Benefits of Online File Storage
Posted September 8, 2011 – 11:41 amOnline storage is an excellent cloud-based service that businesses of all sizes should take advantage of. We are pleased to publish a guest post by Shelly Towns, a writer and tech enthusiast, who writes for Maytech.net.
Description: Most online file storage providers have a list of features to sell about their services. But how will these features benefit your business?
Today’s cloud-based computing solutions include a number of online file storage options for businesses that need a place to put their big files. For some companies, however, their needs for online, off-site storage are eclipsed by their lack of in-house technical experience. This generally results in solutions to file storage and transfer that are unsustainable, inconvenient and usually expensive.
Security is important to most businesses and the concept of sending potentially sensitive materials across the Internet into and from their storage facility can be scary. One of the benefits of selecting a high quality online file storage provider is they tend to have all the latest encryption schemes to ensure ones business intelligence remains private and proprietary.
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How to Choose a Laptop For Graphic Design
Posted August 23, 2011 – 12:05 pmWe are pleased to publish a guest post by Carol Brown that addresses the ever timely topic of what type of laptop a graphic designer should buy. Since we just bought ourselves a new laptop, we can confirm that these are the right issues to think about. Carol is a writer with WebGuru India.
There was a time when graphic design professionals relied on desktops for their work. Graphic design on a laptop was not a suitable option for the millions of designers across the world. This was because the laptops were slower, too delicate to use, and of course, far more expensive than their desktop counterparts.
Laptops for Graphic Designers
However, things have changed drastically in the past few years. The advent of new technologies in both computer hardware and software have enabled laptop brands to make laptops with performance that exceeds the desktop PCs of just a year or two ago. They also cope with heat dissipation issues better and are more rugged.
As a result, graphic designers can now purchase a high performance laptop for their work instead of a desktop machine. Apple Macbooks are obviously very popular among designers because they are very capable for any kind of website design related work. The downside, however, is that not all designers can afford Apple products – they are much more expensive than their Windows counterparts.
Today, the nice thing for designers is that they can buy laptops from brands like Dell, Toshiba, Asus, and other for half the price of the Apple models. These types of Windows machines offer great bang for the buck.
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3 SEO Techniques You Can Completely Forget About
Posted August 15, 2011 – 2:20 pm
We are pleased to publish a guest post by Ashvin Sawmynaden with a new take on SEO. Ashvin is a web marketing specialist currently working on the ACCESS Formation Surete Aeroportuaire website.
The search engine optimization world is one that can literally scare people out of their skin. With the number of unrepentant scammers running around, the speed at which things keep changing and the tons of things to learn, it is often frustrating to most people. Small businesses and blog owners are particularly at risk as they may not have the required knowledge for more advanced and effective SEO techniques and are often left chasing tips and hints that will eventually enable them to boost the visibility of their website.
However, the complex world of search engine optimization comes at a cost. There are techniques that are no longer very effective and can even downright hurt your website, but that are nevertheless being used by a lot of webmasters. Worse yet, even some shady agencies actually recommend these burnt out techniques, thereby ensuring that more people keep wasting their time implementing things that will never help their website visibility. This article lists the most popular three SEO techniques you can stop worrying about.
Tons of links in your footer
The idea of putting tons of links in your website’s footer is one that is done even by huge websites. However, having so many links in your footer only makes it look extremely spammy. Moreover, it increases the total number of links on your pages for no reason. Most of the time, this is made worse by the fact that all these links are actually already prominently displayed in the main navigation menu.
2 Comments | Tags:How Text Messaging is Changing Small Businesses
Posted August 5, 2011 – 12:51 pm
We are pleased to publish this guest post about text messaging by Howard Gibbs of Specialty Answering Service.
With the development of cell phones, smart phones and iPhones, people now have a miniature computer in their grasp for instant communication. The convenience of text messaging is having an impact on the way small businesses do business.
Communication in the business world has rapidly changed over the last few years from pagers, fax machines, and telephones to emails and online video chats. Small business owners must be willing to adapt and embrace new methods of communication or their company will quickly become outdated.
