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David Skul - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
David C Skul has over 19 years of experience in network technology, business technology, web technology, web based business applications and business technology solution development. He successfully owns and operates, Relativity, a business technology consulting firm in Pueblo Colorado. Skul has been accredited with several IT certifications and degrees and frequently assists local non-profit agencies as a trainer and colleges as an adjunct professor.
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- Managing Multiple Blogs Successfully
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Realizing the tremendous potential of blogging, many businesses have developed multiple blogs to promote multiple product lines. While this is great way to segment product lines, you must take extra care to ensure the blog content is original. What's the best way to do this?
- Make Your Business Better With Web 2.0
[Business:Advertising] Much has been written about the power of Web 2.0 as a marketing tool and for good reason. Its power to help you market products to potential customers is undeniable. However, besides marketing your products, Web 2.0 can help your business in other ways.
- Boost Your Business With Web 2.0 Advertising
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Web 2.0 has revolutionized the way online advertising is happening. Now, instead of spending a large budget on blanket advertising techniques, advertisers can target specific audiences while cutting costs, connecting with customers and improving the chances of getting a sale.
- Blog Your Business to Success
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Basically, a blog is an online journal that is updated regularly. A blog can be on any subject, and, since they are cheap to set up and run, it is not surprising that the net is cluttered with them. Setting up a blog is easy. Breaking through the mess of blogs already in existence is harder.
- Understanding Web 2.0 Advertising
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Web 2.0 has the potential to be a dream come through for businessmen and marketers as it offers an opportunity for free advertising.
- Web 2.0 Advertising - Crucial in a Word of Mouth World
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Word-of-mouth is the crucial component of Web 2.0 advertising. Unlike conventional advertising, which was solely one way and largely interruptive, Web 2.0 advertising actually welcomes control by users and invites users to create and share their own messages. In that sense, Web 2.0 advertising is revolutionary.
- Web 2.0 - Advertising Advantages
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Word-of-mouth advertising is the defining element of Web 2.0 advertising. It's all about making new connections and expanding your internet presence via social networking.
- 3 Simple Steps to Increase Your Blog Readership
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Blogs are an integral part of Web 2.0. Companies who were once skeptical about the effectiveness of web 2.0 are quickly acknowledging the value of blogging on the internet.
- 5 Reasons Why Social Marketing is a Must
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] In a Web 2.0 world, social marketing leverages your business with audio, video, and text. As an example, blogging may very well turn out to be one of the most ingenuous marketing strategies for anyone who has an online business and is willing to commit to its process.
- Great Content - The Key To Social Bookmarking Success
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Bookmarking] If you visit an article submission site, you'll find out right away that most of the content is shallow. The content is designed to "tease" readers into clicking a link in the author's resource box. While it's a good way to get traffic, this process, writing and submitting articles, is more about quantity than quality. In effect, it places little value on the content itself.
- Strategies for Turning Social Networking Contacts into Customers
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Social networking sites are a great way for small and mid-sized businesses to build a customer base. There are several different types of social networking sites that are designed for different purposes, which one you choose depends on the product or service you are trying to market as well as what your ultimate goal is.
- Ethics in Social Network Marketing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Unethical marketing practices on social media websites has backfired...badly. As in all marketing situations, it pays to have integrity. While much of social networking is out of your hands, there are many factors that you can control that will keep you out of the hot seat.
- How To Maintain A Successful Blog
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] The success or failure of a blog depends on a combination of several different factors. These factors include your blog's topic as well as its layout. An equally important factor is the ability to promote your blog to reach a large, and interested, audience.
- Understand Why Blogging Is Good For Your Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Blogs are one of the best ways to broadcast information and establish credibility. Whether your posts include industry news or whether you provide valuable insider information, your audience will begin to label you as an expert. They will also begin to see you as a business that is interested in its community rather than just commercial activities.
- How Blogging Gives Small Businesses The Competitive Edge
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Blogging produced a revolution in the business of online marketing. While blogging is a great Web 2.0 marketing tool for any business, it has become, especially for new, shoestring budget start-ups, a vital means to getting website traffic.
- What Social Networking Can Do For You
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Online social networking offers internet users a means of connecting and sharing information with other individuals and groups who share common interests and goals. Although more popularly known as socializing forums, social networking sites also play a vital role in helping online as well as off line organizations achieve their business goals. Social networking platforms offer businesses a forum for reaching out to potential customers beyond the immediate community.
