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[2005-08-30] Stockholders Ok with StorageTek and Sun Microsystems
StorageTek announced today their stockholder signed off on the deal for Sun Microsystems to acquire the storage technology company. Under the terms, StorageTek will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun.
[2005-08-29] Ecommerce Hosting Considerations
Website hosting can be a complex undertaking. Determining how much space you need, how much transfer, finding a reliable host, and getting everything online is no simple task.
[2005-08-29] World of Warcraft Cracks 4 Million Customers WorldWide
Think online gaming is huge? You have no idea. Blizzard Entertainment announced their "World of Warcraft" game passed the one million subscriber mark in North America and broke the four million subscriber mark world wide. That's a lot of gamers. That's also a lot of monthly income.
[2005-08-22] RE/MAX Heads Online For Real Estate
Business continues to grow on the Internet. One industry that's bucked the trend was the real estate industry until now. Real estate giant RE/MAX is in the process of creating an online listing of homes all around the country.
[2005-08-22] Ka-ching! Online Retail Sales Hit $21.1 Billion
The Census Bureau of the US Commerce Department said those second quarter sales rose 7.2 percent over the first quarter.
[2005-08-19] Amazon's New Shorts
Amazon.com is now offering a new service called "Amazon Shorts" from which customers can sample the work of new authors for 49 cents each.
[2005-08-15] Ecommerce & SEO
The purpose of any business website is to promote a product or service online. The purpose of an ecommerce website is to take it one step further and to allow your visitors to purchase your products or services directly from your website.
[2005-08-15] What Makes Your Online Ads Persuasive?
The first impression that the people get from your ad decides if they click or skip. This shows that writing really persuasive ads is not easy. Writing irrestisible internet ads needs some skills.
[2005-08-15] Eyes on your eCommerce Website
In a recent article I talked about Google AdSense placement based on eye-tracking research. However, research by The Poynter Institute, Eyetools and the Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media has a lot to say about more than where to put an AdSense block.
[2005-08-12] Amazon 8-K Discloses $40M Settlement
A SEC Regulation FD filing by the online retailer discloses its settlement of an e-commerce patent infringement spat.
[2005-08-11] The Holy Grail That Online Advertisers, Merchants, Publishers And Shoppers Have Been Looking For!
For Online Publishers/RSS Feeds users - RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a popular way for online users/publishers to pull news and information from across the web.
[2005-08-08] Using The Online Press Release Link Building Strategy
If you market any type of product or service, your online marketing strategy should include the distribution of online press releases. They are fairly easy to write and can potentially get you lot's of media publicity which, in most cases, will increase your sales revenue.
[2005-08-08] Choosing the Right SEO Firm for You
Ok, so you've finished your web site. Now you just submit your web site to a couple of search engines, sit back, relax and wait to see your bank account grow.
[2005-08-08] E*Trade Buys Harrisdirect for $700 million
E*Trade Financial Corp. is buying US-based online brokerage operations of Harrisdirect from BMO Financial Group in a cash-transaction valued at $700 million.
[2005-08-08] Easy Clickbank Management with the Right Tools
Clickbank has been around for years and has earned an excellent reputation online. They make it easy for anyone to be able to take credit card payments from their websites without the hassle of obtaining a merchant account. It also has a built in affiliate program. For their trouble they take a small percentage of each transaction plus a 1.00 service fee.
[2005-08-05] Advertising On a Dead Man
eBay auctions are just getting weirder and weirder. Now there's a guy auctioning off the rights to advertise on his dead body when he does in fact die.
[2005-08-05] Improving Your Conversion Reduces the Need to Constantly Promote Your Sites
I just got off the phone with Michael Fortin, one of the top copywriters and conversion experts on the web.
[2005-08-04] Tags & Folksonomy: Latest Internet Trend
There is a new branch of the Web growing like a well organized storm cloud. This recent trend on the Web can be used to strengthen your presence with major search engines and reach an active audience that is highly interested in your content.
[2005-08-04] Achieving ROI Efficiencies Online Through Brand-Direct Relationships
To most people, brand advertising and direct marketing are two wholly separate, if not antithetical, practices. One is for generating awareness and making emotional connections. The other is meant to elicit a specific response. But until recently, the two initiatives had never been thought of as working together at the same time.
[2005-08-02] Marketing Using Minisites
When it comes to making money online, there are a wide variety of web sites with different graphics and copy with some being very detailed and some not.
[2005-08-02] Make Sure That Your Dot-Com Doesn't Become The Next Dot-Bomb!
Late last night I turned on my television and discovered a used car salesman trying to sell this cheap clunker of a car to recently pink-slipped and bankrupt dot-com unfortunates.
[2005-08-01] Google's own AdSense Tips
Google is at least as interested as you are in having your ads perform well on your site. And they've gone to some work to provide the information you need to optimize your AdSense.
