10 Reasons why companies should start doing business online
With the rapid down fall of world economy and dot-com companies in recent years many brick-and-mortar companies and new start-ups ask themselves: To Be Online or Not to Be Online?
Optimize Your Graphics for the Web
Heavy graphics cost you money and traffic. They cost you money because heavy graphics require both significant storage space and bandwidth.
Grab Discipline from Desperation
On most mornings, you wake up a good couple hours before the sun, long before your little family members rise. You set the coffee machine last night, knowing that you were going to make your European and East Coast calls during the hours when the neighbors are sleeping. By the time the sun cracks over the mountains, you’re more than halfway through your contact list, with the most difficult calls crossed off.
Ethics Foundations for Business
With all the recent headlines about company misconduct and ethics violations has come a significant, and long overdue, increase in the consideration of ethics among businesses. As a result of the recent bad press about lawsuits against companies’ “behaving badly”, there has been a rapid, almost frantic scramble among many large corporations to set themselves apart from the “wrong-doers” in the business world. Companies have quickly penned ethics codes, instituted ethics compliance monitoring programs, or have had high-level corporate officers visibly touting their company’s “new and improved” ethics focus in the hope of regaining consumer confidence in a devastated economy. And with good reason: consumers are increasingly wary of all business interactions, to the detriment of all, even the most upright of enterprises.
Choosing The Wrong Server Will Literally Make Or Break You
Choosing the right web server will be one of the most important decisions you will ever make with your online business. Why? Because the web server you choose will literally make or break your online business.
Crossing the Great Graphics Barrier
One of the first hurdles in learning Web design is understanding the use of graphics. The greatest of programmers can come up against the graphics barrier and sometimes just fall flat. Even professional desktop publishers when faced with a “design for the Web” task, can make critical errors.
Braving the Rattler
My 10-year-old daughter dragged me onto our state’s largest roller coaster, the Rattler at Cliff’s Amusement Park this summer. She insisted on riding it, and dad wanted to support his daughter’s courage. When they strapped us in, Mari turned and said, “Dad, I’m scared.”
How To Boost Your Keyword Density On Your Web Site To Gain Top Positions At The Search Engines
Let’s talk about what keyword density is and how to improve your keyword density on your web site. To improve your keyword density ratio there are three parts that we will need address.
The Wrong Email Format Can Destroy Your Offer
Which email format is more effective to use, Text or HTML?
A good question, many experts have been debating over for awhile now, is which email format is more effective. It all depends on who you ask, many people prefer the text format over the HTML format. There are also many people who would rather use HTML over the text format. You can pretty much draw a line right down the middle between the text users and the HTML users, it’s that close.
My 2003 Top 10 Traffic Sources
About half-way through each year I like to take a close look at my stats to get a handle on my best traffic sources. My websites receive thousands of visitors a day and WHERE the traffic comes from is always changing.