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Kickin' It Daily - Motivational Quotes - March 2005

Thursday, March 31, 2005


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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.
Author: Napolean Hill

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Results! Why, man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
Author: Thomas A. Edison

Tuesday, March 29, 2005
The qualities of a great man are "vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Author: Dwight Eisenhower

Monday, March 28, 2005
ENTHUSIASM is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, March 26, 2005
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Author: Mother Teresa

Friday, March 25, 2005
Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Author: Charles Reade

Thursday, March 24, 2005
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Author: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Author: Wilson Mizner

Tuesday, March 22, 2005
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Author: Jim Valvano, Basketball Coach

Monday, March 21, 2005
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, March 20, 2005
What goal would you pursue if you knew it was impossible to fail? Author: Robert Schuller

Saturday, March 19, 2005
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
Author: Ray Kroc

Friday, March 18, 2005
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Author: Unknown

Thursday, March 17, 2005
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Author: Mark Twain

Wednesday, March 16, 2005
You've got to take the initiative and play your game... Confidence makes the difference.
Author: Chris Evert

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.
Author: Henry Van Dyke

Monday, March 14, 2005
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Author:Michael Korda

Sunday, March 13, 2005
Enthusiasm: a little thing that makes a big difference.
Author: Unknown

Saturday, March 12, 2005
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt

Friday, March 11, 2005
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Author: Henry Ford

Thursday, March 10, 2005
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Author: Unknown

Wednesday, March 9, 2005
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Author: Elbert Hubbard

Tuesday, March 8, 2005
The first wealth is health.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, March 7, 2005
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily.
Author: Zig Ziglar

Sunday, March 6, 2005
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Author: Aesop

Saturday, March 5, 2005
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr

Friday, March 4, 2005
where you start is not as important as where you finish.
Author: Zig Ziglar

Thursday, March 3, 2005
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Author: Albert Einstein

Wednesday, March 2, 2005
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Quote: You don't have to sit on top of a mountain
to discover what's right for you.
You always know in your heart what you need to do.
But you do have to ask yourself if you're willing
to make choices. Put yourself in a position where
you're making choices about your life, rather than
letting other people make those choices for you.
That's what balance is all about.
Author: Liz Dolan


 
 
 
 

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Frenzy Begins Over Cookie Alternative

Thursday, March 31, 2005
Frenzy Begins Over Cookie Alternative
By Zachary Rodgers | March 31, 2005

An existing technology offering cookie-like functionality is gaining attention from publishers, marketers and others as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous, but potentially endangered, text files.

The technology, based on Macromedia's Flash, is getting attention as awareness spreads of an apparent increase in user deletion of cookies. A JupiterResearch study recently found nearly 40 percent of Web users clear these text files from their machines on a regular basis. Because of the enormous consequences of cookie deletion for online marketing, analytics experts and ad technology vendors have since begun overtly addressing the potential of the "Flash cookie."

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Posted on 03/31/05 at 17:28:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Internet Phones Likely to See Price Competition

Thursday, March 31, 2005
Internet Phones Likely to See Price Competition
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The booming market for phone calls using Internet technology has created a bonanza for telecom gear makers such as Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research), but aggressive pricing could squeeze profits.

Price competition for so-called corporate VOIP products, particularly among the three big North American players -- Cisco, Avaya Inc. (AV.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Nortel Networks (NT.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) -- may be intensifying, prompted by lackluster information technology spending and moves to capitalize on a replacement cycle for phone systems, analysts said.

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Posted on 03/31/05 at 15:50:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Finding Your "Niche" Market by Accident

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Finding Your "Niche" Market by Accident

by Sarah J. Doyle

How can you possibly find a niche market by accident, you ask?

Think about it. When was the last time you needed or wanted something and couldn't find it? I can guarantee that if YOU are looking for something and can't find it, there are many others looking for a similar item as well!

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All God's Creatures Educational Seminars...this week is Puppy Training

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

This week's All God' Creatures Educational Seminars class is being taught by master dog trainer, Christopher Aust. This Thursday night, March 31, 2005 at 9PM EST. Here is what he'll be teaching:


1. A little on breed selection

2. Preparing to bring the dog home
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Anti-Spyware Companies Promote Cookie Deletion

Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Anti-Spyware Companies Promote Cookie Deletion
By Rob McGann

Search for terms like "Coremetrics," "WebSideStory," "DoubleClick," "ValueClick" or "Atlas DMT" on Google, and some of the most prominent paid results seem to cast aspersions on these well-known interactive marketing brand names.

