February 12, 2008

• Starbucks Wireless: Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi

  Starbucks Offering Free Wi-Fi Starbucks is switching internet providers and is going to offer Free Wi-Fi in their stores. Well, forgive my language but it’s about damn time. Starbucks and T-Mobile had been charging ridiculous amounts for wireless. $6.00 for a connection? I don’t think so, unless I am on a business trip and desperate. [...]

February 3, 2008

• Paypal Payments: If you are using Paypal are you losing sales?

  Is Paypal Costing You Sales?

February 2, 2008

• Internet Marketing: Increasing Your Book Sales

  I have recently begun doing some search engine optimization for Gregg Cochlan’s website, which promotes his wonderful book “Love Leadership: What the World Needs Now.” As it stands today, February 2nd, 2008, the Love Leadership website is at #10 on Google for the term “Love Leadership.” I anticipate that as I work on the site [...]

January 13, 2008

• Discussion Forum: How to Add a Forum to Your Blog or Website

  Video: Use CPANEL to add a discussion forum to your blog or website in 3-minutes or less. In a previous post, I discussed the pro’s and con’s of adding a forum to you blog or website: Forum Discussion. Now, let’s go through the process of adding the forum. It will take less than 3 minutes [...]

January 2, 2008

• Getting Banned by Google: Does Google Penalize “Sales Letter” Landing Pages?

  Are you someone who sells products via a 1-page sales letter website? Or perhaps you are (more likely) someone who instantly clicks AWAY from a 1-page sales letter any time you see one?! Ever wonder if Google penalizes 1-page sales websites? Wonder no more: Google penalizes one-page landing pages. I have a 1-page website that [...]

December 30, 2007

• New Discussion Forum Open (and How to Add a Forum)

  Should you add a discussion forum to your website or blog? I have recenty added a discussion forum to this blog. You can find it here: http://ryannagy.com/forum/ Now seems like a good time to discuss the pro’s and con’s of adding a forum to your website or blog. First, the “pros”: Adding a website forum [...]

December 20, 2007

• Practitioner: Take the leap into outsourcing.

  What would you do with an extra 2 hours per day? What would you do if you had an extra two hours each and every day? Would you invest the extra time in your business? Would you take your family on a mini-vacation? Or maybe just spend the time relaxing around the house? Take the [...]

November 19, 2007

• Great Ways to Waste Money on Google Adwords

  Adwords: How to Pay For Useless Clicks What follows is a recent experience using google and noticing how several companies were wasting ther money and my time on poorly designed adword campaigns. I was doing a brief search on google for a free webinar hosting service. Free, yes, free. I wanted to try out a [...]

September 28, 2007

• Dr. Laura Crawshaw: The Boss Whisperer

  Given that the “Boss Whisperer” was the inspiration for the “Web Whisperers” moniker, I thought I would take a moment and promote Dr. Crawshaw’s new book, Taming the Abrasive Manager: How to End Unnecessary Roughness in the Workplace. National Boss Day is coming up on October 16th and you can bet that you will be [...]

September 24, 2007

• Writing Content to Increase Advertising Clicks (Adsense)

  While looking through my google adsense and analytics results last month I made passing notice that one of my niche websites (a blog) had a clickthrough ratio that was over 7%. Meaning that for every 100 people who visited my site at least 7 clicked on a google adsense ad. That’s a damn high click-through [...]

August 23, 2007

• Passive and Residual Income: Design Your Life of Freedom

  The last several years have seen a revolution in how the internet can be used to create passive and residual income streams via downloadable audio, video, and ebooks, in addition to the services that automatically deliver the products AND collect the revenue. Let me guide you through the process of creating a financial life that [...]

April 23, 2007

• Social Marketing, Bookmarking and Blogging.

  One of the first topics in the next Web Whisperers LondonLondon or a href=”http://www.thewebwhisperer.com”>Santa Fe Information Markeiting Bootcamps will be using Social Marketing in your Blogs. I have included social marketing “tags” in my Feldenkrais Blog so that anyone who uses technoratic, delicious or digg can instantly “tag” my posts and both share them with [...]

April 2, 2007

• Podcasters – Don’t quit your day job??

  There is a brilliant article in business week online regarding podcasting. Highly recommended: Don’t Quit Your Day Job Podcasters I do not agree with their all of conclusions as there are plenty of ways to “monetize” podcasts. For intance, product-tie ins can bring in revenue. On one of my podcasts, I am about to start [...]

January 13, 2007

• Corporate Blogging.

  In a previous “why blog?” post, I gave my 10 cent definition of blogs and gave some examples of companies such as Sun Microsystems who actively encourage employee’s to blog. I have since found a few universitys such as Princeton who have started encouraging blogging. Next up? Cisco’s General Counsel, Mark Chandler, uses his blog [...]

September 29, 2006

• Why blog?! Give me 60 seconds:

  What is blog and why would you want to become a blogger? I was at a meeting at the University of Utah last night (the names and places have been changed to protect the innocent) and I used the word “blog.” It didn’t occur to me that “blog” is a word that could be jargon [...]

August 27, 2005

• Cons of Blogging?

  I read an online article today about blogging: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050826/us_nm/bizfeature_blogging_dc (link now expired) There are some tidbits from the article that are worth considering. According the article, many companies are beginning to write company manuals to regulate and advise employees on the use of blogs. One company, Sun Microsystems, cautions blogger’s to “…protect corporate secrets and….”using [...]