Land of Opportunity

Regular readers may have noticed about a week has gone by without a post. The time has been well spent installing WordPress 1.5 on two Windows 2003 Servers running Internet Information Server 6 (IIS6) at the office. I now have the wisdom that only comes from performing and mastering a task. You, the reader, now gain the advantage of learning from my experience without the expense of time nor the frustration of troubleshooting.

If you are planning to install WordPress on Microsoft Server 2003 and/or IIS6, here’s the inside information:
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RRS aggregators are a great way to read your favorite blogs. If you have not tried out a RSS aggregator before, now is the time.

You may have noticed the “button farms” on most blogs with buttons saying XML RSS, FeedBurner, My Yahoo, My MSN and/or Bloglines. (Mine are near the bottom of the left column on this page.) These buttons are links to that blog’s RSS feeds. An RSS feed generally consists of the name of the blog, the title of each post and a brief exerpt from each post. Some blog RSS feeds also contain (more…)

Since the Land of Opportunity small business blog is about one month old, I suspect that some of you would be interested in learning what has worked well and what has not worked as well during the launch of my new business blog. First, it should be noted that I am a 10-year Internet marketing veteran and webmaster a very large small business website which attracts over 40,000 visitors each month. I already had a marketing strategy in mind albeit based on my experience with tradional web marketing and search engine optimization methods.

Strategy #1 - Content, Content, Content

The first rule of any web presence, blog or otherwise, is (more…)

I use Xenu Link Sleuth for checking the links on my employers website. Xenu Link Sleuth is a free small Windows program that crawls entire sites looking solely for broken links. I’ve been using it for many years and thought some of you might would like to know about this handy utility program. Did I mention that its free? (more…)

eBay has released a beta version of their new eBay Accounting Assistant . (Beta means eBay is gathering input from the community about their experiences with eBay Accounting Assistant. Accounting Assistant works as a fully functioning application.)

eBay Accounting Assistant is a new tool which enables you to easily export eBay and PayPal transaction data as well as information about eBay fees to QuickBooks. (more…)