Maria Rosa

12 Things You Need To Know About Financial Statements

Knowing how to work with the numbers in a company's financial statements is an essential skill for stock investors. The meaningful interpretation and …

The Global Filipino Investors

"It is not your boss' job to make you rich. Your boss' job is to pay for what you do. It is your job to make yourself rich at home and in your spare …

You’re Ending Your E-mails Wrong

It’s time to stop using “best.” The most succinct of e-mail signoffs, it seems harmless enough, appropriate for anyone with whom you might …

World Bank Group - International Development, Poverty, & Sustainability

WATCH LIVE<p>11 teams from around the world will be awarded with funds to support evidence-based research and innovation to help address gender-based ...<p>…

Talk To Me In Korean - Level 1 Lesson 1

What You Need to Know About Facebook’s New Insights and Analytics

Every Facebook page owner’s first stop for Facebook analytics should be their page’s Insights. Facebook recently revamped Insights with the following …

Misguided Marketing: How Do You Get the Most Value from Facebook?

When your marketing campaign fails to deliver value, who’s to blame – the marketer or the platform? The answer could fall into both camps.<p>Marketers …

15 Psychological Triggers to Convert Leads into Customers

Would you like to know how to get more customers who can’t wait to buy your products and services?<p>It’s a lot simpler than you might think. And the …

7 Simple Steps to Writing Product Descriptions that Sell

How seductive are your product descriptions?Does your product copy entice readers to click <i>buy</i> or <i>try</i>? Or do you simply describe your product and tell …

How To Steal Your Competitor's Social Media Followers

Social media is used to build brand ambassadors, drive traffic, and convert sales. While building a social media following can be very difficult, one …

A Guide for New Internet Marketers

Ready to launch a new career in the field of internet marketing? Or maybe you’ve already logged a few years in the digital marketing industry and are …

How Typography Affects Conversions

As an Internet marketer, conversion is our bread and butter. I can guarantee you spend a large part of your time pondering ways to optimize landing …

How to Make Your Website More Click-Worthy with Goals, Words and Common Sense

You might have great content to share with your site visitors, but if you don’t help them find it, then it might as well not be there. This article …

How to Increase Your Sales Through Long Tail SEO

SEO isn’t just about driving traffic to your website. It can actually be used to increase your sales. Just think about it: what’s one of the main …

7 Common Ways that Entrepreneurs Mess Up SEO

Opinions expressed by <i>Entrepreneur</i> contributors are their own.<p>The marketing experts on Entrepreneur's Team Digital provide answers to your common questions about building an online presence. Got a question? Ask it in our comment section below or on Twitter using the hashtag #TeamDigital. Each week, …

Google's Hummingbird Takes Flight: SEOs Give Insight On Google's New Algorithm

On the eve of its 15th birthday last week, Google revealed a new search algorithm named Hummingbird. Designed to be more precise and provide faster …

Why Structured Data & Semantic SEO Are Important - SMX East 2013

Behold! My slide deck from "Why Structured Data & Semantic SEO Are Important" at SMX East 2013 in New York.<p>I'm a huge geek for structured data and semantic markup. I’ve literally woken up in the middle of the night in a sweat with an idea of how I could apply semantic markup to a piece of rich …

Tips on Learning a Foreign Language – University of South Florida St. Petersburg

“I wish I spoke a foreign language..” It would be really interesting if everyone spoke a foreign language in fewer than 10 days, like you would see …

Writing Tips: 25 Rules For Keeping It Short And Snappy

<i>The following is an excerpt from "How To Write Short" by Roy Peter Clark [Little, Brown, $20.00]. The author explores not only tweets and statuses, but prayers and haikus, in his instructional book on snappy writing.</i><p>In his book "Write Tight," William Brohaugh has a name for this strategy: nonverbal …

The One Reason Every Blogger Should Use Google+

Once again this week I was asked by a colleague why they should care about Google+. This is a person who regularly publishes content, already has a full plate and wanted to be convinced why she should take up another social network. A scenario that’s all too familiar with many people I come in …

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Ring Clock

Whether you're averse to wearing things on your wrist, or you're just looking for an interesting way to start a conversation at parties, the Ring …

Watch Dogs' hacking is slick, functional and often hilarious

<i>Watch Dogs</i>' hacking functionality is slickly implemented in the game, adding a unique twist to stealth segments and car chases when used properly by the player. Using your powers incorrectly, though, can still be pretty damned fun.<p>During a hands-on demo at Gamescom 2013, I was given control of a …

5 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Bloggers

Are you a web browsing ninja, or just plodding along with the default settings?<p>Google Chrome is now the browser of choice for almost half of the …

20 Tools to Find Great Shareable Content

Great content that provides value (or amusement from time to time!) is at the essence of social media. A solid social media strategy should involve …