Friday, November 12, 2010
Yes, it's lucrative and one of the most popular, if not THE most popular enterprises on the net. However, everybody and their aunties are into it, so it's also one of the hardest to do successfully.
So, why even attempt it? The answer is simple...ego. It's an ego thing. Only the bravest, most ingenious, and daring webmasters ever get within sniffing distance of success.
It is a fact, and I say this most umbly, that should you visit Bing or Yahoo and search for "diet food delivered," which just happens to be my chosen diet niche, you'll find my GetCalhoun.com diet pages on page 2.
If you further add a state, say, Georgia, as in diet food delivered georgia, " you'll find me on page one, listing one. Now, by dollop, that's not too shabby! That means I'm whipping the snot out of nearly 5 million other websites advertising their shabby diet food delivery mess.
It just so happens that GetCalhoun.com gets a slew of hits for diet food delivered. But not so many conversions. So, I have just revamped the pages. Now I offer not only three diet food delivered options, but also now, the top three hurry up and lose weight diet courses as well.
Just think of what you could accomplish if you not only have your diet food delivered, but also then follow along with one of these miracle weight loss programs too.
I hesitate to mention this, but you know you're going to murderize all that turkey and dressing multiple times between now and the first of next year. If you're tummy offends you afterward, you'll need to go ahead and head over to my diet pages.
If, on the other hand, you could care less, could I interest you in some online candy treats? GetCalhoun.com sells those too. In bulk. Check out the Coupon Special page. Jeez!
Norm
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Several years ago GetCalhoun.com started making local election results available by what's known as an "inline frame" wherein we here are able to incorporate the local election database provided by the Calhoun County Sheriff Department's website.
What I saw from my end last night was typical of what I have seen before, with a kicker. The page offered was a representation of the results from the last race until 8:58pm when it was finally updated with the stats from the Nov 2 race.
The kicker was that the Sheriff Department's website got bogged down, presumably from all the people trying to login to it and stayed locked up for a good part of the evening up until the results were finally updated.
In the meantime, I suppose, because GetCalhoun.com was logged in to their system from the getgo, viewers could see their website from the GetCalhoun.com window. However, all they saw was election results from months ago.
What I'm saying here is that while I don't have a clue as to the problems of whoever was in charge of updating the voting database, it's clear that something needs to be done because their performance was very bad. Obviously some results were available early in the evening. Their database SHOULD have been updated publicly throughout the evening instead of only at 9PM. And if this wasn't possible, at least they should have put something online to let us know they were working on the problem instead of leaving the results from July on all night.
At the least, there is an air of incompetence and a lack of understanding of the needs of the public.
I say again, I don't know who was typing in the results or what their problems were, but they could have gone a long way in mitigating the unprofessional appearance of their presentation by simply putting up a page saying that the results would be presented soon. Something like that.
I know there was confusion last night, and a meltdown of their server by people looking for answers that weren't forthcoming. It would have been so simple to avoid this. It's called "web presence." They need more of that.
If someone from the Election Board or Sheriff's office has a comment on my comment, we'd love to hear it. Guaranteed to be posted here.
What I saw from my end last night was typical of what I have seen before, with a kicker. The page offered was a representation of the results from the last race until 8:58pm when it was finally updated with the stats from the Nov 2 race.
The kicker was that the Sheriff Department's website got bogged down, presumably from all the people trying to login to it and stayed locked up for a good part of the evening up until the results were finally updated.
In the meantime, I suppose, because GetCalhoun.com was logged in to their system from the getgo, viewers could see their website from the GetCalhoun.com window. However, all they saw was election results from months ago.
What I'm saying here is that while I don't have a clue as to the problems of whoever was in charge of updating the voting database, it's clear that something needs to be done because their performance was very bad. Obviously some results were available early in the evening. Their database SHOULD have been updated publicly throughout the evening instead of only at 9PM. And if this wasn't possible, at least they should have put something online to let us know they were working on the problem instead of leaving the results from July on all night.
At the least, there is an air of incompetence and a lack of understanding of the needs of the public.
I say again, I don't know who was typing in the results or what their problems were, but they could have gone a long way in mitigating the unprofessional appearance of their presentation by simply putting up a page saying that the results would be presented soon. Something like that.
I know there was confusion last night, and a meltdown of their server by people looking for answers that weren't forthcoming. It would have been so simple to avoid this. It's called "web presence." They need more of that.
If someone from the Election Board or Sheriff's office has a comment on my comment, we'd love to hear it. Guaranteed to be posted here.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
This is part of what we use here at GetCalhoun.com and I highly recommend it. I have some amazing results so far, and have ranked on page one of Google for one particular keyword with only 108,000,000 results...and this only half way through the Backlink Battleplan system.
If you are into "affiliate marketing" then this is something you should take a look at. Of course, if you don't know what affiliate marketing is, then don't worry with it.
I do recommend it, because I can't imagine how else I could have ranked this keyword like I did. It was the perfect test. However, will it stay ranked and will my next keyword rank too? I'm still testing. But so far, I like what I have seen.
If you have a website and you need to make it get found on the search engines, then by all means click the link above and look it over carefully. On the other hand, if you have a website you don't want to fool with but that you want to rank well, well, we can do it for you. It's part of what I do here at GetCalhoun.com.
Norm with GetCalhoun.com
If you are into "affiliate marketing" then this is something you should take a look at. Of course, if you don't know what affiliate marketing is, then don't worry with it.I do recommend it, because I can't imagine how else I could have ranked this keyword like I did. It was the perfect test. However, will it stay ranked and will my next keyword rank too? I'm still testing. But so far, I like what I have seen.
If you have a website and you need to make it get found on the search engines, then by all means click the link above and look it over carefully. On the other hand, if you have a website you don't want to fool with but that you want to rank well, well, we can do it for you. It's part of what I do here at GetCalhoun.com.
Norm with GetCalhoun.com
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
New York Pass
I just created a new "niche" website called the New York Pass. Actually, it's built on top of a domain I have had since 2000 called VacationInformation.net.
VacationInformation has been around a long time, but the primary merchant I was advertising on there went belly up, so I was scratching my head about what to do next. That's when I came up with the idea to make it all about New York tours.
If the listing rises in the search engines I know that the traffic it generates will be highly targeted. I have been learning recently (again, dang it) that a lot of hits don't amount to doodly if they are converting. So, I crafted this ultra niche site. I'm perfectly willing to go for less, but better surfers.
