Tracking Apps Are My New Favorite Things

When Amy first told me about the app she was using in preface to our MBT Talks for this week, I asked myself why I hadn’t thought of using an app to track my spending earlier (apart from the fact that I just switched my Blackberry for an iPhone two months ago). As someone who loves making lists and planning, I find inputting my own expenses highly useful, even enjoyable.
The habit started when I took a spring break trip to the Philippines in 2010. Because my parents were funding the vacation, I wanted to be responsible and keep track of every dollar I spent. When traveling abroad, it’s common to perpetually leak money from shopping and eating, or be pick-pocketed if you’re unlucky.
Not only did tracking my expenses help me stay within a reasonable budget, it was also useful for when I wanted to look back on the names of things I ate and other things I probably wouldn’t be able to recall the following week.
Like Simon, I’ve tried writing everything on paper, but it’s impossible to remember exact amounts by the end of the day, and it quickly becomes a neglected chore. Instead, I listed everything on a memo on my phone, which was especially effective when I worked for six months in Hong Kong because I was on a tight budget and paid for everything in cash.

Source:http://www.mybanktracker.com/news/2013/02/21/expense-tracking-apps-favorite/

96 Quick SEO Wins - What Can You Do With an Hour?

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In many ways, 2012 was the year search engine optimization (SEO) really grew up. Google left us with little choice. But we evolved as an industry, striving to build high-quality content and focus on adding as much value as possible for our users, readers, and customers.

There was a lot of pain along the way throughout this growth process, and many are still cleaning up from the aftermath. For example, the gaps in Google’s algorithm have been closed to the point that any quick SEO tactic is likely to be just that -- a short-term fix at best, a potential cause of long-term damage at worst.

If you want to win in 2013, you must commit to a solid long-term strategy. However, that’s not to say you can’t build small wins into your long-term strategy to assist in developing brand strength.

The only real way to beat the well-known online brands is to become one yourself. But just because the more traditional SEO tactics from previous years are now areas to avoid in 2013, doesn’t mean there aren’t any quick wins out there.