05.30.08
Posted in Delaware.Net, Delaware.com, Real Estate SEO, Search Engines and SEO at 4:13 pm by john
All homes in the Delaware area are now on Delaware.com!
Today I relaunched my real estate portal at Delaware.com. The portal now includes an expanded real estate search that includes all real estate listings in both the TrendMLS database, and the Offutt database that serves Sussex, County Delaware. The site is updated daily, and has over 60,000 homes. You can search by city, and also by neighborhood to view comparisons of listings that you are interested in. The site also includes virtual tours of properties, and you can search those as well. If you are a licensed Realtor, I can put this technology into a site for you. I will continually add new features to the site to make it the leading real estate site for the state of Delaware.
Free Delaware Business Directory Also Launched
I also launched a local web directory, where you can add your business for free. Simply go to the site and add your web site to the directory for free. If you opt to pay for a premier listing, we have included additional categories that you can be listed under, and there are additional search engine optimization fields that will help to direct traffic to your web site. Premier listings allow a logo, and they show at the top of each category.
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05.08.08
Posted in Windows at 11:50 am by john
I just updated my Windows laptop to XP Service Pack 3 this morning and I haven’t had any issues with it. The update went pretty smoothly, but the Windows Update site was a little slow to download from, since there are so many people updating their systems today. In fact, my Windows Update program didn’t automatically do the update - I had to run Windows Update manually. No doubt Microsoft has to break up the scheduling of the updates so that their downloads aren’t too slow. If you are impatient like me, then you can run Windows Update manually and you will get SP3.
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05.05.08
Posted in Delaware.Net, Delaware.com, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, Real Estate SEO, Real Estate Web Design, Search Engines and SEO at 9:49 am by john
I just launched a new real estate portal on Delaware.com. The new real estate search engine for Delaware includes all homes in both Delaware area MLS databases. This allows us to offer a local real estate search that covers ALL of the available homes in Delaware. Each morning, we syndicate over 60,000 homes into our databases. With newer XML-based MLS data being integrated, we will expand this database even further.
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04.05.08
Posted in Gadgets, Laptops at 6:11 pm by john
I don’t use a desktop computer anymore
I’ve gone 100% laptop, and I really don’t miss having a big desktop computer any longer. I get asked a lot by friends and customers what computer they should buy. My advice is that if you are a businessperson that needs to be closely tied to email, you should just get a laptop and forget the desktop. Laptop sales are now greater than desktop sales, and there is a reason for that. At our office, everyone used to have desktop machines. Now, we have several new employees that are only using laptops besides me. I expect everyone to be on laptops in the future. I also use a docking station, which allows me to have dual monitors when I get to work. I just plug into the dock, and my second 24″ monitor boots up – works great. All of our staff at work has either two monitors, or a large 24″ monitor. I’ll never give up having two screens, and the 15″ laptop screen combined with a 24″ flat panel gives me all the room I need to have a large workspace.
Find out what I am buying after the jump.
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04.03.08
Posted in Articles, Email Hosting, Internet Industry at 9:33 pm by john
Companies that offer email hosting service have seen quite a few changes over the years. Compared to years ago, spam is obviously more of a problem for everyone that uses email. To combat spam, we have employed special technologies on our network, and we have also used on-demand filtering services to pre-filter spam email before it comes into our network. Clients LOVE this service, because we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes. While filtering spam has been has made email much more enjoyable, there are still other threats that can affect email delivery and spam. The biggest problems are mail-forwarding and catch-alls. In this post, I will explain what these are, and why they are so bad for email hosting providers. These two types of email accounts used to be OK to provide, but we have had to completely eliminate email forwarding over the last year. In speaking with other email hosting companies, I have discovered they have all had to make the same change, or are planning to. Find out why after the jump.
“we are able to stop over 98% of spam before it gets to our customer’s mailboxes “
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03.06.08
Posted in Google Marketing, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, Presentations, Search Engines and SEO at 12:03 pm by john
Three years ago, I came up with an idea to get a little more local exposure for us, and to also help out area chambers of commerce. The idea was to have a business-to-business (B2B) trade show, where businesses that sell to other businesses could mix and market. On March 5th, we held our third one. It went great!
Thanks to all of our customers, friends, and partners that attended the Third Annual Delaware Expo Trade Show. The weather was perfect yesterday and we had over 1,000 attendees at the show. The exact number was close to 1,200. Our show is now the largest business-to-business networking event in the state of Delaware, with over 120 exhibitors. We got a lot of positive feedback on the show, and some ideas that we will use to make the 2009 show even better.
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02.26.08
Posted in Productivity at 10:55 pm by john
I installed an alternative to iTunes called VLC, and I love it. It is small, clean, has no spyware, no advertisements, and it loads super-fast. It also plays every major codec and streams Internet radio easily. You can download it here. Why did I ditch iTunes? More after the jump.
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01.30.08
Posted in ECommerce, Google Marketing, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO at 3:39 pm by john
I was asked whether I have Google Adwords experience by a trade group, so that I could share some tips about selling AdWords management as a service. Sure, I do have some Google adwords experience. But I also have tremendously more Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experience.
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01.06.08
Posted in Local Delaware at 2:33 pm by john
Here we go again, another election year…
Election years can be dangerous times for business owners that have strong political views and little self-control. Especially for those who force those views down the throats of their customers, employees, and peers. While I feel that it’s commendable for anyone to be passionate about their convictions and views (I know I am), there is a proper time and place to voice those views. Email makes it painfully easy for anyone to instantly forward a political view, comment, article, video link, etc. in the blink of an eye, automatically alienating at least HALF of the people that they are sent to. Recently, a local business owner did just that when they sent me a politically-charged email.
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01.03.08
Posted in Delaware.Net, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, Real Estate Web Design, Site News at 12:29 pm by john
2007 was a good year for Delaware.net. We grew 24% overall, and web design project revenue grew 90%. Our staff also grew, and we accomplished most of our goals, including launching new applications. Lots more is coming in 2008, and if you want to hear about some of our plans, click the link.
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