SMARTPHONE REVOLUTION From Guest Dean Timothy Olsen

Mobile markets are growing at a feverish pace all over the world, thanks to the continued falling cost and rising availability of smartphone technology. People everywhere are equipping themselves with the latest must-own technology, the smartphone, and it seems like you’d get more confused looks for not owning a phone than you would for not owning a television. These are the times we live in now, where smartphone owners can do everything from chatting with family to paying their bills and shopping for auto insurance. With such utility, it’s really no surprise that people feel so lost without their pocket-sized

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Are you Leveraging your Guru-ness through Email and Social?

In the early days of writing my newsletter I often received a less than overwhelming response. It made me wonder if it was worth all the time and effort.  Fortunately, now and then, someone told me they read every article I published, or that they loved a particular article and they ended up buying something because of it. Even if I got no immediate response I knew my efforts were generating business. Go Social … With the growing trend towards social media, people wonder what the future of email marketing is. Well, email marketing is going nowhere. It’s been around

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Simplifying Spam Checks in Online Forms

I visit a lot of websites and when I fill in a form, I regularly have to put in a code so the website can verify that I am a human being and not a machine. Those codes are just so hard to read sometimes, and I regularly get it wrong. I get even more annoyed if I get the code wrong and have to re-enter all or part of the information I’ve already typed into the form. How unfriendly is that? Sometimes I get so annoyed I just give up. Forms that are difficult to use are sometimes the

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Features Tell, Benefits Sell

Our friend Susie, who we met browsing online for sports tops, is a busy person and shops online whenever she can. For her mother’s birthday, she went shopping for a nice pair of earrings. The first site she went to had a product description that read something like this: The perfect everyday diamond hoops! These 18ct yellow gold earrings consist of a single row of round brilliant diamonds, claw set on the front of a hinged two piece mount.  So did the second. The third site was only slightly different. Now earrings are a bit different from sports tops and

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