Entries from August 2008

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Top 10 Ways to Transfer Files

Transferring, sharing, and distributing files is a task performed by nearly all computer users. Different situations may have different solutions, depending on what you need to share. For example, I would not use the same method to send a friend a PDF as I would to transfer my music collection from one computer to another. [...]

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Presentation IS Everything

I was watching a program on TV with my husband, aka the channel flipper. I have to be quick while watching TV with him or I miss out. I can’t tell you the name of the program we were watching or what businessman was being interviewed but I did find part of [...]

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Increase Your Sales Tenfold

You want to know the secret?
Not so fast… first, here are a couple of reasons to listen to me:

Last month our TatStore.com sales increased by over 100%. Again this month, our sales are up over 100%.
I started our company in ’02; the company increased sales tenfold year over year in ‘03.
Do you want to [...]

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Looking beyond your regular services

Here is a blog you have to check out. Great work if you can get it. http://sg-airbrushtattoo.blogspot.com/2008/05/body-art-singapore-orchid-show.html
A major advantage of using the Internet is the number of ideas you can get just from searching your competitors. I constantly watch what our competitors list as services on their sites in an effort to find new ideas [...]

Monday, August 11th, 2008

OSS and Me

It’s no lie.  OSS and me are tight.  We’re like this [fingers crossed].  To use a relatively overlooked trendy superlative from a few years ago, OSS is BOSS.

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Forum Tips and Tricks

In early 2007, Brad and I created the Temporary Airbrush Tattoo Forum, which is located at http://forum.tatstore.com/. It has grown to over 1,000 members and 8,000 posts. Today I will share some tips that will improve the forum experience for everyone.

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Don’t Undersell Your Service

Anyone in the service industry gets paid for providing a service.  Sometimes it  is hard for us to charge our customers for extra services that we provide.
When I was much younger I had my hair done for the first time on my own.  The cost was $20 for the hair cut but by the time [...]

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Referrals

Here I discuss three ways to build your business through referrals:

The best way to get referrals is to… ask for them – Holy Revelation Sparky!  
Okay, not the greatest insight ever.  But, next to nobody does it.  This vacuum creates a great opportunity for you.
When you ask for a referral, three things happen.  First, requesting [...]

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Using Google to judge a link partner

Trying to determine if a listing in web directory is worth the effort, Google provides you with some useful information to help make that decision.
The first indicator of a site’s quality is the page rank. Page rank is a number between one and ten that Google generates to let users know if the information they [...]

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Web 2.0 Button Crash Course

Hi, as promised, here I explain how to create zippy web 2.0 buttons. This tutorial uses the open-source (free!) program, Inkscape, to create and edit shapes. Get your copy at Inkscape.org.