Starting Your Business When Times Are Tough
Wednesday, 08 July 2009
What might we learn from companies successfully started in tough, turbulent economic times? More than you’d think when you consider Fedex, HP, and Apple rose from ashes similar to those we’re experiencing now. Lan Nguyen, today, outlines some great Tips for Downturn Entrepreneurs on TheStreet.com including, to name a few: Study the market Take the
- Published in Conferences / Events, Industry, Insights / Research, Web 2.0
Affiliate Marketing through WordPress plugins
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
One of the keys to success in affiliate marketing is contextual relevance. Sure, there is no fixed cost associating with running your program through the thousands of coupon and deal related sites that exist to make a quick buck. Unfortunately, the time spent managing an extensive set of publishers and keeping an eye out for
- Published in Affiliate Marketing, Blogs & Blogging
Google Please Work on the Blog Search Algorithm!
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
One aspect of the regular search algorithm that seems of increasing importance to blog search is authority; page rank, or what ever you want to call it. Simply, ensuring that blog search fosters the inherent premise of a blog by promoting real bloggers. I LOVE blog search. I can’t stress enough how much I prefer
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Google, Vertical Search
The Best Resources for Self Employed Businesses
Monday, 27 April 2009
It dawned on me the other night that an increasing majority of my readers are self employed: marketing consultants, small business owners, contractors, and startup entrepreneurs. While we focus, here, on marketing resources and tips, there are an ever increasing number of innovative resources to make your professional life easier; allowing you to focus on
- Published in Blogs & Blogging, Insights / Research, Vendors / Agencies, Web 2.0
Identifying Comment Spam with Google