Archive for May, 2008

I was looking for a database program I thought might be good to use. I ran across this article on a “Year without Windows” (from Linux of course!) All of our other business functions are covered with Linux. On the desktop, we use Moneydance for accounting. We use Microsoft Word under the CodeWeavers CrossOver Office, [...]

I guess being from New England where there are Cranberry Bogs, Marcia has a thing or two to say about another variety of “bog”… the “Blog Bog”. I understand her point. For most of us, blogs are “stream of consciousness journaling”… Twitter on steroids before there was Twitter. With Blogger you can put “blocks” of [...]

Margie Zable Fisher offers good tips on how to do an interview the right way. It strikes me though that these qualities are essential for any interaction with your customers. The interview is just a customer communication by proxy. How to Screw Up an Interview Recently one of my clients had an opportunity to be [...]

Here’s a question I got at my Home Medical Transcription Lens at Squidoo hi! i found an online course, Its free, it’s called _________________. i was wondering if you have hear of it, i just stated today with the cours. I’m really interrested in becoming a MT. I use to be a pharmacy tech but [...]

If you’re doing “direct response marketing”, one technique you may have heard about is newspaper inserts. I was talking to a marketer who’s been doing inserts in the insurance field over 20 years. It turned him from underpaid agent into a well to do business man. He basically no longer uses newspaper inserts. Why? Two [...]

“Web 2.0″ is “all about” social networking. The received wisdom is that, if you don’t have user generated content, you’re going to be left behind in terms of internet marketing. Possibly…at least until the next thing, whatever that is. But if this is something you’d like to explore, then you’ll be happy to know that [...]

I just sold one of my websites for a nice chunk of change. I used WordPress to create a largely “static” site designed to market affiliate products. The “blog” capability was an extra feature. So I keep on the lookout for nice WordPress themes. Here’s a producer of Free WordPress Themes I’ve come to like… [...]

How much are you spending on marketing your business? Most people buy the distributor kit and HOPE something will happen. Usually it’s not that simple. Do you have a set amount you are going to spend monthly? Do you have a system for getting new business? Usually businesses find key ways to find new customers, [...]

As always, please do your own due diligence. It may be a good deal if they can bring in the traffic. Compensation is based on shared revenue from Google Adsense. Reply to: job-677739932@craigslist.org Date: 2008-05-12, 1:52PM CDT We are seeking Authors for Printnpost.com, we are a article and Blog site in need of content. Currently [...]

A California real estate investor is going to lose his home plus 9 investment properties to foreclosure according to this report at Reuters Shawn Forgaard, a 37-year-old software company project manager, bought one home for his family to live in and nine more as investments. He stands to lose all the investment houses in the [...]