- 6 Tips for Increasing Blog Traffic
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] If you've built a blog, your primary focus should be in developing a solid readership. Now that you have your blog running, you've been adding quality content, and you've been engaging your readers, what do you do now?
- Social Media - If You Build It, Will they Come
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Media] Social networking, widgets, video sharing, and user generated content are incredibly effective in expanding audience engagement. However, social media marketing must be engaged fully to experience full results. Creating and deploying social media without a concerted commitment to making the community thrive is an exercise in futility.
- How To Deal With Comments On Your Blog
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] What makes blogging so different about traditional publishing platforms is that it allows visitor interaction - interaction between the blog owner and the visitors as well as interaction amongst visitors. As a blog owner, you can exert a specific amount of influence on the conversation but you can't control it entirely. Visitors are free to post their feedback and opinions - good or bad.
- Social Network Marketing - Legal Pitfalls
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] The use of social media websites for marketing is growing fast. However, this is new ground for many marketers and, as it matures, certain legal issues will emerge. In this article, I look at a few potential legal pitfalls and how to avoid them.
- Social Network Marketing - The Wave of the Future
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] An estimated $900 million will be spent on social media advertising in the United States this year, and that figure is estimated to hit $2.5 billion by 2011. This is for advertising only. Millions more are being invested in other social media marketing techniques as websites like FaceBook and MySpace offer increasing opportunities for businesses to reach potential customers.
- The Do's and Don'ts of Blogging
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Setting up and maintaining a web site is now standard practice for small to mid-sized businesses looking to establish their online presence and increase sales. However, as content generation and management began to take on a life of it's own, businesses had to adopt for efficient online communications. Enter blogging; a cheap yet more effective way of communicating with customers and getting new business.
- 5 Tips to help you Succeed at Web 2.0 Marketing
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] While Web 2.0 marketing does not involve any complex technology, it does involve a radical shift in the way organizations think about marketing. The rules of the game have changed drastically and to succeed in a Web 2.0 world, it is important that all of Web 2.0 marketing doctrine is instilled in your organization's staff.
- What Can Web 2.0 Marketing Do For You
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The advent of Web 2.0 has transformed the online marketing landscape dramatically. Small and medium-sized businesses can now compete on a level playing field with industry giants like Unilever or websites such as MySpace.
- Marketing Techniques for Your Social Networking Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Traditionally, marketers used demographics (compiled by market research firms) as one of the main tools to identify and target potential customers. Factors such as a person's age, sex, and where they live remain important to getting your message across to the right people. However, social networking provides a new opportunity to assess markets in near real-time.
- 3 Principles Of Social Network Design
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] Social software designers are learning that designing for group behavior and interaction is more complex than designing for individual users. Especially in social network design, the unpredictability in user response and group activities can pose design difficulties. In order for a social network design to be successful, there are several basic principles that should be followed.
- Web 2.0 Marketing - 5 Concepts That Matter
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Web 2.0 marketing has made previous conventional marketing methods seem nearly obsolete. Trying to succeed in a Web 2.0 world means having to discard old marketing notions and embrace new ones.
- The Power of iMedia in Web 2.0 Marketing
[Business:Marketing] The development of digital media, or iMedia, has opened up a number of new opportunities for the web marketer. Marketing is about getting your message across as quickly and effectively as possible. Digital media has opened up many new avenues in this regard.
- The New Wave of Internet Marketing - Part 2
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Recently I was reading about the death of the long sales letter format and the inevitable end of the squeeze page that is longer than most people's mortgages. This is no surprise to me as I always hated the long sales pages and usually just skipped to the bottom to get the price and product or service particulars.
- The New Wave of Internet Marketing
[Business:Marketing] I just recently read some more data that shows that internet marketing is going to become increasingly harder to make money at in the very near future.
- What Is Next For 2007
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] As internet entrepreneurs we have a lot to look forward to in 2007. While the brick and mortar businesses are lagging economically and he country is wallowing in a self inflicted slump we internet entrepreneurs are thriving.
- Important Facets of the Medical Transcription Profession – Part 1
[Business:Careers-Employment] There are a variety of medical reports generated every day in physician offices, clinics, and hospitals. Medical transcriptionists should be familiar with those dictated in each work setting.
