E-Mail Marketing Follow Up
“Many people have given up e-mail marketing because the filters that almost everyone uses now makes it almost impossible for their mail to get through.” I had a customer tell me that not too long ago. I asked them about their direct e-mail campaign and he told me that even though it cost them very […]
Fuelmyblog – The Great Wall of Blogs
Here’s an interesting free idea to promote your blog. There are a few spaces left if you hurry and sign up. The purpose of this site is to make it easier for people to get introduced to and read your blog. They will shorty be introducing a radio show that will discuss blogs on this […]
Free Photography Lessons
Jodie Coston is a freelance photographer who lives in northwestern Montana. She has exhibited her work in gallery exhibitions around the world and has won numerous international awards for her images. Jodie has a wonderful free photography course on her website with lessons and discussions for all. It’s been available since 2004, but I just […]
Why Not Google Your Customers?
John Andrews wrote an interesting post on why you should use the Internet to check out your customers. It’s something that I have not considered before. This can give you some much needed information about your customers that you can use both before you actually meet them and also after they are an established customer. […]
Today Is Nametag Day
I have previously written about Lessons Learned from “Talk Like A Pirate Day”, what a great promotion that is and how something like that that can work for your business. Now Scott Ginsberg “That Guy With The Nametag” has done it also. For the second year in a row, Colchester, NH is celebrating Annual Nametag […]
Cool Photoshop Trick – Image “Jumps” Off The Page
Here’s a very cool trick that can be used in Photoshop or “The GIMP“. You can make your pictures appear to come right off the page. This post describes how to make it in Photoshop, but I’ve tried it and it works pretty much the same in “The GIMP“. For those of you who don’t […]
Still Another SEO Resource
SEO (search engine optimization) still seems to be the most popular topic for readers of my blog. It seems many designers either don’t have the resources to hire an SEO company, don’t trust the SEO companies, or just want to learn to do it themselves. In any case here is another resource that will let […]
SEO Best Practices
SearchEngineWatch has published a wonderful article called “An Introduction to SEO Best Practices” and it’s just what it says. They say “SEO best practices have been constantly evolving since the advent of the search engines themselves. As we enter 2007, this evolution continues, inexorably pushing the Web site owner toward practices that begin to sound […]
What To Do About Blog Spam
I advise all of my customers to have a blog. I think it one of the best things that you can do to help yourself get better search engine rankings. There are several good reasons for having a blog: Having new content on your site if one of the best things that you can do […]
Great Collection of CSS Tools
I get many inquires from my customers about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). What it is, why I use it and how it works. Proper use of CSS can make all of the difference in a web page. Not only does it control how a web page looks and acts you can also move all of […]