You'll see ad text like "Coremetrics Removal Tool," "Kill AtlasDMT.com Now" and "Websidestory Removal." These ads -- promoting anti-spyware tools like NoAdware, XoftSpy, and PC Orion -- urge users to buy and download software that remove these companies' cookies from their computers.

Such campaigns -- many of them run by the anti-spyware companies' affiliates -- may provide some explanation for the findings of a recent JupiterResearch study, which reported that 40 percent of online consumers delete cookies from their primary computers as often as once a month.

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Posted on 03/30/05 at 15:40:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogging?

Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogging?

by Priya Shah

Technorati reports that 30,000 - 40,000 new blogs are being created each day.

According to David Sifry, part of the growth of new blogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs.

What are spam blogs? They are fake blogs that are created by robots in order to foster link farms, attempted search engine optimization, or drive traffic through to advertising or affiliate sites.

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Posted on 03/30/05 at 07:06:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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More E-Mails Blocked, Return Path Study Finds

Tuesday, March 29, 2005
More E-Mails Blocked, Return Path Study Finds
By: Christine Blank
Contributing Editor

E-mail marketers still need to monitor ISPs' e-mail blocking vigilantly, as the problem has worsened.

Twenty-two percent of permission-based e-mail was blocked by top ISPs in 2004, up 3.3 percent from the second half of 2003, e-mail management firm Return Path, New York, found in a new study.

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Posted on 03/29/05 at 15:51:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Podcasting...A Post from a friend of Kick The Email Habit

Tuesday, March 29, 2005


Hello Online Marketers! I wanted to share with you what Penny sent to our International Virtual Women's Chamber of Commerce list. She is also a publisher here on Quikonnex and uses our podcasting system which is sooooo easy to use. I haven't used it yet because I was having a bit of trouble with my media player but hope it's fixed and you'll be hearing excerpts from me on my other channels and soon here on Kick The Email Habit from all of us! Here's Penny's exciting statement:

I tried an experiment - I started podcasting and got my Comedy Clip of the Week podcast listed on the iPodder.org directory. I checked my stats for March, and my hits and downloads for comedy went from 50 unique visitors to 247, in less than a month. The hits were over 2200!

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Those Darn Nigerians

Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Those Darn Nigerians
THERE IS A NEW VERSION of the 4-1-9 e-mail scam that has been going around auction sites and the "For Sale" sections of various Web communities lately. Known as the 4-1-9 scam after 4-1-9 section of the Nigerian Penal Code, most people are familiar with these scams usually from some "barrister" of some foreign country who has heard about me through a trusted source and wants me to help him get money out of the country by depositing the money in my account. I get so many of these letters I figure I must be on some Nigerian telephone booth somewhere: "for a good time and a trusted source to transfer money contact Bill at..."
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Top court to hear landmark P2P case Tuesday

Monday, March 28, 2005

Top court to hear landmark P2P case Tuesday


Published: March 28, 2005, 4:00 AM PST
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Ken Fuhrman's Colorado-based start-up company is a television junkie's dream, making powerful home media servers to hold digitized versions of television shows, movies and music.

But Fuhrman is worried. On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether file-swapping software companies Grokster and StreamCast Networks should be held responsible for the widespread copyright infringement on their networks, and he's afraid his company, Interact-TV, could be affected too.

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Posted on 03/28/05 at 16:13:25 by Kick the Email Habit
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Study: Wireless Spam Proliferates

Monday, March 28, 2005
Study: Wireless Spam Proliferates
by Gavin O'Malley, Tuesday, Mar 22, 2005 7:00 AM EST

ONE OUT OF FOUR COLLEGE students surveyed online reported receiving ads on their mobile phones, according to a Ball State University study of 1,171 students conducted last month. Of the students to receive wireless spam, nine out of 10 said they were annoyed by the unsolicited text message advertisements or instant message ads sent to their cell phones, What's more, 68 percent of respondents who received wireless spam said they were less likely to purchase a product from businesses responsible for serving the unwanted ads. Fortunately for the advertisers responsible, only 5 percent of students receiving such spam could even recall the name of the business or product in question.