Physicians in private practice frequently dictate office chart notes, letters, initial office evaluations, and history and physical examinations.
- East Coast Charlie Journal
[Food-and-Drink] In fact, taught me things I don't think he ever intended to teach me like the fact that if it were not for the "lobstermen" of Maine like myself, my "Old Pop" and my friends down at East Coast Gourmet, it wouldn't be possible for the rest of the world to enjoy the succulent taste of lobster year round. Yes in deed. I have learned so much.
- The Medical Transcription Profession
[Business:Careers-Employment] The professional healthcare team includes physicians, nurses, therapists, technicians, dieticians, and other healthcare support staff. A vital member of this team is the medical transcriptionist. While not as visible to the general public as those members of the team providing hands-on care, the medical transcriptionist plays an important role in documenting the quality of patient care.
- How to Create One Way Links to Your Website and Increase Traffic
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Everyone that does business on the internet, whether it is for social, news, or profitable purposes want more traffic. The real reason we put up a web page is so that it can be seen by others. Search Engine Optimizers would have you believe that on page factors and content is the most important part of the equation. Not so. Off page factors, especially linking, are the real gold mine of traffic.
- Cynics Plague London Stock Exchange Nasdaq Merger Deal
[Investing:Stocks] A few London Stock Exchange brokers and traders are wondering what benefits, if any, would be realized from merging with Nasdaq? The answer to that question is that no one is entirely sure.
- Growing Oil
[Reference-and-Education:Future-Concepts] The global oil shortage and pricing problem is proving to be the latest treasure trove of entrepreneurial opportunities. Energy issues do not promise to be quickly resolved and those who can fill the immediate need will profit immensely. Long term solutions also promise to build great wealth over the next century.
- USA vs The World
[News-and-Society] Recently Reuters posted a new article entitled "EU threatens to renew sanctions over US tax breaks." This article highlights how the EU is threatening the US with "hefty sanctions" on US imports beginning May 1st if the US went through with plans to give huge tax breaks to companies deemed illegal by the WTO.
- How to Study Abroad
[Reference-and-Education] Observe the Andes, become eloquent in Chinese, become an expert on Italian wines or in French culinary art. There is nothing greater than breaking up four years of humdrum university classes with a term abroad.
- You Will Need to Change a Toner Cartridge Because
[Computers-and-Technology:Hardware] Your printer implicates that toner is not full enough to print.
- How to Choose a Mortgage
[Real-Estate:Mortgage-Refinance] Mortgage lending is mechanical, neutral and competitive. Hunt for the most beneficial loan -- interest rate, points, processing rates and, on adjustable mortgages, the most favorable adjustment features.
- How To Teach Aggressive Soccer Play
[Recreation-and-Sports:Soccer] Hustling, strong play is super important on both offense and defense. If your team does not get rough and play hard, you will nearly universally lose to a team that is a good deal more hard. When we refer to aggressive play, we mean getting into the game, not being fearsome of getting contact and "winning" the "50/50 balls", which are the easy balls that either team has an equal fortune of winning.
- What is Drug Addiction Treatment?
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] There are many habit-forming drugs, and treatments for specific drugs can deviate. treatment also varies based on the features of the drug user.
- Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS)
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is intermediated by a mixed bag of mechanisms. The mind maintains neurochemical symmetry through repressive and excitant neurotransmitters. The principal inhibitory neurotransmitter is gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), that works through the GABA-alpha (GABA-A) neuroreceptor. One of the major excitant neurotransmitters is glutamate, which behaves through the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) neuroreceptor.
- Alcoholism - Symptoms and Effects
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] A huge need to drink, a need that is as heavy as the need for nutrient or fluids. Not being able to stop once drinking has begun. Short term memory loss. Amnesias, where the substance abuser seems to others that he or she is alert and amply conscious but in reality has no sense of time or conduct. These are only a few of the early tangible results of alcoholism, which can lead to cirrhosis, liver failure, and finally demise.
- Blogging makes Real Estate Brokerage a Whole New Ball Game
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Blogging Technology has collided with the real-estate industry and it likely to overturn a marketplace known for lack of process and limited information.
There are hundreds, maybe hundreds to thousands, of blogs addressing real estate and they reflect unfiltered lightings on their topics, describing marketplace chitchat, innuendo, information, belief, almost anything.
- What is a Feedback?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] Something about how it works with the customer service and control on eBay.