Text messages offer an alternate yet effective way for clients and business owners to keep in quick communication of each other. As a method of increasing customer service through rapid response, text messages can be relayed instantly and are usually responded to just as fast. Customers no longer have to call a company for information about a product or send an email via their home computers, cell phones, or the like.
No Comments | Tags:Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – How to Jump Start Your Online Business
Posted August 4, 2011 – 10:43 am
We are pleased to publish a guest post about affiliate marketing by Kenneth Parkar, a contributing writer associated with the Debt Consolidation Care community.
Due to the tough economy, many people are starting businesses at home. This often includes creating a strong online presence through your own website, social media pages, and blog postings. Unfortunately, even when you have a good idea, many people are at a loss as to how they can popularize their website so that the business grows and makes more money.
One excellent way to jumpstart your business online is to create your own affiliate marketing program. Affiliate marketing is a very widely used marketing technique and there are thousands and thousands of companies that have set up such programs.
How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?
Affiliate marketing is a type of structured marketing program which engages other people to promote your website, your products, and your services. Affiliate programs come in many forms, so you will need to make some choices about how to set up yours so it fits well with your business.
No Comments | Tags:How to add comments policy to a WordPress blog
Posted October 18, 2010 – 11:37 amI’ve just figured out how to add a comments policy to a WordPress blog. It was a little more difficult than I expected.
How to Add Comments Policy
Basically, I just wanted to add a short statement to my comment form saying “spammy comments will be deleted…”.
Perhaps I am using the wrong terminology to search (‘comments policy’, ‘how to add comments policy’, etc.) or maybe there aren’t that many people who are trying to add such a policy. Who knows.
I finally found a simple plug-in from AlexKing.org called Comment License which is posted on WordPress.org.
Perhaps ‘comment license’ is the more proper term for it vs. ‘comment policy’. But actually, based on his default text, I think he had something a bit different in mind. His text is, in fact, more like a ‘license’ whereas I am looking to add something more policy oriented about what type of comments will be approved.
Target sucks! Loses a good customer over $22
Posted October 5, 2010 – 8:46 pmIn the space of 24 hrs, Target has permanently lost me as a customer.
I used to think they were an excellent company: good products, good prices, and consumer oriented. The first two are probably still true, but the last one isn’t – and apparently I’m not alone in thinking that.
Target Sucks - Loses a Customer
Here’s why Target sucks: I bought 5 plastic storage boxes 2 weeks ago. The boxes appeared to be on sale for $5.44 each – there were big ‘SALE’ tags stuck over the regular price labels on the shelves. I happened to like the boxes, but this was purely a price-driven choice – these were the lowest priced boxes they had. I grabbed 5 of them and headed for the checkout counter.
At checkout, I noticed the total charge was higher than I had expected, so I made a mental note to double check later (I should have done it right then, but I was in a hurry). I checked that evening and saw I was charged $9.99 each for the boxes – and I was charged twice for another item that they’d called for a price check on.
After noticing the problems, I immediately called the store and explained the situation. The woman said it’d be no problem, if I could come in, they’d sort it out. I told her the store was quite a distance and I might not be able to make it over for several weeks. Again, she said that’s fine, we’ll handle it.
But it didn’t work out that way at all…and now I won’t be shopping at Target ever again.
20 Comments | Tags: off-topicReview: New Google Keyword Tool Sucks!
Posted August 13, 2010 – 5:21 pmI am very disappointed by the new version of Google’s Keyword Tool. In my opinion, the new keyword tool is a big step backward and basically sucks.
Google Keyword Tool
Google’s Keyword Tool is a keyword research tool that is part of Google AdWords. Until now, it has been the most accurate, most accessible, and most useful keyword research tool available.
But there are major problems with the new version which result in much lower quality and accuracy keyword suggestions.
Sadly, Google announced this week that the new version of the Keyword Tool is coming out of beta at the end of August. At that time, the old tool will no longer be accessible. In recent months while Google has been testing the beta in general release, Google has provided an prominent link from the new interface to the old interface. That has allowed me to put off the day of reckoning.
But with the imminent demise of the old version upon us, I’ve taken some time to carefully test and compare the two versions side-by-side. The result is not pretty. My conclusion: Without a doubt that the new version generates just incredibly, dramatically worse keyword lists than the old version.
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