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The BIG Website Traffic Lie!

You're being lied to. Everywhere you turn someone's pushing down your throat the belief that the secret to earning big money online…

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Bringing SQL Server Data into Client as XML Data Islands

One of the most frustrating things to me is seeing developers doing new things, but in "old" ways. A classic example is one you may have seen yourself: Here we have a sophisticated client - side application that runs in Internet Explorer, we use XML Data Islands and XSLT transforms and parameters, templates, and we even use XMLHTTP from the client. And along with this…

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Top Tips from the Best SEO’s in the Business

Keywords Know what you want to be found for. You should know the top two or three terms that are most important to your Web site and have incorporated them into a 25-word description that doesn't use marketing hype, which can then be submitted to human powered directories. You should also know a list of the top 10 to 100 terms you'd like to be…

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Are You Busy… or Productive?

Are you busy or are you productive? The question is innocent enough. But can you handle the truth? Recently I was doing some consulting with a client who carefully examined how his sales representatives spent their time. He concluded that they actually spent less than 5 percent of each day engaged in the act of selling! Imagine, 95 percent of each sales day spent on…

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How To Design Your Website For Maximum Sales

1. Front Page Make it brief and quick loading. Avoid large graphics, fancy Flash movies and hefty Javascripts. Have a sharp marketing focus. Display your most important marketing information on your front page. Avoid filling it with tons of details or hyperlinks. Your front page's primary function is to capture the visitors' attention and generate further desired actions such as the browsing of your sales…

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