No Secrets

January 18, 2011

Certain web sites are now providing personal information on YOU including private information (such as your credit card info). They do this by, among other things, farming data into their database from multiple social networks and other sources. One such site is http://www.SPOKEO.COM. Try it out – enter your name and see what info is [...]

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Do I Need a Blog?

January 14, 2011

A blog is online journal, published frequently (often daily). Each journal entry is called a “post”, and the posts are maintained in reverse chronological order; that is, the most recent is first. The word “blog” itself is a derivative of “web log”. The blog also supports comments and feedback from it readers, enabling it to [...]

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Want Your New Web Site Ranking Well Fast?

January 7, 2011

You’ve just created a new web site (or we created it for you) and you want it working NOW. You want those search engines showing your site at the top of the listings when somebody searches on Google for it. Amazingly, this can be done and we’ve done it. It’s all in knowing the rules [...]

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The New Marketing Paradigm – Inbound Marketing

January 4, 2011

“If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains that money, you should focus on inbound marketing.” Guy Kawasaki Inbound marketing is a marketing strategy that focuses on getting found by customers. This is also referred to as permission marketing or relationship marketing. Outbound marketing, in [...]

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Where does Facebook Get their Money From?

January 4, 2011

Where does Facebook get their money from? Is Facebook really worth $50 billion that “somebody” says? The answer may surprise you! Where Facebook Gets its Money

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Want an affordable and professional-quality web site design?

December 28, 2010

What are your visions for the coming year? For Carl, there has been on important vision he has been pursuing for some years and has finally birthed as we enter the New Year. Carl’s vision has been to develop a method of creating affordable and professionally designed web sites for individuals and small businesses. Typical [...]

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Affordable and professional web site design

December 24, 2010

As we enter the Christmas season, for my family it is a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, someone who changed my life and could change yours if you haven’t met Him yet. It is a season of births. Carl is celebrating this season as he shares the birth of a new product that [...]

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Tech companies and lobbying

December 23, 2010

Guess which tech company spent the most on lobbying? the least? http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-tech-companies-spending-on-lobbying-2010-12?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29&utm_content=Twitter

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Using Fonts

December 20, 2010

As you design your pages for you web site (and posts for your blog), the fonts you use are an integral part of your message. Choosing the right fonts is very important. Match your fonts to the message and theme of the page. Here are a few basic definitions: Typeface – a set or family [...]

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Resources for Search Engine Optimization

December 18, 2010

Here are some links from Chris Brogan for good sites to help you with optmizing you site. We’ve already been using the first for some time: Website Grader from Hubspot. This tool is a really great way of seeing how you stand with typical SEO and social engagement scoring. Start here. This is also a [...]

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