6 Tips for Dealing with Angry Callers
There’s no avoiding it: sooner or later the voice at the other end of the phone call will get nasty. Here are some simple tips to help defuse the situation.
586% Sales Growth: Lessons From Vitacost.com
While most dot com companies have gone the way of stock options, a few shining stars remind us that there are still real, living, growing dot com companies. One such company is Vitacost.com.
How Many Ways Can I Market Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
What does it take to be a good marketer?
How Deep into Your Site Are the Spiders Crawling?
Have you ever wondered how far down into your site the search engine spiders are going? Are the pay inclusion spiders coming at regular intervals like they’re supposed to?
The World’s Greatest Sales Letter
It all started innocently enough.
One day I got one of those marketing letters in my email box. You know, the one where you send 5 dollars to each person on the list and then everybody’s supposed to send money back to you. I’d never even given any of those kinds of emails a second look before, but this one got my attention.
The whole universe is learning and evolving. How about you?
I find it invigorating to consider how creativity, and the ability to learn and adapt, is a natural capacity built into all living systems. The ability to learn is an instinctive and primary trait that is a sign of life itself. Human beings, companies, forests, the ocean, the entire environment of earth, and the solar system. All are living systems, all are intelligent, all are learning, and all are adapting to life… And in the process of all this “living” each system will radically change over time.
Confessions of a Lover of Books and Learning
Many of us love to read. Some of us who love to read the most are introverts, so I went to the source to find out what it’s all about.
Link Anchor Text and Search Engine Optimization
For quite some time, it has been a well known fact that in order to rank well with the search engines, a page must have a large number of inbound links (link popularity). However, a not so well known fact is that the wording of those links (the link anchor text) is also very important. In fact, there are strong indications that search engines are nowadays paying a great deal of attention to the anchor text of the links pointing to your site.
Cascading Style Sheets Basics
If you’re not a web designer, but have nevertheless experimented with HTML or popular editors like FrontPage to try to build a website, if you didn’t use cascading style sheets you probably came across most of the common problems that cascading style sheets were created to solve.
Are You a Job Search Hermit?
If you’re experiencing an extended job search, chances are you’ve been through several hills and valleys: days of optimism followed by days of discouragement.