Is the Internet really important to your business? Most business owners don’t think so, or so it would seem from their lackadaisical response to discussions about their business and the Internet. Yet for most business owners there is the haunting voice that maybe, just maybe, the Internet is important to the future of my business.
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If you’ve used Google News as a news aggregator and then clicked on a story of interest, you may have found yourself on a Wall Street Journal online story, but that quickly turns into an annoying experience. The WSJ is subscription only for readers, so they have the tease paragraph and then the “To continue [...]
August 24, 2009 | Posted in
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Reader’s Digest, the largest magazine publisher in the world just filed bankruptcy. In times past that would be a complete shock for most Americans. Reader’s Digest magazine has been that ubiquitous checkout stand magazine in grocery stores since I was a tyke. And today this massive magazine publishing empire stands on the brink of extinction [...]
August 17, 2009 | Posted in
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Microsoft’s operating system upgrade to Windows 7 is getting great positive reviews. From the thousands of beta testers and reviews available, we can draw a few logical conclusions about Windows 7. Windows 7 is more than just a small upgrade with a few nicely added features. According to one CNET review, “It’s stable, smooth, and [...]
August 2, 2009 | Posted in
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Advances in technology, the fading of old systems, the explosion and power of the Internet, the massive paradigm shifts that are occurring are so dramatic, it is almost incomprehensible. Here’s a video that will blow your mind.
August 1, 2009 | Posted in
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General Motors is coming out fighting, and it appears they are going to be stronger than ever with major restructuring. This is good news for General Motors customers, past, present, and future. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson promises that the new GM will have fewer brands, fewer plants and fewer workers, and that the corporate culture [...]
August 1, 2009 | Posted in
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There’s a new Internet search engine in town, and it’s Microsoft’s search tool called, “Bing.” It’s easy to find on the Net, because it is simply bing.com. How does it stack up to the number one search engine, Google, which has about 64% of the search engine market? It is amazingly similar to Google.
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Will Microsoft and Yahoo catch up with Google by teaming up? Rumors that the two will join forces once and for all to slay the dragon known as Google are running rampant, and today we may just know for sure. What would the new search engine be called? Yasoft? Microhoo?
What’s the big deal? Well, Microsoft [...]
July 28, 2009 | Posted in
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In the past six months I’ve talked with hundreds of Sequim and Port Angeles business owners, and there is a clear consensus on the subject of marketing and advertising. They are confused and frustrated. They are frustrated because what used to work doesn’t work as well now. Advertising budgets have shrunk as the economy [...]
Driving by the signs for businesses that line the streets of our small towns, I’ve always wondered what prompted people to choose that name. I’ll spend the next 6-blocks or half-mile coming up with options that would have been so much better. And it’s not just small businesses that make huge mistakes when naming their [...]