Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
The unique way that Yahoo!’s Buzz Index is set up makes it easy to visually plot the demand for the top terms from day to day. This is particularly useful for following how popular a specific trend is, to see if you can piggyback on that popularity with a related online publicity campaign or product [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
Entire books can be written on this topic. I will cover the basic areas only here – stressing on the main aspects. Before I begin, you should know that writing copy online is not the same as writing copy for offline media. In the online world users and readers are more educated and have control [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
The year 2006 has been the year of online Video sites. Many sites have sprung up that allow people to upload their “video shorts” and “video clippings” – and share them with their friends. Sites like YouTube and GoogleVideos are the leaders in this space. How can you benefit from this? Well, the answer is [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
The Sitepal system allows you to insert an animated talking person into your website to greet your visitors. It can say anything that you tell it to with a varity of accents or you can record your own message and it will play it out when a visitor comes to your site. This is a [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
“News” is anything that other people are interested in. Being newsworthy means letting editors and reporters know you’re doing something of interest to other people. Having an event, telling a story, creating or participating in an occurrence, supporting, opposing, or even merely observing a trend – could all be newsworthy events. Editors and reporters have [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
If you are a freelancer or company offering services or are looking for help from others in order to help get something done – then you should visit some of the “online project posting and bidding websites”. These sites have thousands of service providers bidding for projects posted by people looking for help. The competitive nature, [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
There are companies like Trust-E and BBB that offer a privacy adherence certificate and an electronic graphic logo / stamp image, that website’s may place on their website. Before they authorize you to place the graphic image saying for example, “Trust-E Certified” - the website must conform to a stringent privacy policy laid out by them. This [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2007 by Vishal
Here are a few handy online resources to begin researching specific topics and some niche dictionaries. Some will prove to be better starting points than Google, as they contain information that is moderated and not just links to sites that may not have good credibility levels.  Online Encyclopedia created by anyone for anyone! This is “the” place to start all of your [...]
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