Archive for 2008

Google is really trying to bring Blogger into the world of modern blogging… they are now letting all their users SCHEDULE posts. In other words you can WRITE it now, and post it in the future.

Despite this good news, I’ve got to say I can’t figure them out at all. I have a personal blog [...]

Here’s an online marketing foul up I hope you don’t make.
It’s an easy one to make and it stood out as I was reading the website. Maybe because of the tone of the ad copy, something about “Welcome, my friends, to the underground world of Sandbag training!” started to make me wonder if I’d found [...]

A while back I posted something to help a friend who’s a Licensed Massage Therapist. Here’s the unsolicited email it provoked from someone selling their “Search Engine Optimization” services and my snide comments…
I was looking at websites under the keyword Spring House Massage Therapist and came across your site http://work-at-home.business-opportunities.biz . I see that you’re [...]

Making your website look “Googley” probably won’t help it rank higher all by itself, but I wonder if it would make our customers/readers seem more comfortable and therefore more likely to trust, buy, request more information, etc.?
Here’s the post that made me start thinking about that…What makes a design “Googley”?
Here’s what Google themselves came up [...]

You might be interested in this… so I’m passing it along.
Free online presentation: Monitoring Online Chatter Web 2.0 technologies and platforms have changed the game for online marketers. Thanks to blogs, podcasts, and the democratization of media, ordinary people are talking publicly about you, your market, and your competitors. Missing out on that dialog is [...]

Here’s some information from Apartment Tool Kits if you’re in the Real Estate or mortgage brokering business.

Top 7 Characteristics of First Time Home Buyers
Survey According to Latest 2007 NAR Survey

Purchase almost 40 percent of all residential real estate.
They have been the leading edge of home sales since 1995.
51% married; 25% are single females; 11% are [...]

PRNewswire: via Dane’s blog.Entrepreneurial companies continue to be the engine driving the nation’s economy, generating an astounding $4.6 billion in 2007 revenue. The fastest-growing of those businesses are spotlighted in the 14th annual 2008 Hot 100 listing from Entrepreneur magazine.
Of the 100 companies that made the cut for 2008, 76% had turned a profit — [...]

This Tip is from Marika Flatt, co-owner of PR by the Book, www.prbythebook.com. I’m so used to thinking “copy”, I frankly never thought of focusing on the very first thing she said here….duh!

If you’re looking for television exposure, you need a completely separate press release or pitch for TV outlets. The ideas you convey [...]

Rothschild, the famous financier, is reported to have said never to buy until there is “blood running in the streets”.
Whether there’s blood or not, Americans are flocking to flea markets and Craigslist to sell prized possessions just to raise money to pay the bills.
This means that people with cash can be snapping up items [...]

From WSLS
Send your employees home so they can get some work done. It’s the way to go, said Virginia Tax Commissioner Janie Bowen, who oversees a teleworkforce of  616 — or 62 percent of the Department of Taxation’s nearly 1,000 statewide employees. “It turned out to be an incredibly good business decision,” she said. Bowen [...]