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Posted on 03/28/05 at 15:49:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Details of Getting a Blog

Monday, March 28, 2005

Details of Getting a Blog

by Daniel Punch

Blogs, the abbreviation of Web Logs (online journals), are becoming more and more popular all the time. People are starting new blogs at an astounding rate so it’s safe to assume that there are constantly people out there who want to know how to get a blog going. Despite personal feelings about the actual quality of the majority of blogs out there on the Internet, that’s what I hope to be able to help you do with this article.

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Posted on 03/28/05 at 07:10:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Warner Brothers Sponsors Podcaster

Sunday, March 27, 2005
Warner Brothers Sponsors Podcaster
By Zachary Rodgers

After getting into some trouble for its early marketing practices in the blogosphere, Warner Brothers Records is dipping its toes in the blog waters once again. The company will sponsor podcasts of the Eric Rice Show and provide exclusive audio content from one of its bands.

The Eric Rice Show, which is produced by Rice and three of his colleagues, features audio musings on entertainment, technology, and culture. Podcasting, the practice of publishing extended audio recordings in a Web feed format, still reaches a very small audience, but many expect it to take off as digital music players proliferate. Financial terms of the deal with Warner Brothers weren't disclosed.

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Posted on 03/27/05 at 15:42:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

Sunday, March 27, 2005



Happy Easter from all of us here at Kick the Email Habit -
Cathy, John and Kim wish you all the most blessed day!


Posted on 03/27/05 at 08:32:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Search Engine Optimization for RSS Feeds

Sunday, March 27, 2005

Search Engine Optimization for RSS Feeds

by Sharon Housley

Tips for Helping Your RSS Feed Perform! In some ways RSS is very similar to HTML, the language commonly used to create websites. Just as with HTML, webmasters using traditional search engine optimization tactics when creating an RSS feed will find that their RSS feed receives additional exposure and interest.

Simple steps to optimize an RSS feed for search engines:

1.) The title should contain important search terms.

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Posted on 03/27/05 at 07:07:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Firefox Snags Market Share From MSN

Saturday, March 26, 2005
Firefox Snags Market Share From MSN
by Shankar Gupta, Monday, Mar 21, 2005 7:00 AM EST

THE FIREFOX BROWSER CONTINUED TO cut into Internet Explorer's market share, according to statistics released Friday by NetApplications, an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based company that offers Web-monitoring products. By the end of February, the open source Firefox browser accounted for 6.17 percent of browsers--up from 5.59 percent in January, according to NetApplications. During the same period, Microsoft's browser fell from 90.31 percent to 89.04 percent. Some say that the downward trend for Microsoft's Explorer could be significant for the company--which just entered the search space last month--because browsers can play a key role in search. "The browser has become central in terms of driving revenue opportunities," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research.

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Posted on 03/26/05 at 15:57:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Selling Your Way to Success

Saturday, March 26, 2005

Selling Your Way to Success

by Geoff Payne

Sales. I wonder when we decided to become a sales person. I know when I was at school all I ever wanted to do was join the Navy and see the world. My best mate wanted to be a truck driver or Fireman, Policeman, Soldier, Banker, Doctor, Pop star, Football player and so the list went on.

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Yahoo buys photo-sharing site Flickr

Friday, March 25, 2005

Yahoo buys photo-sharing site Flickr

By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Yahoo has purchased online photo-sharing service Flickr, less than a week after the Internet giant launched a beta test of a new blogging tool.

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Flickr lets users upload digital photos from computers and camera phones, put together photo albums, and post photos to blogs, among other things.

Joanna Stevens, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo, confirmed the deal Sunday but did not disclose the terms.
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Posted on 03/25/05 at 15:55:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Marketing Yourself, Your Writing

Friday, March 25, 2005

Marketing Yourself, Your Writing

by Pam White

Last week I was invited to a Women in Business workshop at the local community college. The topic of that evening's seminar was marketing, a topic I am familiar with yet always seeking more input on. We started the evening by introducing ourselves, sharing what our business was and telling each other what benefit we could provide the other businesswomen.