- Physical Fitness and Work Out Forestall Disease
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Fitness and Exercise Forestall disease. That is a proven fact, and yet more Americans than ever so are suffering from obesity and type two diabetes are regarded an epidemic in the United Sates of America. If you are heavy, and especially if you are obese, or if you have been diagnosed with diabetes, then take heed to your doctor and start a steady Fitness and Exercise program. You will be happy you did.
- How to Pick a Dentist
[Health-and-Fitness] Dentistry can be frightening for many people. A large number of people have sad or scary stories about the dentist. It just takes one bad dentist to start a person on a self destructive path of avoidance and tooth decay. Many of the dentally fearful ask the same question. What is the easiest and best way to choose a dentist?
- Is Having a Business in Your Home Legal
[Home-Based-Business] There are various laws you will need to consider before you start running a home business. Millions of businesses are operated illegally out of peoples homes, in violation of their local laws. This approach isn’t recommended. You should always try to do things legally, and consider moving if home businesses aren’t allowed where you live.
- What Happens When Your Dishwasher Breaks
[Home-Improvement:Appliances] When I was a child I remember cleaning up after the family meals and hand washing dishes. I thought it was like punishment most of the time. I complained most of the time, but my father and mother insisted that I learn this “life skill as they called it. I called it washing dishes. None the less my dishwashing career was a long and fruitful one growing up in a middle class family in Colorado.
- Identity Theft - A Growing Problem That Could Leave You Devastated
[Legal:Identity-Theft] You go to a nice restaurant, enjoy a great meal and pay with your Visa or MasterCard. Although you add a nice tip for your friendly waiter, it's possible that he earns a much bigger commission on his way back to the Cashier, with a tiny scanning device that records all of your credit card information. Soon you could be the victim of identity theft!
- Jewelry as a Gift
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Jewelry-Diamonds] Choosing a gift for someone is not an easy task. There are a lot of things that you can just give away. This, however, does not mean that people do that all the time. When people give presents, they want it to be meaningful. If it is just piece of bed sheet, people want it to be meaningful.
- Asset Protection
[Finance:Personal-Finance] An immediate concern of many Americans is the threat of lawsuits, liens, judgments and financial loss from major medical or nursing home costs. So how can you protect your home, your cash assets, your autos and boats – even your child’s education savings?
- Privacy of Celebrities
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Enjoying your afternoon tea in your home alone with your favorite muffins? Imagine Justin Timberlake doing just that. Well, it can be almost impossible.
- Comfort Shoes vs. Stylish Shoes
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Fashion-Style] Shoes are made specially as a protection for our feet. Not only do they keep us from sickness, they also make us look good. The choice of shoes whether on design or quality, depends on the owner.
- How to Finance a Business For Your Son or Daughter
[Finance] Although the IRS will love you for it, stay away from cash loans, signing as a surety for a bank loan or even a gift to finance your kid's new business. If things don't work out, your tax benefits could be abysmal.
- The Food Guide Pyramid
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The Food Guide Pyramid is one manner for Americans to read how to eat healthy. A rainbow of colored, vertical stripes stands for the five food groups plus fats and oils. Here is what the colors stand for:
- Contact Lense Basics
[Health-and-Fitness] Hordes of people new to contacts have a lot of questions. What are the steps I should take first? How do I review my prescription? How can I tell if my contact lens is inside out? Are all contacts basically interchangeable? And so on. Read this article for facts on these and other new wearer topics, then go on to the articles in the rest of the Contact Lenses section for further in-depth review.
- Nutrition Guidelines are just a Guide
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The USDA recently published their dietary guidelines for Americans and the recommendation leave a bit to be desired. As Americans our health continues to slip. We have the largest and most expensive insurance and health care system in the world. The following recommendation made by the USDA is just recommendations.
- Latin American Destination Wedding Ideas
[Relationships:Wedding] A destination marriage cermenoy is a wedding that takes place in a location that is not your usual place to the bride or the groom or their families. Couples may choose a location that they have always wanted to visit for the location of their destination wedding. The couple may also opt to have their wedding in the location of their honeymoon so that there honeymoon will start immediately after the wedding.
