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Joel Walsh


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13th April 2006

Comparison Shopping from a Mobile Phone

How often do you find something at a store and wonder how much cheaper you could get it online? Now you don't have to wonder--you can call 1-888-FRU-SHOP. That's the number for Frucall, a first-of-its-kind price-comparison shopping service currently in ...

13th March 2006

Residential Property Flipping and Real Estate Today

The twenty-first century has given real estate a whole bunch of new household words, from ARM to interest-only mortgage (OK, that's three words, but you get the idea). Increasingly, one of the most-mentioned words in real estate is "flipping." No longer...

02nd March 2006

Extended Automobile Warranty Coverage: 4 Myths of Buying an Extended Warranty from Dealers

Poor used car dealers. With consumers learning more and more about them from the internet, overcharging for the automobile itself isn't as easy as it used to be. Fortunately for the poor used car dealers, they've found something else to gouge consumers fo...

23rd February 2006

Used Auto Warranty Warning: Beware Dealer-Issued Extended Auto Warranty Coverage

Buying a used car? You need an extended auto warranty to protect you from expensive surprises down the road. But be careful when your dealer tries to sell you used auto extended warranty coverage. Usually, the dealer is simply reselling used auto warranti...

01st February 2006

Merchant Credit Card Processing Services Software Lets Anyone Accept Credit Cards

At one time (say, five to ten years ago) there were big barriers to entry when it came to accepting credit cards. There were stiff application fees, lengthy applications, and detailed credit history checks. In most countries, it's still like that. But ...

14th January 2006

Accepting Credit Cards Online: Easy, Cheap and Necessary

Your online business needs to accept credit cards. That's true whether your business is the next ebay or you're just selling your old collectibles on ebay. You're simply holding your business back if you don't accept the payment method of choice of the in...

21st December 2005

SEO Outbound Link Relevance

You know search engines evaluate a site based primarily on the links going to it (inbound links). The PageRank of the sites on which the inbound links are located, and the anchor text of the links, matter a lot. But if you're like most webmasters, you d...

07th December 2005

VOIP Small Business/Home Business Advantage

Small businesses, home-based businesses, and self-employed individuals have been turning to internet telephone service (also called broadband phone or VOIP) in droves. What is the attraction? As a self-employed, telecommuting, small-business-owning free...

29th November 2005

Wedding Planning on the Web

Planning a wedding? Whether you're a wedding planning pro or a do-it-yourself bride, I know one thing you don't: you aren't using the web enough. The web has become the dominant way to shop for electronics, travel, cars, housing, even education. Bu...

22nd November 2005

<h1>IT Networks: How to Argue for a Bigger Budget</h1>

by Joel Walsh IT network managers have to fight the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mindset to win resources. With computer networks, that mindset is dangerously complacent. IT networks will keep pumping data until they die or let in hackers. Here a...

18th November 2005

Used Cars:

Used Cars: "Certified" No Substitute for Extended Warranties Thinking about a used car extended warranty? Nervous about what's under the hood? Used car dealers are feeling your pain all the way to the bank. In an ironic twist, "pre-owned vehicle" de...

12th November 2005

Business Web Content Writing Success: Scan-Ability

Scan-ability is a measured, objective, scientifically proven criterion of successful written web content. While making content easier for users to scan rather than read word-for-word involves a number of factors, simply re-structuring web content in...

02nd November 2005

Web Content Mass + Keyword Optimization + Links = SEO

How does web content really affect SEO? It's often said that the answer is simply that content does not affect SEO very much–it's all about more technical issues. Yet a website's content still plays an enormous and fairly direct role in search eng...

26th October 2005

SEO Duplicate Web Content Penalty Myth Exploded

The "duplicate content penalty" myth is one of the biggest obstacles I face in getting web professionals to embrace reprint content. The myth is that search engines will penalize a site if much of its content is also on other websites. Clarification: ...

17th October 2005

San Francisco Real Estate: Buyer's Market? Seller's Market? Both?

San Francisco real estate, one of the USA's supposedly "frothiest" real estate markets, is no longer an instant jackpot for sellers–now it's just a jackpot. Buyers, though still facing high prices, now have enough time to actually think an offer ove...