The site and keywords have tons of competition, but, maybe I can slip in between the cracks to abduct some traffic. Time and my SEO skill will tell. I LOVE getting good placement in search engines. Everybody needs a hobby.
Which brings me to a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) example of one way you go about getting your site to do better. It's called...blog commenting.
Blogs have built in spam filters to keep ner' do wells from posting spurious comments, you know. They are necessary because a lot of people use programs that semi automatically send out tons of fake blog posts laced with links back to whatever site they are trying to rank with. And the ones that do get through are routinely disposed of.
An example of what I suspect is a human written spam blog comment can be found on the Radium Face Cream article below this one. I let it through to illustrate my point. The person, I believe, actually read the title, at least, and sent along a comment with a link back to site. Who knows? You can view the comment by clicking on the teensy "comment" link at the bottom of that post.
The fact is that webmasters will approve most well written comments, knowing full well that they were only sent in order to get a linkback. The key is, "well written." You can use this simple method to enhance your website rankings.
BTW, if you haven't figured it out yet, while this is a "well written" post which contains excellent verbiage, it also contains a couple of links...(one would have probably done as well) back to the new New York Pass website. Sneaky!
I just created a new "niche" website called the New York Pass. Actually, it's built on top of a domain I have had since 2000 called VacationInformation.net.
VacationInformation has been around a long time, but the primary merchant I was advertising on there went belly up, so I was scratching my head about what to do next. That's when I came up with the idea to make it all about New York tours.
If the listing rises in the search engines I know that the traffic it generates will be highly targeted. I have been learning recently (again, dang it) that a lot of hits don't amount to doodly if they are converting. So, I crafted this ultra niche site. I'm perfectly willing to go for less, but better surfers.
The site and keywords have tons of competition, but, maybe I can slip in between the cracks to abduct some traffic. Time and my SEO skill will tell. I LOVE getting good placement in search engines. Everybody needs a hobby.
Which brings me to a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) example of one way you go about getting your site to do better. It's called...blog commenting.
Blogs have built in spam filters to keep ner' do wells from posting spurious comments, you know. They are necessary because a lot of people use programs that semi automatically send out tons of fake blog posts laced with links back to whatever site they are trying to rank with. And the ones that do get through are routinely disposed of.
An example of what I suspect is a human written spam blog comment can be found on the Radium Face Cream article below this one. I let it through to illustrate my point. The person, I believe, actually read the title, at least, and sent along a comment with a link back to
The fact is that webmasters will approve most well written comments, knowing full well that they were only sent in order to get a linkback. The key is, "well written." You can use this simple method to enhance your website rankings.
BTW, if you haven't figured it out yet, while this is a "well written" post which contains excellent verbiage, it also contains a couple of links...(one would have probably done as well) back to the new New York Pass website. Sneaky!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
One method I use to promote my various websites is with something called "article marketing." The articles themselves do little in the way of bringing people in, but they do provide extremely valuable "backlinks." That is, links from other sites back to mine. It's something that I can do to make a local client page on GetCalhoun.com more popular too. Backlinks are extremely important these days.
The art of making articles that are popular enough so that other websites will pick them up and republish is in making the article unique, and interesting. Here is a recent article that we did that has found it's way to ten other sites so far. Some we have done are on as many as 130 other sites. Over time, this article will be found and published more too.
Frankly, this article just cracks me up! So, I'll make it available to you for a laugh...
Guarantee:
PREHISTORIC woman originally discovered her image in some uninterrupted jungle puddle. Ever since, Beauty has engaged the world's attention.
Radium, even if novel to the globe, is no less of absorbing fascination. Its marvels have surprised and elated us all.
Who would have imagined that these two topics would some day function hand in hand? Still, in Radium, Science has discovered a radical Beauty Secret!
Consult books on Radioactivity. Any number of them are in our community libraries. They will show you that Radium possesses an vast might for individual betterment.
The least possible particle of Radium throws off a unbroken gush of Energy Waves. An Power on no account thinning, not at all ceasing, day or night, year in, year out. A vigor a million times more robust than any other acknowledged.
These Radium Waves are specifically helpful in effect upon the human complexion. Dr. Louis Wickham and Dr. Degrais, Specialists inside the St Lasare and the St. Louis Hospitals of Paris, have proved what Radium can perform for even the most dreaded face diseases.
Rays of Radium, in verity, boost and resurrect any living matter with which they come in contact. They are "accepted by the human organism as pleasantly as is sunlight by the plant."
This great power for betterment has now been come to life in "Radior" Toilet Requisites, in consequence placing the vigor of Radium at the command of every female who uses a face ointment or powder, hair tonic or soap.
"Radior" Toilet Requisites are amusingly pretty and distinctive. They possess an exacting and select aroma all their own, a scent not for sale in any marketplace. They are the foremost and solitary preparations used for the toilet to have Actual Radium--Nature's best aid to Beauty.
Every "Radior" Preparation is guaranteed, under $5,000 penalty, to include a definite amount of Actual Radium, and to retain its Radioactivity for at least twenty years.
In Brittan, "Radior" Preparations are a star of some years' standing. They are used by illustrious ladies of title and fashion. They are the craze in the principal stores. Eager ladies who long for their diet food delivered also fancy "Radior" Toilet Preparations.
We introduce them to the United States as the best fortunate thing ever offered to persons who regard perfection of complexion; rounded, youthful facial contours; a healthy skin as well as stunning hair.
Each and every "Radior" Beauty Aid is the formulation of a illustrious Parisian specialist. Completely apart from Radium, you would select "Radior" Preparations for themselves alone--for the soft silkiness in the creams--the impalpable fineness of the powders and the tantalizing, haunting bouquet.
When to this perfection, as toilet preparations, is added the might of Actual Radium, the highest level of Beauty Culture is reached.
From smooth "Radior" Face Powder to wholesome "Radior" Face Soap--from delightful "Radior" Countenance Powder to superb "Radior" Hair Energizer, "Radior" Toilet Requisites every one contain authentic Radium for Beauty's sake.
Space does not let us to move on into added facts, but there are further facts about Radium and Beauty that every female must see. They are contained inside our booklet sent free of charge at request.
"Radior" Toilet Requisites are unavoidably higher in price. This ought to be anticipated in preparations containing the finest elements simply, as well as a recognized mass of Actual Radium. However the greater benefits obtained with "Radior preparations would substantiate an still higher cost. The top is all the time the most inexpensive and goes further.
It is unproblematic to establish the superiority of "Radior" Preparations. Test them. Catch a glimpse of how easily the Vanishing Cream rubs in.
