Now What? Make a Squidoo Lens, and Hurry!!!
You’ve got your site up and running and are pretty happy with it, but the marketing job is just beginning. Here’s another tip that can get you a lot of mileage in making is making a “lens” at Squidoo.com. A lens is an easily configurable site that Squidoo hosts for you for free. [...]
Now What? Add Your Domain Name to Your Signatures!
Having a functional and attractive web site is just the beginning. You still have to find a way to get people to use it. One of the easiest ways to let folks know about your site is to leave a calling card for it everywhere you go on the web.
You probably already have your domain [...]
All Of Your Websites Are Belong to Us!
Remembering my attempt to use my first web page to get chicks reminded me of a funny story that came out of that little venture. I used to chat with a girl, we’ll call her “Amy” (since that was her name), on a bulletin board called ISCA run by the Iowa Student Computing Association. This [...]
The First (and Best) Marketing Lesson I Learned
I built my first “website” back in 1995. It wasn’t really a site, just a page. Does anyone else remember those days–when people would ask about your “page” instead of your “site”? I worked pretty hard to get this page where I wanted it. I learned html by reading some links I found on this [...]
Google Earth–Maybe the Coolest Google Tool Yet
For me, this in anything BUT a productivity tool. Every time I start it up I lose hours. If you have an addictive personality, stay away. If you think you can keep it under control, read on…
Flickr Photo Sharing Online
Want an easy and fun way to share photos with your friends? Need a place to store photos online for your blog or website without taking up space on your own account? Try Flickr.
Flickr is an image hosting service owned by Yahoo!. Like all of their tools, it is FREE, and allows you to upload [...]
Google Reader
If you aren’t sure what RSS is, there’s a quick primer available on this site. If you already know about RSS and are itching to try it out, I think Google Reader is the best one out there.
Not only is it a nice reader, but it also ties in with your Google account along with [...]
Using Google Docs Instead of Microsoft Office
How frustrating is it to work on a document at home and not have it available to you on a different computer? Those days are over!!!
Google now has FREE word processing and spreadsheet tools available online. The best part is that any documents you create there are saved to your Google account, not your home [...]
Squidoo The Next Big Thing in Web Marketing?
Squidoo provides users with lots of good information on how to promote and market their lenses to get people to use them. They give new users $5 just for signing up and creating a lens. I know you’re thinking, “okay, what’s the catch?”
The Basics of Blogs and Blogging
The word “blog” came from the combination of the words web and log — weBLOG. It is basically an online diary, and much, much more. People create blogs to record entries at their leisure, be it daily, weekly, or several times a day. The blogging software they use keeps track of all of their posts [...]
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