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I don’t consider myself a grammar expert by any stretch of the imagination; however, I am consistently shocked at how often some words get misused or misspelled. Many of the gems below came from Tweets over the past few weeks. I get that a tweet is 140 characters long and is basically a stream of consciousness. However, for most of you, your tweets are public. That means a potential client or employer could be reading what you are writing and it never hurts to sound intelligent. Some of the biggest offenders are:

• Lose vs. Loose – you are … Continue Reading
  

Many years ago I worked for the Ritz Carlton Hotel chain in Atlanta, Georgia (The one off Peachtree Street if you know the area). Anyway, there were several wonderful things about working for a large hotel chain, and a few not so wonderful. One of the great aspects was being able to travel the globe and stay at some of the greatest hotels in the world for next to nothing, more on that in another article.

One of the “opportunities” of … Continue Reading

According to a recent Whitepaper on “Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today…” produced by SAP, businesses react by retrenching and cutting costs but they believe you should invest in business intelligence, preferably in software sold by them. The following 6 business mistakes were culled from this whitepaper and some of my own comments have been introduced as I see them applying or not to most small companies.

Mistake 1: Taking Existing Customers for Granted.
Staying in tune … Continue Reading

Spam has overtaken the world, one form, one registration one email at a time. In reality, spam is actually losing the war against those who appose it, but their gorilla efforts still continue. The key is to understand what tools are at your disposal to eliminate spam from your WordPress blog.

If you are anything like me, you despise spam or anything that remotely resembles spam. In my effort to remove it, I will go to great lengths to report a spam email, website or comment on my blogs. … Continue Reading

ProFusion Products or those of you who know us as Net Solutions, has continued to strive for client education. We believe that there is a strong community of individuals that manage and maintain their websites using one or more ProFusion Products. Many of our clients have been around for years, others for only a few weeks or days. Regardless of how long you have been with us we encourage you to use our newProFusion Forum, you … Continue Reading

Making an avatar for a forum, blog, or other application is actually a pretty easy process once you know the site requirements.

Basically, an avatar is a small image of you, or something representative of you. Often times people use avatars as an iconic representation of how they manifest themselves in reality. However, regardless of how you see yourself, often the forum or the environment will control what type of avatar is appropriate. If you are on a business forum, perhaps an image of yourself, or professional photo is appropriate, but if you are on a social forum … Continue Reading

A question came in the other day as to why we did not have Macs in our offices so we could see the problems Mac users have when designing graphics for our application. After I got past the initial, knee jerk reaction of because we are an application development company not a graphic arts company; I then decided the question has real merit and should be respond to.

Our ProFusion Ultra IS and associated products … Continue Reading

My dad (Bob Reynolds, CEO of Net Solutions) and I have shared an office since August of 2009. Not a big office, probably 12′ x 12′. At first this annoyed the crap out of me. He eavesdrops on my phone calls, he types loudly and we definitely operate with two different internal thermostats. After I got over the initial minor annoyances of sharing an office, I started to realize that there could be some real benefits to this new situation.

Bob has been in business forever. As far back as I can remember he and my mom have owned … Continue Reading

Reasons to Use Domain Based email rather than FREE or ISP based email accounts for your business.

Most of the line items below have been pulled from other locations on the web. This post is designed to put all the nuggets of information we felt were valuable in one place. In some cases we took editorial liberty over the comment.

• With mass-market e-mail accounts, including MSN Hotmail, AOL! Email, Google GMail and Yahoo! Mail users share their e-mail domains (e.g., “@hotmail.com,” “@msn.com,” “@aol.com,” “@gmail,” “@comcast.com”, “@qwest.com”, “@verizon.com,” “@yahoo.com, ” etc.) with millions of other users, which makes it impossible to … Continue Reading
  

While the very course of website directory submission seems to change every day, the fact remains that there is some value in submitting your website to the most popular directories on the Internet. So how do we decide which are the most popular? By using the tools provided to us every day by the search engines; namely Alexa Rank and Google Page Rank.

Below you will find a list of some 150+ website directories ranked in order of Alexa rank, which also tends to coincide with Google Page Rank but not in all cases. We have also provide … Continue Reading