Notice how your skin tone improves with "Radior" Peau de Velour (night cream) Witness how faintly the face powder blends with the complexion. How smoothly It adheres. Recognize the value of the comforting relaxation of the Tale. Jot down the effects produced via the Hair Tonic. Take pleasure in the out of the ordinary, mysterious heady scent. Then recollect that every preparation has the vigor to toil for betterment--the power of Actual Radium. It is trouble-free to employ these assessments.
Pay for "Radior" Toilet Requisites at any of the foremost department and drug stores. If you are not delighted with them, commune with us and we will guarantee that your funds is refunded.
____________________________________________________________
Radior Deluxe Coupon
RADIOR CO., LTD., of LONDON
Fifth Ave., New York.
Gentlemen: Please mail me a copy of your booklet, "Radium and Beauty." I appreciate that this application places me under no obligation to you. In addition mail me your money saving coupon so that I also may glow by way of novel beauty.
Name_________________________________________
Address________________________________________
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RADIOR TOILET REQUISITES OBTAINABLE AT Leading Department Stores of New York, Brooklyn and Newark
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Top Topics of Today and Yesterday is written through the brisk party of Norm and Vicky Morrison, profuse vendors of shocking testimonies out of the ages gone room temp and belly up for the world of the day after tomorrow. Their latest discoveries include a poignant website about the common Fluke 87 stuff. It's a tear jerker and should not be missed! This nibbles on the tootsies of their nationally revered and gold ribbon winning Coupons page!
The art of making articles that are popular enough so that other websites will pick them up and republish is in making the article unique, and interesting. Here is a recent article that we did that has found it's way to ten other sites so far. Some we have done are on as many as 130 other sites. Over time, this article will be found and published more too.
Frankly, this article just cracks me up! So, I'll make it available to you for a laugh...
Top Topics of Today and Yesterday gives the secret of radiant female beauty by means of the generous use of the Radior Toilet Preparation. Guaranteed to give your epidermis glowing energy for at least 5000 years or you pick up $5000!
From the exceedingly extinct brittle pages of the New York Tribune, circa November 1918, if you are interested in the genuine secret of beauty as defined by the imminent beautician, Madam Marie Curie, you'll delight in this tremendous piece of writing which was an advertisement designed for females in the hunt for the critical secret of beauty through the astute employment of fissionable material. Nearly erased from the chronicles of times past, the information presented underneath is completely explosive! Women take heart. Beauty can be yours, at last.Radium and Beauty
Here are the first toilet preparations to personify Actual Radium, an astounding novel strength intended for betterment, applied as an support to Beauty. Be trained how the wonderful Energy of Radium has proved a godsend to the human body. Learn what Radium truly means to Beauty and how its energy is utilized in "Radior" Preparations. Investigate our $5,000 guarantee. Next turn to "Radior" Toilet Requisites. When you have used, enjoyed and experienced them you will embrace them as your own first aid to Beauty.
Guarantee:
Radior Preparations are GUARANTEED (under $5000.00 penalty) to be prepared from the purest pharmaceutical ingredients, to enclose a assured magnitude of Actual Natural Radium and to hold on to their Radioactivity for at least twenty years!
PREHISTORIC woman originally discovered her image in some uninterrupted jungle puddle. Ever since, Beauty has engaged the world's attention.Radium, even if novel to the globe, is no less of absorbing fascination. Its marvels have surprised and elated us all.
Who would have imagined that these two topics would some day function hand in hand? Still, in Radium, Science has discovered a radical Beauty Secret!
Consult books on Radioactivity. Any number of them are in our community libraries. They will show you that Radium possesses an vast might for individual betterment.
The least possible particle of Radium throws off a unbroken gush of Energy Waves. An Power on no account thinning, not at all ceasing, day or night, year in, year out. A vigor a million times more robust than any other acknowledged.
These Radium Waves are specifically helpful in effect upon the human complexion. Dr. Louis Wickham and Dr. Degrais, Specialists inside the St Lasare and the St. Louis Hospitals of Paris, have proved what Radium can perform for even the most dreaded face diseases.
Rays of Radium, in verity, boost and resurrect any living matter with which they come in contact. They are "accepted by the human organism as pleasantly as is sunlight by the plant."
This great power for betterment has now been come to life in "Radior" Toilet Requisites, in consequence placing the vigor of Radium at the command of every female who uses a face ointment or powder, hair tonic or soap.
"Radior" Toilet Requisites are amusingly pretty and distinctive. They possess an exacting and select aroma all their own, a scent not for sale in any marketplace. They are the foremost and solitary preparations used for the toilet to have Actual Radium--Nature's best aid to Beauty.
Every "Radior" Preparation is guaranteed, under $5,000 penalty, to include a definite amount of Actual Radium, and to retain its Radioactivity for at least twenty years.
In Brittan, "Radior" Preparations are a star of some years' standing. They are used by illustrious ladies of title and fashion. They are the craze in the principal stores. Eager ladies who long for their diet food delivered also fancy "Radior" Toilet Preparations.
We introduce them to the United States as the best fortunate thing ever offered to persons who regard perfection of complexion; rounded, youthful facial contours; a healthy skin as well as stunning hair.
Each and every "Radior" Beauty Aid is the formulation of a illustrious Parisian specialist. Completely apart from Radium, you would select "Radior" Preparations for themselves alone--for the soft silkiness in the creams--the impalpable fineness of the powders and the tantalizing, haunting bouquet.
When to this perfection, as toilet preparations, is added the might of Actual Radium, the highest level of Beauty Culture is reached.
From smooth "Radior" Face Powder to wholesome "Radior" Face Soap--from delightful "Radior" Countenance Powder to superb "Radior" Hair Energizer, "Radior" Toilet Requisites every one contain authentic Radium for Beauty's sake.
Space does not let us to move on into added facts, but there are further facts about Radium and Beauty that every female must see. They are contained inside our booklet sent free of charge at request.
"Radior" Toilet Requisites are unavoidably higher in price. This ought to be anticipated in preparations containing the finest elements simply, as well as a recognized mass of Actual Radium. However the greater benefits obtained with "Radior preparations would substantiate an still higher cost. The top is all the time the most inexpensive and goes further.
It is unproblematic to establish the superiority of "Radior" Preparations. Test them. Catch a glimpse of how easily the Vanishing Cream rubs in.
Notice how your skin tone improves with "Radior" Peau de Velour (night cream) Witness how faintly the face powder blends with the complexion. How smoothly It adheres. Recognize the value of the comforting relaxation of the Tale. Jot down the effects produced via the Hair Tonic. Take pleasure in the out of the ordinary, mysterious heady scent. Then recollect that every preparation has the vigor to toil for betterment--the power of Actual Radium. It is trouble-free to employ these assessments.
