Printers are one of the biggest rip-offs in computing today. Companies like Hewlett Packard (HP) and Cannon throw together a bucket of cheap plastic parts and charge you $150.00 for it. Then, they price gouge you for the ink cartridges.
Case In Point: Designing A Site That Demands High Traffic
Marnie Pehrson may not be well known for driving traffic to Web
sites, but she should be! Her ability to get literally hundreds
of thousands of page views a month is simple astounding! (NOTE:
I said "page views," not "hits." BIG difference!) I had to ask
her to reveal her secrets so that we all could learn how to
create a Web site that simply demands high traffic.
Pricing Your Service or Product: Things To Ponder
Terrific students attend the classes I teach. They ask profound questions that "stretch" my knowledge and resources. When I teach a building a business foundation owner class, I’m usually asked, "How does someone price a product or service?" During a recent class, I promised to write down what’s in my head and send it to the students. And because of them, you now have it, too. In order to keep things simple, I’ll use "services" to mean both services and products in the list below.
8 Strategies to Increase Search Engine Rankings
1. Page Link Names – place a primary keyword in your page link names. Rather than using a link in your navigation bar like "services", add a keyword to that page link. If you offer web hosting services, it could be "webhostingservices.htm"
How To Make Time To Write
When we don’t take the time to get our writing done, it’s because we don’t make the time. It’s what separates the doers from the talkers. Or in this case the writers from the wannabe writers. You’re left with one decision countless times a day. Will you write or not? Each time you choose not to write, you lose another opportunity that’s seldom grasped again.
Resubmission Tactics: Follow Up
In a recent issue Marv Dealy, of Throckmorten Enterprises asked about the wisdom of repeatedly resubmitting your site to the search engines. We received conflicting responses from two top SEO specialists. Here’s a response from Dan Thies, which offers some surprising advice, and tips the scales towards NOT resubmitting your site. In fact, Dan advises that you don’t submit your site at all!
Low Cost Web Site Promotion for Small Business
Promoting your small business website in the search engines can be a daunting task. Use of free submissions and link popularity is a good starting point for your website promotion campaign. Start with the basis of good search engine and directory listings. Make sure you read and follow each search engine and directory’s rules for submissions. Before making submissions, always verify that all your website links and pages work, with no pages “under construction.”
Exit Exchanges – Do They Really Work?
For the last few years, the most popular form of exchanging traffic was through banner exchanges. In the past year however, more webmasters are beginning to use exit exchanges.
How to Write Autoresponder Follow-Ups
Writing Autoresponder Follow-Ups is something anyone with a basic knowledge of their business can do. You see, it’s very easy to write follow-ups. You just have to follow certain rules and dedicate some time.
7 Free Statistics Trackers for Your Website
As some of you probably now know, WebTrends Live no longer offer the free Personal Edition of their statistics tracker.