Archive for February 2nd, 2006
A few months into the job and Sabrina’s cold calling sales prospecting techniques were getting her almost nowhere. She would call CIO’s and CTO’s all day, and speak to maybe one sales prospect if she was lucky. The gatekeepers and voicemail were screening her out. Sabrina was “following up” her calls with emails, but she rarely if ever heard anything back.
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February 2nd, 2006
By now, most bloggers have heard the announcement that the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - have united in support of a new tag that will supposedly combat comment spam. The new tag is a nofollow attribute that can be added to links. When added to links in comment tags, the search engines will ignore them.
An excellent discussion of this new tag and how it works can be found at Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Watch: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728
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February 2nd, 2006
There are literally billions of Web sites online now offering all types of products and services. Some succeed brilliantly, while others fail miserably.
There can be many reasons for the failure of some Web sites: poor marketing, poor planning, a weak knowledge of the target market, or just an overall lack of knowledge of business principles by the Web site owner.
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February 2nd, 2006
The Internet can be a confusing place to do business. It often seems like there are a million ‘gurus’ on the Net, all speaking at the same time, and telling you how they have “the” road map to success.
The truth is … there is no one map. There are many roads to the destination we call success. How long the trip will take depends a great deal on the choices you make.
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February 2nd, 2006
Want to drive more targeted traffic to your web site?
Want to do it for free?
If you answered “yes” you’re in for a treat. Use the search engine optimization and ranking techniques in this article and you will be well on your way to a front page listing in the major search engines.
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February 2nd, 2006
Setting up a pay-per-click campaign is simple, right? Practically all paid search engines especially the top-tiered ones like Google Adwords and Overture provide extensive training materials. It is advertised that in less than three hours, you can select your keywords, write your ads and have a campaign either submitted for an editorial review at Overture or active on Google.
It sounds so unbelievably simple! But have you heard the saying "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is?"
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February 2nd, 2006
The following 3 secrets revolutionized my life. For years I had tried everything I knew with no success. It didn’t matter that offline I was a very successful marketing expert, online success remained elusive. The moment I discovered these three secrets things changed dramatically for me.
So why am I revealing them to you?
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February 2nd, 2006
Everyone at some point in their Internet experience has received an email ad that was simply to difficult to read or it’s text was so badly broken up that it was impossible to understand.
Most of the time when I receive an email of this kind (and it’s far to often) I do what everyone else does, I simply hit the delete and move on to the next email.
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February 2nd, 2006