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Are you on YouTube?

Do you have digital camcorder?  If so, put it to work for you!  A 2 or 3 min. video will let your potential customers get to know your face and voice.  Talk to them, share your insights with them and reap the benefits of “putting yourself out there” in public.  If you...

Is Your Host Blacklisted?

When you’re on a shared server it’s important to find out if anyone else on your server has been blacklisted for spamming. Why? Because on a shared server you’re IP address and their IP address will be the same, and it does not matter if your domain name is different,...

Shoppers ditch long lines for Web

Washington Business Journal - by Gillian Gaynair Staff Reporter While eager shoppers cram into stores, fight over bargains and wait endlessly in lines Friday, a growing number will avoid the mayhem. That group will buy from home. And they'll probably be in their...

Social Media Optimization

Most Internet users have heard of Search Engine Marketing (SEO) but the new "buzz word" in the Internet Marketing world is Social Media Optimization (SMO). SMO tactics are used to drive large amounts of people to a web site through new channels. Google and Yahoo,...

The Death of Email Marketing

You’ve probably seen more than one of those “Death of…” reports lately… but there is one method online that will never die. Email marketing. You see, all the guru’s talk about the ‘changes’ taking place online and how a lot of methods that worked a few years, even a...

Free Animated Gifs

This one creates those ‘loading’ animated gifs you see when you are waiting for things to load on a web page… they don’t really do anything, but they give your visitors something to look at while the page is loading … You can create your own animated gif’s or you can...

MySpace joins Google’s OpenSocial

Google announced today that MySpace has joined OpenSocial.  MySpace is in good company, other social networking sites currently in OpenSocial include Linked in, orkut, Slide & Ning.  The question still remains as to whether or not Facebook will join. OpenSocial is...