I just finished listening to a 1 minute voicemail from some idiot who mistakenly thought I was a small business owner with time on my hands. Actually, I only listened to the first 10 seconds of it. VoIP (Voice over IP) is a wonderful thing, but its given marketers without a clue new ways to annoy small business - telespam.
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Tough times mean folks are looking for real or perceived bargains - and given current economic conditions, coupon sites have become increasingly popular. If you’re not using coupons yet for your online business, you’re likely missing a lot of sales and new customers.
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The scale of the destruction from the cyclone that hit Myanmar (Burma) a few days back makes Hurricane Katrina look rather tame in terms of human misery. Upwards of a hundred thousand people have likely perished and over a million have been displaced - many of these people won’t have anything to come back to and were struggling as it was before the cyclone hit.

They need our help.
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Sometimes I wonder how these high fallutin’ financial types get the jobs they do.

If you’re in online business catering to a US market, but based outside the USA, it’s likely you’ve been feeling the pinch of the floundering greenback.
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I have a love-hate relationship with my telco. Whenever I move house it tends to be hate as they invariably screw up service transfers in every conceivable way. But I’ve recently fallen back in love with them for their expensive, yet incredible wireless broadband coverage; speaking of which, I had an interesting call from them about the other day.
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Like I always say, if only scammers would put all that effort into good.. here’s the latest scam to hit my inbox; domain name owners beware.
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Anyone who has a list is concerned with unsubscriptions from their communications - but sometimes unsubscribes can be seen as a positive thing too.
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Internet Explorer 8 will be available as a more stable beta for Joe Surfer soon and one of the interesting features I’ve been reading about recently are “webslices” and how they relate to ecommerce.
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It’s something I’ve written about fairly often - the way that marketers tend to wrongly perceive mature age folks such as baby boomers; those people born between 1946 and 1964. Here’s a list of the top ten myths.
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Where would ecommerce be without Hallmark holidays? This year, 84 percent of US consumers will observe Mother’s Day, but most will cut down on number of gifts compared to previous years, opting to purchase one major item.
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