I made Google
Got my first hit from Google yesterday. I’m number nine for searching “marketing blog”. Check it out!
Google Search: “marketing blog”
Getting rid of that silly “image” bar in IE6
Got this hint to add to your webpages from weekly newsletter from www.sitepoint.com
This week’s tip comes to us courtesy of Richard Hayes, of http://www.tm3design.co.uk .
The latest version of Internet Explorer has an image toolbar that appears whenever the mouse is hovered over an image for more than a few seconds. The toolbar presents options for saving, emailing, and printing pictures.
To stop IE’s annoying image toolbar appearing over your images, place the following code between the head & /head tags on your page:
[meta http-equiv=”imagetoolbar” content=”no”] (use GT and LT symbols, not brackets of course)
The above code will disable the image toolbar for every single image on that page. And if you want to disable the image toolbar only for specific images, use the galleryimg attribute for the IMG tag. For example:
[img src=”myPic.gif” galleryimg=”no”]
Getting listed is good
My site’s been listed for years on all the major places. But as I help others (and promote this blog), I need to have a plan on how to get listed. Some kind person has writen the following website.
Free website promotion tutorial – A Promotion Guide
Friday’s Links
This is what I served for dinner tonight. Maybe I was just lucky to have two mangoes and two tomatoes on hand. Well worth it!
Mango Salsa Salmon
INGREDIENTS:
4 (6 ounce) salmon steaks
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 large red onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
2 tomatoes, diced
1 sprig fresh cilantro, chopped
2 mangos – peeled, seeded, and diced
Directions
1 Preheat the oven broiler. Line a broiler pan with foil.
2 Broil salmon steaks on the prepared pan 12 minutes, or until easily flaked with a fork.
3 Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, and saute onion until tender. Stir in garlic, tomatoes, and cilantro. Cook until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes, and remove from heat. Mix in the mangos. Serve over the salmon steaks.
More about drawing away from print ads
The power of blog
Was doing homework for my ecommerce class and found my citing three different blogs. Thought that was pretty cool. I was asked to write about three opportunities and three threats ecommerce has as the internet grows and becomes global. See the entire assignment.
Opportunities:
1. Reach to more markets and more people
2. Potential to reduce costs
3. Ability to get closer to the customer
Threats:
1. Who will pay for information or services?
2. Will an expanding marketplace stretch companies too thin?
3. Will certain competitors be dominant despite a plethora of alternate sellers?
I’m now listed on DMOZ! Google should start listing my blog soon. Cool!
Open Directory – Regional: North America: United States: Michigan: Localities: G: Grand Rapids: Society and Culture: Personal Homepages
Winning
Read a simple, but potentially life changing article in Men’s Health Magazine over the weekend. The May issue had an article about how “winners” think and act. Winners act as though they are winning, seems to be the core fact. This intimidates others and they allow this person to win. The corralary is also true…that loses are willing to take on that role at the first sign of trouble.
My mind and behavior is already set, although I will be much more concious of when I am winning and losing, and how I am acting. The greater reach is how I can bring the “winning” mindset to my children, without them using it against me!
(Don’t bother going to their website, it is obnoxious and articles are sold, not shared! I wrote comments to the “Web Guy” complaining. We’ll see what happens.)
Friday’s links
Today I will hit on blogs. Hurray, I am now listed on AltaVista, and #1 for the term “marketing blog“.
Seth Godin
I wanted to comment or talk back on his last post, but there is no way to do it. He stews on subscriptions to support websites, but doesn’t come up with a aha idea like he usually has. I’ve generated a discussion here at GVSU regarding this issue. Why can’t we bid against the web advertiser’s for our screens? If they are paying $100 per 10,000 impressions, can I pay 11 cents instead to not see the ad?
Micro Content News
I just found this one today. Need to study closer, but it is designed with multiple pages. Innovative for a blog.
Darn Phones
Like may of you out there, I wear more than one hat. I am in charge of the phone system here (but not long distance service selection, thankfully) because it crosses customer communication and technology…not things that others want to touch here. I’d rather be done with it all, but no. In recent days I’ve been distracted by many minor problems with the phones like:
- Power outage
- Changing carriers
- Dropped calls
- New T1 lines
There are so many vendors and equipment that it is challenging to trackdown or support any one issue. Why are calls dropping? Have phone system checked by Expenets. No, its due to the T1 service. The T1 service company (AT&T) is taking forever to get back to me about why we can’t fax overseas, so why call them again? Finally find out we can’t dial overseas because the single-lines have been switched to our new carrier.