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Posted on 03/25/05 at 07:40:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Yahoo! 360 Melds Social Networking With Blogging

Thursday, March 24, 2005
Yahoo! 360 Melds Social Networking With Blogging
by Gavin O'Malley

YAHOO! THIS WEEK UNVEILED PLANS to introduce a combined social networking and blogging service called Yahoo! 360 at the end of March. The free service will allow users to integrate a series of existing Yahoo! services--discussion groups, restaurant and music reviews, photos, music, instant messenger, and addresses--with a new blogging feature. At first, Yahoo! 360 will be accessible only to those invited to participate by the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which in turn will be able to invite others to the service. Yahoo! employees have been experimenting with the service--known internally as "Mingle"--since last year, a Yahoo! spokeswoman confirmed.

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Posted on 03/24/05 at 14:15:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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It Takes Two - How to Cultivate Profitable Alliances

Thursday, March 24, 2005

It Takes Two - How to Cultivate Profitable Alliances
by Heidi Richards, MS

Cross promoting with other businesses can give you a significant advantage over the competition, with many benefits and cost savings.” -Heidi Richards-

More and more competition in the marketplace is making it necessary for companies to find creative ways to connect with customers and prospects, to enhance brand identity and attract top-notch employees. In order to enhance competitiveness in today’s marketplace, more and more companies are forming strategic alliances. Strategic alliances can maximize your position in the marketplace. When you learn how to leverage partnerships you increase your market share. It is also a very smart way to grow a small business. Cross promoting with other businesses can give you a significant advantage over the competition with many benefits and cost savings. [Read More!]
Posted on 03/24/05 at 07:25:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Study Showing Consumers Purge PCs Of Cookies Casts Doubt On Analytics, Targeting

Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Study Showing Consumers Purge PCs Of Cookies Casts Doubt On Analytics, Targeting
by Gavin O'Malley

IN NEWS THAT UNSETTLED MANY in the online advertising world, a new study by Jupiter Research revealed that four out of 10 Internet users delete cookies from their primary computers at least once a month. The report found that about 12 percent of Internet users delete cookies on a monthly basis, 17 percent do so weekly, and 10 percent purge cookies every day. What's more, more than half--52 percent--said they had rid their computers of cookies at least once in the last year. For the study, announced yesterday, Jupiter Research surveyed 2,337 U.S. online consumers in March.

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Posted on 03/23/05 at 15:28:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Simple Syndication (RSS) -- Where's The Payoff?

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Simple Syndication (RSS) -- Where's The Payoff?
By Scott Frangos


How RSS really does pay off...

Have you heard of RSS (Really Simple Syndication)? Did you know you can syndicate your news stories from your website? You probably have seen some orange buttons around the web with the letters "RSS" on them. They allow other websites to link to your news stories with just a click. Simple. Syndicate.

Ok. Now, you know about Really Simple Syndication... but where's the payoff? Let's look at the ways that RSS can pay off for you. And, pay off, it does -- when you use this emerging technology effectively.Now by "emerging technology," we mean it is relatively new, and people are still learning about it. But already many savvy webmasters are "aggregating" RSS feeds -- pulling common topic feeds together at their websites. And, big players like Yahoo, and Amazon are offering up RSS solutions. You can "subscribe" to a selection of news feeds on your personalized home page at Yahoo, for example.

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Posted on 03/23/05 at 07:19:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Study: Blog Readers An Elite Minority

Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Study: Blog Readers An Elite Minority
by Gavin O'Malley

BLOG READERS MIGHT STILL BE small in number, but they are among the most influential groups in the United States, according to a study by blog ad network Blogads.com, released Friday. The report, issued by Blogads.com founder Henry Copeland, concluded that most blog readers were "involved, upscale, intelligent, individuals who also read Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Nation and WSJ.com." For the Blogads study, Copeland surveyed more than 30,000 Internet users; respondents had visited at least one of 100 blogs to which he forwarded links to the survey.

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Posted on 03/22/05 at 16:23:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Why You're Missing Out on Hundreds of Visitors If You Aren't Doing This

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Why You're Missing Out on Hundreds of Visitors If You Aren't Doing This

by Tinu AbayomiPaul

our tip today starts with my own shocking secret - I used to HATE listening to audio online. I'd still rather pay to download a transcript. I'm just a print-oriented person.

