By Clint Rainey February 24, 2022 Lately, white male arena-rock artists have really been cashing in on their back catalogs as they approach retirement age. But in a surprising pivot, Warner Music Group, the third-largest record label, has partnered with BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, on a new $750 million fund that … Continue reading Warner Music and BlackRock are investing $750 million in female and diverse artists
Jeff Rose December 25, 2021 Founded in 1997, a Roth IRA is named after former Delaware Senator William Roth. It’s simply an individual retirement account (IRA) that permits tax-free withdrawals is called a Roth IRA. As with traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs are qualified retirement plans. However, what separates these accounts the most is how … Continue reading The $2.62 Million Roth IRA (DD)
Samuel Sanders December 17, 2021 ar130405 / Pixabay The coronavirus pandemic has caused a surge in entrepreneurship. Since December of 2019, there have been over 9.5 million new businesses formed according to the U.S. census. Some of those founders are first-time founders or are brand new to the entrepreneurial world. If that is you, I … Continue reading To the 9 Million+ Covidpreneurs, Please Ask These 3 Questions
AddThis Founder Hooman Radfar Launches Collective With $8.65 Million In Funding by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 2, 2020 Will Tams, director of creative at The Collective Spark, began using Collective (no relation) to spend more time on the creative process and less on pushing papers and managing his business. Tams wears many hats, but … Continue reading AddThis Founder Hooman Radfar Launches Collective With $8.65 Million In Funding
This year,the company says it has removed “tens of millions” of COVID-19 related ads. Ginny Marvin on April 30, 2020 Last year, Google says it took down 2.7 billion so-called bad ads for violating the company’s ad policies, according to its annual report released Thursday. That’s up from the 2.3 billion bad ads Google reported … Continue reading Google removed 2.7 billion bad ads, nearly 1 million ad accounts in 2019
Online Commerce Startup Raises $600 Million by Chuck Martin , April 17, 2020 Despite the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, payments startup Stripe just raised an additional $600 million in new capital. Stripe now has more than $2 billion on its balance sheet, according to the company, which facilities businesses to sell their goods … Continue reading Online Commerce Startup Raises $600 Million
Kevin Indig — January 16, 2020 In-house SEOs and consultants alike are routinely challenged to find new opportunities to expand organic traffic. But the classic approach of researching new keywords then writing articles for those that match your domain strength doesn’t work for all sites. Take Quora, for example. It’s one of the largest social … Continue reading How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)
An Estimated 11 Million Fake Business Listings On Google Maps by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, June 21, 2019 Despite Google’s sophisticated algorithms and high-paid software engineers, the company struggles to protect against “chronic deceit” from fake listings on Google Maps. There is a long history of this type of abuse on the site. This … Continue reading An Estimated 11 Million Fake Business Listings On Google Maps
The number of removed ads was down, but banned advertiser accounts nearly doubled from 2017. Ginny Marvin on March 14, 2019 Google took down 2.3 billion “bad ads” in 2018, according to its annual report on actions it took to address policy violations on its ad platforms. That’s about a million fewer ads than it … Continue reading Google took down 2.3 billion bad ads, 1 million ad accounts in 2018
Jim Haudan — December 14, 2018 Follow @jhaudan — December 14, 2018 While I’ve learned many lessons throughout my career, this one is something I always come back to — be wary of the mindset that numbers trump everything else. And that’s why this quote is a favorite of mine: “Not everything that can be … Continue reading How One Company Grew Revenue by $16 Million in 6 Months
