Public relations: A Free Lunch at Last?
Seems like everyone is looking for the proverbial free lunch these days, particularly when it comes to marketing communications. Well, I hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but there’s no such thing. However, there are ways to stretch your budget and marketing public relations (PR) is one of them.
Is Working At Home Really For You?
I remember what it was like when I was still working away from home. I remember all too clearly how desperate I was to quit my job and stay home with my children. It was my mission in life. So….there was a lot of discussion between my husband and I. There were a lot of questions that we asked ourselves; Can we afford to do this? What kind of business could I start and run at home? Am I really ready to give up my demanding, stressful, rewarding career?
Credibility Cues for Your Visitors
One factor in keeping visitors on your site – and getting them to return, is undoubtedly the credibility factor. The more credible your site is – and by extension, your company – the higher the chances of a visitor visiting for long enough, or returning often enough, to do business with you.
Finding the Way Home
It’s very frustrating to receive an email from someone that says, “I really need to work at home. Please help me.”
Finding Work in a Down Economy
In a recent discussion list post, a Web designer wrote:
“I feel uncomfortable building a site for a spammer. But times are tight these days, and turning down the site would be unwise financially.”
Setting Up Tcp Wrappers on Solaris
Tcp Wrappers is a great program that logs and filters incoming requests for various network services. If you dont already have the source code you can get it from my link in the downloads menu.
7 ways to keep web development costs down
Many web development projects – large and small alike – can produce difficulties for both sides of the designer/client relationship. There are opportunities for designers and clients to become frustrated. Most businesses have little experience of commissioning web projects, and for designers it is difficult to communicate their needs to clients.
10 Things I Learned About Marketing This Week (& How You Can Use Them)
1. My grocery store now has a checkout stand immediately inside the front door and beside it is a cooler with milk, orange juice, butter, coffee, bread and the things you’d run into a convenience store for.
Deep Linking to Highlight Your Hidden Assets
Valuable content within your Web site – whether it is permanent or transitory – can be highlighted to your visitors through prominent linking to guide people directly to the deeper pages of your site.
Growth Stock Indicators
The NASDAQ Composite (COMPX) opened modestly higher at 1611.17 on Tuesday, and, thanks to the substantial rise in fear on Monday, COMPX spent the entire session in positive territory with a close significantly higher at 1627.67, +23.70 (+1.48%).