New look for Kentucky Web Experts website by Bob Stovall

All website themes (templates) have a shelf life. If you’ve grown tired of the look and feel of your website, maybe it’s time for a change. Even if you’re satisfied with your website’s theme, your visitors may have grown tired of it. All websites should be refreshed every once in a while to prevent “design fatigue” from setting in and chasing your customers and prospects away. There are a couple of ways you can see if your website suffers from “design fatigue.” You could have a Website Review performed on your website. A Website Review would be money well-spent. Or you can ask some folks you trust will tell you the truth about your site’s appearance. Friends will tend to tell you want they think you want to hear and probably aren’t experts on this sort of thing, so seek those with less emotional involvement with you if you choose this route. I have recently been updating the look and feel of some of my websites. BobStovall.com and YourKentuckyHome.com got the new magazine format a few months ago. Now it was time for KentuckyWebExperts.com to go in for rehab. We wanted a simple theme that would continue the basic orange [...]

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Get more “Likes” for your Facebook Fan Page by Bob Stovall

Websites need SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to succeed. Facebook Fan Pages need fans who become fans by “Liking” your Facebook Page if they are to succeed. And once a customer likes your Facebook Page, they are kept informed of updates as you make them. When they then “like” a post to your Fan Page, it appears on their and their friend’s wall. That’s called social marketing. So how do you go about getting more people to “Like” your Fan Page? One great way is to offer something special for those that do. This is a strategy used by the top companies in the world. If it’s good enough for Coke, Pepsi, Amazon, etc., it’s good enough for us. But what do you offer? How about a coupon for something of value? A free appetizer with dinner, free oil changes with a car, even a free TV with a home purchase. These type offers incentivize potential customers to both “Like” your Fan Page and make a purchase from your business. That’s like getting a marketing 2-for-1. Orange Cat Productions has a solution that can place a coupon on your Facebook pages today. And for a limited time, you can get the [...]

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How to Share and Save Office Documents Online – NYTimes.com by Bob Stovall

How to Share and Save Office Documents Online By PAUL BOUTIN If you spend a lot of time working on Word, PowerPoint or Excel documents, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of trying to group-edit a file by e-mailing attachments around. And if you save your files on one computer, you may find yourself away from it — and unable to get to an important document. It’s easy to set up online saving and sharing. If you’ve got Office 2010 on a PC or Office 2011 for Mac, both have built-in options to save files to Microsoft’s Skydrive service, and to share them there with others. via How to Share and Save Office Documents Online – NYTimes.com. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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100% Elimination of Spam Email Forever by Bob Stovall

A few weeks ago, I posted info on taking control of the spam that invades all of our inboxes on a daily basis. In Had enough of Spam filling your INBOX?, I gave a few suggestions on what you can do to totally eliminate the spam you receive. The ideas included SpamArrest, a service that can eliminate 100% of spam emails from your inbox, now and forever. Recent mailings suggest that some of you have taken me up on the idea and decided to free your yourself and your time from dealing with spam. Monday’s mailing produced a few SpamArrest confirmation requests. This is a message that SpamArrest sends to email senders that are not in the recipients address book (at least not the one uploaded to SpamArrest) that requires manual intervention that a spammer just doesn’t have the resources to do. Of course we took the minute or so to update our info with SpamArrest so our subscribers will continue to get our timely information without a hitch. Of course, some of you may be saying “What IS this SpamArrest thing and how does it work?” The company has a brief, animated demo that you can see by clicking [...]

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Looking for a better word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program? by Bob Stovall

If you’re tired of buggy performance from your current over-priced word processor, spreadsheet or presentation application, or just don’t want to pay exorbitant licensing fees for bloated, unstable software, here are a couple of alternatives that won’t cost you a dime. The best known of these is OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org (OOo) began as StarOffice, developed by Star Division and acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. The OpenOffice.org suite is composed of Writer, a word processor similar to Microsoft Word or Word Perfect; Calc, a spreadsheet similar to Microsoft Excel or Lotus 1-2-3; Impress, a presentation program similar to Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote; Base, a database management similar to Microsoft Access; Draw, a vector graphics editor similar to early versions of Corel Draw and Microsoft Visio; and Math, a tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae. OpenOffice.org can read and write all popular file formats, including .doc, .xls, .ppt, etc. It can also read and save .docx, .xlsx, .rtf, .txt, .csv and more so you don;t need to concern yourself with file compatibility. A feature of OpenOffice.org that I really like in the “one click” creation of PDFs from Writer and Calc. Another is the ability of Impress to export to [...]

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