Above All Tell it Like it Is!

A reader wrote to me regarding an online multilevel marketing article I wrote and felt I did not do justice to representing MLM properly. Message sent: I read your article on Multi-level Marketing where you state 'We tell it like it is.' You've really missed the mark with this one. There are hundreds of multi-level marketing companies from Avon to Watkins. Companies like Mary Kay, Shaklee, Tupperware, Pampered Chef, Discovery Toys and many, many more all pay on multiple levels. That's what multi-level marketing means. The 'companies' you described in your article are illegal pyramid schemes. True multi-level companies are responsible for millions of dollars in sales every year. Do a real service to your readers. Do some more research and get it right. Start at www.mydswa.org to learn about the real professionals in this industry. Respectfully submitted, "Reader" Response to the message sent: (note: Removed the name of the reader to protec...

Clogging Up The Relevant Online World By: James A. Warholic In a relevant article published online at the Canadian Technology Human Resource Board, Bureau canadien des ressources humaines in technologie, Do Online Business Ethics Exist? By: Niall Roche, the author hits the internet nail on-the-head. Much of the information currently found online is nothing more then chewed up, spit out, copyright infringed, and general lack of business ethics; where websites even make a mockery of the legal system by cheating and selling copyright protected works to other individuals for use in student term papers and other works that are falsely being passed off as original content. The following excerpt is from the article @ CTHRB.CA : In the world of online busines [business] something has gone wrong. Something has gone badly wrong. In the pursuit of wealth and success business ethics have not so much fallen by the wayside as been torn up, stomped on and burned to ash. Where some loose form of rul...

In some aspects AOL was destined to have the pay for content, all in one place business model, go down ⇓ the eBusiness Route 86 It! Internet highway. When AOL first got started and the Internet was a relatively small net highway, having information content all in one place was a great boom for their bottom line. They were able to charge a premium to their subscriber base for the content and online services that they provided. But, as the Net grew and information expanded, there was no way to contain the surfer from riding new and free waves of information. AOL continues to loose subscribers at a heated pace. In an effort to stem the loss of revenue from loosing subscribers they have recently taken a more open approach to their own website, by opening it up to the Web public at-large, while filling it with ads to pay the way. This new business approach is very similar to the likes of Yahoo and MSN. Both of these websites are portals and content providers, along with offering a sle...

In web work the 80/20 rule takes on a more significant role. I made a decision a year or so ago that it was not worth supporting the time and effort required to make websites compatible to all the old legacy browsers. I made another discovery for an old legacy browser of IE5/Mac platform that has significant issues when it comes to displaying content using various style sheets and java script for menus. After doing some investigation I decided that this was another one of those issues that I was not willing to address to bring backwards compatibility. It would require too much time and with less than one percent of the visitors using this browser it seems to me that it does not make sense to spend the excessive amount of time required. If you are trying to view our blogs and website with IE5/Mac browser and things are not displayed properly try using Safari or Mozilla for Mac. I have been using both of those programs on a regular basis and have been very pleased with the performanc...

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Marketing on the Internet is becoming increasingly more technical and complex as time goes on. Internet Marketing Results Everyone wants the same thing, or should I say that everyone wants a top position in the search engine results pages (SERP) for their key words without doing any work. The number of pages cataloged in the search engines has doubled in the past year. Now that might seem like a great thing for the searcher, but it might not be such a positive for companies that are trying to be found in the market place. How can a company overcome the web barrier? How can you get your company website found on Google , Yahoo! , MSN , or the hundreds of other searches popping up? Marketing On The Internet Provide a niche. If you have a product or service that is unique then highlight your area of expertise . If you are in a very competitive market place, consider what it is that sets your company apart from the competition and really stress those marketing points. Do not be ...

Other Languages Tools http://www.google.com/language_tools? By: James Warholic The link above maybe the most powerful link in the world! Google™ has a great global multilingual lanjuage translation program tool on the fly, for free! This is cool, because not only is your site translated, but so are the links and the actual Web sites of the links. This is so wild...and such a great B2B and B2C language tool! To see how this functions use the following links to view a demonstration of various online marketing tips pages from our site converted to multilingual languages. English to: Spanish , French , German , Italian , Portuguese , Japanese , Korean , and Chinese . You can also go the opposite way as well, plus cross languages. Don't forget to try the links within this page as well as our other pages. I had so much fun playing with this to see how the pages are displayed. I couldn’t stop browsing in various languages, even though I don’t know how to read the other languages. (tho...

http://www.marketingprofs.com/ea/qst_question.asp?qstID=2776 Excerpt from: Marketingprofs.com by: Community Member "The issue of Honesty, integrity and trustworthiness are time tested values known to man. They are probably more important now than ever, with the power of the internet to share information and do business". Internet Ethics Business Marketing and Advertising Ethics

Whose page is it? The following was an exercise in online discovery and looking at the search results in various search engines. Then comparing those search results against the actual pages displayed in the result and asking a simple question as a thesis. If the majority of the search results, within any one search result, display web page results from a select group of websites or websites owned by someone else, then whose page is really being displayed? Compare the search results below, and notice the patterns. All links should open in a new window, but the same new window. Note: Over time I suspect the search result patterns will drastically change. We will have to analyze it every so often and see what changes occur over time. Privacy Policy Follow Link To Important ¹ e-business ethics Video legal issues with B2B websites legal issues with B2B websites b2b and b2c site ethics b2b and b2c site ethics WHOSE PAGE IS THIS? Can You tell the difference? # 1 Important e-business leg...

B2B Defined Business to Business (Selling to other businesses) Any business that sells mainly to other businesses is considered business-to-business or B2B for short. Other countries sometimes use B to B for short. B2C Defined Business to Consumer (Selling to consumers) Any business that sells directly to consumers, for the most part is considered business-to-consumer, B2C, or B to C for short. Companies can be both B2B and B2C at the same time. Target markets for each of these areas are handled differently. B2B generally takes more on the front end to make a sale, although places like office supply outlets create B2B accounts for their business customers, and businesses will generally keep coming back to a self serve eCommerce website to place additional orders without ever talking with a salesman. No matter which company you are classified under, or the differences between B2B or B2C for closing a sale, the emphasis for marketing and advertising online is to get your message in fron...

Global Internet B2B Marketing "B2C" Resources "B2B vs. B2C" Online Marketing Strategies The little tool that could... How many of you out there have too many email addresses and not enough time to continually log in to each one? Well, if your like me I have numerous ones that I need to be in touch with on a regular basis. I don't have time to check them individually. For the past year or so I have been using ePrompter™ , a program that monitors them for me. It sits in the lower right hand corner of my tool bar and displays a different colored circle with a number in it. Each color represents a different mail box. When an email arrives at one of the mail boxes the number count is updated and a little ping goes off to let you know you have mail. The neat thing about this one is that it does not display full graphic images, but it does display url links. This makes it very easy to preview the email. If you want to view all the graphics later then you can use your ...