Pay for "Radior" Toilet Requisites at any of the foremost department and drug stores. If you are not delighted with them, commune with us and we will guarantee that your funds is refunded.
____________________________________________________________
Radior Deluxe Coupon
RADIOR CO., LTD., of LONDON
Fifth Ave., New York.
Gentlemen: Please mail me a copy of your booklet, "Radium and Beauty." I appreciate that this application places me under no obligation to you. In addition mail me your money saving coupon so that I also may glow by way of novel beauty.
Name_________________________________________
Address________________________________________
.
RADIOR TOILET REQUISITES OBTAINABLE AT Leading Department Stores of New York, Brooklyn and Newark
____________________________________________________________
Top Topics of Today and Yesterday is written through the brisk party of Norm and Vicky Morrison, profuse vendors of shocking testimonies out of the ages gone room temp and belly up for the world of the day after tomorrow. Their latest discoveries include a poignant website about the common Fluke 87 stuff. It's a tear jerker and should not be missed! This nibbles on the tootsies of their nationally revered and gold ribbon winning Coupons page!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I have had a chance to visit a great many local area websites in the last few days. Most are on the order of what I do myself, design wise. Not super fancy, but workable.
What I was not too surprised about is the lack of material and imagination, though. Most of the sites look like set em and forget em sites. Probably a little pricey to set up, and of little real value.
If you happen to have a local website, the question is...how many hits does it get? Do you know? Are you keeping up with it?
Second, how much money has your site made you? Has it paid for itself? Can it be found on search engines for the products or services you have, instead of just for the name of your business?
Advertising on the internet is not the end all and be all of advertising. Whereas newspaper and radio is "immediate" advertising, the net takes a little longer.
NOW is the time to get your business online for Christmas. The beauty of a page with GetCalhoun.com is that it is as good quality, and often better than what you already have. More, GetCalhoun.com gets lots of hits. More, it is a search engine magnet nearly guaranteeing that your page will be found by searching for products and services, rather than the name of your business only.
For example, how many people search for "Kathy's Cloth Barn" versus how many search for "cloth in anniston"...
Kathy's site is geared to be found with the former search, but not the latter. Kathy will be found with either on GetCalhoun.com and this is the difference.
One of the greatest challenges I have to overcome is folks who already have websites that produce low expectations. It DOES NOT have to be this way.
While GetCalhoun.com can't make folks search for your company, if they do, you WILL be found. So, whether or not you currently have a site, you should be on GetCalhoun.com. Every time we pick up a new client, it improves the prospects for all the clients. It's a unique website advertising model, and one you shouldn't be without.
What I was not too surprised about is the lack of material and imagination, though. Most of the sites look like set em and forget em sites. Probably a little pricey to set up, and of little real value.
If you happen to have a local website, the question is...how many hits does it get? Do you know? Are you keeping up with it?
Second, how much money has your site made you? Has it paid for itself? Can it be found on search engines for the products or services you have, instead of just for the name of your business?
Advertising on the internet is not the end all and be all of advertising. Whereas newspaper and radio is "immediate" advertising, the net takes a little longer.
NOW is the time to get your business online for Christmas. The beauty of a page with GetCalhoun.com is that it is as good quality, and often better than what you already have. More, GetCalhoun.com gets lots of hits. More, it is a search engine magnet nearly guaranteeing that your page will be found by searching for products and services, rather than the name of your business only.
For example, how many people search for "Kathy's Cloth Barn" versus how many search for "cloth in anniston"...
Kathy's site is geared to be found with the former search, but not the latter. Kathy will be found with either on GetCalhoun.com and this is the difference.
One of the greatest challenges I have to overcome is folks who already have websites that produce low expectations. It DOES NOT have to be this way.
While GetCalhoun.com can't make folks search for your company, if they do, you WILL be found. So, whether or not you currently have a site, you should be on GetCalhoun.com. Every time we pick up a new client, it improves the prospects for all the clients. It's a unique website advertising model, and one you shouldn't be without.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Coupons have always been a major part of GetCalhoun.com. I encourage my clients to offer specials for our readers, and they always come across.
But, I took it a step further with the GetCalhoun.com Coupon Page on GC. I get offers from all over the place and when I like one, I post it. Yes, I do make a commission. I'm a capitalist. But, I also get to offer things you probably won't see elsewhere.
I just posted the wackiest offer I have seen. A place called, "RugSale.com" has a contest good thru August 21. Any purchase you make will be FREE if the temps go up to or over 115F in Las Vegas, NV at noon on August 28th. (I took the liberty of checking the record temps for the area. I placed the results with the coupon.) Read the fine print.
The catch...there is always a catch...is that you must purchase a rug on or before August 21.
However, if you like rugs, this is the incentive to push you over to their sales floor.
If you haven't been to the Coupon Page before now, now is a good time to go look at the Rug Sale information. I created a new page off the coupon page with the actual mail they sent me. After you read that, you'll know as much as I do, and you can determine if a rug is right for you!
PS... If you go late in the evening, be sure to check out the only known LIVE deer cam in existence that resides on an internet coupon page. Happy bargain hunting!
But, I took it a step further with the GetCalhoun.com Coupon Page on GC. I get offers from all over the place and when I like one, I post it. Yes, I do make a commission. I'm a capitalist. But, I also get to offer things you probably won't see elsewhere.
I just posted the wackiest offer I have seen. A place called, "RugSale.com" has a contest good thru August 21. Any purchase you make will be FREE if the temps go up to or over 115F in Las Vegas, NV at noon on August 28th. (I took the liberty of checking the record temps for the area. I placed the results with the coupon.) Read the fine print.
The catch...there is always a catch...is that you must purchase a rug on or before August 21.
However, if you like rugs, this is the incentive to push you over to their sales floor.
If you haven't been to the Coupon Page before now, now is a good time to go look at the Rug Sale information. I created a new page off the coupon page with the actual mail they sent me. After you read that, you'll know as much as I do, and you can determine if a rug is right for you!
PS... If you go late in the evening, be sure to check out the only known LIVE deer cam in existence that resides on an internet coupon page. Happy bargain hunting!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
I must confess, as usual, the things that look the easiest are often the most difficult.
I decided to change the mission of AnnistonAlabama.net a few days ago. I totally changed the look, and it is different than all other community websites now.
