http://businesstoolsblog.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:04:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Companies invest a lot of money in websites and then cross their fingers hoping that the investment will generate a few leads.  In the final analysis, is a corporate website a good investment?   Is an online advertising campaign a good investment? How would you know? I found a company called ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2009/04/optimize-lead-generation-from-your-website/ You would think that after Google spent $100M on Feedburner  performance would improve.  But if you thought that, you would be W.R.O.N.G.  Feedburner has become increasingly unreliable.  Sometimes Feedburner doesn't send feeds to recently published blogs and sometimes it re-sends old feeds.  The worst part is that you have no ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2009/03/icontact-vs-feedburner/ When you have a new blog, you'll be surprised at how few people stop by your site.  It's sad.  When you start your blog, you have all of these wonderful things to share, and only 7 or 8 people stop by.  And you strongly suspect that those 7 or 8 ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2009/03/need-more-blog-traffic/ Blogging is a hobby for most bloggers.  But some see it as a business. Making money blogging is like making money playing sports.  You are doing something that you love, and then you get paid.  99.999999999% don't get paid like pro-athletes, but maybe someday .... Google Adsense is an easy choice for ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2009/03/make-money-blogging/ Even if you aren't a website owner, Compete is a pretty cool tool.  Just type in the sites that you want to compare and Compete provides site analytics.   Available Information: # of People who visited the site in a month Which sites are sending traffic to a website (only searches certain web ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2009/02/how-does-your-website-rate-vs-the-competition/ In addition to BearonBusiness.com and MVaaS, I read 3 Tech blogs every day.  If you aren't reading the below already, take a few minutes and give them a try. Telecom Ramblings - I'm not sure how Rob Powell stays on top of everything public and private that's going on in the ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2009/01/recommended-reading/ I do a lot of research on the web and many sites require that I register, before they will cough up any information. That means that I have to provide my email, age, gender, phone number and proof that I am a human.  Each site promises that my information ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2008/10/dont-you-hate-spam/ I get a lot of Google hits from people searching for information on how to start a blog.  I am not an expert, but I will share my experience. I thought starting a blog would be something that I could easily do myself.  I tried Google Blogger (which is free and ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2008/09/how-to-start-your-blog-the-easy-way/ I am hoping that this blog serves as a conduit for organizational dialogue. The aspiration is that this blog will share tribal knowledge … not just at Zayo, but across the Telecom industry. Abraham Maslow said, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every ... http://businesstoolsblog.com/2008/04/why-blog/