Marketing Tools: Defeating Pop-up Blockers
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Windows XP SP2 effectively blocks most pop-ups. However, Dynamic Popup Generator side-steps the current crop of pop-up blockers and enabled me to nearly double my subscriptions from a pop-up window. Date: Mar 2, 2005, 15:39 PST"

Site Promotion: Building Website Content around Baby Furniture
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"When you build a cluster of articles around a particular topic, your site begins to develop higher PageRank, links, and traffic. This article discusses how to do this for a baby furniture site. Date: Mar 2, 2005, 13:57 PST"

Site Promotion: Thoughts on Linking Strategies
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Don't exchange links indiscriminately with just any site. Make sure the site has commonalities with and is complementary to your site, or you'll difuse your own search engine ranking. Introduces Ken Evoy's new e-book Make Your Links WORK! Date: Feb 23, 2005, 23:22 PST"

Site Design: Domain Naming Questions
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Domain naming doesn't have to be hard. Date: Feb 23, 2005, 18:23 PST"

Site Promotion: Building Fake Websites that Link to the "Mother Ship"
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Building a mini-network of fake websites that link to your main site in order to improve the ranking of the main site has serious problems. It can be spotted by search engines and penalized, as well as dilute your linking efforts and time spent on promoting the main site. Date: Feb 16, 2005, 16:30 PST"


There Is No Template For Executive Blogs
From: www.webpronews.com

"A story in the Financial Times earlier this week (title: "Why executives should steer clear of the blogosphere" - paid sub needed to read it) took a critical look at a few blogs by senior company executives, and mentioned a senior HP exec with a blog that I hadn't seen before."

Does Google have a Goal?
From: www.webpronews.com

"Interesting post at Aways-On that runs through a whole barrage of Google services, Betas and improvements to demonstrate that none of them appear to have any short-medium term profit making capabilities."

Links are Relationships
From: www.webpronews.com

"Two very disturbing developments in regulating the blogosphere -- one puts a price on ..."

Exposing False Predictions
From: www.webpronews.com

"There's an old saying that you can complain about the weather, but you can't do anything about it."

Google May Launch UPC Code Autolinks
From: www.webpronews.com

"This is getting ridiculous. Marissa Mayer from Google told the Washington Post (reg. required) that more Google Toolbar autolinks are in the works, probably using other numbers you can already type into Google's query box to get special results."


Dick Tracy Goes to the Front
From: www.wired.com

"The Israeli army shows off wristwatch-like screens that let soldiers see video taken from planes. Also: The EU has a new patent law on the table to benefit big business.... Yahoo puts web games on PDAs and phones.... and more."

Games to Act Your Age
From: www.wired.com

"The video-game rating board creates a new category for tweens, opening up variety and the market. Also: Tax system tows your car when you are late…. New Dell exec speaks out on file sharing…. and more."

Driving While Under a Cell Phone
From: www.wired.com

"Despite possible safety risks, more people are talking while behind the wheel. Also: Intel's multi-core chips perform pretty well.... Computer scientists side with file-swapping companies.... and more."

Grandma Gets a Job
From: www.wired.com

"AARP launches a website to help older workers find employment. Also: The FBI arrests a man for allegedly selling stolen information to Taiwan.... Sony Ericsson releases four new cell phones with advanced features.... and more."

Copyrights Keep TV Shows off DVD
From: www.wired.com

"WKRP in Cincinnati rocked America's TV screens when it was on the air, but it will probably never be released on DVD because of prohibitive music-licensing fees. It's not alone. By Katie Dean."


In Search of Overhead Heroes
From: webword.com

" Strategy + Business -- "To overcome this, we examined the best consumer-focused technology vendors, companies that are known for understanding and satisfying consumer demand. We studied Apple s development of the iPod, Dell s distribution model, and IBM s sourcing strategies. We interviewed product and account managers at leading technology vendors and trained our staff in how to deal with consumers. We also explored how these vendors reported their success, identified their shortcomings, and changed their services."

Summary? Understand and listen to your customers. Satisfy them. This isn't rocket science but too many companies ignore their customers.

Read the article..."

Keeping Tabs
From: webword.com

" "The original tab signaled an information storage revolution and helped enable everything from management consulting to electronic data processing."

Interesting history lesson.

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Google Autolink
From: webword.com

" Google's toolbar and content modification

Who Owns Your Desktop? You Do!

Protect your site from Google s new toolbar

Questions...

1. Who is in control?
2. What is being controlled?
3. Does it matter?"

Don't Blame Wal-Mart
From: webword.com

" "After all, it's not as if Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, and his successors created the world's largest retailer by putting a gun to our heads and forcing us to shop there."

Is Wal-mart the ulimate usability company, giving customers exactly what they want?

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Why Consistency is Critical
From: webword.com

" Gerry Gaffney -- "Consistency can be something that you can use to your advantage, rather than a straitjacket that constricts you unnecessarily. It can help minimize your development and maintenance costs, free you from having to be concerned about relatively trivial design issues, and provide an enhanced user experience for your customers."

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I Have A Strange Feeling...
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"I have a strange feeling that long form sales letters on the Web are going to become less and less effective. Call it a hunch. As an avid tester, I am discovering some interesting things about how long visitors stay..."

Virtual Real Estate -- The Coming Boom!
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"Write these words down... Virtual Real Estate. We are about to experience a major explosion during the next 5 years and it will all be centered around Virtual Real Estate -- which is the development of web sites. There will..."

New "Spy" Photo Released!
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"THIS JUST IN... This is the first real look at the very first issue of The Reese Report -- THE monthly source for the best in Internet business opportunities, Internet marketing techniques and strategies, and much more. I have a..."

Happy New (Profitable) Year!
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"It's 2005. Wow. Here we are starting a brand new year. It's time to start a new year and a new chapter for your business. Here are some things you should keep in mind in 2005: 1. If you are..."

There Are No Real Marketing Secrets?
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

""There are no real 'secrets' when it comes to marketing." How many times have you ever heard any of the following... "There are no 'secrets'..." "It's all just common sense..." "You can find out any information you want for FREE..."..."