Lian

Analytics Manager

Lian has worked for 10 years analyzing data and building strategy for Search Engine Optimization services. He has worked at Daksh, which later became part of IBM Global Process Services, and is currently a Lead Analyst.

Please contact Lian with any questions you might have.

Best of Blotter Blog Posts …

Is Bitcoin dependable?

Edward Hadas at Reuters is so sure Bitcoin will collapse that he wrote an early obituary eulogizing the loss of confidence in a baseless cryptocurrency, caused by an illicit and valueless speculation war. Ignoring this death knell includes a long list of Bitcoin investors, each of whom harnesses arbitrage to stabilize the currency. A futures market for Bitcoin already exists and others are on the way. These proponents also point to the world’s first Bitcoin ATM installed in a Vancouver coffee shop in October 2013 and the others springing up since. It would seem the cryptocurrency craze has reinforced usable modularity across the spectrum – from investing to retail banking. The Bitcoin digital currency, which exists as software, is created by solving complex tasks embedded in a program through a process called mining. Once successfully mined, the currencies can be bought and sold via online exchanges. Websites like startbitcoin.com help novices learn to mine Bitcoins, and the underlying open source more
Why emailing your customers is important

When Jim Koch started Samuel Adams Brewing Company in the 1980s, everyone said he was crazy. Today, he is a billionaire who speaks about the importance of communicating with customers in ways that other businesses are failing. “It was a long, slow process for the education of a consumer,” Koch says. “Beer was sold on the advertising and the marketing of a brand, not the ingredients, brewing process, and the passion of a brewer.” Marketing has changed significantly with widespread adoption of email and social media, not to mention the way customers expect to be educated on a business. The story, ideals and values of your business should be told by emailing your customers, mailing your customers, posting to your customers. The point here is that the small business needs to cater to this new generation adverse to print and suspicious of companies who don’t demonstrate an elementary aptitude for new technologies or who are afraid to tell their stories. more
Why Basecamp for website management is all you need

Top of book believes Basecamp for website management is all you need, but we are more focused on hard work and staying productive. Becoming the most popular blog in a market, for instance, is more important than good project management. Many of the articles, videos, and blog posts are focused around subjects like “productivity,” “resolutions,” and “work flow.” Rather than fighting the trend of software-will-solve-your-bad-work-ethic attitude, we decided to swim with the tide of productivity by suggesting some of our favorite technology. Basecamp for website management is especially useful to us, but the technology can be used in most industries to improve productivity and communication. You can learn all about website management roles, but it all boils down to project management. Why get communication tools for project management? The knee-jerk inclination for most people these days is to use the technology that we are most familiar with, i.e. social media. While Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are amazing, revolutionary interfaces for more

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