But I’m an oddball- that’s why you need to remember this one very important fact:

Almost everyone in the online world would rather listen than read if they can.

(And people like me will buy your audio if you let them - I’ve paid for free audio streamed seminars to be sent to me on a CD.)

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Hands Off the Web, Bloggers and Lawmakers Say

Monday, March 21, 2005
Hands Off the Web, Bloggers and Lawmakers Say

By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet bloggers should enjoy traditional press freedoms and not face regulation as political groups, lawmakers and online journalists said on Friday.

In separate letters, Democratic lawmakers and Internet commentators urged the Federal Election Commission to make sure that political Web sites that serve as focal points for political discussion, like Wonkette.com and Freerepublic.com, don't have to comply with campaign-finance rules.

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Posted on 03/21/05 at 15:37:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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The WRONG Way To WRITE Articles

Monday, March 21, 2005

The WRONG Way To WRITE Articles

by Steve Shaw

As you no doubt already know, writing articles is probably the most effective way to promote your web site. It's a very simple principle - publishers want a vast quantity of good quality content that they do not have to pay for; you provide that content, with the proviso that at the bottom of your article, they include your resource box with a link to your web site. It's a win-win situation. With your article published on heaps of web sites, and in several ezines, it's enough to set your traffic counter spinning.

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5 Marketing Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make

Sunday, March 20, 2005

5 Marketing Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make

by Debbie Allen

In virtually every area of business, there will be pitfalls along the way. Marketing is no exception. Time and time again, retail stores of all sizes make the same costly mistakes. But knowing how to avoid these mistakes can save you energy, disappointment – and money.

Mistake #1: Eliminating marketing efforts when times get tight.

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Cookie Monster

Sunday, March 20, 2005
Cookie Monster
By Jim Meskauskas

The cookie has been a subject of debate from the moment of its inception and throughout most of the life of the commercial Web. From the time the first crumb of a cookie allowed for tracking of actions taken by a particular individual surfing the Web, marketers and advertisers grew excited by the prospects. Tracking media consumption at a user level foretold of great things to come in marketing.
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New Weapons in the Antispam War

Saturday, March 19, 2005
New Weapons in the Antispam War
By Neil J. Rubenking

As spammers devise new ways to fill your in-box with porn, pills, and prime mortgages, antispam companies scramble to keep up. Here we evaluate three current weapons in the fight to keep spam from overwhelming your work day: InBoxer 2.0, OnlyMyEmail Personal, and SpamCatcher 4.

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Posted on 03/19/05 at 15:39:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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Innovative Business Use of RSS as a Technology

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Innovative Business Use of RSS as a Technology

by Sharon Housley

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a new way to broadcast corporate news and structured information. RSS offers a quick, easy corporate communication channel. The RSS contents are published as a feed and the feed's content keep customers, partners and journalists abreast of corporate news and information. The RSS feeds are read using a tool referred to as a news aggregator, or an RSS reader. The aggregator periodically checks to see if the RSS feed has been updated. As the feed is updated, new information will automatically appear in the RSS reader.

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Broadband killing off newspapers

Friday, March 18, 2005

Broadband killing off newspapers

Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 08 Mar 2005

US consumers with broadband used the internet rather than newspapers during the last presidential elections as their primary news source, a survey has revealed.

"The last election was a breakout event for the internet," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project and one of the authors of the report.

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Posted on 03/18/05 at 15:43:00 by Kick the Email Habit
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It Takes Two - How to Cultivate Profitable Alliances

Friday, March 18, 2005
It Takes Two - How to Cultivate Profitable Alliances
by Heidi Richards, MS

“Cross promoting with other businesses can give you a significant advantage over the competition, with many benefits and cost savings.” -Heidi Richards-

More and more competition in the marketplace is making it necessary for companies to find creative ways to connect with customers and prospects, to enhance brand identity and attract top-notch employees. In order to enhance competitiveness in today’s marketplace, more and more companies are forming strategic alliances. Strategic alliances can maximize your position in the marketplace. When you learn how to leverage partnerships you increase your market share. It is also a very smart way to grow a small business. Cross promoting with other businesses can give you a significant advantage over the competition with many benefits and cost savings.

