Posts about ‘reviews’

10

Feb


Being a PayPal user for years now, and feeling comforted by the fact that a company like eBay runs it, I was hesitant to take one of our contractors’ suggestions to submit payment to him via Payoneer. What’s wrong with PayPal, I thought. Well it’s not that PayPal is the devil, as some would have [...] (more)

05

Sep


The other day I was patting Linkberry on the back for having put together a cool little utility that offers users a way to organize their favorite web links on a ‘start page.’ So what if they had a few ads over on the side – they weren’t in the way. But the second I [...] (more)

02

Sep


As I was catching up on my weekend Tweets, I came across one that mentioned the launch of the new Google Chrome web browser. I am already a fan of most things Google, so I clicked on the link in the Tweet and started downloading. The download ran seamlessly and Chrome was up and running [...] (more)

26

Jul


There are a number of reasons why you might want to know how much “traffic” your competitors’ websites are getting – not the least of which are competitive analysis or just plain curiosity. So, which website-ranking sites are best? And how reliable are they? Let’s take a quick look at the answers to these questions, [...] (more)

Not long after we posted an overview of virtual phone systems, we signed on for a very brief (7-day) free trial with RingCentral (we came to find out not long after that they were offering 30-day free trials through some of their web affiliates). We did our best to evaluate the service before it came [...] (more)

Earlier this month, we mentioned our experience with trying to find the best solution for online spreadsheet collaboration tools. Our top contenders were Zoho Sheet and eXpresso, and after performing numerous projects on both, we’ve decided to move forward with only one of them exclusively for future tasks. Both products have similar offerings, but when [...] (more)

A couple months ago I mentioned that the president of a young VA firm called BPOvia – out of China – contacted me, offering a free trial of their services. Being that there are more VA firms than there are Starbucks these days it didn’t strike me as a particularly appealing offer at first. But when I [...] (more)

Chances are if you stumble across this blog post you’re shopping for a web host provider for your website. Hosting is one of those areas where there is a ton of advice out there about which host to use, but very little agreement. Everyone seems to have their own preferred providers. For one of my [...] (more)

When using e-mail to collaborate on spreadsheets, matching the changes made by different people on the same document can be a headache. We are currently trying out two different alternatives to e-mail: Zoho Sheet and eXpresso to allow us to collaborate on Execl documents online – without e-mailing the documents back and forth. Zoho Sheet… [...] (more)

07

May


You might think that any book on internet marketing or performance marketing would be out of date by the time it was printed. And where a particular technology (say Ebay or Google AdWords) is concerned, that might be true. But internet marketing is still marketing – and regardless of the technologies, the fundamentals of marketing [...] (more)