A Cross-browser Rounded Corner Solution...

After much trial and error, deliberation, research, and head banging on my desk, I’ve finally come up with a solution to the programmer’s age-old cross-browser rounded corners dilemma that works for me. The dilemma, of course, is that it’s the year 2009 and rounded corners can be implemented in EVERY modern-day browser except our friend Internet Explorer. Even the most recent incarnation of IE (v8) STILL...

Add a Dun & Bradstreet Listing...

We were changing our company name, so we had to make a change to Dun & Bradstreet listing, and I was put in touch with Scott Garger tel.800.999.3867 ext.7686 who walked me through the process. While we were talking, he told me about a newish service that D&B offers, a power listing in their directory. It is free – but you can update to the silver listing which is the same price as a Yahoo listing, but...

Benefits of Twitter...

Twitter, a micro blogging tool which is now very popular among the youth. Here’s how twitter will be beneficial for you or your business: Research Tool: Twitter allows you insight into an amazing community of people from around the world to find out what they are thinking, feeling and experiencing in different ways. In a sense Twitter becomes a news service where you’ll quickly find if there is a breaking story...

Social Bookmarking Tips and Tricks...

Today I got an interesting email from the owner of Greenlinepaper.com, Steve Baker.    His question was “Sue, our website now has a share button for MySpace, Twitter, Digg, etc.  on the product pages.  Is there anything that you can recommend that we do to “circulate” things?”  And I thought maybe some of you have the same questions….so I decided to post about this subject. First of all, social...

A Good Internet Marketing Investment for the Rest ...

Add a video to your emails (something that wasn’t possible two years ago) and it will improve click-through rates by 2-3 times, according to a recent Forrester report. The down side of this is that email providers sometimes blocks executable files, including flash video and embedded video scripts, to protect against viruses. One easy solution is to upload the video to YouTube.com or put it on your blog or website,...

Social Bookmarking Submission URLs...

A recent project I worked on required that I implement 8-10 “social bookmarking” links. You know the cryptic little links or icons you see on many sites that say “share this on [random site here]?” Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, Myspace, etc. Nowadays they’re on everyone’s blog and they’re making their way onto “normal” web sites as well. For good reason too because they’re...

Boomtown Internet Group Newsletter June 2009...

Dear Valued Subscriber: We are excited to announce the change of our company name from Electra Consulting Inc. to Boomtown Internet Group, Inc.  If you know us as PAInternetMarketing.com or PA-WebsiteDesign.com these websites and email addresses will still exist and we will still respond to you, but we will be using the new BoomtownIG.com addresses going forward. Our new websites include BoomtownIG.com, MarylandInternetMarketing.com,...