How to Increase Your Newsletter Subscription Rate
You’ve finally launched your free newsletter. You’ve put together the content, found a good mailing list host, and have listed your newsletter in all the ezine directories you could find. What else can you do to increase your subscriber base? The answer is actually quite simple: you’ve got to know how to ask.
Simple Barcoding in C#
This article provides a simple way to produce Code 3 of 9 Barcodes through C#. While there are many third-party controls that offer this functionality, it is just as simple to integrate your barcodes using readily available barcode TrueType fonts.
5 Ways to Boost Your Business Income
The other day, a patient of mine asked me a question. By itself, asking your doctor a question is not unique, but what makes this question stands out is that this was not a question pertaining to health.
Using Windows XP: Windows XP System Configuration Utility
One of the tools included with Windows XP is the System Configuration Utility, a diagnostic program that automates routine troubleshooting tasks. This is the same tool that Microsoft Technical Support engineers will use when walking you through a system with problems. Giving it a look might save you a great deal of time and effort when attempting to solve system issues.
Tapping into Brand Touchpoints
Branding has grown into far more than a marketing buzzword, as an increasing number of organizations recognize and value their brands as strategic assets that are built through deeds, not merely words or images.
Submitting to Inktomi + 5 More SEO Tips
Jill, I’ve been working on optimizing a site that is not a new site. It’s been a live site for quite some time. I was thinking of hand-submitting it to Inktomi, but realized MSN and Hotbot have already indexed it without me doing anything. Is it necessary to pay to have your site submitted if it has already been indexed for free? Is it possible that it will be dropped from Inktomi if you don’t pay to submit?
Thanks for your help,
Mary Beth
XML Data Traversal
In this article, I present a XML based client-side JavaScript that reads data from an external XML file, traverses the XML data and displays the same in a tree format. I’ll use the XMLDOM ActiveX object built into Microsoft Internet Explorer for the same.
Jumping on the “Next Big Opportunity” Bandwagon
How many times have you received email inviting you to join a brand-new opportunity — one that’s “sure” to be a success? Often times, we’re told that we can strike it big if we join an opportunity early:
Optimizing Dynamic Pages – Part II
The Widget Queen Revisited
You have the world’s finest collection of widgets. You created the world’s best widget website. You have no traffic.
You checked in the search engines and find that your site does not appear at all, even though all your competitors’ sites do. Perhaps the search engine robots cannot get to your pages to index them.
Search Engine Robots
Search engine robots are simple creatures. They can “read” text to add to their databases, and they can follow “normal” links–those links that are coded to look like
<a href=”bluewidgets.html”>blue widgets </a>
or the slight variation
<a href=”bluewidgets.html ><img src=”bluewidget.gif” ></a>
Marketing and Sales Alignment: How Siebel Does It
Siebel Systems is best known for its commanding share of the CRM market. Recently, the company has opened up to showcase how it uses its own marketing software to support some of the best practices in marketing and demand generation. You need not worry; this is not a Siebel commercial. As you will quickly realize, this is mostly about organization, process, and measurement. Here are some of the highlights, based on Andrew Clarke’s presentation at the Marketing Roundtable and a similar presentation given at a Siebel webinar.