Archive for June, 2011

It’s at Startup Nation… good video: Face it. Facebook is hot. But is your business using it effectively? How can you best engage with your audience through your company’s Facebook Page? Learn a variety of perspectives on how you should be getting the most out of your Facebook Business Page from our expert Braintrust panel… [...]

Amazon strikes again! They terminate every affiliate in a state that requires Amazon to collect sales tax… He makes a good point, most bloggers won’t go back and delete the Amazon links. They’ll likely refer uncompensated business for years… this is just another form of corporate theft from big business that’s able to “get away” [...]

It may be deceptive marketing… or maybe it just focused on what the phone did REALLY well… apps. But it is funny…

Have you seen people going to the store with huge notebooks crammed with coupons and then going out of the store with huge amounts of household items in their cart but not paying very much at the register? That’s the idea behind couponing… instead of buying one, $4 box of cereal per week, you purchase [...]

Here’s an interesting post from “Tentblogger” about How a blogger can get legal protection from libel and slander. It turns out  you may already be covered for a certain amount of insurance for claims of “Personal Injury” under your renter’s or homeowner’s insurance. The other option is adding an “Umbrella liability policy” …  but check out [...]

A while back I blogged about how AOL’s plan to maximize money and traffic. Basically it was about AOL’s aim to make stories the most “search engine” and “people” friendly at the same time. You know the news business, “man bites dog” stories are news and if a man didn’t bite the dog, at least [...]

Real Estate… is building a portfolio of homes for sale a viable strategy? There are no hard and fast rules about the prospect for developing real estate. Each housing market varies based on the local economy. Let’s consider a case study: Homes for sale in Phoenix. Though things are indeed “down” most places nationwide, the [...]

An online friend of mine Becky McCray has a great idea for real businesses trying to market themselves online. The best thing is the price is REASONABLE… $29! This is no affiliate link either. Just the recommendation of someone who knows Becky delivers strong content for you. She herself is a small business person not [...]

Interesting article. When I started blogging, nobody had heard of using Facebook and Twitter to promote a blog. How things change – quickly. What once was innovative is now assumed to be basic. If you’re wondering how to make your blog take off and your results don’t seem to be paying off… consider this… ProBlogger [...]

In the movie Field of Dreams we were introduced to the immortal line “If you build it, they will come”. When it comes to online stores, people can act as if this line was their motto too. They build a website in cyberspace and assume that just because people can buy a million products there [...]