Giving Away A Great Product To Make Money – Pentaho
Here’s a great example of giving away a great product to make money. Pentaho is an open source business intelligence application and if you are thinking about buying new software for your business you need to check this out. It’s free and they have some great demos available. According to Wikipedia business intelligence (BI) is […]
Marketing Opportunities Are Everywhere
People tell me that they don’t have any idea how do incorporate the new marketing techniques into their website promotions, or they don’t have the time, or they don’t have the expertise. That’s just called “So What!” You don’t have to know about any of these things to be a good promoter, you don’t even […]
What is Viral Marketing?
Viral marketing is a term for website promotion where one person tells someone about your site or promotion and they tell someone else and then it keeps on spreading. Kind of like the old shampoo commercial (and so on…) or the flu! If you are lucky enough to put together a good one of these […]
Starting A Website On A Shoestring
What would you do if you wanted to start a new website and had pretty much no money to do it with? When I decided to begin this business that was pretty much my case. I thought at the time that I can try to work for myself and all that I really have to […]
More Newsletter Help – HTML Email Tips
I have written before about how hard it is getting to get HTML emails through to your readers. The way email readers are today, especially on line readers like Hotmail or Yahoo Mail are very restrictive as to what they will allow their users to see. I have several customers who like to send HTML […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – In Search Of Stuff
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) “In Search Of Stuff” is a site with some web design and Internet marketing humor. Even if you don’t get the inside jokes it’s pretty funny. “You are the 1st person to read this article. And we […]
Writing Articles and Advertising
Something that I advise my customers to do and don’t do enough of myself is to write articles. One of the things that brings me the most satisfaction is to see one of my articles on another site and visiting that site to find that along with my work there is more good information to […]
CSS Support in Email Marketing
It looks like things have gotten worse on the e-mail clients front in regards to CSS compatibility. I was hoping that things would be getting better and e-mail would become more like web page design and conform to standards. From what I’m reading things are moving farther away from it. Tables are almost a necessity […]
Is Anyone There?
Here’s an interesting thought. Many companies are very concerned about how well their marketing message is getting to and is received by their customers. They are tweaking this and that to help their efforts be seen and acted on by their audience. What happens next? How well do you respond? A company called Hornstein Associates […]
Does Your Message Sell?
It seems many times that I have had a customer tell me exactly how they want their site to look (add 5px of padding to that paragraph or move that picture up and over to the right just a smidgen) and never give a second thought to their actual message. My job as a web […]
