The Art of Using E-mail
Using e-mail to communicate with long distance customers can be a challenge to say the least. I wrote a small article on the subject. The trick is to convey your message as well as to understand what your customer is trying to get across without clues from body language or voice inflections. I found it’s […]
JPG Magazine: A New Kind of Magazine
“We consider ourselves an open source magazine — participants have access to everything the editors have access to…. In traditional magazines, it’s all about hoarding until that last moment and then going ta-da – buy the magazine!” Issue 7 of JPG Magazine had 2,400 submissions come together to make this great looking photog mag. The […]
E-mail Marketing Tips
Are you marketing with e-mail? Many people say that e-mail marketing id dead, killed off by SP*M. I still know many people who don’t know what a blog is. I still think that direct e-mail can be a valuable tool to help you promote yourself or your business as long as you do it right. […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Mapping the universe
Here?s something for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Astronomers at New York City’s Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space think space exploration should be easily accessible to anyone. To make that possible, they offer an interactive atlas of the universe that anyone can […]
Writing A Mini-Course
When I first started designing my site I wrote a section called “Start Your Own Website“. I thought it would be a good place to provide tips to people who wanted to learn how to design their website themselves. It could also be a section that would help people who had some knowledge, but wanted […]
Free E-Book For Writers
Scott Ginsberg, aka “The Nametag Guy,” has been wearing a nametag 24-7 to make people friendlier. (Has been since November 2, 2000.) Although this idea started out as sort of an experiment, he has somehow managed to leverage it into a full-blown career, consisting primarily of: 1) Writing books (5 real ones, 5 electronic ones) […]
Please Vote Today
Thinking of not voting today? Here’s a great list of reasons why you should. “Our” government is out of control and we need to take it back. Although lately I’m not convinced that what goes in to the new voting machines is what actually comes out, but that’s another issue which I’m sure you will […]
Five Keys to Networking Success
Networking can be a very valuable tool for any small business. I have written about this before. If it’s done right it can be the single most economical way to get you new and repeat business. Networking and word of mouth advertising together are seven times more likely to bring in business than all forms […]
71 Ways for a Writer to Make Money
I often talk about why you should be writing new content for your website as a way to get more visitors to you site through search engines and links from other sites. It turns out that you can also make money from these endeavors directly. Wordpreneur has printed a post called “71 Ways for a […]
