I’ve been doing business on the internet for almost 15 years and have my email address on hundreds of web pages. Needless to say, I get a lot of pointless email. Still, the thousands upon thousands of spam messages I…
I’ve been doing business on the internet for almost 15 years and have my email address on hundreds of web pages. Needless to say, I get a lot of pointless email. Still, the thousands upon thousands of spam messages I…
I occasionally have lunch at a Chinese restaurant near my office. Next door, there is an empty storefront that used to be a video rental store. It’s long gone, and the mall owner has had no luck in finding a…
We get phone calls every day from customers who find us online but decide to place their orders over the phone. The standard response is that they don’t trust the internet with sensitive credit card information. We’re happy to take…
There has been speculation for months about how a business might calculate the value of social media. Businesses large and small are using facebook, twitter, linked in, and lots of other social media outlets to promote their products and keep…
The ability to make a free (or almost free) phone call by using a computer with a broadband connection is a great innovation. It opens up lots of opportunities for new telcom services and helps keep the big phone companies…
We’ve found over the years building “information only” web sites has been an effective way to drive traffic to our e-commerce sites. The ability to provide information and host a forum for the exchange of ideas is a great way…
I have been posting to this blog on-and-off for about three years and have found it to be a useful way to organize my thoughts. We got lots of valuable comments from readers and it is a good way to…
I said I’d get back to you with a report regarding Google “knol”, their new project to build a knowledge base. I posted two knol articles back at the end of April to see if Google was ready to take…
I find that I have gradually moved from being amazed at how many great media services I can subscribe to on the internet to being just distracted. The time required to keep with with online subscriptions to Netflix, audio books, …
Yesterday, I posted some comments on Google knol and I have already gotten a couple of questions answered. While the articles don’t show up in search when the key words are used by themselves, when you combine the key words…