Community websites seem to fall into two categories: They either look like they were cloned from all the others in a slick but busy style, or they are really clunky and amateurish. This happens because the designer either either a blog or CMS format like Wordpress, or some kind of beginner page maker that spits out a full site after only a few clicks.
Well...I wanted to do something different... I wanted to do something as sharp as possible using HTML. I think I'm on the correct track.
Whereas GetCalhoun.com is a workhorse, AnnistonAlabama.net is designed to be a showhorse. The ad prices will reflect this philosophy. It's going to be something Anniston businesses ought to want to latch onto. It's a clear departure from what I have done in the past. However, after all is said and done, it is a spinoff of GetCalhoun.com, which is the "everyman's" website. There is absolutely positively nothing like GetCalhoun.com that I have ever seen...and I have looked a lot. It's one heck of a solution for small businesses in the region. Every time another advertiser comes along, he makes it better for all the advertisers. There's just nothing better you can do with your ad dollar!
But, back to AnnistonAlabama.net. It's going to be a fine showcase website for business in Anniston, and businesses who support Anniston. It's going to be fine, because it will be seen by anyone wanting more information particular to Anniston... This means everyone from the little old lady in Arnet, Texas just fooling around to the mega-billionaire looking to escape California or Dusseldorf, Germany and bring his factory to Anniston. It's going to be a fine ambassador.
Oh yes.. about the simple I mentioned up top.... AnnistonAlabama.net is NOT a simple website. One of the simplest looking things about it carried me down coding roads I have never seen before. The slide show which is NOT designed for the platform I'm using to build the site, cost me right at 12 hours to figure out. We're talking CSS, Javascript, and some pestulent bit of stuff called Mootools, none of which I have much to any familiarity with. Sigh. It was fun to see it work, though. Finally. And until the browser boys throw a monkey wrench into the works sooner or later with their revisions, maybe it will keep working! I think the results are pretty darn neat!
I decided to change the mission of AnnistonAlabama.net a few days ago. I totally changed the look, and it is different than all other community websites now.
Community websites seem to fall into two categories: They either look like they were cloned from all the others in a slick but busy style, or they are really clunky and amateurish. This happens because the designer either either a blog or CMS format like Wordpress, or some kind of beginner page maker that spits out a full site after only a few clicks.
Well...I wanted to do something different... I wanted to do something as sharp as possible using HTML. I think I'm on the correct track.
Whereas GetCalhoun.com is a workhorse, AnnistonAlabama.net is designed to be a showhorse. The ad prices will reflect this philosophy. It's going to be something Anniston businesses ought to want to latch onto. It's a clear departure from what I have done in the past. However, after all is said and done, it is a spinoff of GetCalhoun.com, which is the "everyman's" website. There is absolutely positively nothing like GetCalhoun.com that I have ever seen...and I have looked a lot. It's one heck of a solution for small businesses in the region. Every time another advertiser comes along, he makes it better for all the advertisers. There's just nothing better you can do with your ad dollar!
But, back to AnnistonAlabama.net. It's going to be a fine showcase website for business in Anniston, and businesses who support Anniston. It's going to be fine, because it will be seen by anyone wanting more information particular to Anniston... This means everyone from the little old lady in Arnet, Texas just fooling around to the mega-billionaire looking to escape California or Dusseldorf, Germany and bring his factory to Anniston. It's going to be a fine ambassador.
Oh yes.. about the simple I mentioned up top.... AnnistonAlabama.net is NOT a simple website. One of the simplest looking things about it carried me down coding roads I have never seen before. The slide show which is NOT designed for the platform I'm using to build the site, cost me right at 12 hours to figure out. We're talking CSS, Javascript, and some pestulent bit of stuff called Mootools, none of which I have much to any familiarity with. Sigh. It was fun to see it work, though. Finally. And until the browser boys throw a monkey wrench into the works sooner or later with their revisions, maybe it will keep working! I think the results are pretty darn neat!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Community Alert:
New AnnistonAlabama.net website in building stage. Need photos...
Recently, I picked up a new domain name... AnnistonAlabama.net. After scratching my head for a month, I decided to turn it into a gift for Anniston from GetCalhoun.com. What the heck.
It comes in three parts... past, present and future. I'll be writing the history part. Mayor Robinson will take care of either the present or future, and appoint someone else to write what's left.
It will be neat. Folks from all over the world who are searching for information on the area will land on this site. What the site could use is some old old Anniston photos for the history part. There just isn't a whole lot available around here that I can get my hands on.
If you have historical pics of Anniston stuff, why not contact me here at GetCalhoun.com and let's put them on for everyone to see? The past part will mostly be about the founding of Anniston, so I'm talking really old photos, if you have them, say pre 1920. Jump in!
New AnnistonAlabama.net website in building stage. Need photos...
Recently, I picked up a new domain name... AnnistonAlabama.net. After scratching my head for a month, I decided to turn it into a gift for Anniston from GetCalhoun.com. What the heck.
It comes in three parts... past, present and future. I'll be writing the history part. Mayor Robinson will take care of either the present or future, and appoint someone else to write what's left.
It will be neat. Folks from all over the world who are searching for information on the area will land on this site. What the site could use is some old old Anniston photos for the history part. There just isn't a whole lot available around here that I can get my hands on.
If you have historical pics of Anniston stuff, why not contact me here at GetCalhoun.com and let's put them on for everyone to see? The past part will mostly be about the founding of Anniston, so I'm talking really old photos, if you have them, say pre 1920. Jump in!
Monday, July 19, 2010
I confess that I'm a total sucker for a good domain name! Grape Jelly?
The other day, while minding my own business, and not bothering anyone, a program I rely on was being persnickety and not doing like I asked. It's a keyword program I use to explore and define great keywords for pages.
Anyway, the darn thing was acting up, so I decided to make a test. I threw in the first thing that came to my mind, which was...grape jelly.
Sure enough, that word was making the program hum along just fine. In the process, I noticed that there wasn't a whole lot of competition for the word. Hmmn! Grape jelly is like cat and mouse and mustard and ketchup. Everybody knows grape jelly.
Not expecting much, I went to see if the domain name was taken. To my utter surprise, GrapeJelly.org was available! I pounced on it and now I own it.
Ha. Ok, so now what do I do with it? Hmmn! Well, not knowing a whole lot about grape jelly, other than I like it a lot, I went about some research and one thing led to another.
I sat down to compose an article about grape jelly. It was harder than I expected. After all, there is only so much you can say about grape jelly, and most of that has already been said.
