Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/10/the-today-show-to-ann-curry-help/
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
How to build cheap website for small business - Alek Davis
Summary: This series is intended for small business owners who want to establish web presence on a limited budget.
Say, you are a small business owner operating a local bakery. Or maybe you are an accountant. Maybe you manage an auto shop. Or work as a general contractor. You would like to have a website, but think it will cost you too much. Or maybe you just don't know how to start. Worry not: you can build a website yourself (or with little help). And you can do it on the cheap. And it does not have to be bad. In fact, it can be better than an average small business site you find now on the web. In this series, I'll tell you how you can do it.First, let me set the expectations. This series is not about building the next Amazon.com. A website I have in mind will not get you design awards. It is also not intended for businesses operating primarily online, such as online stores. The idea is to make a basic site with a handful of static pages, which will expose your business to the internet.
Before we start, let me answer a few questions that small business owners often ask:
- Do I need a website?
For majority of small business owners: yes, you do... unless you are one of the best or the worst. If you are very good, your reputation is spread by the word of mouth, and clients are chasing you instead of you chasing them, then the website will probably not make it better (although, it will not hurt, especially when business slows down). But if customers complain about you a lot, then visibility on the web will do you more harm then good (unless you take it as an opportunity to improve). - Will a website help me generate more business?
Don't expect immediate inflow of customers right after publishing your website. It will take time for search engines and people to find you. There are ways to speed up the process a bit, but even under ideal conditions, you may not see obvious results, at least, not immediately. But in certain cases, it may help, especially, if you consider the competition. Do your competitors have websites? If they do, you can't afford to not have one. If they don't, a website will give you a competitive advantage. Also, web presence can bring you business opportunities that you may not even expect. - How much effort will building and maintaining a website take?
Initial setup will take most of the time. If you already know what you want to put on the website, you can do it in a couple of days. Once your website is up and running, maintenance (if you follow my recommendations) will not take much effort. - Can I build a website myself?
In theory, many people should be able to. In reality (at least, based on my experience), majority of small business owners seek help with initial setup. Hopefully, this series will help you chose the path that is right for you. - How much will a website cost?
My goal is to get you up and running for less than $20 per year for a basic site (with a handful of pages). This assumes that you do everything yourself. If you need professional assistance for initial setup, it may cost you more, but it would be a one-time cost. Also, if you need some special bells and whistles, it may be more expensive (but not by a lot). I'll discuss costs in more detail later.
Here is the list of topics I will cover (I'll enable links when I make the topics available):
- Part I: Exploration
- Pros and cons of hiring a contractor
- How to avoid common pitfalls when working with a web developer
- Why do it yourself?
- Choosing a web host and platform
- Picking a domain address and registrar
- Cost allocation - Part II: Development
- How to get started?
- Basic website structure
- Where to get graphics?
- Where to store files?
- Do's and dont's of web design
- How to get better? - Part III: Deployment
- Steps to publish your website
- Make if visible to search engines (Google, Bing, etc)
- Website promotion
- Getting social - Part IV: Miscellaneous
- Examples of small business website
- References and resources
Source: http://alekdavis.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-build-cheap-website-for-small.html
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
DISH Network offers broadband internet for rural customers
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MacArthur Foundation reveals 2012 'genius grants'
CHICAGO?? Mandolin player and composer Chris Thile learned the hard way that when you get a call from the 312 area code this time of year, you should probably answer the phone.
Thile is among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," which are given in a secrecy-shrouded process. Winners have no idea they've been nominated for the $500,000 awards until they get the call, and nominators must remain anonymous.
Thile ignored the incessant phone calls from the foundation at first, thinking they were election-year robocalls. Then he received an ominous message: "Don't tell anyone about this call."
His tour manager searched for the number online and told him, "It appears to be from something called the MacArthur Foundation." It was a name Thile recognized.
"I think I must have turned white," he said. "I've never felt so internally warm. My heart was racing. All of a sudden, I felt very askew physically. I was trying to catch my breath. ... I thought, 'Oh my God, did I win a MacArthur?'"
