Dialing Up VoIP Myth-Busters
If a new technology comes our way that brings with it the promise of reducing or eliminating tremendous monthly costs, it can be expected that supporters and stakeholders of the status quo are going to [more…]
How to Make the Most of Polls in Your Blogs
Polls are a great way to increase your blog traffic; no one can resist talking about themselves, especially if there’s a button to push along the way! You can use polls, too, for getting readers to provide [more…]
Boosting VoIP Quality with Dedicated Transports
Transports are the physical lines installed at the company or consumer premises to provide all sorts of network access. Many folks think of T1 or T3 transport lines when they hear the phrase [more…]
Fashioning an FAQ for Your eBay Auctions
Customers always have questions. It's the nature of things. Whenever you get involved with a transaction where you're parting someone from their money and giving something in return, the party giving up [more…]
Using VoIP in the Single-Site Office
Considering VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) for a single-site, smaller company has a lot of parallels to putting VoIP in at a larger multilocation company. There are also some big differences. These [more…]
How to Blog without Losing Friends and Family
If you're not careful on your blog, you can damage relationships with friends and family. Many bloggers have posted content that they later regretted. Even if you never criticize others, you might possibly [more…]
Using VoIP on the Internet
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) allows you to make voice calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a phone line. TCP/IP (transmission control protocol Internet protocol) uses a layered [more…]
Saddling Up with HTML Horse Sense
People used to refer to common sense as "horse sense." Most things about HTML fall under the realm of horse sense. After you see HTML tags a few times, most of the rules [more…]
Composing a Shot for Your Vlog
Shot composition is one of the sexy phrases that film and art students use to answer the question, How does it look on camera? A lot of factors can influence how well-composed a shot is. So here's the [more…]
Looking Into Text and Tags
HTML documents contain text that you're working with and tags that determine document elements such as headings, lists, and paragraphs. In addition, HTML tags enable other objects, such as images; style [more…]
Warding Off Laptop Lifters
Take a moment to reflect on the number of hours you spend with your laptop and the number of intimate details about your life that you have shared with it, and you realize that this electronic confidante [more…]
Picking Readable Type for Your eBay Listing
You can choose from two categories of typefaces to use for the text in your eBay listing description: those with serifs and those without. Typefaces without serif are called [more…]
How to Blog with Blogging Ethics in Mind
You can write about anything on your blog, but it’s important to blog ethically. Bloggers do have a code of ethics. As a blogger, you should think about what you write before you publish it, as well as [more…]
How to Protect Your Privacy and Reputation While Blogging
When blogging, you need to protect your privacy and reputation — what you put on your blog today might stick around for a long time to come. Your viewpoints could rankle readers, and some may not always [more…]
How to Learn from Lurking on Other Blogs
The best way to figure out what will work on your blog is by lurking on other blogs – reading or looking at blogs without participating.
Find a few blogs you like, that you regard as competition, or that [more…]
Sinking Your Teeth into the Spammer Food Chain
To understand the problem of spam, you really need to know who's doing all the inbox overloading and what they're advertising with their floods of e-mails. Surveying the Internet, you can quickly see that [more…]
How to Blog with Honesty and Openness
Communication on a blog is about openness, honesty, and being straightforward with your topics and ideas — and readers. If you're not honest on your blog, be prepared for questions. For example, if you [more…]
VoIP: Counting Up the Cost Benefits
By using VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), companies immediately save money on toll charges. Also, you don't pay any additional per-line feature charges because VoIP runs on your computer network. Regulatory [more…]
Providing Support for Your New VoIP System
If you're a multilocation company with limited staff, implementing VoIP may not necessarily increase the need for more full-time people, but it increases the need for support over the near term until everyone [more…]
Reporting a Problem eBay Listing
eBay can't possibly monitor millions of items for sale on a daily basis, picking out the problem children from all the auction listings. eBay relies on eBay members to let it know when a shady listing [more…]
Multiple-Purchase Benefits for eBayers
If selling one item is a good thing, selling more than one to the same customer in your eBay auction is even better. Here are some advantages for you when an eBay auction customer makes multiple purchases [more…]
Using Comments in Blogs
You might not realize it until you get deeper into your blogging lifestyle, but bloggers spend an amazing amount of time tracking the influence of their blogging. That means attempting to locate other [more…]
Providing More Info to eBay -- Your Option
When you're a full-fledged, officially registered member of the eBay community, you may see an eBay pop-up window, giving you the option to provide more information about yourself. These optional questions [more…]
How to Figure Out How Much a Blog Costs
Deciding on how much money you can commit to your blog — and therefore how much your blog will cost — is a good indicator of which platform you should acquire. Many of the hosted services available to [more…]
Monitoring Sales Meetings from Different Perspectives in WebEx
If you're the sales manager, you can make use of a unique feature that enables you to observe your sales reps in action with accounts. Because nobody will know you're attending, this is called [more…]
