Today I was reading about GeoCities – gone
Is this still live?
Today, without really telling them yet, I have dumped one of my hosting companies!
There's a reason why I work with a number of companies, not just one to be hostage to.
Out of the blue, one site got banned.
I receive one of this standard e-mails, you site has been suspended ... yipee, but can you tell me why?
3 emails back to support and nothing.
I leave it alone ... for like 10 hours, then one snippy support technical superior clog tells me that the person in charge of that dept will not be in for another 3 more hours and he can't tell me what the problem is and then he tells me not write about this anymore >!>!??!>@???/
huh ... excuse me?
I wrote 3 times to provide information on the case, not like they care.
What really really really happened ...
The site in question was submitted to StumbleUpon and guess what, it EXPLODED with traffic.
Gee, finally I was getting TONS OF TRAFFIC, but could not monetize from it (i.e., make money from it!) because my site was suspended.
Holding me back from the bucks = not good.
In the end, the site was re-instated over 12 hours later without any compassion (not like I'll ever get it) or any explanation.
Hosting company owners take notice
The economy as such is not in a great situation and as such, try to keep your existing customers, no matter what they pay monthly. Work in increasing your response time and simply let the customer know that you are aware of the problem and are working on it or something. No one like to be left in the dark.
Some of you may have issues generating new customers, but keeping the existing ones is what pays for the trips to Europe, the parties in Montreal and the 3 hour lunches on top of keeping your skilled technical support personas gainfully employed so they can look forward to another day of happy customers.
In this market, due to our open market, there are choices not like in some countries where you only get two brands of state issued toothpaste.
Have I found a replacement?
You bet. They even answered by call, answered my questions, etc ...
And in this new online social networking market, businesses can benefit, because one person tells another person and another person tell another and ...
Today I start the 'Super Directory Project'
Yes there are many directories out there, but this one is different
Yes, I've heard that one before.
The difference this time is there is a development and advertising team involved in this project. Not only that, SEO skills sets are included as well.
More to come
Quite the month - not really much time to blog.
have been busy with video marketing campaigns, finishing up a few sites, quoting on projects and tweaking up a few projects.
Follow up on the GoDaddy post ...
These guys called me again wondering what they could do for me and with more special offers [head spinning] - thanks!!!
What's up with Cuil?
Cool you say?!? I keep forgetting how to spell out this new way of cool.
Alison posted about this with mention about the Northern Light search engine. What is even more funnier is that I was speaking with one of the members of the search engine just this week. (More on this later & a great offer for internet marketers & seo'ers).
BANs
Turns out, working with BANs sites has actually made me money!!! Transactions in the range of $300-$500 bring in good commissions. (More as well ...)
It's sunny outside, better get out there while it lasts
A little ditty about GoDaddy ...
Their service rocks!!!
I recently had an issue regarding a reseller account I had with them, billing issue.
Went on the phone, waited a bit (but worth it), finally got through, spoke to a LIVE rep, they listened and were able to make adjustments ... no questions, no hassles, plus a nice thank you in the end.
Next day they call. Not to sell, but to indicate they appreciate my on-going business with them, what can they do for me?!?
What? They want to help me out even more?
A bit taken aback, I said sure, call me tomorrow and we can review my account and some upcoming deals!
Wild
Now if only Ball Spress Hue can only take note. For weeks we're sitting on the fence wondering whether to keep satellite or not. The answer is becoming more clear with unclear calls to them and questions about quality of service. Yes there are going to be people out there who b*tch, but this is not the place, they'll just lose me as a customer.
Back to GoDaddy ... thanks again and keep up the AWESOME service!
Recently working on a banner ad campaign and the subject for placing people on banners came up.
We looked at 3 banners, and out of the 3, the one with the person in it caught our attention.
Where do you get these images?
Number one - do not copy someone else's images - big no-no
Buy professional quality for less than a buck
Here are the services I use
or you can also try ...
Royalty free stock photography community providing stock imagery and tools to photographers.
There are many that do not according to Search Engine Roundtable
There are so many clueless individuals in this industry
More within the forums
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36534
Just because you may be a web designer, you may not be an SEO person.
Chose wisely
Not.
You may have a blog, you may have a web site, but traffic will not come unless you coax, prod, point, link for people to visit, comment and review. On the other hand, you may need to work and optimize your web site for the search engines as well.
