1. 24-hour shopping convenience
2. Ability to compare prices
3. Free shipping offers
4. Convenience
5. Not wanting to fight crowds
6. Ease of finding wanted items
7. Variety
8. E-mail promotions
9. Not having to pay sales tax
10. Wanting to avoid checkout line
from the http://tinyurl.com/y8zh5d4 WebSite Magazine post http://www.websitemagazine.com/

A sort of cool addon for WordPress blogs I am trying out today is Apture The website for the plugin is at http://www.apture.com/, have a look, I think you’ll like what is there.

The following allocation increases will go into effect for most hosting accounts and VM Server plans:

1) Business Class Email boxes will increase from 250MB to 1GB
2) Website Storage – increases two times from current published storage
3) Web Transfer Limit – increases two times from current published bandwidth limits

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CyStats is a feature-rich statistics plugin integrated in the WordPress admin area. Features are currently:

1. Bounce rate, ignore-by-cookie, ignore-by-ip/post-id/user_agent lists
2. hits, visits for day/week/month/year – human or robots
3. Top refering pages
4. Most read categories and tags
5. Most read, most commented posts
6. Most read feeds, number of feed visits today
7. Internal/external search words
8. Operating systems
9. Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly statistics
10. 404 error requests
11. Browsers/clients/tools/…, w/o. version numbers
12. Template tags for most read posts, user count,…
13. Optional IP-anonymizing
14. Multi language support (currently english, german supported).
15. Optional tracking of admin area visits

I installed from the Plugins menu by searching for CyStats and installing same with a click of my mouse, and applied to the new blog for Route6Tour.com, that now has Happenings posts in their website via a WordPress blog. This stats program will help in that project. I will update this post after I’ve used this new tool some more.

In my morning reading I came across this article The Majority of People On Twitter Tweet For Business, Poll Shows and paused and thought, sure I should share that link it’s good to know. Besides I can’t just tweet it all the time, since there are 7 other people doing that already now can I?

Function Icon Set is a set of 128 glossy Icons Included some of the main Social Media Icons such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter and etc. They are only available in 48×48px. All of them are free, you can use them anywhere you like.

This is just plain ol’ ‘easy to do’ and a good way to polish your CSS use in pages too. From Lynette Chandler’s blog, via this one to you here’s the URL with her great solution
http://techbasedmarketing.com/blog/add-white-space-to-your-images-automatically if you don’t have time right now, bookmark this ‘keeper’ for when you do.

Recently I was discussing Internet Marketing ‘tools’ with a fellow and he asked if I had a good starter list, so I’ve made the start here. These aren’t all of the things I use but a good start of them.

This might be the start of a ideas from others too.

1. Do you have a Gmail account from Google?
This is a good tool, it will give you access to lots of great desktop tools, one of which is “Docs” that is very quickly coming into it’s own, http://blog.compete.com/2007/12/06/google-docs-spreadsheets/ shows a clear picture.-updated 20071218

2. Do you have a Business PayPal account?

3. Do you have a CraigsList.org account?

4. Do you belong to MySpace, Facebook and Linked In (if not you can use
your Gmail account to join)

5. Do you have a Google account? Actually Gmail is a part of Google account for login.

6. Do you have a Yahoo account?

6a. Updated 20071216- Discover who visits your blog site MyBlogLog signup with your Yahoo ID from step 6.

6b. Updated 20080524 add also the Blog Catalog Terms of Service an easy to use social networking site for bloggers, publicize your blog and more.

7. Do you have a Skype account? It now offers outbound calling to land-line phones for only $2.95 per month (upgrade was easy done, and works very well)

8. What about Instant Messages? Ever heard of PIDGIN? This was added back in 2007 when this post started, now today in my email I get news that ZDnet has featured Pidgin in their downloads, here are the details “Pidgin: Feature Download”

After this was posted, another issue arose that used Feedburner for publicizing RSS feed of a site. Check them out at Feedburner.com That’s all for now 20071212
- updated 20080202 a great way to read RSS feeds is with a tool like Bloglines from Bloglines.com and it will allow you to have a ‘blog’ there to share what your reading. Mine is http://www.bloglines.com/blog/GuyRCook if you have one too, do share it here.

Added 20080617 – Meta Tag Generator saves time, once the tags are created they can be saved as snippets in your web page creation software.

Today I attended a webinar that explains this image above, from Mike Volpe (VP of Marketing for HubSpot), time well spent and cause again to “Rethink the Marketing strategy” online.

As promised, here’s that link to the webinar recording and slides at hubspot.com http://www.hubspot.com/seo-may2008