I like Pinterest. I really do. But, I have this fear for the old girl. See, there is a rule in marketing that goes like this: If your product is bad, awesome marketing will only kill your business that much …

MySpace might or might not be able to hold onto its lead in the social networking world.  But one thing’s for sure: it really needs to find someone other than Tom to write its error messages.

We’ve run several, several stories in recent weeks about Yahoo execs leaving the company, and the departures have been, as far as we can tell, completely voluntary.  But according to one analyst, a solution to most of the company’s problems would be for roughly 1,200 other employees to involuntarily follow suit.

Several common website errors may give webmasters fits, not to mention site visitors when seeing them appear online.

Buying Attention & Building Trust

With content that you freely distribute you are primarily trying to build relationships with people who don’t know you and have never bought from you. Since attention is limited you have to make your content accessible to gain market attention.

Highbrow = Low Readership

Most potential buyers can not distinguish between great information and average information, but most people…

RxHub today praised the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) for commissioning a study on the cost and benefits of electronic prescriptions.

I’m pretty good at spotting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but this is something that I wouldn’t ever have noticed: Wikipedia’s logo contains two goofs.

What’s a mode error or a modal error? In usability speak, that’s when the user confuses the mode they’re currently in, causing a wrong or ineffective action. For example, when I click on a contact’s note on my Windows Mobile OS (which has a very low overall usability), and I open up the keyboard to enter a note with my stylus pen, I can’t – I’m in read-only mode (indicated by the lack of a blinking text cursor inside the note field). Only after I hit “edit” at the bottom will I switch to edit mode to be able to enter something. I committed a “mode error.

Making mistakes is part of operating a business. All companies, and all owners, managers, and other staff members make errors.

One of the great things about the WordPress community is the amazing number of people who develop plugins for the blog platform and make them freely available to anyone.

The most important reason your should fix Windows Registry errors as they occur is that this one single preventative measure can greatly increase the life-expectancy of your Windows system by stabilizing the growth of its Registry.

Lack of formal change management and poor use of security features could be costing businesses up to $10 billion USD per year.

Kodak posted a $12 million loss in the fourth quarter, mostly due to costs from job cuts.

Eastman Kodak experienced a rather unexpected loss in the fourth-quarter amounting to $12 million.

A 404 error is what you get when your browser tries to access a page that doesn’t exist. Maybe you mistyped something, or the link you followed was mistyped by someone else, or maybe the webmaster moved it or renamed it or just deleted it. It’s annoying for you, and sites that care about your visit try to avoid it happening.

Most Linux and Unix programs are written in C. When you download source for a project, it will often be C or C++ source code. You don’t necessarily need to know a darn thing about C or anything else to compile the source if you aren’t changing it. It may be helpful for you to understand a bit if you are having problems with the compile, but even that isn’t really necessary.

For most business buyers, pursuing a viable business to acquire is a once in a lifetime event. Because of the infrequency and the complexity of pursuing a business to purchase, buyers typically risk unnecessary financial resources and waste valuable time to find their “ideal” acquisition. With a complete understanding of business purchase process fundamentals, a business buyer can effectively reduce the odds of not finding the right company or paying too for one.

As a busy search engine optimization consultant, I don’t have a lot of time to manage my website. But recently I learnt the hard way about the fickle nature of website visitors and the damage that having a user- unfriendly site can do to a business. Now I give my website usability much more priority than ever before.

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My initial impressions were good, until I realised my eyes weren’t going blurry – it was the graphics…

What marketing tools don’t work for you? We ask this question when we welcome subscribers to our zine. Their answers are consistent: “We sent out a mailing and got no response,” they may say. Or they tell us, “Our letters, postcards, or brochures failed.”

When you are building your site, and try to test it in a browser, do you sometimes (or perhaps more often) get an error message telling you that your site contains a script error, and would you like to continue running scripts on the page – yes or no?

hi carey.

I have windows 98SE…..and it (runtime errors) happens after I have been online and going to web pages I go to daily..I do have norton anti-virus. I know that I get runtime error and then another that says Internet explorer will close this program down error. I close out all programs on system tray will that help….. I freeze alot also. Do you need any more info..?

Thanks