The Advantages of Customer Self Support in a Downturn Economy

Disaster Preparedness | Safeguarding Your Most Valuable Assets - Company Knowledge
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2010-12-08 | Word Count: 428 | Page Views: 768
Nobody likes to have to think about disaster preparedness, and many do not give thought to safeguarding 'company knowledge', but among other tangible catastrophic losses, it can mean the difference between your business making it or going under when a disastrous event occurs.

Cloud Computing: Does Your Business Belong in 'The Cloud'?
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2010-07-27 | Word Count: 601 | Page Views: 983
The 'Cloud' has rolled in and by all accounts is here to stay, but is it really the magic bullet for most businesses and is it right for you? And are all clouds the same? Here's what you need to know about computing in 'the Cloud'.

The Hidden Costs of Freeware
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2009-07-08 | Word Count: 572 | Page Views: 1062 | Votes: 10 | Rating: 2.40
You are tasked with looking for software and in your research you stumble upon 'free' software. Can this be? It sounds too good to be true! How can they do that? It is very tempting - most of us at least take a peak. After all, why would we buy something we can get for free? But don't be rash... The cost of free might be really steep...

Resolve to Improve Transparency with Your Constituents: The Benefits of Citizen Request Management Software
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2009-01-21 | Word Count: 399 | Page Views: 827 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 3.67
Well it's a New Year, with all of its promises of fresh starts and new beginnings, but you may not be as optimistic as in years past. Everyone is feeling the squeeze of the struggling economy. Municipalities are being forced to do business-as-usual with less staff, and budget cuts have butchered most cities and counties plans to purchase much needed equipment.

5 Benefits of SaaS Software in a Downturn Economy
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2008-11-18 | Word Count: 735 | Page Views: 1170 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 2.00
Whether you call it a 'hosted solution' or SaaS (Software as a Service), this model of software delivery is a perfect fit for many organizations. While the concept of 'leasing' software has been around for a long time, it has been gaining popularity in recent years, and for good reason.

3 Keys to Cutting Costs Through Centralized Knowledge Management
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2008-09-30 | Word Count: 850 | Page Views: 1229 | Votes: 7 | Rating: 0.43
We all know the saying 'Knowledge is Power', and this still rings true today, but knowledge can also be analogous to 'Time'. Whether it be time gained, or time lost, how quickly employees can access company knowledge translates into huge amounts of time, translating into huge amounts of money. In a season where companies are forced to maintain and improve services, while often cutting budgets, time (knowledge) management can be an overlooked tool that can produce dramatic effects to the bottom line.

Government in Action: Cities Move Toward Four-Day Work Week
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2008-09-09 | Word Count: 476 | Page Views: 2416 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 3.50
While we cannot know if gas prices have 'peaked' or will continue to rise, some municipalities have moved to a four-day work week in an effort to cut expenses for cities and employees alike. Facility utilities are reduced by up to 20 percent, and employees realize an immediate savings in commuting expenses when shifting to a four-day week.

Municipal Localities Using 311 Systems to Provide Better Service to Citizens
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2008-09-03 | Word Count: 623 | Page Views: 1492 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 2.67
All across the country, cities and counties are implementing "311 Systems" for non emergency citizen requests. Like 911 systems, 311 call centers assist citizens inside their jurisdictions and resolve issues through approved 'answers' contained in the center's 'knowledge base' repository.

2008 Application Development Trends: 'Building for Change' To Accommodate Today's Shifting Business Conditions
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2008-02-06 | Word Count: 441 | Page Views: 2636 | Votes: 16 | Rating: 2.50
Software developers and businesses alike can expect to see significant changes in the year ahead in how applications are developed. Research analysts are projecting that 2008 will reveal a shift in the conventional development process, resulting in more flexible solutions that can evolve with a company's changing needs.

Analysts Speculate IT Tech Trends for 2008
Written by: Anne Sych | Distributed: 2007-12-05 | Word Count: 1048 | Page Views: 1215 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 3.17
At the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo held last October in Orlando, more than 6000 senior business and IT strategists from virtually all major industries gathered for the industry's largest conference to gain the latest advice on driving profits and performance with IT.

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Sell Yourself, Not Your Products or Services
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2012-01-02 | Word Count: 989 | Page Views: 2755 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 4.00
Sell yourself, not your products or services. The point we need to make is that your products and services will change over time as your business adapts to the realities of the marketplace.

Work From Home - Make Money Online With EBay Store
Written by: David Miller | Distributed: 2011-12-12 | Word Count: 2105 | Page Views: 354 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 2.00
Find out how to present your items, as well as other key factors to profit from your eBay Store.

Bring Your Photography To Life With Stunning Video
Written by: Adam Harding | Distributed: 2011-12-12 | Word Count: 684 | Page Views: 459
I want to let you in on my little secret. It is about how I bring photographs to life by creating professional video slideshows that look like they cost hundreds of dollars.

Leveraging the Social in Social Media
Written by: Enzo F. Cesario | Distributed: 2011-09-21 | Word Count: 907 | Page Views: 395 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 1.00
Social media marketing is about the conversation, not the pitch. Having conversations with people is nice, but the goal of a brand is ultimately to get people interested in spending their time or money on the brand, after all. What does having this conversation accomplish, and just how does a brand use that conversation to get the critical conversion from conversation to customers?

