Archive for May, 2008

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May

A Virtual Phone System for a Small Mobile Business

29-05-2008 | Posted by: Carolyn Young
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Searching for the Virtual PBX service that best suits your needs can be a bit daunting if you are not familiar with the terminology and the different services and pricing structures available. Since we like to share our knowledge and experience regarding certain business applications and services, we thought we would do the same with [...]

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May

New York Makes Waves in the Affiliate Marketing Community

29-05-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
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This is by no means breaking news. But I heard so much last week about the fact that New York state was implementing a sales tax for web affiliates, the topic warranted a ’summary’ post here. Basically, doing affiliate business in New York just got a whole lot harder - even impossible for some, as [...]

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May

Salesforce Integration with Responsys: Getting it to work

21-05-2008 | Posted by: Carolyn Young
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Introduction to the Service…
One of my recent responsibilities as Salesforce Administrator was to integrate our already existing Responsys account with Salesforce. Our goal was to have the ability to send high quality emails to our Salesforce contacts as well as have better statistics and tracking within Salesforce. We wanted our salespeople to have access to [...]

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May


“Boost your site’s traffic” claims are about as abundant as “get rich quick” and “lose weight now” schemes these days. There’s always someone willing to take your money for promises of increases website traffic. I’ve met a lot of the so-called magic workers at industry trade shows, and it can be difficult to sort out [...]

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May

Re-Branding in 2008: “ReitherCo” is Now “R3R, LLC”

14-05-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
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ReitherCo was started in early 2007, with a single client, a couple internal projects, and a lot of ideas. Formed by solo consultant, the company has grown to include both part-and full-time staff and a network of preferred providers and contractors. The company’s service offerings have expanded to include web project management, affiliate program management, [...]

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14

May

Increase Off-Line Sales With Online Advertising

14-05-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
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In the April 2008 Issue of the Harvard Business Review, Magid Abraham of comScore wrote an article titled “The Off-Line Impact of Online Ads.” In it, Abraham states that for all the measurability and trackability offered by online advertising, the numbers often “don’t tell the whole story.” The surprising news that his firm often finds [...]

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08

May

Virtual Assistant Firms are a Little too Abundant

08-05-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
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Some of the more popular posts on this blog lately are regarding virtual assistant (VA) firm reviews. They’re getting more and more views each day. But after being contacted by Chinese outsourcing firm BPOvia, and then today by another firm in India called Arctern I’m starting to think that a big chunk of the individuals [...]

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May

Top 7 Internet Marketing Books of All Time

07-05-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
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You might think that any book on internet marketing or performance marketing would be out of date by the time it was printed. And where a particular technology (say Ebay or Google AdWords) is concerned, that might be true. But internet marketing is still marketing - and regardless of the technologies, the fundamentals of marketing [...]

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04

May

Transferring a Domain from Register.com is Like Pulling Teeth

04-05-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
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Do you try to keep all your socks in one drawer…or all your canned food in one pantry? Seems normal to me, because that’s the way I do it. I kind of treat my domains like socks and canned food - I keep them all registered in one place (at one registrar). Otherwise, not only [...]

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03

May

Online Business Directory Software Options (and Reviews)

03-05-2008 | Posted by: Jeremy Reither
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I’ve been looking all over for a “business directory” software solution (a customizable software package that can be used to organize and display business listings online). We would like to integrate a business directory into an existing website, and ideally avoid building the directory software from scratch. But I’m surprised at how hard it is [...]

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