Do Americans know how their tax $ are spent?

This table provides an interesting visual for tax dollar spending.

clipped from www.fcnl.org How Were Your 2009 Incomes Taxes Spent? Total Pentagon spending for current & past wars: $1,039,531 33% Health Care Includes Medicaid, public health, Indian Health, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and related programs $532,094 17%

Effective Online Marketing lessons from Depeche Mode

Clever!

clipped from www.copyblogger.com 5 Things Depeche Mode Can Teach You About Effective Online Marketing Personal Jesus Depeche Mode songwriter Martin Gore wrote Personal Jesus after reading Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley. Gore said “It’s a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care.” In a hyper-niched, tribalized world, people are looking for leaders, not marketers. Who do you care about, and how can you help them?

Yelp Class Action Lawsuit

Yelp gives advertisers preferential treatment

clipped from bits.blogs.nytimes.com Yelp Makes Changes in Response to Small-Business Owners The changes come after several small businesses, including a California veterinary clinic and an Illinois bakery, filed  a class action lawsuit accusing the site of extortion. The suit claims that Yelp will remove negative reviews and reinstate positive reviews for paying advertisers and says that “business listings on Yelp.com are in fact biased in favor of businesses that buy Yelp advertising.”