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Digital Shoppers Purchase Path

Mike — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:03:58 +0000

About 42% of shoppers turn to the web for research about the products they are looking to purchase. I find myself doing a quick search in a store with my mobile phone before buying anything of a technical nature these days, I will do a search like “problems with Product Name”, this will sometimes bring [...]

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Online Filters Are Restrictive

T. K. Houston — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:25:05 +0000

This video discusses the online filters such as that done by Google and Facebook. For me it is quite frustrating that my Facebook feed has been filtered and I can’t see ALL of my friends and pages posts. I have go to each of my friends pages to see what is going on and when [...]

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Google Reader Is Headed To The Google Graveyard July 1

Mike — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:53:20 +0000

It looks like Google Reader is headed to the Google Graveyard July 1, and it looks like nothing can stop it. Fans of the RSS Reader have started petitions to save Google Reader, but after reading the following article by The Next Web, I don’t think it will get a reprieve. Why Google is Killing Google [...]

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Why? Daylight Savings Time

Mike — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:23:05 +0000

I have been wondering just why we have Daylight Savings Time, so I went looking around the net and here is what I found. . . . . . Here is a little background about how and why we even started Daylight Savings Time: Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Savings Time? by: Smart News The [...]

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Contractor Leads Companies Bad For Business

Mike — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:53:53 +0000

I work with contractors that have paid top dollar for contractor leads and were massively disappointed with the crappy results they have received. I am not talking about small companies that sell leads, In my opinion, I’m talking about some of the top contractor leads companies, along with other pay per lead sites. Let me define “crappy [...]

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Why Is Firefox Blocking Cookies By Default?

Mike — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:48:24 +0000

It seems Firefox has decided to set their next Firefox release (version 22) to block all third party cookies by default, so we posed the question… Why is Firefox Blocking Cookies by default? It looks like Mozilla the makers of Firefox have decided to take it on themselves to protect you from the evils of [...]

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Responsive Website Development For The Future

Mike — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:12:24 +0000

We have been using Responsive website design since the later part of 2012 for all of our website designs. We see responsive website development as the best way to make sure our clients websites are accessible by the vast majority of mobile technology available today and in the future. I have rounded up some vital links here [...]

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Free Google Apps Standard

Mike — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:05:17 +0000

Even though Google Apps is no longer free, we started looking for a way to still be able to setup a free Google Apps Standard account to use the Google SMTP email servers, to send email and forms for new client website designs when needed. Here is what we have found as an alternate way [...]

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Google Apps Is No Longer Free

Mike — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:07:14 +0000

I woke up this morning to find out that Google Apps is no longer free, a shocker, as I was under the impression that Google’s business model has always revolved around free services to help small business grow into larger businesses that could pay for their premium services when the time was right. Google making [...]

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Is Yelp Reliable?

T. K. Houston — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:15:31 +0000

After doing a search “Yelp is Bullshit” I seen some articles about Yelp that makes one question the reliability of the site. http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/voracious/2010/02/class_action_lawsuit_finally_f.php You see, back in 2010 Yelp apparently faced a lawsuit against them because they refused to take down reviews that were harmful to a business but the business owner was told for [...]

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Six Reasons Why Websites Still Matter

Mike — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:15:21 +0000

Today Social Media is a must, but using social media as a selling platform can actually deter sales. Social Media is a great place to talk about your products and services, keep in touch with your clients and connect with new prospective clients for your business. Your Website is the place to conduct business and [...]

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How Does Internet Marketing Work

T. K. Houston — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:45:53 +0000

The question, “How does Internet marketing Work” has been asked by every marketer and business owner alike. It seems to be a difficult question to answer since the answers always go back to what it is. This is my rendition of how internet marketing works. First we have to ask what our end goal is. [...]

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Mobile Website vs Responsive Website Design

Mike — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:04:46 +0000

Lately, the question keeps coming up around here; should we focus on building our clients mobile presence using a Mobile Website vs Responsive Website Design. In doing some research on this, I was going to write a full blog post about it, when I ran into this great article on Smashing Magazine about this exact [...]

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The Internet and Marketing

T. K. Houston — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:02:26 +0000

The availability of the Internet or World Wide Web has only been open and readily accessible, known of and used by the general public since about 1994. When people first began using the Internet it was a lot more complicated than it is today. One would have to dial the land-line phone, then place the [...]

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Why Internet Marketing Doesn’t Work

T. K. Houston — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:00:40 +0000

Why Internet Marketing doesn’t work for most businesses is a great question to ask. As an Internet marketer who has at least a bridge of understanding how marketing works and a small understanding of the vast information about the psychology of marketing, I can confidently guess, it doesn’t work because you don’t know what the [...]

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