Archive for August, 2006

Out of the Box Advertising tactics

Monday, August 14th, 2006

I was on SmallBusinessBranding.com yesterday and found this interesting article all about different marketing and advertising tactics that some companies are using to sell and get there products noticed.  Its worth a look at this just from an "idea generation" standpoint. Read an Excerpt... The lesson that must be learned here is ...

Skype – Free long distance calls never sounded so good!

Monday, August 14th, 2006

For those people looking to save a little money running there business here is a good solution to not paying for long distance charges by the name of Skype. What is Skype? – Skype is a Voice over IP tool or VOIP (gotta love marketing acronyms) that basically allows you to ...

Market to the Masses… No i’d rather market to YOU! When you’re ready!

Monday, August 14th, 2006

I've been reading Seth Godin's book lately on "Permission Marketing".  I am just opening my eyes to the ways many advertisers fail because of using what Seth calls "Interruption Marketing".  In a way this publication allows me to market to anyone looking to gain information about e-commerce systems, commerce systems ...

1ShoppingCart - Yaro knows his stuff

Friday, August 11th, 2006

I was reading through Yaro's site, www.entrepreneurs-journey.com, and just read through his review of 1shoppingcart. This cart seems to have it all... Client Management Email Autoresponder Affiliate Management Shopping cart... of course The list goes on... (click here for a full list of features) There are many of features this cart has but i think ...

Pligg Me!

Friday, August 11th, 2006

I've just been checking out some of the forums and news surrounding PHP and Pligg seems to be a buzz word that keeps coming up so it prompted me to have a look into this. What is Pligg? Pligg is a "Web 2.0 Content Management System (CMS)" and the main focus of ...

The MAC vs PC debate - Part 1

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

The Mac Side… the new idea of the dead PC Now most people who have anything to do with computers have a stance on this issue. Some people are Pro MAC and other is Pro PC. Both camps are heavily rooted in there opinions of the other platform’s operations, ...

Frivole.com Project: Backup of mySQL databases

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

I recently wrote about my client with the Frivole.com project has been having some issues with data loss because someone appears to hacking into the databases and corrupting them. After repeated attempts contacting the Hosting company, they say "it isn't us" and i know that it is not me or the ...

Updating the Style of CommerceCubes: Mini WordPress Tutorial

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

In case you haven't noticed or you are new to CommerceCubes then you'll know I've changed the look of the site. The old site was simple and clean but it was also you minimal on the graphics. I will be swapping out some of the graphics from this ...

Brick and Mortar Business Problems

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I was just checking out Nathan Water's blog earlier today. He has an interesting story about Brick and Mortar type businesses and the reasons some of them fail. I personally think that today in business you need a custom solution that involves the best practices of existing brick ...

Frivole.com Project: Not all Hosting companies are created equal

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

When i first became involved in the Frivole.com project the thing that was annoying was trying to pull script files to my desktop as the server was on experienced outages. This was over the course of a weekend. I suggested to my client, purely out of my interest ...