So, just for plain doggone fun, I took the grape jelly theme and flipped it around a quarter turn. The result as a LOT of fun! The result? How about Grape Jelly Meets The Twilight Zone?
The serious object of the exercise is to come up with a website that is popular and will generate traffic. The folks who find GrapeJelly.org, in turn, it is hoped, will click on the paid advertising, generating a little income.
The website is finished, more or less. It will still get tweaked from time to time, but it's basically done. I present for you amusement and confundity... GRAPEJELLY.ORG! Click the link for some great grape jelly deliciousness!
I must tell you that developing a website geared for national traffic is a LOT HARDER than building one for local traffic....that is, if it works. A site built for the region hereabouts is much easier to be made successful, if you know what you're doing. And, (scruffing fingernails on shirt, blowing on them... inspecting results) I do...
If you have a couple of minutes, and absolutely nothing better to do, visit GrapeJelly.org. I'll guarantee that you'll never look at grape jelly the same, ever again.
Oh...btw, the site has been active for maybe a week or so, in development. If you go and type in "grape jelly" into Google and Yahoo, as of this writing,you'll find it on PAGE ONE!!! That's not by accident!
Monday, June 28, 2010
I had mentioned ten days or so since the last post here that I was working on a MASSIVE translation of one of my travel websites into Portuguese. I know that sounds a little odd, but the fact is that the folks in Brazil, to which it is aimed at, are great ones to use the Internet.
Well, I finished the site today, but that's not to say I was finished with the project! Far from it.
The finished site is no good if folks can't find it, and that's where SEO comes into play. SEO means, Search Engine Optimization. That's what I do to entice search engines to index it so folks looking for it can find it.
First, I have 30 or so sites in my personal arsenal, so I placed links back to Agencia-de-Turismo.com on each of those sites. The hope and prayer is that when the search engines graze around on those sites, they'll also find their way to the target, Agencia-de-Turismo.com.
The next thing I did was to write a couple of my world famous Persuasive Essay Topics articles with embedded links. The articles will be rewritten to produce ten unique copies, and then farmed out to folks needing content. After all is said and done, with luck, the articles will appear on between 50 and 100 websites...all with links pointint back to the site.
Lastly, I took out some Google advertising. This doesn't help the SEO, but it gives the site a quick introduction to a world thirsty for travel articles in Portuguese. Also, advertising to foreign audiences is a good deal cheaper than going for U.S. traffic.
Of course, this is only the barest description of what it takes to take a website global, because there is a ton more stuff, but it gives an idea of what's involved.
The exciting fact is that to get your business seen here locally is a great deal easier, particularly with the power of GetCalhoun.com at your command. But, there is an art to it, and as far as search engine placement in Alabama goes, I confess, haltingly, and with much umbleness, I AM YOUR Picasso.
Well, I finished the site today, but that's not to say I was finished with the project! Far from it.
The finished site is no good if folks can't find it, and that's where SEO comes into play. SEO means, Search Engine Optimization. That's what I do to entice search engines to index it so folks looking for it can find it.
First, I have 30 or so sites in my personal arsenal, so I placed links back to Agencia-de-Turismo.com on each of those sites. The hope and prayer is that when the search engines graze around on those sites, they'll also find their way to the target, Agencia-de-Turismo.com.
The next thing I did was to write a couple of my world famous Persuasive Essay Topics articles with embedded links. The articles will be rewritten to produce ten unique copies, and then farmed out to folks needing content. After all is said and done, with luck, the articles will appear on between 50 and 100 websites...all with links pointint back to the site.
Lastly, I took out some Google advertising. This doesn't help the SEO, but it gives the site a quick introduction to a world thirsty for travel articles in Portuguese. Also, advertising to foreign audiences is a good deal cheaper than going for U.S. traffic.
Of course, this is only the barest description of what it takes to take a website global, because there is a ton more stuff, but it gives an idea of what's involved.
The exciting fact is that to get your business seen here locally is a great deal easier, particularly with the power of GetCalhoun.com at your command. But, there is an art to it, and as far as search engine placement in Alabama goes, I confess, haltingly, and with much umbleness, I AM YOUR Picasso.
Friday, June 18, 2010
I have been outrageously busy rewriting a MASSIVE travel website from English to Portuguese. This is nearly like work. However, I have worked before...my first 10 years were spent in warehouses of one kind of another. Have you ever unloaded a boxcar? It's grand fun.
But anyway, I LIKE making pages, and the air conditioner is running flat out and that's nice. In the meantime, in an earlier post I mentioned the Coupon page. Well, I must say, the deer cam on there has just been spectacular lately. But you never know...
Shortly after spring sprung, the deer vanished, for the most part and I took the thing down. I keep a copy on my personal home page, so one day I noticed that the screen was loaded up again. After a few days of this I decided to put the feed back up for everyone who likes deer and wildlife in general to enjoy. If I were working in an office and had an idle computer, I guarantee you that I'd have it online!
GetCalhoun.com Coupon/Deer Page. It is the only coupon page on the internet with its very own LIVE wildlife camera! Tell your friends and click on those coupons! Wow!
P.S... Just checked... Near dark right now, there are 11 deer messing around the live cam.
But anyway, I LIKE making pages, and the air conditioner is running flat out and that's nice. In the meantime, in an earlier post I mentioned the Coupon page. Well, I must say, the deer cam on there has just been spectacular lately. But you never know...
Shortly after spring sprung, the deer vanished, for the most part and I took the thing down. I keep a copy on my personal home page, so one day I noticed that the screen was loaded up again. After a few days of this I decided to put the feed back up for everyone who likes deer and wildlife in general to enjoy. If I were working in an office and had an idle computer, I guarantee you that I'd have it online!
GetCalhoun.com Coupon/Deer Page. It is the only coupon page on the internet with its very own LIVE wildlife camera! Tell your friends and click on those coupons! Wow!
P.S... Just checked... Near dark right now, there are 11 deer messing around the live cam.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Have you heard our advertisements for GetCalhoun.com on WDNG Newstalk 1450 radio?
One of the first questions I was asked, way back at the beginning, was from a prospect who wanted to know where we advertised. My answer was that, well, GetCalhoun.com advertises itself. And so it does. Where does any advertising concern advertise? Where does the Anniston Star advertise? See what I mean?
However, I'm not set in my ways. It always helps to broaden your horizons. Chances are that some of WDNG's listeners have never heard of GetCalhoun.com, so if one of our ads makes them flee to their computer to check us out, guess what? All of GC's clients are served! It's kind of like ponying up to be on GC and getting free radio time in the bargain.
