Read This If You’re Over 50 and Looking
In my career coaching, I often encounter clients who initially are afraid they won’t be hired because of their age. They all do get hired, but I decided to back up my personal experience by talking with some senior HR professionals. Here’s what they told me.
The Truth About Earning $1,000 or More Weekly From Affiliate Programs
Everyone is talking about them. Almost everyone is a member of at least a few of them. Affiliate programs are hot. You can usually sign up for free and be selling products within 5 minutes. The web sites, sales letters, and order shipping are all done for you. All you have to do is promote.
Auditing Your SQL Server Environment Part II – Reviewing your Role Membership
Over the last few years I have been a roving SQL Server DBA contractor and tended to work contacts in small and mid-size companies that involved organizing, documenting and then tuning/optimizing existing SQL Servers in those companies. I have noticed one very disturbing truth over the years; no one seems to document anything. In fact, I was usually thankful if I could find something or someone who knew the sa passwords on each SQL Server installation, let alone knew anything else about their setups.
How to Energize Your Marketing With Colors
I was once asked this question: “In relation to colors on a web site, have you done any research or found any material on what colors are more pleasing to the site visitor, or even what colors tend to produce more sales?” I believe this could be an important area that many of us overlook. Here’s my answer.
‘Hit the Road, Jack!’ Giving Difficult Customers THE BOOT!
Have you ever heard the adage, “the customer is always right?” Yes? Well, it doesn’t apply to home business owners and entrepreneurs. No, I haven’t lost my marbles. It’s true. This CAN NOT apply for home-based businesses, and you’d better believe I’m going to tell you why.
Save Your Traffic From Error Pages
When I took the time to look into the error pages that showed up, using my site statistics tools at my domain, I saw that people were trying to access pages that were not set up! I was losing traffic that was looking for me!
If You Build It, Will They Come
A movie a few years back made the concept of building something and having people show up famous. And, as Hollywood would have it, it worked. But this is the real world. Or at least the real internet world, and things don’t happen exactly that way.
“Google Friendly” Solutions to Graphic-Intense Sites
We all know that the search engines can’t “see” or “read” the graphics on our pages. We also know that we need to provide text on a page, so the spiders will have something to crawl and index.
Creating Printer-Friendly Web Pages
Reading from a computer screen is uncomfortable, so users may often want to print the page they’re viewing. The problem is that web pages don’t usually lend themselves to print.
Traffic’s Nice… But Who’s Driving?
In the competitive marketplace of the new millennium, the demand for specialized products or services will increase. If your site sells everything or to everyone, chances are that your audience will not perceive a value in shopping from you any greater than from anyone else. Keep in mind that price is *never* an issue — it is the value behind the price that is.