marketing Posts

Mar 19, 2007

I was doing some surfing last night and dropped in on the "Succesful Blog" by Liz Strauss. She had a great post about a smart banner that takes your rss feed and creates an animated gif that you can use on top blog sites and in other places where you ...

Mar 10, 2007

In the rush to embrace new technology and new ways of communicating we often abandon the well established communication methods that people are used too. For example, people know how to use email. Everyone from grandparents to little children use email. It is still one of the most used services ...

Mar 5, 2007

I was taking a break from coding today and took a quick peek at TechCrunch. TechCrunch had a nice writeup on AddThis, a new widget that I was starting to see on blogs around the web. The AddThis widget is a way for your readers to bookmark ...

Mar 3, 2007

Trailfire is one of those Web 2.0 applications that makes it possible for people to create custom web tours or trails. To be able to create a web trail you need to be using Firefox and install a toolbar. The toolbar itself adds a new menu item ...

Feb 12, 2007

I was helping a client establish a new blog a little while ago and one of the questions they had in the process was what are those little icons at the bottom of posts? I was not sure what they were talking about at the time, but after a little ...

Feb 9, 2007

Recently every blog I visited had a MyBlogLog recent readers widget added on to it, so my curiosity was peaked about what this new service that I kept seeing was. I was pleasantly surprised with the features that MyBlogLog offers. Along with the recent readers widget you ...

Feb 9, 2007

Yesterday I talked about what it is like to be a StumbleUpon user and how it delivers to its users websites and pages that are actually of interest. Today I want to talk about why you as a webmaster should pay attention to StumbleUpon. The answer is ...

Feb 8, 2007

To quote Kevin Costner from the movie Field of Dreams "Build it and they will come". This is what people think. Great I have a website, it is done and now all I have to do is sit back and people will come to my site. While it might have ...

Feb 7, 2007

I wanted to make a quick post about a great blog that I read on a regular basis about contextual advertising like Google Adsense, and Yahoo Publisher Network. JenSense - Making Sense of Contextual Advertising does a great job of keeping an eye on the latest updates in the world ...

Feb 6, 2007

I am always being asked by people how they can make easy money on the internet. My response to them is that they can make money on the internet but like most things in life it is never easy. Making money on the internet is just as hard, if not ...