Archive for June, 2007

How to Use StumbleUpon to Promote

A few months ago, I signed up for StumbleUpon. I downloaded and installed the toolbar on Firefox and started surfing. Pretty cool. However, I had seen a few people talking about using StumbleUpon for promotional purposes on their websites, with apparent success. Some were talking about driving thousands of visitors PER DAY to their sites [...]

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Hey You! Read This Now!

Now that I have your attention (whether it be from the website or the RSS feed), I want your help. You wouldn’t be seeing this post unless you were a reader of WebbyOnline, whether you’re new or not, avid or casual. On that note, I want to know what you think.
I have set up a [...]

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10 Sites That Make Me All Fuzzy Inside

As I work away this week on a big client job as well as on some strategic things on PCMech, I thought I would do a good, old fashioned link love post on WebbyOnline today. And I thought I’d give it a cute little “Top 10″ title for all those linkbaiters out there. Eat your [...]

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The Importance of Surveys, SurveyMonkey

I recently signed up for an account at SurveyMonkey after re-realizing the importance of surveys. Here’s the story…
My largest site, PC Mechanic, has actually been seeing a slight, but steady decrease in overall traffic. Nobody in this business likes to see decreases in traffic. Sure, all sites vary up and down on daily traffic, [...]

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Internet Business Club & Webcam Testing

I wanted to bring a few things to your attention this lovely Sunday day (well, at least its nice here in Tampa today). This is not the usual informational or helpful post. Just an announcement.
First off, I have created a WebbyOnline Google Group, called WebbyOnline: Internet Business Club. My intention behind this group is simply [...]

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Stop Drinking from the Outlook Food Bowl

With the recent popularity of the book 4 Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferris, there has been some talk about various entreprenuers re-thinking the way they structure their business lives. One of the overriding points of the book is outsourcing and the power of hiring virtual assistants. But, another point of [...]

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Starting an Online Business Despite Information Overload

In yesterday’s newsletter, I asked for feedback from subscribers on what they wanted to see as topics covered on WebbyOnline. One reader mentioned how he wanted to start an online business but was overwhelmed by all the information out there and really didn’t know where to start. Well, that’s actually very common. The market of [...]

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WebbyOnline Live

For now, I’m just testing some things. Don’t get so excited.

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Personal News Made Public - Baby Dave

I made mention of this in the last issue of the WebbyOnline newsletter and I figured there was no reason not to mention it here. I have a little piece of personal news I would like to share with my readers.
My wife, Malika, is pregnant. Yes sir, we’re having a baby.
She is about 4 months [...]

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Using Camtasia to Quit My Job

Camtasia is a very popular video screen recording program created by TechSmith. Its probably the best screen recording application for Windows - at least that I know of. We here at PC Media make routine use of it for our video tutorials. The simplicity of it is that you start up the recorder, start recording, [...]

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