Email Etiquette 101
If you do any type of business online you MUST realize the importance of email etiquette. When you press that send button, there’s no turning back, you’ve just sent out your email salesperson. Who would you like to represent you and your business? A well dressed, personable, well spoken salesperson or someone in sloppy clothing, slewing slang, and spewing double negatives and run-on sentences like rain?
The impression your email message gives your customer holds in it’s hands the life or death of your sale. It will determine whether you acquire a customer or a disinterested passerby who’ll delete your email without a second thought.
Web Site Redesign – from Stagnation to Rejuvenation
When surfing the Web these days, you often come across web sites that suffer from stagnation – they look old, obsolete or appear to have been designed by an amateur. Your web site needs continuous improvement to capture and engage your visitor’s attention. If not, they can easily click away to your competitor’s site.
5 steps to prevent web site stagnation
1. Define a clear purpose – when visitors arrive at your site, they should immediately know what your site is all about. You should introduce this in your first paragraph. A graphic may help to supplement your explanation.
Unix Power Tools, Third Edition chapter excerpt
Saving Time on the Command Line
28.1. What’s Special About the Unix Command Line
One of Unix’s best features is the shell’s command line. Why? Nearly every modern operating system has a command line; we don’t use card readers with obscure job setup cards any more. What makes Unix’s special?The Unix shell command line of shortcuts. Some of these you’ll find in other operating systems; some you won’t.
Web Design Troubleshooting Guide
Getting your web site to look right can sometimes be a hair-pulling experience. Even for professional web designers! I can only imagine how frustrated many newbies can get.
Let me share with you some of the common problems in designing a well-functioning web site. If you haven’t made these mistakes yet – trust me: you will! Keep this troubleshooting guide handy for when you need it.
The Individual 401k – BIG Business Benefits For The Home Business
Major mutual fund and investment management companies now offer self employed individuals 401k plans that are easy to install and administer at very low cost. What’s more independent contractors and small business owners can borrow part of their retirement savings tax-free and penalty free by taking advantage of a loan provision in these new plans. Depending on who’s offering them, these individual plans are sold under different trademarked names such as (solo 401k, uni-k plan, personal(k), one person 401k, mini-401k, solo-owner 401k, etc…)
The Job Interview Scam
Be careful of potential job offers – there are scams that are being run and are taking advantage of your good trust in the postings and offers. They attempt to steal proprietary information from unsuspecting “candidates.”
Link Strategies: Who Should You Target?
Inktomi’s link analysis program policy is that sites that link to its relevant topic category page on Yahoo! receive improved hub factor rankings because of Yahoo!’s popularity. A reciprocal link with Yahoo! is even more beneficial. Get your site listed with Yahoo!; it is easier today than before with the Business Express option. (Detlev Johnson with The Ascendant Group)
You Get What You Pay For
With the range of proposals for website development and online marketing services ranging from an estimated $1,500 – $1 million, it is very difficult to choose the right firm or designer to handle your website development and online marketing initiatives.
Four Secrets For Selling In Bad Times!
PLAN AHEAD FOR SLOWDOWNS
1) End your slow sales periods by planning ahead. Plan to add extra bonuses, hold a sale or package your product with other products. For example, you could say, “Buy one, get one free!” Another example would be, “Buy over $20 worth of products and get 5 free bonuses!”
E-Commerce Patent Blackmail – You May Be Next!
To date, the only real impediment to doing business online has been the safety of the consumer’s financial data. In March of 2002, this all changed.
Enter the U.S. Trademark and Patents Office. Over the last few years, the USTPO has shown extreme ignorance of new Internet technologies. The USPTO has approved some of the most ludicrous patents to be presented to them.
In 1997, AltaVista was granted a number of patents on search engine technologies, even though search engine technology had been in use as early as 1989.