http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Chuck+Crawford Internet Chuck Crawford Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=298219&ca=Internet The market for blogs has exploded. Many companies do not want to invest the time in developing a blog in their respective niche, which has given rise to a whole new cottage industry, blog flipping. Blog flipping is done in a few different ways. Some flippers buy an existing blog that has potential,... Internet Chuck Crawford Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=292902&ca=Internet If you are the one that maintains the company blog, you know that your comments get jammed with cheap spam. Which is not a big deal if you use Akismet. But still, it is a little irritating to see all the auto generated comments in your spam filters when you log in. What’s worse is that I actually st... Business Chuck Crawford Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=285615&ca=Business “Yeah, our company has a blog…” Sound familiar? Lot’s of companies have blogs, but most of the staff and management have no idea what that blog is about. If you have employees, even if they aren’t responsible for your blog, they could be a super valuable addition to your blog and it’s overall perfor... Marketing Chuck Crawford Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=277491&ca=Marketing There are a million reasons why your business needs to add a blog to it's website. Here are the five reasons I feel are most important. 1.Content 2.Customer interaction 3.Branding 4.Authority 5.Traffic Website content: Content is king, I'm sure you've heard this catch phrase. It's plastered on every... Business Chuck Crawford Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=275803&ca=Business Business is all about networking, right? Plus, you likely know that you need to get some links to your website to build traffic. Since you’re a pro blogger, of course the first place you look for those much needed links is the blogosphere. However, some manners are in order when it comes to posting... Internet Chuck Crawford Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=270571&ca=Internet So you've decided to put up a business blog. Each company website has a specific reason for putting up a blog and it's important that you focus on that reason from the very beginning. Some companies will put up a new blog on their corporate domain as an addition of content to the site. Some will do... Internet Chuck Crawford Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=270078&ca=Internet So now your a pro blogger and you’re blogging away each and every day. Then it happens. You never saw it coming. Your flow and passion have driven you and you’ve never had a problem coming up with something to write about. Until today. Writers block. It happens to everyone. You can be super passiona... Internet Chuck Crawford Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=270128&ca=Internet Our specialty for years has been constructing and developing affiliate websites for our clients. We also rank well for our sites centered around these terms, so we get quite a few new inquiries about developing affiliate sites. Many times though I get calls from people that want to build something,... Internet Chuck Crawford Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=269075&ca=Internet So your website has a page that is doing well, but not sitting at the number one spot. Maybe you’re sitting on page two for a term that you’re working on. Page two is good. Page one is better, obviously. But making the move from page two to page one can be tough, and a bit risky if you don’t know ho... Business Chuck Crawford Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=268834&ca=Business Today one of my clients asked me the million dollar question about whether or not he should sell advertising on his company blog. My answer, every time a client asks me this, is… Hmmm. The reason I always stop to think about my answer to the blog advertisement question is that it’s different for eac...