8 Steps to Win at Blogging for Dollars

8 Steps to Win at Blogging for Dollars
Personal rants, raves and general thoughts could be the bottom-line difference between business success and virtual obscurity in the world of business blogging.

http://www.startupnation.com/pages/articles/blogging-business.asp

11 Ways to Strengthen Your Web Storefront

11 Ways to Strengthen Your Web Storefront
Maximize your potential for online sales by following these 11 guidelines

http://www.smallbizresource.com/document.asp?doc_id=110081

Paid Search Alone Not Turning Shoppers Into Buyers

Paid Search Alone Not Turning Shoppers Into Buyers
Study shows that firms using online advertising should use a combination of online marketing tools including banner ads, paid search, and email marketing

http://www.smallbizresource.com/document.asp?doc_id=104547

Be a millionaire: 5 ways to get there

Be a millionaire: 5 ways to get there
It's the club everybody wants to join, and that's not as hard to do as you might think.

http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/moneymag/ontrack_millionaire/index.html

25 Rules to Grow Rich By

25 Rules to Grow Rich By
Follow these guidelines and feel confident that you'll be making the right financial decisions.

http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/moneymag/25_rules/index.html

Web reaches 100 million sites

This is old news but I believe this is still pretty significant that I have to make a post about this here.

Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites
POSTED: 2:32 p.m. EST, November 1, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/11/01/100millionwebsites/index.html

Holiday E-Commerce Shopping Up 26 Percent

Online sales is up 26 percent to $21.6B this season. You may have noticed the effects on this when you went to the mall.

I noticed this year, finding a parking spot was not as difficult as last year. People were more relaxed and even our online store (www.MyShaldanAirFresheners.com) have generated an increase in sales compared to last year.

Below are some links to holiday e-commerce shopping

December 26, 2006
Online Sales Up 26 Percent This Season
Social networks, blogs, faster shipping influence holiday e-shopping.Part 1 of a special five-part series. -->
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128324/article.html

December 22 2006
Holiday online sales surge to $21.6B
ComScore Networks ups its Web-spending forecast after latest data shows consumers boosted their buying activity in the final run-up to Christmas.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/22/news/economy/online_sales/index.htm

December 20, 2006
comScore Networks Reports Continued Surge in Late-Season Holiday E-Commerce Spending comScore Revises 2006 Holiday Season Forecast Upward by $300 Million to $24.6 Billion
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1155

December 22, 2006
Procrastinators Fuel Final Frantic Rush of Holiday E-Commerce Spending, According to comScore Networks Confidence in Retailers’ Late Shipping Guarantees Extends Online Shopping Season
http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1158

Contender Upcoming Promo

Contender's no-setup fee promo ended last Friday but we've gotten several inquiries for it from others who have heard about it from those who signed-up for the program. Others have waited till the last minute and eventually forgot about it.

So we're thinking, maybe another promo will be up soon. It wont be a no-setup-fee promo like it was before. That was only a one-time deal and no reason for us to do that anytime soon.

A new feature for the site that allows Promo Codes to be entered is being developed as we speak. Once completed, we may be able to run another promo for those who missed the 1st one.

Netstralogy Website V4

Since our completion of the Contender website, we've decided to do a revamp of our main Netstralogy website also (www.netstralogy.com).

This is our 4th revision of the website. This one has a cleaner, and simplier look and feel, and is also easier to navigate. At first, it looked too plain but after adding a few colors that matched, the look greatly improved.

The 20-paged website took about 10 hours to complete. Most of it was spent on refining, tweaking and improving some of the details.

Contender Website Launching

This week, we've completed the total revamp of our unlimited web support website (www.netstralogy.com/unlimited). The new site now has a cleaner and better presentation of the product. We've also changed the product name from Unlimited Text Support to Contender.

We feel that Contender would be a better name as we feel that the product strong focuses on helping small businesses with website support needs. Contender also defines that product as it focuses on content updates.

1st Posting

This is our very first posting. We're trying to experience first-hand the benefits of having a blog for business.

After careful thoughts, we've come up with a concept on how to use this blog. So we'll see what happens next.