J’s Ramblings

I talked to a good friend of mine yesterday. A lady that is very smart, excellent business skills – actually more of a natural talent for business as she does not have the training nor years of experience – but can and does fit right in with ceo’s, managers and trained business experts. Anyway, we were talking about marketing ideas and the conversation was moving towards online marketing and the internet marketing industry. She has no personal knowledge or experience in the so called ‘Internet Marketing’ industry so I had to give her a brief introduction. Now one would think that with all the […]

Todays post is a little off topic to what usually  I post here on this blog.  But it relates in a couple ways. First and foremost, this is about my experiences, and relaying quality information to you that I come across.  So because this is something that I am doing, then it does fall into that category. And second, I want to compare and contrast some difference in real life, and in a very distinct niche, with the area of Internet Marketing. I am at a conference put on by the Alberta Agriculture Economics Associatiaon and the University of Alberta called Visions 2007. In

I just finished downloading and reading the report of John Reese. It starts out with some pretty dire predictions about the future of business online. I am not sure if I agree with him on this area. I personally think the opportunities are immense, and relatively untapped in a very many areas. Huge room for growth even in bring the technology available online to everyday business people. I also think that future ideas, inventions and strategies will also help as many entrepreneurs as it will hurt – probably will help more. So his dire predictions don’t jive with me too much. But the rest

Purpose of Website  – again another old forum post resurrected: I believe that a site has to have a purpose, and from there, that defines the structure. There are 5 major types of site (probably more, but I will focus on 5), these being info site, sales/signup site, Blog, online store, and membersite. An info site is designed to provide the best and easiest source of information for the visitors. The visitors are usually repeat, and have already developed a relationship with the site owner and are coming to the site for information. A good example of this is Internet Based Moms. A sales/signup

I posted this as a reply to a post in a forum a while ago, but thought I would actually add it as it’s own post here in my blog so that everyone could read it: Always make sure your site is optimized for the search engines so when the spiders follow those links to your site, that everything works and makes sense. If you think about the search engine spiders logically, they are really just checking out your site, and being sure that everything is logical. It is like a person checking out a new brick and mortar store. First you hear about