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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Do You Squidoo?

Have you heard of Squidoo? Squidoo is like a search portal where you can find handbuilt “lenses” on an endless number of topics. Their tag-line is “everyone’s and expert on something” and the lenses prove it. If you’re searching for … Continue reading

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Stamps from your computer

Have you heard of Stamps.com? I just got a call from them about a one month free trial, so I decided to give it a try. You download some software, verify your printer and then you can print postage right … Continue reading

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Ask Joanne’s eNewsletter Archives

I use Dada Mail for my newsletters – it’s an open source program that you can download a free version of. It comes pre-installed with my webhosting at Westhost. Here is an archive of recent past newsletters: Google AdWords About … Continue reading

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GMail and Google Calendar

Ok, I admit it, I’m a Google nut. Part of what makes me that way is that every product or tool I have used from Google has been excellent. I feel that they really listen to their users. I signed … Continue reading

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Skype – Talk to the World for Free

Voice over IP (VoIP) is going to change the way we make phone calls. But if you’re not ready to go for VoIP in your home or office, you can still talk to people around the globe with a free … Continue reading

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Google Trends – for data hounds

Have you tried Google Trends? You put in keywords (and phrases) separated my commas and Google Trends gives you comparative search trend informtion for each phrase as well as which cities and countries have the highest volume of search for … Continue reading

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Internet Marketing Book List

I’ve read and re-read Permission Marketing by Seth Godin. What a great book for helping to think outside the traditional methods of marketing! I’ve not got on my reading list a bunch of other books by Seth Godin: Purple Cow: … Continue reading

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Easy Email Marketing

Email Marketing is a easy and inexpensive way to stay in touch with your customers. I usually advise my clients to use Constant Contact when they are getting started with e-mail marketing/e-mail newsletters. Constant Contact has: a 60 day free-trial … Continue reading

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Useful Resources for Free Keyword Research

One of the first steps in optimizing your website to do well in the search engines is to determine what keywords to focus on. At first, I advise clients to focus on: business name their name(s) if applicable primary service … Continue reading

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Teleclass on How to Optimize your Website

This fall I will be offering a free teleclass on how to optimize your website for the search engines. This class will be appropriate for the do-it-yourself webmaster, site owners and web designers who want to offer their clients more … Continue reading

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