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Medalist Launches an Innovative E-commerce Solution

Today many companies are using e-commerce to grow their brands online and impact the bottom line growth. The challenge is to make sure the customer understands what it is he is buying and to make sure it will solve the problem they have. Medalist offers a series of layer clothing that is designed [...]

GLP - The Peace Corp For The 21st Century Launches

Not since John F. Kennedy has anyone attempted to make a significant change in the way young people see the world that when JFK created the Peace Corp. for Americans to go abroad to make an impact in the world. That was until recently when four exceptional young people started the Global L.E.A.D. Program. [...]

8 Steps for Making an Effective Business Marketing Video

Certainly you have heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth 100,000+ words! Video grabs people’s attention far more quickly and effectively than text or photographs. Research has shown that if a person can either watch a product being demonstrated live or watch a video they are 80% [...]

Building Traffic To Your Blog - A Sense of Community

When I first started blogging in 2003, I viewed the exercise mostly as a way to express myself. I didn’t know what a “blogroll” was, nor did I care that much when I learned. Over the last few years I have found that the main distinction between a blog and any other website, other than diary-like entries, is the [...]

Can I Afford Streaming Video On My Website?

The short answer is can you afford not too?  The power of video is amazing in building confidence in your company’s products and brand.  Research shows that if a person can watch a product being demonstrated live or watch a video they are 80% more likely to make a buying decision at that moment. Over the [...]

Four reasons to upgrade to Flash Player 9

If you have experienced rich media on the web, including the likes of fully animated websites, interactive video, or even video chat rooms, then you are experiencing the power of Flash.  As many of you know, having a Flash player installed in your browsers will allow you to enjoy these fruits of the net.  With [...]

How do I get started in building an online store?

There are two primary tasks involved in building and opening a Web store: planning and implementation. Planning Having a successful Web store involves much more than just an “If you build it, they will come” mentality. You aren’t ready to get started until you’ve done a significant amount of planning. Decide What to Sell The products that you offer [...]

A Benefit of Making Flash Interactive With Your Browser

Visitors to sites are accustomed to using the browser back/forward arrows for navigation and book marking.   We all know that Flash sites do not interact with browsers in this way without a little effort on the developer’s end. While it is commonplace to use the back/forward arrows to navigate through non-Flash sites, other users prefer to [...]

Three Bad Uses of Flash