Pride I often find limits good websites from becoming great websites. I’ve been involved in the web space now for over 10 years, and in that time I’ve come across two types of people when it comes to putting together websites, “do’ers” and “can’ts” others may classify these people as either “put up, or shut-up” what amazes me however is that I’ve often run across more people who are from the “cannot” camp than the “do it” camp.
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I’ve recently been hearing that organic search (SEO) has a lower ROI than paid search (SEM). I have a very hard time believing this. I can see SEM having a better conversion rate than SEO, but not a better ROI. Free organic search will ALWAYS have a better ROI than anything you pay for. The [...]
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I wanted to touch very quickly on something maybe a lot of people don’t know how to calculate when they say they want to be free lance web designers with the idea to make it a full time job. It’s a difficult thing to do, and it can get surprisingly costly very quickly. this is [...]
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Having talked to people of large corporate companies and knowing people who work at large corporate companies, what has amazed me constantly is how many companies outsource a good portion of their work to smaller web design shops. It’s not necessarily a bad thing to outsource some of your site, but when you outsource the [...]
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was there ballot stuffing on time.com 100 most influential person? I would think so. link is http://bitly.com/jSyEm # Most of these sites are pretty common these days, but interesting reading anyways: 35 Non-Google SEO How to http://bitly.com/9ZTjF # I know #SES is coming up so to the SEO experts I would love to hear greatest [...]
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Social customer relationship management is the evolution of CRM and Todd Clayton over at chatterboxhq had an interesting article which I had to respond to on Why Social CRM Is not the Answer for Social Media it’s a great read (go on read it, I’ll still be here when you get back). OK great, so [...]
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Feels like nothing got done this weekend # way more than 84 Amazingly Useful CSS Tips & Resources | http://bitly.com/8sGDS # RT @demodadesign Twitter is dumb and it’s making me feel stupid(er). – best line ever # Is it just me or is time actually going backwards today? # @demodadesign creep on creeping on in [...]
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Brent Chaters has been working with internet based technology since 1998, first learning HTML, and FLASH at McMaster University where he earned his BA in English. He later graduated from Sheridan College from the Interactive Multimedia Program, where his projects won two TV Ontario awards. Brent has since worked for large world wide corporations and small business helping lead them into the world of the internet.
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