According to a recent article published in guardian.co.uk, product placement may be affecting people’s trust in media such as television. Not exactly sure what product placement is? Product placement or embedded marketing, according to Wikipedia is … a type of advertising in which promotional advertisements placed by marketers using real commercial products and services [...]

If you’ve ever left a comment on someone’s blog or even if you’ve ever done business online (such as pay a bill, etc.) then you may have seen one of those weird little boxes with different sized letters and numbers in it prompting you to copy what you see in the space provided. While [...]

If you are a business in the 919 area code, you may wonder where on-line to network. Of course linkedin.com is worth having a profile on, but I want to talk about a new one– http://www.inside919.com/ (they also have ones for all US area codes — http://www.insideareacodes.com/ — but you need [...]

For all of those out there who have their doubts as to whether or not blogging makes a difference, listen up because as it turns out, blogging is good for you! This shouldn’t really come as too much of a surprise since blogging is essentially a form of writing. And as many of [...]

You hate your job. So, do millions of other people. Whether you are unhappy with your current career choice or simply have become bored, changing careers is something that should be thought through thoroughly with great attention to detail versus just jumping right into it. Now, don’t get me wrong, there are [...]

For those companies who are fortunate enough to have large Pay-Per-Click (PPC) budgets, effective use of every penny is extremely important. For this reason, there are a number of ways to go about making sure you receive the maximum return on Ad Spend. Here is a quick list of bullets to check off in optimizing [...]

There are more jobs which require humans to work with computers today than there has ever been. Additionally, there are more people with computers in their homes than ever before. So, what does this translate to? A lot more Internet surfing for starters! But are we “surfing the Internet” too much? [...]

Are some people born confident? Sometimes it seems that way to those of us who have had to unearth the roots of confidence virtually on our own. One business woman I know had a great insight from her own struggle. She remembered how her mother would criticize any woman perceived as going [...]

What was I just going to write? I have no- wait, now I remember. This one time, when I was blogging..eh- no, that won’t work. Ugh! Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever sat down to write something and then just ended up staring at your computer screen for about [...]

The battle is on to get the coveted number 1 spot on search engines for whatever your individual business is. I’d say that this is a good indication that Internet business is alive and well. For growing numbers of businesses, especially those who rely solely on the Internet for the bulk of their [...]