Blog Writing - Finding the Right Person
Written by: Enzo F. Cesario | Distributed: 2011-09-21 | Word Count: 884 | Page Views: 630
There are a host of articles and sites covering advice on how to address various topics, but one area that doesn't get a lot of attention is what "person" to write the blog in. Each linguistic person has its own strengths and weaknesses, depending on the message that needs to be covered. Ultimately, most will simply write in whatever person is most natural to them, but there is some merit in taking a bit of time to think about the implications, advantages and disadvantages of each.

That First Impression: Title Considerations
Written by: Enzo F. Cesario | Distributed: 2011-09-19 | Word Count: 860 | Page Views: 355
While it certainly isn't as much work as crafting the body of a superior article, selecting a title for a piece is definitely an important element of the entire process of content creation. Here are some thoughts on crafting a perfect title.

5 Tips For Writing Great Content For Your Blog
Written by: Lee Dobbins | Distributed: 2011-09-16 | Word Count: 987 | Page Views: 405
If you want people to come back to your blog over and over again, then you need to provide great web content. This may seem like an impossible task if you aren’t a natural born writer. Here are 5 tips that will help even the least experienced writer create blog content that will entice even first time visitors to become frequent readers.

Understanding Cloud Computing for SMBs
Written by: Audre Hill | Distributed: 2011-09-16 | Word Count: 449 | Page Views: 513 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 5.00
The buzz about cloud migration, or taking your business to the cloud, is all over the internet. But the geek speak and sales hype make understanding the cloud difficult for small and mid-sized business owners. Read this to clear up your cloud confusion.

Dynamic Content: Using Analytics to Write Your Blog
Written by: Enzo F. Cesario | Distributed: 2011-09-16 | Word Count: 873 | Page Views: 425
The role of web analytics in setting useful metrics for a site has been discussed in-depth in any number of places, but this is far from the only useful function that web analytic practices can offer. As in any field, a little thinking outside the box can offer extensive rewards to the creative researcher. Perhaps most usefully, creative cultivation of web analytics can help conquer blogger's block and help a good writer come up with some unique angles for content they thought they had peaked out on.

Social Media Marketing Tools – Putting Your Finger on the Pulse of the Web
Written by: Enzo F. Cesario | Distributed: 2011-09-14 | Word Count: 856 | Page Views: 343
Social media marketing is the home of successful brand promotion, and finding the right mix of tools to take advantage of it has become the defining issue of the modern brand. Knowing the focus of each of these tools and the best way to use them is the key to bringing all this power under control and using it to help promote a brand to its full potential.

Attracting Readers to your Book
Written by: Alastair Hall | Distributed: 2006-05-18 | Word Count: 708 | Page Views: 42520 | Votes: 9 | Rating: 2.11
One of the common and obvious ways to market a self-published book is having your own website. The harder part is how to attract your target audience and then convert the sale.

How To Make Visitors Bookmark Your Site
Written by: Cheryl Miller | Distributed: 2006-10-10 | Word Count: 536 | Page Views: 34815 | Votes: 13 | Rating: 2.38
When visitors bookmark your site it is a sign that you have built a great website and are pleasing them. Visitors think highly enough of your site to want to return and possibly tell others about it. You are not only increasing traffic from your existing clientele you are encouraging new traffic by means of viral marketing.

Treat Online 'Guests' With Respect
Written by: Rick Sloboda | Distributed: 2007-07-27 | Word Count: 472 | Page Views: 27199 | Votes: 25 | Rating: 3.76
Does your website show your customers lack of respect? Review the following checklist to find out.

How I Got 70,000 Useless Visitors To My Site In One Day! (One Internet Marketer's Analysis of Social Bookmark Traffic)
Written by: Titus Hoskins | Distributed: 2007-11-06 | Word Count: 1545 | Page Views: 23763 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 2.13
Is social bookmark traffic useless? Is it even worth cultivating for your site? Can it be used from an online marketing perspective? Read to discover one Internet Marketer's analysis of social bookmark/media traffic...

Successful Article Marketers Help Readers Solve Problems
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2008-10-29 | Word Count: 816 | Page Views: 18814 | Votes: 23 | Rating: 3.26
Every week, I have the opportunity to speak with people about the benefits and challenges of using article marketing to promote an online business. Article marketing is about getting your sales message in front of potential customers and to get links to your website. Many interpret this to mean that an article should directly promote a website within the article, but that approach is wrong and will reduce one's success using this methodology.

Tips For Building Your First Website
Written by: Benny Tsabba | Distributed: 2007-05-30 | Word Count: 1511 | Page Views: 14636 | Votes: 9 | Rating: 2.00
New people are coming online everyday. And many of those people desire to turn their spare time into spare cash. So begins their journey.

