Hot-selling Privacy Products

If you are in the business of selling products relating to online privacy, now might be a good time to step up your Internet marketing promotions. In last month's issue of CNET Downloads Publishers Newsletter, it was stated ... "the online privacy category saw an astonishing 924 percent increase in download activity between August (2002) and February (2003)."

Backlinks (http_referrers)

When a web page is accessed by a link from some other page, the address of the other page (the "referring page") is made available to the web server. We can pick that information up from logs or as the page is being displayed. For example, if we have Server Side Includes or php, we can pickup the referring page from an environment variable. Here's…

Documenting Your Network

Undocumented networks are extremely common. Many times this is related more to the difficulty of keeping the documentation up to date rather than to the difficulty of the documentation process itself. Many LAN Administrators had big dreams at one time of keeping elaborate drawings detailing every last aspect of the network. However, networks tend to change too frequently for such drawings to stay current. In…

Listen Your Way to Sales Success

There are many factors and variables that affect our sales on any given day. There is however, one key skill that will increase help you increase your sales immediately. Listen to your customer!

The Language of Business

The language associated with starting a business is unique. Using the correct business terms makes you look more professional and helps others understand exactly what you are trying to communicate to them. There are also important legal reasons to use specific language when describing your business.