Traditional Media Doesn’t Get It

Want to hear why traditional media just doesn’t get it when it comes to blogging? Have a look at this post on The Viral Garden called New York Times shows how out of touch it is with bloggers. It’s not just the media that doesn’t get it either. Established businesses think that they are getting […]

Not long ago I read that Google and others would soon be able to read the text content in Flash web pages. I thought at the time that many of the things that I have been saying about SEO and Flash are no longer true, but the more that I read about this the more […]

Looking At Your Site From The Outside

It happens so often that we concentrate our attention on our own business that often we miss the way that our customers sees our business. In our own store or one that we’re designing we know exactly where everything is and also how it works so we often assume that someone who is not familiar […]

Friday Just For Fun Site – fd’s Flickr Toys

Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) At fd’s Flickr Toys you can do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create motivational posters, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, calendars, frames, and a lot more. Very Cool! Visit fd’s Flickr Toys

Inexpensive Promotion With Added Goodwill

The general manager at a fairly large store asked me recently if I knew of any inexpensive ways that they could promote their Saturday business and add some excitement for their sales staff. They had tried several different things some were successful and some were not. They had already tried signs, banners, balloons, newspaper ads, […]

More Uses For Word Of Mouth

Word of mout advertising has always been one of the best kind of promotion that you can have. People tend to believe referrals and references more than almost anything else. I have found out that these can be from people that they don’t even know. The things that matter are that your customers believe that […]

Friday Just For Fun Site – Falling Sand

Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Bored.com has many really great time wasters on their site and one of the pages I like best is Falling Sand. It’s kind of a create your own science experiment/hypnotize yourself/just have some fun kind of thing. […]

Positive Ways To Handle Negative Comments

One of the things that I mention to my clients that want to start a blog and allow others to add content to their site is that besides blog spam you probably will get some commenters that don’t like you or what you say. I usually say that instead of just deleting the negative comments […]

Friday Just For Fun Site – My Bad Boss Contest

Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) I’ve been very busy this week and haven’t had time for posting like I would want to, but I couldn’t miss Friday Fun! Every year, Working America runs a national competition for America’s worst boss. I have […]

Should You Use The Domain Name In The Title Tags?

I have tried several different ways to have my meta title tags. Those are the descriptions that you see at the very top of the browser window that describe the page that your on. Search engines use these tags in different ways, including the text on the results page for your site and I have […]