33 Most Recent Articles
Written By: Jason Oconnor

1	How to Plan and Make a Website's Navigation Bar Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2009-12-30 | - Word Count: 841 | Viewed: 80 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 2.50 The Web is interactive. As a visitor, you get to determine where you go and what you see. One of the most important features of every website is its navigation, and its navigation that gives the controls to the visitor.
2	Everything You Need To Know To Get Your Idea On The Web Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2009-12-30 | - Word Count: 1715 | Viewed: 66 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 1.50 If you want to get online and are wondering, "How can I get my idea live on the Web in the form of a website?" you have three choices: hire a Web vendor such as a Web designer to make it for you, use an online template-based turnkey service or make it yourself from scratch. This article is specifically for the Web novice that simply needs a place to begin.
3	Top Ten Ways to Use Twitter for Marketing Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2009-10-27 | - Word Count: 1052 | Viewed: 153 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 4.50 Like anything, and this is especially true of working with social media, the more you give, the more you get. In other words, the more often you tweet the more activity you'll generate. Some suggest that you tweet a few times a day, every day. Not every tweet needs to be profound. But they should all be useful.
4	How A Blog Can Seriously Help Your Business Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2009-10-22 | - Word Count: 1213 | Viewed: 150 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 5.00 If your business website doesn't have a blog, get one. A blog, if done right, can act as a direct and indirect mechanism that brings large amounts of qualified visitors to your site, many of whom may become customers.
5	How to Create a Bad Website and Frustrate Your Visitors Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2009-02-24 | - Word Count: 1018 | Viewed: 238 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 3.63 If you're a sadistic kind of webmaster or website owner and have a burning desire to royally frustrate and anger your site visitors each and every time they visit your site, these three lists are just for you. If you want to have a terrible website that looks bad, works horribly and breaks fundamental marketing rules, read on.
6	Top 5 Ways To Use Web 20 for Web Marketing Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2008-09-08 | - Word Count: 1387 | Viewed: 338 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 2.20 Web 2.0 and Web marketing is a match made in heaven. There are many ways to create traffic to your website using the power of Web 2.0. Below I am going to examine what I consider to be the top five.
7	Top Six Internal Linking Tactics To Get Top Google Rankings Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2008-09-04 | - Word Count: 1386 | Viewed: 377 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 2.50 If you own or run a website and are not following these six tactics for properly linking your website together then you're losing Google traffic as you read this.
8	How to Make Your Website Sticky Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2008-09-02 | - Word Count: 502 | Viewed: 408 | Votes: 3 | Rating: 1.67 Getting people to visit the first time is less than half the battle. You'll need them to remain on the site long enough to take an action that benefits your business for the site to be effective. A site that gets people to stay there once they’ve arrived is called 'sticky.'
9	How To Become A Web Expert Without Spending A Dime Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2007-05-10 | - Word Count: 1392 | Viewed: 963 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 3.00 Imagine you're a master at making money online, that you're passionate, and excited during almost every hour you spend working. Visualize people coming to YOU for answers to their most important Web-related questions. Envision emails and phone calls flooding in every day with eager, prospective customers. Read on to learn the secret to achieving all of this.
10	Learn The Secret To Becoming An Expert At Anything Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2007-05-09 | - Word Count: 930 | Viewed: 934 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 4.75 What happens when you step off the edge of a thirty story building's rooftop with nothing to keep you in the air? Gravity drops you like a rock. It's an immutable law. This law will never be broken. Here's another one. Energy can't be created or destroyed; it may be transformed from one form to another, but the total amount of energy can never change. You may be wondering what this has to do with becoming an expert at something. Read on, you'll begin to see what I'm getting at here.
11	Great Things To Do In Las Vegas Besides Gambling Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2007-04-24 | - Word Count: 981 | Viewed: 12288 | Votes: 56 | Rating: 2.43 If you want to visit Las Vegas but you are not really into the gambling scene, that isn't a problem. There are many things that the non-gambler can do in Las Vegas. Of course, the big shows are always available. Some of the most popular shows in Las Vegas are Cirque Du Soleil, Elton John and Celine Dion and of course, the fantastic magic of David Copperfield and Lance Burton. But Las Vegas has so much more to offer and there is something for everyone.
12	Top 10 Must-See Broadway Plays And Musicals And Why Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2007-04-24 | - Word Count: 1059 | Viewed: 1626 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 1.67 To see a Broadway play or musical is to step into a world that envelops you with an experience you cannot find anywhere else. Theatre has been around since ancient times and for good reason. There is absolutely nothing like watching the actors, hearing the live musical scores and going on a journey with fellow theatre-goers.
13	Top Spring And Summer Concert Tours For 2007 Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2007-03-13 | - Word Count: 1243 | Viewed: 690 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 0.60 Spring and summer are quickly on their way, and you know what that means. When the sun comes back out, so do the top artists in the industry, wowing music fans across the land with live shows and concerts, many of which will be appearing this year in a city near you.
14	The Web of Tomorrow Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2007-02-01 | - Word Count: 1885 | Viewed: 734 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 3.63 By looking at the trends of today we can begin to develop a image of what the Web of the future will look like. I believe the Web will improve and grow in a way that will dwarf its present existence and will improve and enrich everyone's lives way beyond what we can imagine today.
15	Cirque Corteo Review - Wonderous Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2006-10-11 | - Word Count: 1026 | Viewed: 1121 | Votes: 10 | Rating: 2.50 Take a typical nightmarish dream sequence you may have deep in the night, add ponderous acrobatics and aerobatics, an eerie story of clowns, death and a funeral, sprinkle in a carnival-like atmosphere ripe with little people and balloons, and inject a heart-pounding live, original score that combines with strange scenes that surround you like a psychedelics-infused blanket, and you've got Corteo. What a show!
