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“There’s nothing new under the sun.” We’ve all heard this quote—perhaps uttered by a cynic about some new idea. Attributed to Ambrose Bierce, here’s the full original: “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things

 Still got doubts about blogging for your business? Guys, it is not a fad. It’s an integral part of the new way of being in the global marketplace.Whatever terms you use, “Web 2.0” “social networking” “new media” etc., the fact is a blog is

What does it mean that Microsoft is trying to buy Yahoo? Well, let's see. I envision it as kind of like Cable vs. DSL--"giant-with-unlimited-funds-and-access-to-every-computer" fighting the other "giant-with-unlimited-funds-and-access-to-every-computer."

Was looking for a song I sang one year with a church choir. Using Google, struggling to remember the line so I could look it up by lyrics... Stumbled on this amusing typo on a Christian music site: "CALL TO WORSHIP Lyrics - MERCY ME Prince of Peach, almi

Was invited to Cleveland recently to do a presentation about blogging for businesses. It seems there's still a lot of confusion about what a blog is supposed to be, although more small business owners and corporations are realizing a blog is great for S

You knew that newspapers were losing a lot of traction because of the Internet, right? Well, the "news" is worse than expected, according to an article in AdWeek. And these changes to advertising revenue are expected to be permanent, not passing. A sample

The Internet has facilitated the growth of small businesses, and the owners of those businesses have the Internet to thank for the incredible amount of information and the seemingly limitless amount of help they can find about running those businesses.

Blogging on your business blog about your personal technology? Perfectly legitimate. People who care about your company will be fascinated to hear how its leaders use technology in their personal lives. Here's a bit about the portable office... Have you

After my initial report on the Sears saga (see post Sears customer service), I got busy and couldn't write for a while (among other things, just became a new grandma). But okay, the refrigerator arrived (dented for sure) and was installed by a third part

Sometimes appliances die. Sure. But we baby boomers grew up in a world where major ones, like refrigerators, died maybe in 20 or 30 years, if ever. I'm going to chronicle my sad personal saga as it happens--a  good thing to do with a corporate blog if yo

Submission spam is a problem on all the larger sites. I had hoped to get around this on a niche ‘blogging’ directory. For the first year or so it wasn’t too bad. I had spam to review, but it wasn’t overwhelming. But thanks to the b

Although submitting your blog to the search engines is very similar to submitting your website, there are several differences that you should be aware of. Knowing these differences can help you get your blog indexed more quickly because you have submitted

Backlinks are a highly important and necessary part of any successful website. Backlinks are essential for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) because they help to judge the popularity and importance of the website based on their backlinks to other sites. Th

Most sales people are working themselves to death running around like wild people trying to increase sales through sheer activity. This makes some sales people feel important and productive, and others burned-out and frustrated. Either way it’s a very i

How many times has bad advice gotten you into trouble? Yeah, everybody's saying and doing it, so you jump on the band wagon... and guess what... you get the same results as they get. Maybe it's a comfort to know that you're not the only one who played the

Although submitting your blog to the search engines is very similar to submitting your website, there are several differences that you should be aware of. Knowing these differences can help you get your blog indexed more quickly because you have submitted

Just wanted to take a minute and share an excellent blog article I stumbled on today. While the content deals directly with AdWords optimization and testing, there are some excellent lessons to be learn’t about site optimization and creating content

Coming soon… I”m in the process of starting a master list of websites with blog directories, or that take blog submissions. If you have a site, know of a site or are even thinking of developing a site with a blog directory, or similar give me

This article by Simon Clarke really sums up what effective blogging is all about. Many of us do one or two of these, but when you follow all 10 steps, your blog begins to take authority and demands instant respect. A weblog can be a powerful resource for

The downside of video content I have a big secret to confess. I’ve been stuck on dial up for the last 13 years, only recently having been able to get high speed in my area. So during this time the video content phase has passed me by as I quickly le

I was just searching online for some information on the movie “8 heads in a duffel bag”, after hearing part of the score on an internet radio station. I couldn’t resist taking a screen shot of the ebay ad that showed up when I Googled th

Just wrote a short blurb on my other blog that deals with online marketing. An eyetracking study has been done that followed how people actually view your website. The images posted are more than just eyeopening. They show you how to layout a website and

Just browsing one of my favourite blog writers. They linked to a study that was completed that I just had to pass on. Over 200 people were shown various pages, and an eye tracking device was used to track how they looked at the page. We’ve speculate

An excerpt from the book “IT AIN’T OKAY TO FAIL” By Brian Strachan I first learned of this particular concept of strengths and excesses in the context of annual performance appraisals. Periodic performance feedback, coupled with an annual pe

Duplicate content is one of the problems that we regularly come across as part of the search engine optimization services we offer. If the search engines determine your site contains similar content, this may result in penalties and even exclusion from th

You’ve got your blog set up and you’ve started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do y

10 Tips On Promoting Your New Blog One great way of getting more traffic and more importantly, making the traffic come back to your site over and over again, is by having your own blog. The term, ‘Blog‘, is becoming more and more popular, and these da

Most of the “rules” about writing for ezines and newsletters apply to writing posts for your blog, but there are some important differences. Keep these 10 tips in mind and you’ll be publishing great blog content that attracts prospects a

When starting out online, or even in business in general. There comes a point where we have to start designing our own advertising copy and writing or designing in order to bring in the sales. Some people are naturals at this, however most of us need some

A look at some of the more famous advertising screw-up's and how you can avoid them with only a few minutes work.