Trials and Tribulations

I just found a blog about everything. Really, that’s the name, a blog about everything. I suppose I will say that I like it (enough to be the top commenter). Today at http://www.blogoferic.com/?paged=2 I read a post about Save on gas: a comprehensive guide which was interesting, There are a lot of things happening in the world that are bad, but gas prices going up should not be the thing that breaks us. He has 2 main proposals; drive less, and drive correctly.

I really liked his first idea - walk.

When I left the military I was in great shape, 8 years of running around in the sand does that for you. People who had been in the Corps with all started to get soft, a little [click to continue…]

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Internet Video Marketing is getting better and is becoming more mainstream. Videos are being used on websites much more productively than in the past. Since a video is easy to edit it is possible to make multiple language versions of one video by simply dubbing the voice.

Internet Video Marketing is most effective when:

1. The product has something special about its motion or sounds that the client will benefit from hearing.

A very well known commercial spoke of the virtues of Alka-Seltzer with the famous “plop, plop, fizz, fizz” song while we watched 2 tablets dropped in water and begin to dissolve. Many Americans can remember that song (and can still sing it). The product [click to continue…]

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I ran into a pretty cool site today for We Europeans, Shopping.com in the UK Searches a range of goods from computers, garden products, furniture, lingerie, jewelery & clothing - pretty much anything that you could want to buy, and they include product reviews both for the products reviewed and for the stores selling the product.

This site allow easy access to a free comparison shopping service that means that [click to continue…]

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I started to create a new page, typed in text and then erased everything when I changed my mind. the Letter ‘S’ stayed in the Title line by mistake. took me 2 days to get that darn thing to go away.

Every time I deleted it, it came back. Like Jason in the horror films.

Headache today and I still have a lot of work to do. Charge on.

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Apogee Search is a company that does search engine marketing in Austin, Texas.

They are an example of a SEM company that seems to have the idea tight, instead of counting click-throughs or metrics that a client can’t use to show an increase in the bottom line, they only use hard numbers. Using a company like this would show something in you P&L lines [click to continue…]

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Répertoire d’Articles is an article directory that my partner and I have made. She is focused on marketing, has been for years, and I have always been IT. Maybe not the match you would expect, but I build the sites for her in my spare time. Thinking about it, [click to continue…]

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Video marketing is becoming more mainstream and videos are being used on websites more productively than in the past. Since a video is easy to edit it is possible to make multiple language versions of one video by dubbing the voice. If the person speaking is famous and you want to keep their voice, subtitles are simple to create and to add on top of a video.

Internet video’s can be used on your home page, it is best if the video does not launch automatically because there are people that don’t like the intrusion and prefer to have audio and video optional. There are several companies that create video that seems detached from your actual site and even when the screen is scrolled, the video will remain in one corner. This is very effective when the video is in the bottom right hand corner and has a white background. The white makes the video very evident. This type video can be set to play automatically [click to continue…]

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Well, that was funny. I was posting different forms of a sig-line for a client and forgot to take them down.

I suppose this is a lesson in why you should do backups. Honest mistakes happen. [click to continue…]

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OK, maybe I do have too much time on my hands. I am nearly done with my any language to any language plugin, I am nearly done with the newsletter, I am nearly done with the articles that I an ghostwriting, but I am really a bit too nuts for numbers.

I started a list about 7 weeks ago of how many Google countries have hit my site. Google.com is common. Ever get a Google.vi? Google.lk?

Actually kind of funny because I assumed I knew all the top level domains, but I really don’t.

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