Friday, February 29, 2008Business Pundit: “Top 10 Changes In My Business Thinking”
Signing off on his popular small business blog, Rob May runs down the ten most important things he’s learned in his five years of blogging about all things business.
We offer them here as a tool to give today’s up-and-coming entrepreneurs quick access to knowledge it took an industry veteran years of hard work to arrive [...]
Thursday, February 28, 200812 Tips to “Search Google Like an Expert” from HubSpot
Though just ten years old, Google is now absolutely the biggest player in the world of Internet commerce — which makes it one of the world’s most significant companies, period. (It recently became Silicon Valley’s most valuable company, no small feat.)
But it’s real accomplishment comes from the fact that it’s now a household name, known [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 20085 Easy SEO Steps, from the E-Commerce Times
Today we share with you a recent article from the E-Commerce Times that outlines five “easy” steps to get your online business a good foot-hold in the all-important search engines.
Writes Brandon Leibowitz, “There are ways of achieving top rankings in Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. that are kept secret. In the following article you will learn [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008Report: FCC May Take Action on Net Neutrality
Today’s Washington Post tell us that the recent Comcast controversy may have succeeded in finally prodding the FCC to take definitive action regarding the net neutrality issue:
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission yesterday sharply questioned Internet service providers who control consumers’ Web access over their networks, and suggested the agency could intervene against the [...]
Monday, February 25, 2008The 5 Pillars of Online Success, Revisited
A few years ago, we at Aplus.Net introduced to the web hosting world a new way to approach building an online business. Our Five Pillars of Online Success took all the dozens of factors that go into creating and maintaining a successful website and categorized them into one simple system.
In the excitement of all the [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008Google Looks to the Heavens
Following the movements (both real and anticipated) of Google has become a sport in and of itself. It’s an exciting company that never quite does what the industry expects it to, and this actually seems to be at least part of the secret behind its enormous success.
And this trend-bucking tendency has been in stronger evidence [...]
Thursday, February 21, 2008The State of the Economy: What can be done?
The latest news on the economy shows that the Federal Reserve is still struggling with how to handle the demands posed by a weak economy. Rising consumer prices, a soft dollar, the “housing crisis”, higher gas prices (now over $100 a barrel!), and new worries over inflation are dominating business headlines this week.
The question is, [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008New Data Center for Aplus.Net
Today we at Aplus.Net are very excited to announce the official opening of our second state-of-the-art data center facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
This announcement marks a successful migration of a key segment of our dedicated server hardware to the new facility, which is our second, and which will operate in conjunction with our original military-grid data [...]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008BNET’s Media Relations Primer
No matter what kind of business you’re running, growth is essential. The market is competitive — to remain stagnant is to fall behind.
But beware the downside of growth: As you carefully and painstakingly grow your business, many new problems arise. You may be surprised to learn (if you haven’t already) that the bigger and better-recognized [...]
Thursday, February 14, 2008Microsoft Not Taking No for an Answer
So now that Yahoo has said no to Microsoft’s recent takeover bid, where does that leave the two companies?
Industry expectations seem to point toward Microsoft continuing its attempt to acquire the company. ABC News’ Tampa affiliate recently picked up an AP story stating as much:
Microsoft says Yahoo’s rejection of its multi-billion buyout offer is “unfortunate,” [...]