http://www.russellsays.com Events Calendar Listings en-us 9/3/2010 5:59:19 PM http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=6263&web_id=191 Not the drill business... http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=6313&web_id=191 Update - link to my Estimating and Budgeting Spreadsheet http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=6631&web_id=191 When clients stop listening..? (And trying to help us...?) http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=6665&web_id=191 ...may turn around and bite you. 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A great read from Jakob Nielson... http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11427&web_id=191 New Blog Post on which tools to use to better engage your customers on the web http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11445&web_id=191 So if GST does go up - who's going to use that opportunity to have a Pre-GST Sale...? http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11463&web_id=191 A great study in how Men and Women use Social Media differently... http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11542&web_id=191 Or the difference between free and open source software, proprietary software and cloud computing? There is a lot of confusion and some misinformation circulating about the different types of software available to run your web site. Free and open source is often touted as the ?best? because of it's low cost ? while proprietary software is seen as ?bad? because of the (sometimes) high cost to purchase. Lets take a look at each kind and see if can arrive a better answer... http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11574&web_id=191 In most fields, there's an awful lot of work put into the last ten percent of quality. Getting your golf score from 77 to 70 is far more difficult than getting it from 120 to 113 or even from 84 to 77. http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11578&web_id=191 Do you sell a big ticket item such as new boats or luxury vehicles...? A couple of our customers tell me that enquiries have been brisk today with many potential buyers talking about making a buying decision before October 1st... http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11627&web_id=191 A recent algorithm update is changing how Google ranks ecommerce shopping pages - and some people are finding it is for the worst... http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11650&web_id=191 Fantastic news Google has finally announced that the conversation threading in Gmail is on the way out... This is really great news and will on;y result in a larger uptake of people that are more confident in using Gmail http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11782&web_id=191 How does Trust work in the on-line world?? And how do you ensure that the people that communicate with you through the web have the highest perception of Trust that we can give them?? http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11866&web_id=191 So how many emails do you get in a day...? How many tweets do you read...? Blog Posts...? How many Photos or Files do you read or create in a day...? http://www.russellsays.com/news_details.asp?calid=11963&web_id=191 Just got a fax scam from a company that is passing off as the real Yellow Pages