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Monthly Archives: August 2006

7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business, Part 3: Create New Services or Products

This is the third post in a series called 7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business. Each post stands on its own, but I invite you to read Part 1 and Part 2.
The third way your website can help your business is that it allows you to create entirely new products or services. This [...]

Are You Concentrating on Your MMAs?

Are you concentrating on your MMAs? MMAs are an acronym I made up for Money-Making Activities. I find I need to remind myself to spend my time more productively. Before I know it, I’ve spent far too much time checking my feeds (which can be endless because when I get to the bottom there are [...]

The Biggest Internet Business Lesson I have Learned

I like to have something going on the side in addition to my regular job. In the past, I’ve run my own websites and designed websites for others. I’ve had a go at a couple of different ways doing things, some of which have worked out to greater or lesser degrees of success. For all [...]

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7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business, Part 2: Save Money

The second way your website can help your business is it can help you save more money if you use your website to make your business operations more efficient and cost-effective. What kind of business operations? Tasks such as:

managing your website
project management
document management
sales assistance (CRM)

Really? All that? Yes, all that! Your website can be hosted [...]

7 Ways Your Website Can Help Your Business, Part 1

First in a series about using your business website to grow and improve your business and your bottom line.

Who’s Using My Themes? Citizen Journalists in India

I often check the incoming links in my WordPress dashboard to see who’s using my free themes (they all have links back to me in the footers). I like to see what people are doing with them. I especially love to see how people modify them. The other day it occurred to me that if [...]

What Everybody Needs to Read about Google AdSense Optimization

I should add: What Everybody Needs to Read about Google AdSense Optimization… Again. Why? One of the best sources of information about optimizing your AdSense is Google itself, and they just reorganized their AdSense Help Center page on AdSense Optimization.
Particularly useful are the topics on color choices, optimizing AdSense for your blog, using AdSense for [...]