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Popular Free Font Websites

Ryan and Kevin — Sun, 16 May 2010 09:17:00 GMT

Fontsquirrel.com
Fontspace.com
Dafont.com
Urbanfonts.com
Acidfonts.com
Fontstock.net

What is Kindle? Kindle is a eBook reader

Ryan and Kevin — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:25:00 GMT

Amazon’s Kindle looks pretty cool. I am one of those people who love’s the mobility and the feel of a true book. I cannot stand reading a long PDF on my laptop because it’s difficult to read in bed, to throw in the car, a book bag a brief case and quickly pull out to read when I want to, plus it tires my eyes faster than reading some dead trees. But, I think the Kindle might actually be a device worth having. For $399 you get:

A pleasant to read screen and easy to look at formatting
EVDO network to browse and buy Amazon books anywhere you can get cell. Plus access to Wikipedia
It’s smaller than most paperback books
Looks like an easy to use screen, nice large side buttons to move forward and backward
Search your books
Full qwerty keyboard
You can take digital notes while reading your book
Long battery life – without the cell on you can read for a week before recharging – and recharge is only 2 hours.
Plus the books are pretty cheap - $9.99

And long term savings:

Buying books uses paper – killing trees, and has high production costs – machines, ink…
You have to lug books around from house to house or office to office – they take up a lot of physical space when you are not reading them
They cost a ton to transport to and from warehouses and bookstores – Gas etc.
Hopefully more profits can go to the author than to all the middle men

eBooks and book readers have been tried before and have not caught on. Maybe with some like Amazon behind it we can get a great device and a large selection of books this time!

5 Easy ways to improve your business with the web

Ryan and Kevin — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:07:00 GMT

There are 5 easy things you can do to make sure your business embraces the Internet as a sales and marketing tool in 2007:

Purchase your own .com Domain Name for your company
Use your .com Domain Name for all email communication
Create a professional website and make it part of your sales team
Internet marketing with Google, Yahoo and MSN
Start an e-newsletter to communicate with customers

You may not realize it, but if you’re still using an email address from Yahoo, Hotmail, SBC, Comcast, or some other free email service to communicate with customers, you’re losing some “professionalism points.” If your website is not portraying your company effectively and generating business for you, then it’s time to take action! Following these five steps is a good start to making your website function as an extension of your sales team.

Purchase a ‘.com’ Domain Name for your company

You have to buy “yourcompanyname.com” as soon as possible, or someone else will. Buying an internet Domain Name (.com, .net, .org) is extremely affordable and is the first step in getting your own email

Your Personal Marketing Strategy

Ryan and Kevin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 01:14:00 GMT

Every salesperson should develop a marketing strategy specific to how they do business. It should be a plan that you personally create or possibly design alongside a professional to outline how you can satisfy your customers and achieve your goals. I define marketing as “identifying the needs and wants of a target customer and then appealing to and satisfying those needs.” Creating a complete marketing plan may consist of such items as: research on customers, defining their needs, product design, pricing and promotion. Here are a few ideas that might not be part of a corporate marketing plan but can immediately become part of your personal marketing plan.

Review your Business Card – It should be informative and be memorable

Your business card is important. When you meet a prospective buyer this is what they will have in their hand after you have introduced yourself and parted from one another.

Microsoft Word 2007 Upgrade

Ryan and Kevin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:22:00 GMT

Learn about some of the new features in Microsoft Office 2007, and why you should upgrade...

Windows Vista Review

Ryan and Kevin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:36:00 GMT

I installed Microsoft Windows Vista on my Table PC Laptop this week, here are my thoughts thus far...

Microsoft Image Resizer

Ryan and Kevin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:34:00 GMT

Ever wish you could just right click on an image file and resize it? Well you can with the Microsoft Image Resizer PowerToy. Download and install this application to get a new feature when you right click on any image with your mouse. I use this a few times a week to resize JPG photos from my digital camera to a more appropriate size for emailing and uploading to friends.

Cropper Screen Capture

Ryan and Kevin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:30:00 GMT

Cropper is a free, easy to use Windows application that allows you to capture specific areas of your computer screen. It is an application that you can drag and resize to put over a section of your screen, then hit enter and it will automatically save a picture of what is under the Cropper application to your computer. It is great for taking screen shots of websites, areas of a PDF document, cropping an area of a photo or sending a picture of your screen in an email to an associate. It is far better than ‘print screen’ and you can download it for free. I used Cropper to make the screenshots in this newsletter.

Search Engine Optimization 101 - Part 1

Ryan and Kevin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:12:00 GMT

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an extremely complex subject because Internet Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN do not openly publish all the factors involved with calculating how they rank a website for particular keywords. It is up to the SEO specialists of the world to try different techniques, see what works and publish their findings to others. Here are a few simple “on-page” factors we have identified that can help your website tremendously in Yahoo, MSN, and Google. There are also a significant number of “off-page” factors that have an additional impact on your ranking, but we will cover those at a later date.

Mixtopia Premier - Success Story

Ryan and Kevin — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:17:00 GMT

Mixtopia Premier of the Metro Detroit area is experiencing excellent results with Web Ascender’s Internet Marketing.

Mixtopia spent only $25 in the month of January, but their Internet ad was viewed over 3,000 times, and produced more than 50 qualified leads to their website. This has resulted in a number of phone calls and inquiries via their online contact form which has ultimately led to booking new bartending appointments.

Here is a quote from the co-founder of Mixtopia Premiere, Steve Csaki, after we revamped their internet strategies.
“What did you guys do! Our traffic has at least tripled”
www.mixtopiapremier.com

Mixtopia Premier uses the Standard SiteCTO plan with 1 Google AdWords package that Web Ascender manages.

How To Make Web Videos

Ryan and Kevin — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:01:00 GMT

Here at Web Ascender we made all of our own online videos. We primarily have two types of videos we make:

· Computer screen capture with voice over

· Digital Video of a persor with voice over