As for blogging, WordPress is the way to go. Here you will see the latest WordPress features in action.
B2B Business Leads
Had a great conversation on this matter earlier in the day. Revenue potential $15-20K, possible?
It's my birthday today ... yes yes, thank you for your wishes!
An interesting post on Digg I stumbled on. Although I did not make this list of top 20 people Internet Millionaires under 30.
FYI - I am not under 30, so I do not qualify. I'm on other lists not mentioned here. :)
Here is how I spent my Birthday weekend ... floating on a portable office (canoe) on the Okanagan waters.
Thanks again - Have a great day as well!
Nice quote about video marketing
Customers that watch videos convert at twice the rate of customers who do not.
http://blog.shareresults.com/?p=691
Additional information on video marketing
http://blog.shareresults.com/?p=706
Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification
What are you addicted to these days?
How about social networking?
Bookmarking, building links, submitting sites, getting reviews, posting videos, etc ...
Quick tool for FireFox users to bookmark sites - Shareaholic
Various services all in one place, simple and easy to bookmark sites
Tracking with Google Alerts
Recent video on managing your website links and where you site may be linked from, video Google Alerts video here.
Fellow Vancouver-ite John Chow has released his blog report ... inspirational.
Initially starting off at $350 per month, John now enjoys a new record of $32,500+ for the previous month.
Here's his key:
The key to making money online is to drive a lot of traffic and then maximize the income from that traffic.
That's a mortgage payment and then some.
I have recently started my own little blog ramblings called Affiliate Money Tools to help beginners with affiliate marketing and making money on the Internet.
I've been at this over 10+ years, so why not share some joy.
Enjoy the 40K John, I'm right behind you.
The ultimate chase scene - Steve McQueen
Love the music and the roars are best when speakers are turned right up
Click here to see how the chase was put together ...
There really is not much out there for this, but ...
As for meta descriptions, still looking, unable to find
Learn more about the various meta tags here
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/the-bloggers-guide-to-meta-tags/
With some engine, it still can make a difference
I was in Toronto last year delayed due to snow and ended picking up Seth Godin's 'Purple Cow'.
What makes your company remarkable?
Getting quite involved in social media brings me to the Squidoo site and lo and behold Seth, the founder, is here.
More here: http://www.squidoo.com/whybuildalens
Besides that, still setting up communities on probably the most popular blog social MyBlogLog
Here's an example for this site
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/antonjamm/
and or the main profile
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/onlinejamm/
Time to set up Squidoo and see what it is about
Get connected with others
If you have a blog, one really needs to set up a Yahoo profile at MyBlogLog
Here is a sample of what mine looks like
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/onlinejamm/
Drive traffic, drive new users, get more visitors
Once set up, add me to your list!
Ever since I got in to offering social bookmarking a few months back for our clients, it has been an eye-opener.
Do it work, does it help my site, can I see some results, etc...
In an effort to keep all things organized, I've created a simple site to showcase the collection of social sites online, properly called Social Bookmark List
Every day new sites I've never been to are coming up and why not post them online.
Happy July 4th!
I took the plunge last week (I think, I lost track of time) and purchase another notebook ... more power, more gear, new OS.
Yes people are ranting about Vista and all it's flaws, but personally after all this time, I think it is great.
Turn off the glossy stuff and you're good to go.
My biggest concern was the ability to run a PHP/MySQL web server off the machine.
No problems there either.
You can run various flavors of Apache, PHP or MySQL with WAMP .... very cool
Personally I'm still running Sokkit, which is done. XP Home had issues and sokkit was the solution at that time.
Or you could set up PHP, MySQL, Apache manually .... but why?
BBQ time
If you're making that type of money from AdSense, then you've done your research on niche specific keywords and ones that are paying well.
It is possible to make five bucks from one click of advertising on your page, simply need to find where.
For the ones that are offering hosting services, it makes you question whether going through email account set-up, file uploading, database setup, site troubleshooting and more is really worth offering the service for $5 per month.
The Planet is a dedicated server hosting provider which operates six large data centers in Texas. One of their Houston-based data centers suffered from a fire last night which has left all servers there temporarily down which means that approximately 7,500 customers can’t access their websites.
Follow up on post:
http://antonjamm.blogspot.com/2008/05/planet-goes-down.html
Seems from DP and others, many are still in the dark
ETA - today - 50%
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