While I'm here, I should explain that the internet, is not, and probably never will be traditional media. Traditional media is:
However, traditional media advertising is expensive. No doubt about that. Many small businesses don't need high dollar traditional media ads. Or they can't afford it.
Advertising on websites like GetCalhoun.com is very cheap, by comparison. The only problem is that there are NO other websites like GetCalhoun.com. The sites that you could advertise on locally just don't get many page views. And the far away sites that do get tons of views won't do you any good locally. GetCalhoun.com bridges the gap very nicely, and it's totally unique.
If you have a product or service that folks are interested in, GetCalhoun.com is the best ad money you can spend. The price is chicken feed when you factor in that it's available and will be found by those who look.
When you think traditional media, think big money and immediacy. The only downside to GC is that if you need results right this minute, then you're spending your money at the wrong place. You see, while your ad is visible immediately, it takes from a week to a couple of months to percolate into the search engines. So, if you're selling pizza, and you don't mind waiting a bit, then anyone searching for pizza in this area will see your page on GC. But, if you have a pizza sale that must go next Saturday, then you should consider traditional media.
I will offer that for the month of May, GetCalhoun.com got something over 5000 page views. That being the case, our growing stable of clients got views from folks who surfed on for one thing, and stayed to look around. So, while you're waiting for your page to climb in Google, it's still getting seen. And of course, anyone who stops by GC and is looking for what you do will find it anyway.
One thing you should be aware of. When you are approached to advertise on a website and they give you some fantastical number of hits, you should ask them for unique views and page views. For May, GC got 15,000 hits. Hits is not the measure reputable web guys use. Hits are the measure of everything. If a page has ten photos, say, then that counts for 10 hits for one page view. So, don't fall for inflated traffic figures.
I'll be giving more hints and tips on good web advertising.
One of the first questions I was asked, way back at the beginning, was from a prospect who wanted to know where we advertised. My answer was that, well, GetCalhoun.com advertises itself. And so it does. Where does any advertising concern advertise? Where does the Anniston Star advertise? See what I mean?
However, I'm not set in my ways. It always helps to broaden your horizons. Chances are that some of WDNG's listeners have never heard of GetCalhoun.com, so if one of our ads makes them flee to their computer to check us out, guess what? All of GC's clients are served! It's kind of like ponying up to be on GC and getting free radio time in the bargain.
While I'm here, I should explain that the internet, is not, and probably never will be traditional media. Traditional media is:
- Radio
- Television
- Newspapers
However, traditional media advertising is expensive. No doubt about that. Many small businesses don't need high dollar traditional media ads. Or they can't afford it.
Advertising on websites like GetCalhoun.com is very cheap, by comparison. The only problem is that there are NO other websites like GetCalhoun.com. The sites that you could advertise on locally just don't get many page views. And the far away sites that do get tons of views won't do you any good locally. GetCalhoun.com bridges the gap very nicely, and it's totally unique.
If you have a product or service that folks are interested in, GetCalhoun.com is the best ad money you can spend. The price is chicken feed when you factor in that it's available and will be found by those who look.
When you think traditional media, think big money and immediacy. The only downside to GC is that if you need results right this minute, then you're spending your money at the wrong place. You see, while your ad is visible immediately, it takes from a week to a couple of months to percolate into the search engines. So, if you're selling pizza, and you don't mind waiting a bit, then anyone searching for pizza in this area will see your page on GC. But, if you have a pizza sale that must go next Saturday, then you should consider traditional media.
I will offer that for the month of May, GetCalhoun.com got something over 5000 page views. That being the case, our growing stable of clients got views from folks who surfed on for one thing, and stayed to look around. So, while you're waiting for your page to climb in Google, it's still getting seen. And of course, anyone who stops by GC and is looking for what you do will find it anyway.
One thing you should be aware of. When you are approached to advertise on a website and they give you some fantastical number of hits, you should ask them for unique views and page views. For May, GC got 15,000 hits. Hits is not the measure reputable web guys use. Hits are the measure of everything. If a page has ten photos, say, then that counts for 10 hits for one page view. So, don't fall for inflated traffic figures.
I'll be giving more hints and tips on good web advertising.
I just added a new news section for your enjoyment. It's called Persuasive Essay Topics. It's a funny title with a purpose. It has to do with SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Not only is this new section enjoyable to read, but my hope is that it will further enhance GC's rankings in the search engines...which is VERY good for our clients! It will make their GC pages more visible to search engines too.
We have written and are writing a series of fun history articles for the very purpose of making GetCalhoun.com more scrumptious to the search engines. We have posted them all over the place, so I figured, what the heck. Why not make them available here too? I think you'll like them, and maybe make some connections with why things are the way they are too.
We have written and are writing a series of fun history articles for the very purpose of making GetCalhoun.com more scrumptious to the search engines. We have posted them all over the place, so I figured, what the heck. Why not make them available here too? I think you'll like them, and maybe make some connections with why things are the way they are too.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Have you visited our GetCalhoun.com Coupon Page? You ought to drop by. Awhile back I placed a very special Live Cam on there. I can promise, there is NO other coupon page in all of America with this type of live web cam on their site, much less a page with coupon specials on it. I'd say it's pretty much unique.
Drop by and check it out. Check out the coupon specials. Check out the crazy wild party cam. The festivities really gets wild after the sun goes down. But you may get a glimpse of some of our very dear shoppers at most any time. It's very decadent!
PS... The Coupon Page Party Cam is subject to be removed at any time. The party cools off, it's coming down!
Drop by and check it out. Check out the coupon specials. Check out the crazy wild party cam. The festivities really gets wild after the sun goes down. But you may get a glimpse of some of our very dear shoppers at most any time. It's very decadent!
PS... The Coupon Page Party Cam is subject to be removed at any time. The party cools off, it's coming down!
I had the pleasure to hear from a young man with a business here in Calhoun County awhile ago. He found GetCalhoun.com on election night while looking for election results. He probably typed in something like, "calhoun county al election results" and GC popped up as the first listing.
Unfortunately, I had not prepared my election results page for the primary this time around, but he did discover the GC website and took a good look around.
It turned out that he has a website, but it evidently isn't working as well as he'd like. So, I outlined how I could help him by making a great web page for him here, with links to his website, where he'd prefer his potential customers to be. We didn't close the deal, but time will tell. I hope he makes the leap and comes on board. It will be a good thing for him.
While we were talking, I used an existing page on GC as an example because, while we were talking two different businesses, his needs were similar to Tony's down at Classic Customs in Oxford. Tony has a great selection of truck accessories, and the gentleman I was talking to also carried several lines of merchandise.
