Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Makin’ it happen…

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

So we thought about it today and we decided we would follow Seth Godin’s advice and Make it happen!
It was a pretty simple idea. Will Donate for Clicks–We identified a non-profit partner we’ve been working with and pledged $.10 for unique click on a simple landing page. Here’s the copy:
This just takes a […]

Are You Engage(d)?

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

We’ve all been to blog sites, forums or other community sites. More often than not, we havet to fish though mountains of unrelated issues to find what we’re really looking for.
Of course of lot large businesses have seen the benefit that could come from having a forum that actually helped to nuture the thought […]

Can you Digg?

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

We just posted our first article at Digg.com. Check us out and let us know what you think.
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/upcoming
This is our first experience in internet publicity at Worldwide Book Drive. We’ll see how it goes!

Webdevelopment Outsourcing

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

In my opinion, development costs are some of the scariest expenses of a business that integrates the web. Generally speaking, front end isn’t too bad, but a back-end that allows dyanmic interface and webmastery, not to mention shoppingcart and customer accounts can add up fast…
I was first introduced to offshore outsourcing by John Jonas, […]

Little Search Engine’s In Big China?

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

So I’m in Atlanta, Georgia right now with RigidFlex Plastics International at a trade conference regarding recycled plastics and the developments in the plastic trading industry.
Although completely off the topic of plastics, (I’ll write more about this conference later), it’s been fun lately to learn about the developments of Google and the other search engines […]

Losing Page Rank: Just Another Statistic

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

So after Google’s last big indexing round-up, a number of different sites that I manage in one of my small businesses lost its ranking. I understand that google has reset their algorhythms to try to clean out duplicate content and people who use scraper software, but a lot of legitimate sites seemed to have […]

First Prove Your Model

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

We recently had a publicity strategy meeting for Somethinglocal.com. We sat down and tried to identify as many things as we could that would increase traffic, build brand equity, increase down loads and more, (what else do you usually talk about at an internet marketing meeting). We identified some great things we could do […]