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Posts from ‘March, 2008’

How to Find Images For Blog Posts

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My all-time favorite image search tool is Compfight. This is a simple Ajax utility that searches Flickr images by tag or keyword. It returns a page of thumbnail images based on your criteria. Check a box to return [...]

Delicious Blog Post Ideas

Can you bear one more post about the social bookmarking site, delicious? It used to be called del.icio.us, but they’ve eliminated those pesky dots, which makes the exact URL a whole lot easier to remember. Today I want to share a quick tip that I’m using to find and remember blog post ideas.
When you find [...]

Attention Costs Less than Advertising!

Thousands of dollars are spent on highway billboards each year by small businesses hoping to make a big impression. Sometimes it pays off. Sometimes it doesn’t. Yet 50,000 people a day drive by Acuity Insurance in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and form a positive impression of the company because of its flag pole.
Granted, it’s one of [...]

What’s holding you back?

It’s nearly Spring in Wisconsin. After a long, cold winter with record breaking snowfall, it feels so good to get outdoors without bundling up head-to-toe! Oh, who am I kidding? Skip the bundling up part … I hibernate when it’s bone-chilling cold.
The very thought of stepping outside when it’s below 20 degrees makes me want [...]

Does Your Business Have a Local Google Listing?

Whether brick and mortar or home-based, every business needs a presence in Google’s local search results. This is a change of opinion for me because until recently I couldn’t see the sense in identifying a post office box address on Google Maps. But as I’ve researched keyword phrases for my clients and learned more about [...]