StorageTek announced today their stockholder signed off on the deal for Sun Microsystems to acquire the storage technology company. Under the terms, StorageTek will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun.
[2005-08-29] Ecommerce Hosting Considerations
Website hosting can be a complex undertaking. Determining how much space you need, how much transfer, finding a reliable host, and getting everything online is no simple task.
[2005-08-29] World of Warcraft Cracks 4 Million Customers WorldWide
Think online gaming is huge? You have no idea. Blizzard Entertainment announced their "World of Warcraft" game passed the one million subscriber mark in North America and broke the four million subscriber mark world wide. That's a lot of gamers. That's also a lot of monthly income.
[2005-08-22] RE/MAX Heads Online For Real Estate
Business continues to grow on the Internet. One industry that's bucked the trend was the real estate industry until now. Real estate giant RE/MAX is in the process of creating an online listing of homes all around the country.
[2005-08-22] Ka-ching! Online Retail Sales Hit $21.1 Billion
The Census Bureau of the US Commerce Department said those second quarter sales rose 7.2 percent over the first quarter.
[2005-08-19] Amazon's New Shorts
Amazon.com is now offering a new service called "Amazon Shorts" from which customers can sample the work of new authors for 49 cents each.
[2005-08-15] Ecommerce & SEO
The purpose of any business website is to promote a product or service online. The purpose of an ecommerce website is to take it one step further and to allow your visitors to purchase your products or services directly from your website.
[2005-08-15] What Makes Your Online Ads Persuasive?
The first impression that the people get from your ad decides if they click or skip. This shows that writing really persuasive ads is not easy. Writing irrestisible internet ads needs some skills.
[2005-08-15] Eyes on your eCommerce Website
In a recent article I talked about Google AdSense placement based on eye-tracking research. However, research by The Poynter Institute, Eyetools and the Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media has a lot to say about more than where to put an AdSense block.
[2005-08-12] Amazon 8-K Discloses $40M Settlement
A SEC Regulation FD filing by the online retailer discloses its settlement of an e-commerce patent infringement spat.
[2005-08-11] The Holy Grail That Online Advertisers, Merchants, Publishers And Shoppers Have Been Looking For!
For Online Publishers/RSS Feeds users - RSS (Real Simple Syndication) is a popular way for online users/publishers to pull news and information from across the web.
[2005-08-08] Using The Online Press Release Link Building Strategy
If you market any type of product or service, your online marketing strategy should include the distribution of online press releases. They are fairly easy to write and can potentially get you lot's of media publicity which, in most cases, will increase your sales revenue.
[2005-08-08] Choosing the Right SEO Firm for You
Ok, so you've finished your web site. Now you just submit your web site to a couple of search engines, sit back, relax and wait to see your bank account grow.
[2005-08-08] E*Trade Buys Harrisdirect for $700 million
E*Trade Financial Corp. is buying US-based online brokerage operations of Harrisdirect from BMO Financial Group in a cash-transaction valued at $700 million.
[2005-08-08] Easy Clickbank Management with the Right Tools
Clickbank has been around for years and has earned an excellent reputation online. They make it easy for anyone to be able to take credit card payments from their websites without the hassle of obtaining a merchant account. It also has a built in affiliate program. For their trouble they take a small percentage of each transaction plus a 1.00 service fee.
[2005-08-05] Advertising On a Dead Man
eBay auctions are just getting weirder and weirder. Now there's a guy auctioning off the rights to advertise on his dead body when he does in fact die.
[2005-08-05] Improving Your Conversion Reduces the Need to Constantly Promote Your Sites
I just got off the phone with Michael Fortin, one of the top copywriters and conversion experts on the web.
[2005-08-04] Tags & Folksonomy: Latest Internet Trend
There is a new branch of the Web growing like a well organized storm cloud. This recent trend on the Web can be used to strengthen your presence with major search engines and reach an active audience that is highly interested in your content.
[2005-08-04] Achieving ROI Efficiencies Online Through Brand-Direct Relationships
To most people, brand advertising and direct marketing are two wholly separate, if not antithetical, practices. One is for generating awareness and making emotional connections. The other is meant to elicit a specific response. But until recently, the two initiatives had never been thought of as working together at the same time.
[2005-08-02] Marketing Using Minisites
When it comes to making money online, there are a wide variety of web sites with different graphics and copy with some being very detailed and some not.
[2005-08-02] Make Sure That Your Dot-Com Doesn't Become The Next Dot-Bomb!
Late last night I turned on my television and discovered a used car salesman trying to sell this cheap clunker of a car to recently pink-slipped and bankrupt dot-com unfortunates.
[2005-08-01] Google's own AdSense Tips
Google is at least as interested as you are in having your ads perform well on your site. And they've gone to some work to provide the information you need to optimize your AdSense.