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Power Words And Phrases

I like to use power phrases when writing sales material. These power phrases add punch to a line or a paragraph and I usually use them to start off a sentence.

Not a Bad Quarter for Adobe

The second quarter was a good one for Adobe Systems. Aside from announcing an agreement in April to acquire Macromedia, the company just posted strong financial results for the quarter.

How to Protect Yourself from Phishing, the most dangerous kind of Spam

Spam is one of the curses of the Internet age. But if the clogging of mail boxes with useless emails was bad enough, unsolicited emails aimed at tricking you into giving your valuable passwords, banking and PIN numbers is the most dangerous variety of email that you will ever encounter.

Cisco Certification: Becoming A Truly Valuable CCNA

I’ve been active in the Cisco Certification track for four years, working my way from the CCNA to the coveted Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert title, and during that time I’ve conducted job interviews and casual conversations with hundreds of CCNAs and CCNA candidates.

Tech Media This Week

Sam Whitmore, the fellow behind Sam Whitmore’s Media Survey, has launched a new podcast you should listen to: Tech Media This Week.

Guidant Recalls Defibrillators That are Implanted in 50,000 People

Today Guidant Corp. announced that it is voluntarily recalling cardiac defibrillators, which about 50,000 people around the world have implanted in them.

Softbank Contends US A Poor Investment

The investment concern Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund has closed its Silicon Valley offices.

Tyco Chiefs Headed For Hoosegow

Former Tyco top dog, Dennis Kozlowski and Tyco moneyman Mark Swartz were convicted today of grand larceny and a number of other charges in the retrial accusing them of massive corporate corruption at Tyco International.

Dead Silence From Your Prospect: The Worst Sound Of All

Could this be the worst moment in your selling cycle?

Authenticity and Trust

Jesper and Jon is is looking for input on the relation between authenticity and trust. They believe there’s a strong relation between them…

eBay Backs Down On Live 8 Tickets

The online auctioneer had not planned to interfere with sellers of tickets to the upcoming Live 8 show in London.

A 4-Step System for Uncovering Hot Niche Markets

Whether you are an affiliate marketer, a website designer or you make your living creating and marketing infoproducts such as ebooks, discovering profitable niche markets to exploit is probably at the top of your “to-do” list.

How To Take Payments On Your Website

After my two-part article about selling things on your website, I had several people ask for more details on billing companies and shopping carts. So here goes.

B2B Marketing and PR Internship Opportunity

I need your help. I’m looking for an exceptional college student to work with me on special projects.

Daffodil DB: Web Database

What is a Web Database? A web database is a database for the internet. You can get access to your data via the internet from anywhere in the world. Or, you can create a database driven website by using such databases. A web database stores large amount of information in an organized format that is easily accessible from scripting languages (like PHP).

RIM Asks For Motion In UK Patent Case

A claim filed by a Luxembourg company against RIM partner T-Mobile in German court seeks to block BlackBerry sales.

The Top Ten Reasons People Will Send You Referrals

1. You are good at what you do.

LAMP Engineer Needed for New Yahoo! Site…

Jeff Boulter (engineering manager for Y! News) is looking for a few good hackers for a new Yahoo! site focused on technology …

7 Secrets to Writing Inventory Procedures

With 1 Million would you:

PR Gaffe Burns Wal-Mart PR Director and Agency

Daily Telegraph: The Wal-Mart publicity manager behind an advert that equated the retail giant to victims of the Nazis has resigned. Peter Kanelos, who had overseen public relations in Arizona and southern California on behalf of Wal-Mart, left his job yesterday, a few weeks after the company apologised for its PR gaffe.

Trackback Spam Out of Control

My friend Charles Pizzo sent me a text message to let me know he was trying to trackback from his blog to mine, but it wasn’t working.

Google Launches Mobile Web Search For Multiple Languages

With the absolute explosion of mobile computing, including cellular phone use, the search industry has not been shy about its embrace of these users.