Archive for 2011

You can see the image below of a scam message sent in the name of the “Better Business Bureau”. It’s another phishing scam but one that slipped through many spam filters. It purports to be from the Better Business Bureau website but has a non specific reply address “manager@bbb.org”. It arrives unsolicited to businesses who [...]

With the economy in the tank and people who are out of work looking for new career options in a field that WON’T vanish into thin air (hopefully), people are wondering if the “Green” trend will provide new job opportunities in the construction field, for example. The Building Performance Institute develops technical standards for home [...]

Any entrepreneur seeking venture capital or bank lending will face these issues, but in a recent discussion for female entrepreneurs, there were some key topics that need to be addressed to successfully get money to expand a business. You can read them all at: 10 Ways for Female Entrepreneurs to get Funded Perhaps the most important [...]

Who knew the COLOR of your link can make more money? At least for a search engine that is… Bing tested their results and found that one color outperformed them all and they estimate the change was worth MILLIONS to them long term. “Based on user feedback, the team estimated the best blue color could [...]

Bing (Microsoft’s search engine) has been testing stuff… … And one test was to see what exact hue of color gets the most clicks. As a result, this particular color boosted revenues an extra $80 million. What was that color? Markus Allen will be discussing this on his weekly call in show! Check out Stump Markus Live! (Even if you [...]

My road to this job was quite a journey, but I’m so glad that I was able to find something that I love to do. If you currently don’t love your job, I would highly suggest that you keep looking until you can find something that will make you happy. When you are happy at [...]

Every blogging wannabe knows that you make money by adding Google Adsense ads to your web pages right? In theory that’s going to make you great money… and it can. But the truth is there is a way to earn up to an additional 25% more from your website – without doing ANY extra work [...]

Guest post written by my buddy Aldo Mays Man, I hate having to deal with automated phone systems when I call a business. I just don’t understand for the life of me why anyone would call somewhere and just EXPECT to get on the phone with a robot – the Post Office is the worst [...]

Many small businesses are asking if Groupon is “a good deal”. Well, the answer is possibly! You have to determine several things first: 1. What the average value of a repeat or lifetime customer is. 2. Whether the customer you obtain from an advertising source would otherwise patronize your business. 3. Whether you have a [...]

Just scan the web and you can find autoblogging sites and formula article built sites… They’re mostly trash. Obviously written to serve the search engine and keyword instead of the human reader. I think they are actually designed to drive you nuts so you look for a link to click. Is it every possible to [...]