Social Media makes sense
March 9th, 2010
Tweet New media is the latest buzz word and entails all facets of online marketing including social media marketing. Between Twitter and Facebook, everyone has caught the social networking bug. If you aren’t on board with social media, you might as well turn back the clock to 2000. As 2010 launches forward with new media [...]
Out with HTML tables and in with CSS
March 8th, 2010
Tweet There was a time, many “Internet years” ago, when most websites were designed using HTML tables to give structure to the layout. This made it easier to achieve the desired placement of page elements; but the result was very cluttered page code. Not only was this a development and maintenance nightmare, but it wasn’t [...]
Ten Valuable Tips for Good Web Site Design
March 5th, 2010
Tweet Companies spend a lot of time, effort, and money to develop and publish a web site that it hopes will be helpful to the site’s targeted audience. The Internet has become ingrained in the business world as an irreplaceable tool to do company research, find product information, look up contact information, find directions to [...]
Five Ways to Monetize Parked Domains and Websites
March 4th, 2010
Tweet Online marketing is all about trends and opportunities. Almost every veteran internet marketer has sweated their missed domain purchases — passing ideas that could have been turned into million-dollar branded domain names. Alongside domain stress is the annoyance of missing major online trends — ultra-profitable marketing products that are now too saturated or harshly [...]
The Importance of Search Engine Optimization for your Website
March 3rd, 2010
Tweet Spend more than five minutes on the Internet, and you’ll no doubt come across the phrase “Search Engine Optimization”. It’s the hot buzz term that everyone is using, whether or not they actually understand what it is and what it entails. In a nutshell, Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the process of maximizing [...]
Simple ways to make your business green
March 2nd, 2010
Tweet A great way to save money on your business operations is to take simple steps towards going green. Not only will going green save energy and help the environment, but these small steps are sure to help bring in more green… dollars that is. For starters, consider items which are often overlooked such as [...]
Twitter Marketing Strategy (Part 3)
February 28th, 2010
Tweet Website Scavenger Hunt The website scavenger hunt takes the trivia challenge (mentioned in part 2) to the next level. It requires your followers to search around your website for the answer to a question. Of course this requires more effort for your visitors so you may want to make the prize worth their effort. [...]
Twitter Marketing Strategy Part 2
February 27th, 2010
Tweet Trivia Challenge Although lots of people click on links in a tweet, many do not actually read the content on a website page. They usually look at the website for a second or two before pressing the back button on their browser. The next strategy, the trivia challenge, can help get your followers to [...]
Creative Twitter Marketing Strategies (Part 1)
February 26th, 2010
Tweet Over the past few years Twitter has emerged as a great marketing tool for many businesses. When Twitter first became popular, sending out a promotional tweet with a link to a website was enough. Followers would happily click the link. Now, with so many companies using Twitter to market their products and services businesses [...]
Custom iPhone icons – To be or not to be?
November 11th, 2009
Tweet We here at FatCow were just having an interesting discussion the other day about how cool it would be if you could modify the look of your iPhone with custom icons. Seriously, you can modify the look of your desktop with any icon that you want, but Apple doesn’t allow you to create custom [...]