Oct
08
2008
Outsourcing is today’s buzzword. If your ability to pay your mortgage has flown to India, outsourcing is a bad word. If you have freed up a few hours a day to spend on growing your business instead of packaging your orders, outsourcing is a good word. It’s all in the context. Have you ever said [...]
Tags: power, Web Sites
Oct
08
2008
The next version of WordPress, version 2.7, is scheduled for release in Novemeber. It looks like there will be some very cool new features and refinements to the Dashboard. You can see a demo here: http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpress-27-demo
Tags: wordpress
Oct
06
2008
Have you wondered if you can make money selling your photos online though stock outlets? For most people – even good amateur photographers with good quality digital SLRs – making money by selling pictures to a stock photo service is a dream rather than a reality. Beginners often have their photos rejected simply because they [...]
Tags: iStock Photo, stock photography
Oct
05
2008
HOW TO BUILD A WEB SITE FOR YOUR BUSINESS – PART 4 Web domain registrars are in a low-price competition with each other. The basic service they offer – registering your domain name – is not the sort of thing that builds high margin, repeat traffic. So, to keep the cost of domain registration low [...]
Tags: blue host, godaddy, registrar, web host
Oct
04
2008
Sadish Bala, the creator of the theme Palaam, which is used on this site, ran a contest last month, offering one of his beautiful Premium Themes for free if you were using one of his excellent free themes. The rules were a little more complicated than that, but basically Sadish looked at blogs using his [...]
Tags: sadish bala, themes, wordpress
Oct
04
2008
Your marketing must tell your buyers in the most straight forward way why they should buy. Your copy must answer the question, “What’s In It For Me?’ You know that. You’ve read it a thousand times. So why is it so hard to do? Because you haven’t had the chance to practice often enough to [...]
Tags: copywriting
Oct
02
2008
No one admits they are in favor of bad customer service. You’ll never find a business person who says, “Pleasing you is worth about $4.37 on a $500.00 sale – so you get 2 minutes – and no more – of my time.” You will find thousands of people who say that Customer Service is [...]
Tags: customer service