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Is e-learning really as effective as face-to-face training?

Focus.com — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:50:29 GMT

Vendors hawk the benefits of e-learning: cost-effectiveness, essential for training a global workforce, multimedia and so on. Are they on-target? Regardless, e-learning is becoming an essential part of corporate life. Any tips?

Building a Business Website in Wordpress

rgenerator — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:29:37 GMT

After spending a year and a half designing the website for my wife’s small business, I decided to delete the whole thing.

During those 18 months, I learned quite a bit about website design,
search engine optimization and lead conversion. Enough to confidently
delete the website and start over with WordPress.

I had originally built the site with WebsiteTonight from Godaddy and
although I was very pleased with how the site looked, there were too
many advantages to converting it:

I was able to have the blog and website all on one domain
Wordpress is the best blogging software
The code for Wordpress and frugalTheme is clean, fast and search engine friendly
The on-page search engine optimization is built in
I was able to install plugins to improve search rankings, such as All in one SEO Pack, Google XML sitemaps, Google Analytics for Wordpress, and Yet another Related Posts
It is easy to add new content
Creation of categories and tags to improve search engine rankings
Installed good-looking web 2.0 contact form for lead conversion
Ability to interact, leave comments and subscribe to the site

The biggest obstacle is that you do not want your commercial business web
because it is easily customizable and has a minimalist design. I was
able to create a static homepage and have the actual blog as the 4th
page in. The layout is very simple including a basic description,
contact form and testimonials.

Neighborhood Blogging

rgenerator — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:05:50 GMT

I once read an e-book from an internet marketing company that said they created 50 different pages for a local business website. The idea was to have a targeted page for each town in the coverage area to increase search engine rankings.

I thought this was a great idea, so I went to work on it immediately.
I mapped out the local towns and created a couple of pages, but soon
abandoned the project because it was boring, time-consuming and I was
creating ‘hidden pages’ with ‘duplicate content.’

But after converting my wife’s property management website to WordPress, I had an alternate strategy.

*With +WordPress +I am able to add a new blog post for
each town in our coverage area. This creates a new page for the search
engines to index, with keyword rich URLs.* The content of each post includes zip codes, keywords and links.

This improves our search engine rankings by adding new, relevant content to the site.
For smaller, more obscure searches, we are able to dominate the
rankings. If there is a certain area that we want to focus on to get
more leads, we can simply write more posts about those particular
areas.

In our case we created +Property Management Perspective +which is a series of local reports on the towns and neighborhoods in our coverage area. We give quality insider information on the area and current rental market.

This strategy can be applied to any type of local business. The posts should not be hard to write since you already know the area and can give some expert advice.

Starting a temporary staffing agency

ladyc125 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:17:27 GMT

Hello Community,
Is there any information that someone can give me on how to start a temp agency. I would like to focus on the area of accounting or some sort of business focus. Any knowledge and ideas.

Thanks,
ladyc

I want to start a Clothing Line!!!!

godfather0682 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:08:36 GMT

Hi, My name is Cory! I am a 27 year old male from Queens,NYC.. I would like some good advice from anyone or everyone out there that has or may have a clothing line and or is in the fashion industry and could tell me the best way that I can start my own clothing line the fastest,easiest, and most inexpensive way as possible... I love to buy and where clothing of all types and now it's my turn to become very stylish and creative by coming up with the best brand names, designs, and clothing in the whole world... But starting out so far, is pretty difficult .. so that's why I ask for any help if possible from anybody out there in the clothing industry.. All or any will be very well appreciated... Thank-You!!!!

I always wanted to be an Entrepreneur!

LuxuryHomes — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:59:59 GMT

Hello all,
Nice forum Greate descussion going on here. I am here for your expert advice. I live in tampabay Florida and I want to start my business in real estate I did research on real estate industry in tampabay and I came to know that http://www.southtampa-luxuryhomes.com/ is a major player in here can any one plese tell me what am I need to do if I want to go long in this industry. Thanks for any suggestions.

Voice Broadcasting, reach 10,000 for $190.00

chippiet123 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:14:36 GMT

This is the most inexspensive form of advertising out there. You can send a 30 second personalized message to promote your product/service to any phone numer for 1.9cents!! This is a fraction of what it costs to send a postcard and it is twice as effective. Small business owners are doubling sales using this form of advertising. Phone numbers are automatically scrubbed against the DNC list. You will have a database of 70 million consumers at your fingertips sorted by zipcodes. Please let me know if you would like a test drive of the system,its hands down the most effective way of reaching your customers!!

Mike

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Website Design $149

MediaPress9 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:22:23 GMT

I'm a student web designer offering basic web design services for entrepreneurs who want to have a professional looking website to present to their clients. My web design services include the following:

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Anyone interested in sharing Twitter techniques?

kenatra721 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:39:13 GMT

Hello everyone, I am an online marketer and I have recently started using Twitter for socializing and marketing. My team and I have had some success with using the basics of Twitter, however, I am hoping to find additional creative techniques we could apply to use Twitter to our advantage. Any helpful secrets, tips or techniques you could share would be greatly appreciated...I look forward to sharing back with you as my team continues to grow!

Ken Allan Phillips - http://vur.me/NNA/nationalnetworkersassociation

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