I explained that getting the name of your business to come up in a local search isn't terribly complicated. Where it gets technical is getting the type of business to place highly in the search engines. For example, "truck accessories, Anniston" or "truck covers, Anniston". Both searches turn up Classic Customs on GC on page 1.
How about "truck accessories alabama. Same for truck covers alabama". Tony's GC page comes up on pages one and two for Google.
Even better, let's drill down to products.... Now, for any product, some website is going to come up number one. Type in "toothbrushes" and you get a buhzillion listings...but somebody is always going to be #1. It's unrealistic to ever expect to beat that curve.
You know yourself, when you search for something on the internet, you have to narrow it down a bit. So, how about typing in something that Tony carries in his store? How about Bedrug? It's literally a cover for the bed of your truck.
If you type "bedrug anniston" (or most any other area city) into ol Google, Classic Customs comes up at the TOP of the search page. That's pretty neat! But, if you type in "bedrug alabama", then guess what? Classic Customs comes up at the TOP of the page. And this works nearly the same for all the major search engines including Yahoo and Bing too.
So, ashamedly, I am somewhat bragful about the POWER of GetCalhoun.com. It even amazes me a lot of the time.
The fact is, the power of GetCalhoun.com to get not only companies, but even their products listed is not an accident. It is the result of hard work, and Google and company smiling down on GC from on high. The search engines being what they are, nobody can guarantee results, but if a man knows what he's doing, he can increase the odds in a fierce fashion. I have been tweaking GC since 2002, and it's some kind of powerful!
It does not matter what medium you advertise in. The important thing to consider is what you are selling. Will you sell enough to make a profit on your advertising expenditure?
All things considered, that's why I know that GetCalhoun.com is a good investment for most businesses. Compared to the traditional media, it's dirt cheap, and it's good for long haul advertising. You have to think 24/7, 365 when you think internet advertising. Of course, if folks aren't finding your business, it doesn't matter anyway. That's never a problem here.
Unfortunately, I had not prepared my election results page for the primary this time around, but he did discover the GC website and took a good look around.
It turned out that he has a website, but it evidently isn't working as well as he'd like. So, I outlined how I could help him by making a great web page for him here, with links to his website, where he'd prefer his potential customers to be. We didn't close the deal, but time will tell. I hope he makes the leap and comes on board. It will be a good thing for him.
While we were talking, I used an existing page on GC as an example because, while we were talking two different businesses, his needs were similar to Tony's down at Classic Customs in Oxford. Tony has a great selection of truck accessories, and the gentleman I was talking to also carried several lines of merchandise.
I explained that getting the name of your business to come up in a local search isn't terribly complicated. Where it gets technical is getting the type of business to place highly in the search engines. For example, "truck accessories, Anniston" or "truck covers, Anniston". Both searches turn up Classic Customs on GC on page 1.
How about "truck accessories alabama. Same for truck covers alabama". Tony's GC page comes up on pages one and two for Google.
Even better, let's drill down to products.... Now, for any product, some website is going to come up number one. Type in "toothbrushes" and you get a buhzillion listings...but somebody is always going to be #1. It's unrealistic to ever expect to beat that curve.
You know yourself, when you search for something on the internet, you have to narrow it down a bit. So, how about typing in something that Tony carries in his store? How about Bedrug? It's literally a cover for the bed of your truck.
If you type "bedrug anniston" (or most any other area city) into ol Google, Classic Customs comes up at the TOP of the search page. That's pretty neat! But, if you type in "bedrug alabama", then guess what? Classic Customs comes up at the TOP of the page. And this works nearly the same for all the major search engines including Yahoo and Bing too.
So, ashamedly, I am somewhat bragful about the POWER of GetCalhoun.com. It even amazes me a lot of the time.
The fact is, the power of GetCalhoun.com to get not only companies, but even their products listed is not an accident. It is the result of hard work, and Google and company smiling down on GC from on high. The search engines being what they are, nobody can guarantee results, but if a man knows what he's doing, he can increase the odds in a fierce fashion. I have been tweaking GC since 2002, and it's some kind of powerful!
It does not matter what medium you advertise in. The important thing to consider is what you are selling. Will you sell enough to make a profit on your advertising expenditure?
All things considered, that's why I know that GetCalhoun.com is a good investment for most businesses. Compared to the traditional media, it's dirt cheap, and it's good for long haul advertising. You have to think 24/7, 365 when you think internet advertising. Of course, if folks aren't finding your business, it doesn't matter anyway. That's never a problem here.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
I must confess that after doing GetCalhoun.com since 2002, I got the wanderlust and went looking for other challenges in the website field. My circular journey began in August of 2009 and wound up one fine weekend in June of 2010. I've seen the elephant, and now I'm ready really looking forward to putting all of my time back into my first love, and that's GetCalhoun.com.
No, I didn't quit GetCalhoun.com...far from it. I just took on extra duties. Since August, I must tell you that I have learned a university's worth more than I already knew about webology, and politely, I must tell you that I wasn't bad at it when I went back to school.
I come back to GetCalhoun.com full time now armed with a sack of fresh knowledge, resources, and some not inexpensive tools that I didn't have before.
And I come back rededicated. You know, I think GetCalhoun.com has always been friendly, personable, and easy to converse with. But, it's going to be even more so now, and this isn't all about marketing, either. I love the idea of having a better connection with the audience. I sort of shied away from it, lo these many years, worried that it might look a tad unprofessional to have a direct connection...but what the heck...what you see here is what you get. Always has been. It's just even easier to holler at each other these days.
I don't believe GC has a thing to lose by being more accessible. Do you?
Norm
No, I didn't quit GetCalhoun.com...far from it. I just took on extra duties. Since August, I must tell you that I have learned a university's worth more than I already knew about webology, and politely, I must tell you that I wasn't bad at it when I went back to school.
I come back to GetCalhoun.com full time now armed with a sack of fresh knowledge, resources, and some not inexpensive tools that I didn't have before.
And I come back rededicated. You know, I think GetCalhoun.com has always been friendly, personable, and easy to converse with. But, it's going to be even more so now, and this isn't all about marketing, either. I love the idea of having a better connection with the audience. I sort of shied away from it, lo these many years, worried that it might look a tad unprofessional to have a direct connection...but what the heck...what you see here is what you get. Always has been. It's just even easier to holler at each other these days.
I don't believe GC has a thing to lose by being more accessible. Do you?
Norm
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