-you-do/ Zappos does it again. One common problem with online retailers who provide coupon codes is that they display the promo box asking the customers to enter a discount code if they have one. Why is it a problem? It interrupts the purchase process Once they reach this step in the order, the ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/how-zappos-solves-the-online-coupon-problem/ In my translation and design service on PinoyTattoos.com, my customers order designs that are supposed to mean something. I would say the buyer anxiety is much higher compared to ordering a typical product. Getting a wrong or meaningless tattoo would be really bad. Some customers have expressed it's taken them ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/simple-things-to-kill-buyer-anxiety/ I just did an interview for my Baybayin site with Michelle from Philippine Script Designs via the Facebook iPhone app. We did it via email 1 question at a time rather than me emailing a bunch of questions. While it's no Twitterview, it's quiet effective due to the layout of the ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/interview-via-the-iphone-facebook-app/ I attended the Web2.0 Expo last week. Here are some of the highlights: I recently attended the Web2.0 Expo last week here in San Francisco. The theme of the event this year was “The power of less”. Due to the economic environment, companies were pushing optimization of what you already ... http://www.livingroomceo.com/2009-web20-expo-afterthoughts/