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Bigfoot: Spam On Decline, But Spyware Plagues Consumers

Thursday, March 17, 2005
Bigfoot: Spam On Decline, But Spyware Plagues Consumers
by Wendy Davis, Wednesday, Mar 9, 2005 7:00 AM EST

THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT consumers report receiving less spam than in the past, but the bad news is that most say they've been infected with spyware, according to a study commissioned by e-mail marketer Bigfoot Interactive and released Tuesday at a conference hosted by the company in New York. For the study, RoperASW conducted interviews in February with 537 adults who have Internet access at home. Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they thought that the quantity of spam they received in the last year decreased; at the same time, about the same proportion-- 55 percent--said they had been infected with spyware.

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Yahoo 360 takes spin through blogosphere

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Yahoo 360 takes spin through blogosphere

Published: March 16, 2005, 9:20 AM PST
By Evan Hansen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

update Yahoo is stepping into social networking and blogging, with a new service that promises to offer a simpler way to keep in touch with people.

Dubbed Yahoo 360, the new service is accepting invitation-only beta testers for now, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web giant said Wednesday. The test will be opened to a broader audience on March 29.

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Build It And They Will Come. True or False? Why So Many Online Businesses Fail.

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Build It And They Will Come. True or False? Why So Many Online Businesses Fail.

by Jill St. Claire

Build it and they will come! Well . . . sometimes. If you're real lucky, and I mean REALLY lucky.

Now you have your beautiful website boasting your amazing products or services. It's out there, just waiting for people who want what you have to offer. You're going to dazzle them with your dynamic website and the sales are going to come flooding in. Wrong. The dream is over. It's time to come back to reality.

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FTC Ponders: Is 'Adware' Spyware?

Wednesday, March 16, 2005
FTC Ponders: Is 'Adware' Spyware?
by Wendy Davis, Wednesday, Mar 9, 2005 7:00 AM EST

COMPANIES THAT INSTALL AD-SERVING SOFTWARE on consumers' computers and serve them pop-ups--such as WhenU, Claria, and 180solutions--bristle at being called "spyware," rather than the more neutral term "adware." But is spyware really the wrong word for such companies? Perhaps not, according to participants in a spyware workshop convened last year by the Federal Trade Commission. An FTC report on the workshop issued this week, "Monitoring Software on Your PC: Spyware, Adware, and Other Software," stated that panelists and commenters differed widely about whether adware should be considered spyware. Some participants held that the most important factor was whether the software led to the serving of pop-up ads; if so, they argued, then it was spyware. Others argued that the adware/spyware distinction hinges on whether users had adequate advance notice of what the program would do; if so, then it's adware, but if not, spyware's the appropriate name. Still others maintained that adware could only be spyware if it monitored where users went on the Web.

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Seven Bloggers Named to Media 100 List

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Seven Bloggers Named to Media 100 List

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Seven bloggers have been named to The Media 100 (PDF)
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Increase Traffic to Your Blog from Search Engines - The Top 5 Tips

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Increase Traffic to Your Blog from Search Engines - The Top 5 Tips

by Tinu AbayomiPaul

Your favorite thing about having a blog may soon be this - they naturally attract search engine traffic.

Blogs already have optimized site architecture. Most are set up with a clear navigation, where every page is set up to link back to the other main pages.

They also have the inherent potential to be well-linked.

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Yahoo! Mulls Expansion Of Contextual Program

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Yahoo! Mulls Expansion Of Contextual Program
by Gavin O'Malley, Wednesday, Mar 9, 2005 7:00 AM EST

YAHOO! IS EXPLORING EXPANDING ITS current contextual advertising program, confirmed a Yahoo! source Tuesday. Rumors that Yahoo! has been quietly testing a contextual advertising program for blogs and small publishers to rival Google's Adsense have been circulating the blogosphere in part because of contextual ads that were spotted on the blog of Ken Rudman, a product manager at Overture.

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Internet Passes Radio for Political News -Survey

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Internet Passes Radio for Political News -Survey
Sun Mar 6, 2005 4:08 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internet surpassed radio as a source for political news in the United States last year as more people went online to keep up with the presidential election campaign, according to a new report released on Sunday.

Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults used the Internet to get political news last year, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That's up from 4 percent in 1996 and 18 percent in 2000.

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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

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