Successful Forum JVs and How To Get Them
Written by: Diana Barnum | Distributed: 2006-06-15 | Word Count: 648 | Page Views: 6635 | Votes: 11 | Rating: 2.18
The forming of common alliances, also referred to as a joint venture (JV), happens nearly every day in the business world. One of the most popular means of linking people up online of so that they can work together on their projects is via forums, where people of all levels of business and expertise post in common threads.

Increasing Productivity In Your Online Business
Written by: Willie Crawford | Distributed: 2006-06-14 | Word Count: 1407 | Page Views: 4327 | Votes: 32 | Rating: 3.72
Running an online "empire" of approximately 1600 websites and blogs, selling a variety of products, services and ideas, I have to be much more productive than the average person in a "regular job."

Who Else Wants to Know How-To Write an Effective Advertisement?
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2011-08-25 | Word Count: 1431 | Page Views: 4296 | Votes: 22 | Rating: 2.59
Webmasters struggle everyday with the question of how they should advertise their website. There are so many advertising venues; it is hard to know which is the right venue or the right combination of advertising venues.

A Recent Issue Of Playboy Revealed...
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2010-01-19 | Word Count: 1658 | Page Views: 4217 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 4.00
If you have ever spent money trying to use article marketing, and you failed to generate any measurable success with your articles, then this article will show you why you most likely failed to see your articles generate a solid return-on-investment for your online business...

What Kind Of Backlinks Are Best At Helping Your Website In Google?
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2009-11-09 | Word Count: 439 | Page Views: 1820 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 4.80
I was in the Warrior Forum, and someone asked what kinds of Backlinks are worth pursuing. This is my answer to that query.

How to Keep Your Article Content Fresh and Interesting
Written by: Craig Ritsema | Distributed: 2006-08-29 | Word Count: 699 | Page Views: 2156 | Votes: 17 | Rating: 4.18
Webmasters everywhere are constantly on the lookout for fresh and interesting content for their website. Along with these content qualities is the requirement that it be unique. Everyone wants their website to stand out above the others in the search engine results. So what is the trick for you to keep a steady supply of this quality content coming your way?

Is Your Business 'Out Of Site'? Employ The Ultimate Marketing Tool
Written by: Rick Sloboda | Distributed: 2007-01-09 | Word Count: 445 | Page Views: 2200 | Votes: 19 | Rating: 4.16
With the rapid expansion of the digital economy, the web site is conceivably the most powerful marketing and sales tool you can employ. Find out what a web site can do for you.

How To Use Your Race To Get Rich
Written by: Herbert Harris | Distributed: 2009-07-07 | Word Count: 1407 | Page Views: 2574 | Votes: 40 | Rating: 4.05
Amid recent news reports that there continues to be an ongoing and substantial gap between the net worth of Whites and other racial groups, it is easy to be distracted and overwhelmed by the raw data. However, I am immediately reminded of a quote offered by an economic expert from the past... "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics!"

Secrets of Domain Parking - An Innovative and Easier Way to Make Money
Written by: John Khu | Distributed: 2009-02-27 | Word Count: 484 | Page Views: 1393 | Votes: 7 | Rating: 4.00
Using a good domain parking services to monetize expired domain names seems to be a neglected aspect with a number of domain names traders. Domain parking is also an unfamiliar concept to many inexperienced domain name traders. Read this article to better understand domain parking and how it can be of benefit to you.

Expired Domain Gains - Simple Ideas to Create an Income Base
Written by: John Khu | Distributed: 2009-07-31 | Word Count: 549 | Page Views: 3232 | Votes: 14 | Rating: 4.00
You can use a number of simple methods and plans to create a solid income base that earns a monthly ongoing income base. For many expired domain entrepreneurs (both full-time and part time), expired domains offer an opportunity to supplement their current income with money earned out of dealing with expired domains.

Sell Yourself, Not Your Products or Services
Written by: Bill Platt | Distributed: 2012-01-02 | Word Count: 989 | Page Views: 2755 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 4.00
Sell yourself, not your products or services. The point we need to make is that your products and services will change over time as your business adapts to the realities of the marketplace.

The Most Important Ingredient for Info Product Success (is You)
Written by: Judy Murdoch | Distributed: 2008-04-15 | Word Count: 981 | Page Views: 1429 | Votes: 13 | Rating: 3.92
Last week I was attending a conference and mentioned to someone I help small business owners create information products. The other person was very friendly until I said "information products." Then the temperature in the room dropped about 10-degrees

How To Build A Website That Will Rank Well In The Search Engines?
Written by: Fred Schebesta | Distributed: 2007-04-23 | Word Count: 1064 | Page Views: 2132 | Votes: 9 | Rating: 3.89
Redeveloping your website can be a real challenge when you assume your web designers and developers understand search engine marketing. Unfortunately this is not usually the case. Most designers are great at making pretty pictures and developers are great at making great technology. But pretty pictures and great technology don't necessarily give you great search engine results.

How to Prosper Beyond Virtual Real Estate
Written by: Kamau Austin | Distributed: 2006-10-17 | Word Count: 1263 | Page Views: 1593 | Votes: 7 | Rating: 3.86
We explore virtual real estate (VRE) sites as sites primarily embedded with Google Adsense(tm) or Yahoo Publisher's Network (YPN) ads.