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[2005-06-30] Crude Oil Hovers In $57 Range
August contract crude climbed back up to $57.80 a barrel after opening at $56.80 on the New York Mercantile Exchange in morning trades. Brent crude took off this morning to $56.70, up a dollar from the opening. Heating oil was up 4 cents and gasoline was up two.
[2005-06-30] Web Analytics - More Than Just Numbers
Understanding Your User's Web Site Experience
[2005-06-30] Forget SEO – It’s All About Conversion!
Which SEO hat do you wear? Is it white or black? Or perhaps it's a subtle shade of gray. Well, wherever you are on this spectrum, if you are like 99% of the SEO-fixated webmasters out there, you are doing all you can to get visitors to your site. Where you used to optimize your keywords meta tags, you now worry about anchor text and XML site maps.
[2005-06-30] The Ones That Don’t Come Back
At our company, we do our best for all of our clients. As a team we all work well together and strive to achieve good rankings, traffic and conversions for our clients. We assess and retool when things aren't going as we'd like. We aim to please, and we aim to renew our contracts with our clients.
[2005-06-30] Face For Ad Space On Ebay
Over the years, a lot of items have shown up for sale on Ebay. You can go on Ebay and find rare books dating back hundreds of years. You can also find Beanie Babies dating back 2 years. At times, Ebay has had some very peculiar things for sale too. Right now, you can buy a voodoo hex to put on someone, a mystery mailing tube (whatever that is), and even autographed breast implants. Someone once tried to sell his soul on Ebay.
[2005-06-29] Wacky Test Marketing: Part 3
Once again I used my wacky test marketing strategy to announce a new project and once again it worked - but on this occasion I had another motive about which I will tell you more in a moment.
[2005-06-29] Light Sweet Crude Drops On EIA Report
The price on the August contract for light crude dropped to $56.90 today before settling at $57.26. The EIA report issued today showed unexpected increases in U.S. crude inventories as well as gasoline and distillates.
[2005-06-29] Earnings Score Big Points On the RIM
Research in Motion released their first quarter numbers and the Canadian PDA powerhouse pumped up slammed on earnings. The folks making Blackberries jammed on $132.7 million in profits or 67 cents a share, up more than double over the 28 cents from last year.
[2005-06-28] Analyzing Customers in Your Business Plan
The Customer Analysis section of the business plan assesses the customer segments that the company serves.
[2005-06-27] DVD Wars Heat Up: Toshiba Brings Microsoft In For Backup
Toshiba adds a little Microsoft firepower to the high-density DVD war going on with Sony. The two companies announced today they would further their recent collaborations as they both work to develop the future of the HD-DVD format.
[2005-06-24] The Ten Most Important Elements of a Corporate Web Site
As we public relations people blithely enter this brave new world of corporate blogging and podcasting, perhaps this would be a good time to re-emphasize some basic ground rules regarding corporate communications and the Internet.
[2005-06-23] Summer 2005, Must be the Season of the Niche
The summer of 2005 is going to be an interesting one. The world of search will be fundamentally different by Labour Day.
[2005-06-23] Bidding War In Asia: CNOOC Vs. Chevron For Unocal
The Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) put in an unsolicited $18.5 billion bid for Unocal, challenging Chevron's April move to acquire the oil company. Neither is a done deal and this marks China's continued assertion into corporate hardball.
[2005-06-21] Using Contextual Marketing To Increase Sales
Mention Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and two words come to mind - Volume and Exposure. Something every business needs to create a steady stream of income.
[2005-06-20] Google May Add PayPal To List of Competitors
Reports are going around that Google is considering launching an online payment service that would compete with PayPal. An anonymous online retailer told the New York Times about it.
[2005-06-18] Internet Importance In Iranian Elections
Blogs seem to be everywhere anymore, at least on the Internet. What kind of effect do they really have though? They get used to discuss literally everything. But, during the current Iranian election process, blogs have provided something much more fundamental, free speech.
[2005-06-17] Dell Wants A Bite of the Apple
Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Computers said he'd like to put Apple's OS on his brand of computers, giving his customer additional choices. This would be great for Dell and PC makers everywhere and could certainly crimp the style of the Seattle slew but would Apple every go for it?
[2005-06-11] Trojan Horse Rides In On Michael Jackson Suicide Note
The latest trick on the "lets mess up people's computers" front is also an exercise in extraordinarily bad taste. On Thursday, British security firm, Sophos labs picked on Trojan horse packed into an email posing as a suicide note for the pop singer.
[2005-06-08] General Motors Trims 25,000 From Payroll: Is It Enough?
The world's largest automaker announced yesterday they would eliminate 25,000 jobs from their rolls, mostly through attrition as a number of employees approach retirement. The move by the once might GM would save $2.5 billion annually according the report presented by GM chief, Rick Wagoner at the annual stockholders' meeting.
[2005-06-08] Paying For Downloads? Why Not?
NPD just released some new figures suggesting that paid musical downloads are catching up to free albeit illegal, peer to peer downloads. This must be sweet music to the ear of the recording industry as services like WinMX and Itunes proliferate.
[2005-06-07] Microsoft Pushes Blackberry Into Juicer
Microsoft announced plans to jam, can and push Blackberry's email system onto the back shelf when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0.
[2005-06-03] Lackluster Job Growth For May
The Department of Labor released their monthly job reports and they were anything but hopeful. 78,000 jobs were added, less than half of the expected 185,000 and far short of April growth of 274,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remained relatively unchanged at 5.1%.
[2005-06-02] U.S. Threatens To Make China Walk the Plank On Piracy
Tough talk came from Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez aimed at China and its burgeoning or perhaps bludgeoning piracy industry today. He said China needs to pump out the bilge our face protectionism from other countries.
[2005-06-01] It All Starts With A Click
Here's ten simple yet POWERFUL ideas on raising your "click thru" percentage.
[2005-06-01] Light Sweet Crude Lifts Off Beyond $54
Light sweet crude shot up well beyond $54 a barrel to $54.70 at one point today in to the highest prices in weeks as speculative fears rise about the low inventories of distillate fuels for the coming fourth quarter. Prices opened this morning at $52.30.
[2005-06-01] The SEO Rip-Off
I have decide to write this article as a result of numerous emails. It seems more and more people are falling victim to bad SEO. The main complaint is that they are paying entirely too much for little or no results. Additionally, many fall prey to bad SEO practices. If you plan to hire an SEO pro in the future, I suggest you use this article as a set of guidelines.
[2005-06-01] eBay Goes Shopping
eBay announced that it is buying comparison-shopping site Shopping.com for about $620 million in cash. The acquisition will give eBay's many sellers a new sales channel and access to a new set of buyers.
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