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Pamela Poole — writer, translator, entrepreneur — in Paris.
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My Little Paris: a look at the “I” in this startup’s ROI
This is the story of a French girl named Fany who one day sent an email to about 50 girlfriends and three years later had 800,000 subscribers to her My Little Paris e-mail newsletter and the crème de la crème of French luxury brands bending over backwards to reach her subscribers. She achieved this without a drop of funding or marketing. […]
Make your online image matter
June 6, 2012
Back in 2007, French journalist and digital activist Claire Ulrich, writing for Le Monde 2, described Facebook as “our sandbox.” She begged employers (who were already in a panic over productivity losses) to be patient because, “after all,” she said, “most of us are barely three years old in this new world.” (Frenchand English versions of her excellent article.) In […]
When should you be paid to blog?
March 19, 2012
A simple and logical formula that could help you bargain with media companies that want you to work for free. Read more about this formula and how I made it work for me in The day I said NO to writing for free on frogblog.
Slaves to content
August 20, 2011
I’ve been yakking (here and here) about how bloggers are frequently offered “exposure” instead of money for their work. What “exposure” really means, of course, is “We could help you become famous.” Hard for the average human to resist. Very hard. But exposure doesn’t buy the groceries (at least not in the immediate). So we need to figure […]
A HUGE little startup
December 30, 2010
Well, there was no contest this year for which startup totally stole my heart at LeWeb. It was TinyPay.me, which first launched early this year with a simple little tool for selling stuff online. Since then, they’ve turned that little gem into what could be a real game changer for long-tail e-commerce. I hope so […]
French is so sexy
November 4, 2010
Doesn’t just about everybody think French is sexy? I do. But you knew that. You can read about the sexy French startup scene and find a list of some young startups that have impressed me in the article I wrote for ReadWriteWeb, “Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Paris,” which was recently translated into French for […]
I’ve lost that lovin’ feelin’
September 2, 2010
OK, I just flipped real quick through the last, I dunno, 90 or so posts on Mashable, which I picked because it’s more or less representative of most of the blogs that cover what’s new and exciting on the Web, and because it was sitting there, in my Reader, kind of in the middle, with […]
October 3, 2012
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