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Archive for August, 2006

Utah’s Bad News Week

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Great post today by Matthew at Bloomburst about the sad state of affairs with many Utah Businesses. It’s been a tough month for some of us!
Here’s some good news:
Logoworks Ranks No. 66 on the 2006 Inc. 500
Inc. magazine has announced its 25th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies […]

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It Works! PRWeb News Release for UTech

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

So I’m trying my own suggestion and I sent a press release about UTech Internet Marketing Conference through PRWeb. It just went out this morning. I got a paying customer already. Since it cost $200 to send out this level of a release it’s almost already paid for itself.
For some reason Google News put it […]

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International Online Podcasting Event

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Today I was on my first podcast with Judd Bagely. You’ll have to let me know what you think when I post it tomorrow. I can’t wait to get better at it.
After my experience I decided to register for the international podcasting expo on October 20-22, 2006.
You get access to all the downloads, podcasts, and […]

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Free Affiliate Marketing Software

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

Website Services Magazine Cites Two Free Affiliate Software Programs
I’ve been researching DirectTrack and MyAffiliate Program for a lead generation tracking solution. Both have functionality I’m looking for but the setup fees are high for a small affiliate program. Directtrack is $1k and MAP is over $2k plus monthly fees.
The reason most businesses don’t get […]

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Profitable Internet Marketing

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Profitable Internet Marketing is a mix of things you do to market your business online so people will purchase your products. I love it for the variety and change. It’s never boring!
Here are ways internet marketing can help your business

Spend Under $100 One Time and Get New Customers for Months. (Southwest Airlines traced over $60K […]

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Landing Pages - Tips from MarketingSherpa

Monday, August 28th, 2006

I didn’t attend this teleseminar from MarketingSherpa last year on creating effective landing pages. I found this list of tips on Jim Kukral’s blog, part of the Kowabunga network of blogs. What he lists still applies today.

Always use captions under your pictures because eye studies have proven they get read a lot more than you […]

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BlueHost - Easy Wordpress Blog Hosting

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Good news! Bluehost makes it easy to host your Wordpress Blog on your own domain. I use a Wordpress template so my URL is newspapergrl.wordpress.com. I use it because it’s easiest. The catch is I have limited access to the code and to making change to the template.
Now Bluehost makes hosting your blog easy for […]

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Businesswire / PRWeb Press Releases

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

I attended a lunch sponsored by Businesswire last week. I meant to talk more about it but I’ve been swamped.
First, it was a great networking opportunity. I met and learned from the people at my table and the room almost more than the presentation.
The presentation was ok, it went over the history of news and […]

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Podcasting Tips

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Since we’re doing some podcasting at my day job, I appreciated these podcasting tips from Marketing Sherpa.
Their new web site design isn’t my favorite color scheme. It has had some bugs. It looks like they used blogging software. That means comments! The quality of comments after the article adds a lot of value. The article […]

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Canceling your Efax Service - What a Pain

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Here’s my recent chat with Efax and the reason I’m late to work…(forget about canceling online you have to use their chat to cancel)
Welcome to chat.
The session has been accepted. Hello, Janet. Welcome to j2 Global online support. I am Howard, your online Live Support Representative. How are you doing today?
{Janet}Hi, good. I’d like […]

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