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Goldilocks and the Three List Managers

For someone who used to teach computer classes, my e-mail newsletters were ghet-toooh. I’m talking drafted in Apple Mail and then sent to just five recipients at a time so it wouldn’t get filtered out by spam. It took so damned long they usually went out at around 3am, ensuring that they would get the worst possible response. Deciding it was time to grow up, I did a cursory look at the e-mail marketing programs my friends and colleagues use: Constant Contact, Vertical Response and PHPList.

Although it’s very pretty, … Read more »

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Date2.03.2009

It’s Alive!

It’s seems that no other project racks up delays quite like a web site. There’s always something that could be added, or could use cleaner functionality, or doesn’t look quite right in Internet Explorer 18.3 for Windows WTF. But after six months of such delays, I am proud relieved to announce that Sweet-Meats.com 2.0 has finally launched! It’s as close to perfect (for my own purposes) as I’ve ever gotten a web site, so I’d like to share some of my steps with you, and review a few of the services I tried along the … Read more »

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Date10.20.2008

Black Magic

I’m quickly moving forward with my web site re-design. My husband’s somewhat valid opinion is that what I’ve come up with is not a full step up from the old site, but his suggestions thus far have been unworkable:

Pay our friend $1,000 to do it, who is talented and fast (but who is also in rural France and often without Internet access). I’d love to hire her but I don’t think it’s worth the money for a business I’m planning to shut down in a few months.
Turn my online store into a Wordpress site, and integrate it … Read more »

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Tagsblack hat seo, google, google analytics, keywords, mal's e-commerce, Marketing and Promotion, meta tags, page rank, pagerank, paypal, search engine optimization, search engines, seo, technology, wordpress, wp e-commerce plug-in

Date9.21.2008