16	How To Keep Your Website Fresh With RSS Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2006-08-31 | - Word Count: 1184 | Viewed: 658 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 2.63 We all know how hard adding original and fresh content is, especially if you're the business owner. You have to be original, creative, organized, thoughtful and motivated, and above all, able to write. So what's a website owner or business owner supposed to do? RSS may be the answer.
17	Why Is Most Music So Bad Today? Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2006-08-31 | - Word Count: 1645 | Viewed: 850 | Votes: 8 | Rating: 1.88 Why is popular music so bad today? I mean, I'm not that old, but jeez, the music of today, with only a few rare exceptions, kinda stinks. Some would say that when New Year's Eve 1979 ended, we were ushered into an era of lame music that we still haven't escaped from today.
18	The What, Why and How of Business Blogs Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2006-05-19 | - Word Count: 1378 | Viewed: 946 | Votes: 7 | Rating: 2.57 Some would argue that Blogs are already vital in today's Web business world. I am not ready to agree to that yet, but it is becoming more obvious to me over time that blogs can no longer be ignored in business.
19	Single? Here's the Ultimate Date Idea Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2006-05-19 | - Word Count: 1194 | Viewed: 18319 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 2.50 If you're a regular guy, the kind who loves sports and hates the opera for instance, then here's an awesome date idea I bet you've never really considered before: taking a woman to a Broadway production, even if you don't live in New York City. You can find professional Broadway productions in most major North American cities.
20	How To Buy Sports and Concert Tickets Online Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2006-02-17 | I'm always amazed when I meet someone who doesn't know they can buy event tickets online. People often don't realize that just because the box office says a game or show is sold out, doesn't mean there are no more tickets available anywhere.
21	Why We Watch Sports Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2006-01-06 | Whether you want to believe it or not, we like to watch sports for very different reasons than you may think.
22	How To Start An Email Newsletter Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-12-22 | There are two distinct, but equally important aspects of starting an email newsletter that need to be addressed for you to accomplish the goals and benefit from the activity.
23	Google and Jagger's Aftermath Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-12-22 | Starting somewhere between September 22 and November 17, 2005, Google launched a major update to their search algorithm which shook up the search engine optimization (SEO) community and millions of website rankings. The update has been named Jagger and is apparently finished.
24	Watching the NFL versus the MLB Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-12-08 | Imagine two TV's side-by-side. One TV has an NFL game on and the other has a Major League Baseball game and they both start at the same time. Jason takes a humorous look at the differences between the two types of games.
25	How To Choose Your Website Colors Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-10-27 | Color is often overlooked in the business of optimizing websites for better returns on investments. Website sales can be greatly affected by simply changing its colors.
26	Top 10 Dumbest Things Pro Athletes Do Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-09-02 | There seems to be an endless stream of idiotic things professional athletes do. Here are a few examples:
27	10 Secrets of Sales-Driven Websites Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-06-02 | What makes a website successful? It depends on what the explicit goal of the website is. If the goal is to make money, then a successful site is one that makes you more money than it costs you to maintain, manage, market and update.
28	Being A Boston Sports Fan Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-06-02 | Being a Boston sports fan sometimes reminds me of battered-wife syndrome. You get beaten down, but you keep coming back. You’re given just enough to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside, just enough to ensure your devotion, but then you’re inevitably and sorely disappointed.
29	Search Like A Geek Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-04-20 | Some people search the Web like a Neanderthal standing before the Library of Congress steps grunting, *Me want food!* While other, more sophisticated searchers, act more like a person actually entering the Library of Congress...
30	A Webmaster's Toolkit and Tricks Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2005-01-28 | If you own a website, operate or run a website, or you’re a webmaster, this article is for you. A successful website is created and managed by a person with an effective toolkit who knows how to use each tool. There are a huge amount of software applications out there for people to use for creating, building, coding and running websites. Here are the ones you’ll find in my tool box. I’ve been using these for many years and have had wonderful success with each one of them.
31	The Five Worst Date Places Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2004-11-12 | Food in teeth, nausea, childhood stories and exposing your pot belly are all things you ought to avoid on first or second dates. You run the risk of experiencing these and other humiliating incidents if you choose the wrong place to bring your date. Good places are memorable, different, unique, cost-effective, and relevant to both of you in some way. Bad date places have none of these qualities and the worst places not only lack these things, but also embarrass you and assure that you’ll never get another date with the person again.
32	Eddie the Erroneous E-Marketer Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2004-10-14 | Poor Eddie the e-marketer has been plagued by errors in judgment all his life. From always picking the longest line at the toll booth to buying lots of dot com stocks right before the bubble burst, he constantly struggles with making the right choices. From disagreeing that a car really needs oil changes every three thousand miles to insisting that the eight-track is going to make a comeback, Eddie bumbles through life perplexed. One area that particularly suffers is his e-marketing efforts.
33	Top 10 Ways Websites Makes Me Suffer Written by: Jason OConnor | Distributed: 2004-08-13 | I believe some people create and publish websites for the sole purpose of tormenting their visitors. Browsing various websites and navigating the Web can often be like trying to read on an airplane while a kid kicks the back of your seat and the baby next to you alternates between screaming, crying and drooling on you. There are some excellent websites out there to be sure, but there are also a lot of dreadful ones too. The latter are the bane of so many people’s existence, especially those who use the Web regularly.