Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

We hear the buzz words about the social networks from the News, Late Night TV, even the Whitehouse and your local politician how everyone is Tweeting and they have a Face book page and are hooking up with old contacts through Linked in. How can you use these tools with your business to help drive traffic to your site? (more…)

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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Microsoft recently launched the new decision engine called BING. Bing has now take over as the default IE Search rather than Windows Live and MSN live.

A decision engine works towards helping you find specific items such as purchases and travel. It can also help with everyday purchases as well and help to find your business listing. Bing pulls information in from several locations. Multiple Source Types: Web, Images, Instant Answer, Phonebook, Related Search, Spell, and more. (more…)

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

An effective websites will take considerable planning, development and effort on your part to get everything how you want it. Once you’ve made your initial investment and have your site up and running, the job continues in keep it updated and maintained.

Your web site content is like the oil in your car. You have to update and change it every so often or it will not longer be effective. Despite all the time or money you put into its design and hosting, if you neglect it, it will provide modest or little benefit in return. The success of your web venture will rely much on the amount of attention and maintenance you put into it.

Here are Four Reasons Why Regular Web Maintenance is Important (more…)

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

Truth 1. Getting noticed by spiders, robots, and crawlers

Spiders, robots, and crawlers are your friends. In the name of search engine optimization, you’ll not only learn to love them, but you’ll actually go out of your way to attract them to your site.

In SEO, spiders, robots, and crawlers are more or less synonymous, but don’t worry unduly—none have legs or feelers. So, let’s consolidate and just use the term “crawler,” shall we? Just bear in mind that you’ll sometimes want to attract robots, or lace your site with “spider bait.” All belong to the same principle.

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

What is the meaning of Comcast filtering my SMTP, send mail function.

With a little investigation and a call to support I found that my consumer subscription to comcast is now blocked from sending my using my own account.  Since I have my own domain name http://itpws.com, I have been using my port 25 to send email.

The reason that they give from technical support is that there is too much abuse with spam going out using comcast servers so they have to shut is down.

So what are you to do when they shut off your smtp outbound mail and you want to use the email address from your domain name such as scott@itpws.com.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008

While investigating the easy way to allow clients post to the blog I ran accross this FireFox plugin.  This allows you to be on the article that you are researching and then write up the post and post it right to your blog site without missing a beat.

http://deepestsender.mozdev.org/

Here are the benefits of using this tool for your blog.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Social network applications such as twitter have a high noise to value ratio. So can it be used in a way to benefit the every day business?  Or is the noise ratio too high to get any use out of Twitter in your business?

I guess the first question that needs to be asked is do you know what Twitter is?

I recently dug into Twitter a little more and had a chance to discuss this with some other professionals at the infocamp held in Seattle this weekend.   But this got me wondering if Twitter would apply in a business application or if it was more for the social network personal use.

Before anyone can comment on this I guess you have to understand a little more about how Twitter works. This is a good video that explains what Twitter is in common language.

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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Buzz Bite Energy Chew Vending Machine BuzzSeattle.com

Are you looking for some easy money making methods for getting good chunk of profit? A small business opportunity is awaiting you. Buzz bites is a high energy, high demand product, which is making waves in the market. Buzz bite, chocolate energy chew is an alternative to the energy drinks as well as coffee. It is available in ¾-inch cubic bars. Buzz bite is suitable for students, sport enthusiasts, children, drivers etc. This product has already created some talking points as it featured on famous journals like Wall street journal, Houston chronicle, orange county register, then on television channel CNBC etc. BuzzSeattle.com is one of the distributors in the Pacific Northwest that can set up a vending machine in your office or get you started retailing the products from your store. (more…)

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Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Recently I came across a product that I really fell in love with. I have been an avid energy drink consumer but I did not like all the sugar that they have in them and I wanted to find something that would give me the kick of the energy drink but not all the extra calories. Well I did find that product, I tried it and really liked it. I liked it so much that we went ahead and made an alliance with the local Seattle company that is placing vending machines to distribute these products.

The site and company is called BuzzSeattle.com, they are placing vending machines in and around the Seattle area. The best places to locate these machines are trade shops: paint, construction, contractor, restaurants, break rooms with 15 or more employees. (more…)

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