04.03.08
Posted in Articles, Internet Industry, Email Hosting 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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10.16.07
Posted in Articles, Domain Names, Local Delaware, Web Design at 10:19 pm by john
OK, this is a very basic, but powerful tip that will improve your web site’s performance. It is a problem that I see over and over and over again with web sites that prevents your customers from using your web site. It’s a problem that I have seen on very prominent web sites, and also very basic web sites. It is a very easy problem to fix, and yet many people don’t know that they have this issue.
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10.04.07
Posted in Web Development, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO, Web Developer Tools, Blogs at 10:35 am by john
Blogs are continuing to explode in popularity. In a recent post, I explained why you need a blog, and how to set one up. If you aren’t familiar with blog software and what it is for, then you should read that post first. I also explained some of the pitfalls and potential misuses of your blog in another post. With this article, I want to give a bigger picture for folks that need a web site quickly, and who are considering blog software to run their ENTIRE web site. There ARE cases where blog software can work as the main web site for a business under rare circumstances, and I will go over this as well.
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09.12.07
Posted in Web Development, Articles, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO, Web Developer Tools, Real Estate Web Design at 10:34 pm by john
I market socially in local networking groups, national trade shows, local trade shows, and here on my blog. To do that much marketing, I have to expose some of my techniques and secrets behind online marketing and what works. That being said, it takes a LOT more than a couple of tricks to be successful with your online marketing. A good example is blogging.
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08.30.07
Posted in Delaware.Net, Web Development, Team-Logic CRM, Articles at 3:42 pm by john
One of the biggest (if not THE biggest) challenges in building a new web site for a client, is getting quality written content for the web site that is provided by the client. Jason Cockerham, a web developer at Delaware.Net, just wrote a good post about this in the Delaware.Net blog.
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06.27.07
Posted in Web Hosting, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware at 3:58 pm by john
I participate on an email mailing list where other Internet company owners discuss local and national marketing strategies. Sometimes there are great ideas, sometimes not so much. Recently there was a post from someone in the industry about how a good local marketing strategy should contain marketing to not-for-profits and other good-natured word of mouth efforts locally that can help your reputation.
I used to believe that, but what I found is that they really don’t work all that well.
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06.25.07
Posted in Delaware.Net, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO, Real Estate Web Design, Blogs at 3:13 pm by john
Blogs. Certainly you have heard of a blog, but many people still don’t know what they are and why they are useful. In this article, I am going to explain what a blog is, why you need one, and how they can make you and your company a lot more money. Almost for free.
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04.01.07
Posted in Delaware.Net, Team-Logic CRM, Articles, Web Developer Tools, Real Estate Web Design at 1:14 pm by john
Real estate is once again a hot market - for web developers. Why? Because the real estate market has softened in 2007, and this means that real estate companies finally need to market once again - at least here in the Mid Atlantic region.
The purpose of this article is to explain what is involved in showing real estate listings dynamically in your real estate web site, whether you are an agent or a real estate broker. I’ll explain how it works, what you will need, what is new in 2007, and what the costs are.
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01.06.07
Posted in ECommerce, Web Development, Articles, Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Search Engines and SEO at 9:45 pm by john
$3750 to be exact, is the amount of money I saved a customer this week because she almost got taken by an internet scam artist. It wasn’t Google (the company) that was scamming her, it was someone claiming they could get her high in Google’s search results. Read the whole story after the jump.
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12.22.06
Posted in Web Development, Articles, Internet Marketing, Web Developer Tools at 11:20 pm by john
I got a call today from an Internet marketing professional that asked me if I had an old version of a web site that we built years ago. She wanted to see how it looked before “another” company redesigned it after yet another takeover. I DO have the backup of the files from the original web site, but since this person calling wasn’t my customer, I obviously couldn’t give it to her. But I DID have a solution for her that is also a tool for any good Internet marketing professional.
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