Category: MMM

I'm excited about this new change from Visa and MasterCard.

Ever get one of those prepaid Visa gift or debit cards?   They're getting more and more popular.  I have heard of some people who do a lot of shopping online purchase prepaid debit cards to limit the risk ...

Aside from selling products on your e-commerce site, there are other ways you can make money from your website.  Today I'll talk about displaying ads from the AdSense ad network as a way of earning residual income.

Some websites you visit have ads on them.  Although there are many ...

Many of us hear people say "Use gotta use Twitter to advertise your business!"  Or, "If you really want to get big, you need a Facebook fan page with tons of fans."  Others encourage you to run off and spend countless hours reading forums, blogs, and subscribing and following tons ...

Let's pretend you run a website that sells different kinds of jewelry.  Let's say you want your website to rank higher for a specific brand of jewelry, "Jill's Jewelry".  Here are some simple first steps you can take to help increase your search engine rankings for that ...

Never stop innovating.  There's ALWAYS something you can do to improve.  Here's a funny story from Ice To The Eskimos by Jon Spoelstra about a golf cart that needed a lot of innovating.

"A golfing friend of mine asked me if I wanted to buy a partnership in ...

This week, Google announced a social network of their own called Google Buzz.  If you use Gmail, you may have seen a new colorful icon next to your Inbox.  This new service let's you read up on what others in your Gmail contact list are up to and talking ...

You may have heard of RSS, or an "RSS Feed" before.  Or perhaps you've seen the RSS icon / logo before (see below) and wondered what thats all about.  I hope to explain a little about what RSS is and how it can help you whether you are a content ...

In light of the recent happenings of the earthquake in Haiti and the generous outpouring of gifts from individuals from all over the world, I thought I'd learn and share a little what I learned about giving.  Giving of ourselves whether it be time, talents, money, or other ways ...

I've been listening to a great book called Free by Chris Anderson.  It's a wonderful book about how businesses all over the world in the recent decade are making a fortune from "Free".  Chris Anderson and I relate, he's a die-hard Linux fan and into the tech ...

Have you had experiences like these with your e-mail newsletters? I recently got an e-mail from a newsletter subscriber thanking me for the good information in the newsletter but explained that she was unable to view any of the pictures.  Another person said they didn't get it because it ...

I get asked once in a while if there's a way to send e-mails to people so that the e-mail doesn't end up in the recipient's spam box.  That's a very valid question, as we have all had the experience of an e-mail we expected not ...

The key to doubling or tripling the effectiveness of your advertising efforts is to set up great landing pages and invite people to your landing pages instead of your website's home page.  Landing pages are the first page a person sees after clicking on a link to your site ...

You can show your Facebook fan pages on your website quite easily.  See the example below to see Danemco's facebook fan page's updates.

To implement this, follow these steps:

1. Log in to Facebook
2. Do a search for your ...

A blog post about businesses that have actually used twitter might be insightful.  As this is twitter week, we've considered many businesses that used twitter for various applications.  I thought I'd share a few of them with you.

1. Announce Your Location

Many trucks that sell food from ...

Twitter is an amazing business tool, but most of us do not exploit the potentials of this tool fully. If we could, we would soon find that we have increased web traffic to our site, more than what we expected. This is a relatively new business tool which means that ...

I thought a little guide on Twitter for absolute beginners will be beneficial.  This is how to get started:

1. Create a Twitter Account

Go to http://twitter.com and click on the Create Account button.  Creating an account takes only a few minutes.  Choose a twitter account name that ...

Making an emotional connection is one of the best ways to motivate women to use your brand or service.  To do this, you must provide content that women can relate to. On Facebook, Dove has grasped this concept perfectly.  They understand that they need to connect emotionally to women and ...

It's Twitter week at Danemco!  Today we'll talk about how to gain a twitter following.

In order to successfully profit from twitter, you first need a following.  When people follow you on twitter, your updates show up on their twitter timeline.  That's how you get your message ...

Note: The following is an excerpt from an article found on the web (see the reference below). 

Some interesting Twitter facts and figures have come out of  reports and research over the past few weeks and it reveals some expected results and also some surprises.

Expected

1. USA Twitter share is ...

Check it out, a musical blog post!  I wrote a song!  You can download the MP3 below.  After listening you may say, "I'm glad you're a web developer not a musician," but there's a story behind this that I want to share.  This may be one of ...

In our morning meeting we talked about competitive advantages.  We've all heard it, but I found it refreshing to review and take stock and think what our competitive advantages really are.

What is your company's competitive advantage?  What do you have that nobody else has?  Why would someone ...

Today we held a meeting we call the DBM (Danemco Brainstorming Meeting).  We had prepared questions on all sorts of topics such as client service, marketing, operations, our products, etc. in advance and asked everyone to come to the meeting with ideas to share with others.  We sat around a ...

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles

What is it that you will leave the rest of the world when you pass on? Too often we go through life not thinking beyond the here and ...

They say people make a decision whether or not to read more or leave a web page within a matter of seconds.  If it takes a while for your website to load, you might be losing potential customers.  In today's fast-paced drive-thru want-it-now digital age, a web page (especially ...

Here are some quotes from David O McKay on how our thoughts influence our actions and others around us:

Every person who lives in this world wields an influence, whether for good or for evil. It is not what he says alone, it is not alone what he does. It ...

Show your love for Danemco with the new Danemco desktop wallpaper!  Kevin designed a nice looking wall paper.  Click on the link to download it below.

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