- Midwest Gas Price Investigation - Investigation Likely To Continue
[News-and-Society] The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an interim report to Congress on its investigation into Midwest gas price increases that was cited at the reasons that the FTC launched the investigation. It also provides a status report on the continuing investigation, including progress and a description of the work not yet done. The report details the history of the price spikes of reformulated gasoline (RFG) in the Midwestern part of the country and how these increases caused Commission staff to initiate a preliminary investigation in June and prompted the Commission to begin a formal investigation during the latter part of July.
- Flower Power!
[Relationships:Love] Many fail to realize the power flowers have on our emotional well being. Flowers overwhelm our senses with exotic fragrances and beauty. They play on our need for belonging, attention and attraction and most of all; flowers remind us that we are somehow “special” to someone.
- Chile is Hot, Hot, Hot
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Since the mid-1950’s Chile’s wood product trade has been rapidly expanding due to the cultivation of “plantation grown” softwood and hardwood trees. Chile’s unstoppable growth is also projected to rise within the next 15 years, making Chile an even greater player in the world’s wood product market.
- What is Hoodia?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Hoodia gordonii, "Whoo De AH", is the scientific name for a leafless, spiky succulent plant that grows throughout the semi-arid desert areas of Southern Africa primarily the Kalahari Desert. The local inhabitants (the San) have eaten Hoodia stems to defend against hunger and thirst when on long journeys or during times of drought, because it acts as an appetite suppressant.
- Five Easy Ways to Advertise and Promote Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Advertising and promoting your website can be tough: it appears that there are many different ways to accomplish this task, but most of them take time or money with out guaranteed return. In order to make things a bit easier I have compiled list of ten really simple techniques to promote and advertise your website.
- Do you want Better Search Results - Read Art of the Content Site
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Nathan clearly defines what a content site is and how it works. He also goes into detail about the components that make up a content site. I especially enjoyed this quote from the books opening letter. “Many SEOs are quite proud of their content creation abilities, claiming it to be an “art”. They call it “SEO Copywriting” in order to make themselves feel more important than they are... when in fact, any monkey that knows English can perform nearly on-par with these “experts.”
- New Health Insurance Policy: Understand What You Are Paying For
[Insurance:Health] Insurance policies are simple to understand if you understand the language they speak. If you don’t speak their language, which most of us do not, then you will surely get lost.
- Romantic Honeymoon Vacations
[Relationships:Wedding] Beach vacations continue to be the most popular choice for a romantic honeymoon getaway. Honeymoons are the ultimate romantic vacation and just about any destination can translate into a romantic rendezvous for the newlyweds. The following five suggestions are a few of the several honeymoon vacation ideas.
- Fantastically Unique Centerpieces Make a Wedding Memorable
[Relationships:Wedding] A couple wanting to really impress the guests at their wedding should invest in truly unique centerpieces. Typically, most reception facilities do not provide a great deal of creativity in the decorations because they usually utilize standard table linens and place settings. However, utilizing unique centerpieces is a great way for the wedding hosts to make their reception memorable.
- Understanding Tort
[Legal] Tort law is different from the laws of contract, restitution, and the criminal law. Contract law protects the parties involved when expectations arise from promises, restitution prevents unjust enrichment and compensation for wrong doing, and criminal law punishes crimes that are so severe (like murder, rape, fraud) that society has a direct interest in preventing and dealing with them. Note that many wrongs can result in liability to both the state (as criminal activity and proceedings) and to the victims (as torts).
- Cruising Asia is a True Delight
[Travel-and-Leisure:Cruising] Your Asia cruise can be a channel and opportunity to explore the cultures and land masses with
their own unique spirit and expression. You can go on an Asia cruise to suit your own needs
whether it is Far East or the southern pacific. Every cruise has its mystique and its own story to
unfold.
- A Perfect Cup of Coffee
[Food-and-Drink:Coffee] Feel free to print/reprint this article in its entirety in your ezine or website as long as you leave all the links in place. Don't modify the content and include the resource box as listed. Please send a note when it is used. Thank you.
- Small Business Accounting 101
[Business:Accounting] If you are in business, then guess what you are either an accountant by default or you need to hire one. Why? People ask that question while letting the year roll by until taxes come due. Oh no! Why do I have penalties?
- Do I Look Fat? The Top Five Reasons to Say No
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The question is asked by your wife or girl friend every time you get ready to go out right. Well let me tell you something and you better listen up and listen up good. If you like having a wife or a girlfriend you will say no. Not just when it is the trust but when it is a lie too. Here are the top five reasons to say no.
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