If you don’t have a iPhone or some other web enabled phone you can still do Google searches via SMS texting. It is pretty simple. Put “google” (466453) as the address and the search keywords in the text area. Google will text you back the results. Sometimes you have to “reply” with more info but [...]

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If you are familiar with website technology you will know that a web page can look different on different browsers. It is nonetheless important to make sure that your beautifully designed page looks good on all the major systems. I recently had a problem when some people told me that part of my text went [...]

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** UPDATE **
I now have Andy Sernovitz’s Podcast interview up on my podcast site for you to listen to.
** END OF UPDATE **
I went to an excellent marketing conference yesterday at the Portland Art Museum. Weep all of you who weren’t able to go because you really missed something special.
The topic was “alternative” marketing [...]

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If most of your business comes from a particular city or area you should remember to submit your business details to the local section of the search engines. This will help your business float to the top when someone is searching for a business like yours in your city.
In Google you may have seen these [...]

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I recently read Tim Ferriss’s “The Four Hour Workweek” and listened to an interview between John Jantsch and Tim yesterday. The whole book is very thought provoking but there was one section in particular that caught my attention and that was with respect to Mirco Testing.
Often when we are writing an ad we want to [...]

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I came across a very interesting tool today. It is called Google Trends and it is in their sand box area (beta programs under development that they make available to the public).
This tool shows you the trends in searches. For example, I put in “green construction” and got some interesting results. Not surprisingly the trend [...]

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I recently learned that having my blog at a subdomain address of http://blog.marketaccelerators.com was probably not helping my main site as far as search engines are concerned. This is because http://www.marketaccelerators.com is seen as a completely different site.
I have therefore moved it to http://www.marketaccelerators.com/blog. This then puts the blog right on the main site.
I use [...]

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I read today that a Federal judge is permitting a class action lawsuit against Target to go forward. According to the ruling, the plaintiffs — including the National Federation of the Blind — say that Target.com violates federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination against the disabled.
For some time now organizations like W3C have had [...]

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As most of you know, I am a Duct Tape Marketing Coach. As part of being in the Duct Tape network I have the ability to be able to sell the Duct Tape materials. I know it sounds self-serving to make a big deal out of this but I think the materials are excellent. [...]

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I bought the Linksys CIT200 for use with SKype about a year ago. On the whole it has worked really well. For such a small handset, the call quality is excellent and even the speaker phone sounds great. Range is also very good and I have been able to easily use it throughout my house.
It [...]

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