Larry Levenson
A Simplified Users Guide to WordPress
Axemedia has developed a very useful simple guide to using WordPress (WP) for those new to managing a WP powered site. In particular those who’ve had their WP site set up for them by a web designer or developer. It covers the common tasks of writing and managing content and basic site maintenance. It does [...]
Ever Wonder How To Use OpenOffice?
I have been experimenting with OpenOffice as a replacement for Microsoft Office for the past 10 months. Overall, it works great, and I have set the preferences to store everything (documents, spreadsheets, slide shows, etc) in MS-Office format so that I can easily share these files with anyone. OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software [...]
Build a Media List to Promote Your Business
Media lists contain the names and information about people and companies that can help you build your business or promote your product(s). It’s the kind of information that used to in your Rolodex, or your business card file, or your address book. Start compiling your media list by gathering the names of anyone or any [...]
Using Google to Find Twitter People
Mike Merrill has a neat tip on searching for specific folks to follow on Twitter. Now there are applications such as Nearby Tweets and GeoTweet but this seemed much more effective to me. It basically leverages the Google search engine to search Twitter profiles. This tip leverages the google site search. Here’s how it works: [...]
Getting Started on Twitter: a Step by Step Guide
You’re a twitter newbie, you’ve heard about it, so you have decided to do the twitter thing and find out what its all about. Justin Parks has one of the best getting started guides. . . Twitter Newbie: A step by step guide to getting started on Twitter. This easy-to-read guide includes topics not generally [...]
Google Caffeine is Coming Soon!
Sometime in the next few days, Google Caffeine, their newest search engine algorithm, is going to be fully operational. Google is always improving user experience, but this is their first major algorithm change in quite a while. Caffeine will significantly speed up Google’s results and will give more weight to website-specific keywords. Sites with content [...]
Top U.S. Online Search Providers
NielsenWire reports the top U.S. search providers by number of searches for the month of November 2009. The key thing to notice is the since it’s launch in the spring, Microsoft’s Bing is taking market share from Google. Top 10 Search Providers for November 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.) RANK Provider Searches (000) Share of [...]
Real Time Social Media Searches
Google Caffeine Google’s new search algorithm, will be introducing ‘Real Time’ searches for the various social media networks. Similar to the Google News feature, only it’s like watching an online RSS media feed for Social Media sites like Twitter. We’re already experimenting with this new feature and studying how you could use it to produce [...]
10 Online Marketing Trends for 2010
I met John Arnold at a conference in Phoenix about 2 years ago, and was impressed with his approach to marketing. He could take large concepts and make them not only understandable, but important for small business people.
Local Marketing Works – 3 Million Page Views!!
“Local marketing for local businesses really works,” says Lynne LaMaster, Publisher at Prescott eNews. “On Christmas Day, we passed 3,000,000 page views for the year!” PrescottENews.com is an online newspaper that covers the activities, business, government, sports, education and upcoming events for the Prescott, AZ, area. Lynne started her online business just two years ago, [...]