Forum: Growing an Online Community 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 7 Views: 280 Social Bookmarking is one of the better ways to bring in traffic almost instantly to your website. But its not easy to survive using bookmarking sites, unless you really have some cool articles to... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 21 Views: 18,912 I'd say the number one method would be related forums. ie., those forums where the participants would also be keenly interested in what your forum has to offer as well. |
Forum: Growing an Online Community 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 4 Views: 256 No... I don’t believe you need to live in a glass house. Sure, many business owners and independent professionals have personal lives very much merged with their personal lives; the lines are blurred... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 4 Views: 301 Obviously great content is where it begins. All the marketing in the world won't help you succeed if your blog is uninteresting. Assuming you know who your target audience is, the first step is to go... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 3 Views: 235 I would suggest Craigslist. It's free to post an ad and millions of people from all age groups go there daily. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 7 Views: 596 In viral marketing the marketer is typically communicating with consumers directly by exposing them to some sort of unique content. Consumers then become the distribution source of the marketers... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 3 Days Ago |
| Replies: 10 Views: 611 You can do that if you can optimize your site for visitors and search engines. I’d concentrate on creating the compelling content that my site visitors enjoy and that is search engines friendly, and... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 10 Days Ago |
| Replies: 10 Views: 563 SEO is must. Link building is probably one of the most important things to do and counts for a lot in the search engine result pages. Of course there is a lot more that can be done. You can submit... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 10 Days Ago |
| Replies: 14 Views: 695 Generally... how back links work is that the more sites link back to your site, the more value search engines will give to the article in question, and your site in general. |
Forum: Growing an Online Community 19 Days Ago |
| Replies: 13 Views: 635 I still use my feed reader... I find that a lot of the people I follow on Twitter are the same blogs and special interest sites that I read with Google Reader. I still use Google Reader, but not as... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community 19 Days Ago |
| Replies: 5 Views: 315 The recruiting and job search process is changing. You can't stand out with words on a piece of paper anymore. You need more resources, a better network and extra energy. |
Forum: Growing an Online Community 19 Days Ago |
| Replies: 9 Views: 320 Determining the perfect hashtag is like creating the perfect title for a blog post. Twitter trending topics, search and related applications thrive on these hashtags, as they serve as noted keywords... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community 19 Days Ago |
| Replies: 2 Views: 341 I have found it somewhat useful. I haven't had any success through LinkedIn yet, but I'm hoping it will be another check in my favor. The goal for any business person joining LinkedIn is to make new... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 19 Days Ago |
| Replies: 2 Views: 562 You can use windows movie maker help you. You can also use a professional tool help you, convert you PowerPoint presentation to a certain format that can be accept by YouTube. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 19 Days Ago |
| Replies: 3 Views: 556 Being socially responsible means an organization shows concern for the people and environment in which it transacts business. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 19 Days Ago |
| Replies: 1 Views: 628 Search in Google for top directories. Its a fact that not all web directories are considered valuable by Google, but some are still considered as good resources to web listings. |
Forum: Growing an Online Community 24 Days Ago |
| Replies: 22 Views: 1,066 Wordpress is the best, but you need to know which plugins to add to get the best from it |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 24 Days Ago |
| Replies: 31 Views: 11,176 Of course you should follow the terms of use of Craigslist, and should not do anything spammy. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 31 Days Ago |
| Replies: 14 Views: 951 Also remember Google weighs the number of inbound, one-way links to your website as more significant than reciprocal or two-way links exchanges. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 31 Days Ago |
| Replies: 9 Views: 854 Link building is probably one of the most important things to do and counts for a lot in the search engine result pages. Of course there is a lot more that can be done. You can submit your site to... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 31 Days Ago |
| Replies: 5 Views: 463 In my opinion Blogger or Wordpress can be ranked just as well in the SERPS. In my experience the only difference is that blogger sends more referral traffic. I use both Wordpress and Blogger and have... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans 31 Days Ago |
| Replies: 4 Views: 525 The best way is to give people a demo version. Optimize your site so they Google and find you and easily download it, then I would do some cold calling to get people to try your product. |
Forum: Computer Science 31 Days Ago |
| Replies: 12 Views: 1,032 Throughout my Computer Engineering education, the focus had mostly been on hardware engineering, with sidelong attention given to software engineering. All the basic CS courses plus some of the CS... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Sep 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 1,840 I do not think its worth it to spend that much on advertising. It would be ideal if unique and interesting content is submitted and you come up organically. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 631 Good article... Also one of the common pieces of advice that SEO give is that relevant outbound links to quality sites can actually help your own performance in the search engines |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 965 I agree with the concept of using Social Media to build a rapport with your target audience. Establishing yourself as a contributing member of the online community you're attempting to market any... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 1,990 I look at the niche of the site to make sure it is related to my niche first... then look at the amount of traffic the site gets, the age and if the site has potential. We know that relevance is... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 1,357 I use Windows XP simply because it's the most compatible OS around. I'd go to Linux if I could find drivers that would work with all of my hardware. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 26th, 2009 |
| Replies: 42 Views: 81,445 They are cheap compared to the competition. It depends on what you want to use the laptop for. Acer might have some good products but I would not buy from them after the experience with a monitor I... |
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 754 Search engine placement is important, as advertisers use them just like anyone else. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 870 The interface resembles predecessors like Squidoo, allowing members to create individual pages on narrow topics of general interest. Its designed around sharing advertising revenue for user-generated... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 539 Another beneficial feature of the LinkedIn service is the testimonials which helped me to some extent. When you provide a service to another member of the community, or your network, they can leave a... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 391 Too many limitations right now, But I’m not sure it's worth the few cents you might spare using Jajah compared to placing a regular phone call. |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 18th, 2009 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 526 Agree with above comment, who would want to buy friends. Thats kinda sad and I feel sorry for the people who fall for it. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 13th, 2009 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 683 There are various forms of online marketing - SEO, SEM, E Mail Marketing, Online Advertising, Social Media Marketing, includes blogs, social networking, social bookmarking etc. Its completely about... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 13th, 2009 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 544 I’m on the same boat. I believe that there are times in every software engineer's career where they have thought about the business folks and taking up an MBA program. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 13th, 2009 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 710 Whatever service you choose, I’d suggest you to check if the press releases of that site are in Google News. If it is in Google News - search the name of the site then at least you know that your... |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 13th, 2009 |
| Replies: 25 Views: 2,053 Search engine Optimization is the best way to drive natural traffic to your blog. Otherwise you can expect unique content and regular updates to drive traffic and retain your readers. |
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Sep 13th, 2009 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 509 You can also try around in sites like monster or Timesjobs where many aspirants have posted their resume and you can email to one or more offering the job provided you feel they are competent enough... |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 6th, 2009 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 1,035 I do use craiglist if I was trying to clean out my garage I would probably place items on Craigslist. However, when it comes to my business I want to make the maximum amount of income and bargain... |