The grants, paid over five years, give recipients freedom to pursue a creative vision. Winners, who work in fields ranging from medicine and science to the arts and journalism, don't have to report how they spend the money.
Thile, who played with Nickel Creek and is now touring with Punch Brothers, said he may use the grant to fund a chamber music project for a bluegrass quintet.
Northwestern University historian Dylan C. Penningroth said he now can expand his search for court records of property owned by slaves in the pre-Civil War South.
"This grant will make it possible for me to think big, to be more ambitious about the time period I cover and the questions I'm trying to answer, like, what's the connection to the modern civil rights era?" Penningroth said.
For other winners ? there have been 873 so far, including this year's recipients ? the grants bring prestige, confirmation and, in some cases, moments of profound reflection about life and fate.
"It left me thinking about my childhood," said Dominican-American author Junot Diaz, who wrote the Pulitzer-winning novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."
"It would never have dawned on me to think such a thing was possible for me," Diaz said, reflecting on his early years in New Jersey "struggling with poverty, struggling with English. ... I came from a community that was about as hard-working as you can get and yet no one saw or recognized in any way our contributions or our genius. ... I have to wonder, but for circumstances, how many other kids that I came up with are more worthy of this fellowship than me?"
David Finkel, author and national enterprise editor for the Washington Post, said the grant will allow him to complete a story he began in his book, "The Good Soldiers." The nonfiction work recounted the experiences of a U.S. Army infantry battalion deployed to Baghdad as part of the 2007 surge. Finkel is now following returning soldiers and their families, "watching a lot of them sink lower and lower and try to get help and maybe not doing so well with the help that's out there."
Winning a MacArthur grant felt like an endorsement not only of his own work, he said, but also of the type of long-form journalism he practices, which is in jeopardy as newspapers respond to the digital age. Declining circulation has forced newspaper publishers to shrink the size of their print publications and their staffs. Finkel admires the experimentation under way in journalism, but added: "I'm old-fashioned. The thing I'm most moved by is a well-told, deeply reported long story."
Maurice Lim Miller saw the MacArthur nod as validation of his project, called the Family Independence Initiative. The project, started in 2001 in Oakland, Calif., rewards self-sufficiency among residents of low-income neighborhoods by bringing groups of friends together and asking them to track the steps they take toward saving money, finding jobs, helping their children do well in school and other goals. Families increase their incomes and savings, start businesses and buy homes, he said.
Neither liberal nor conservative, the initiative transcends the current political debate about personal responsibility, Lim Miller said.
"Our work falls between the arguments that are being had between the right and the left," Lim Miller said. "The argument that people DON'T take personal responsibility is wrong. But the argument that they SHOULD take personal responsibility is right."
MacArthur winner Elissa Hallem is studying how parasitic worms find hosts through their sense of smell. Threadworms, attracted by carbon dioxide, can enter a person's body through the soles of the feet, for example. Hallem's work may someday prevent parasites from harming humans and improve the efficiency of good parasites that infect crop-killing insects.
"I didn't manage to say much other than, 'Wow' and 'Thank you,'" Hallem said about the "genius grant" call, which came as she was working in the microscope room at the University of California, Los Angeles. "I feel very honored that they recognized my work in this way and are making this investment in my research."
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49250369/ns/business-us_business/
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Wall Street kicks off October with modest gains
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street started a new quarter with a modest rally on Monday, lifted by a surprising expansion in U.S. manufacturing in September.
After rising more than 1 percent by midday, the major U.S. stock indexes came off their highs, with the Nasdaq the hardest-hit. Market participants said Wall Street has shown signs of fatigue as stocks closed a strong third quarter on Friday.
"We are at a level where the market is due for a correction. Also, as we head for a new earnings season here, we should expect more volatility ahead," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Asset management in Bedford Hills, New York.
Among stocks weighing on the Nasdaq, Apple , the world's most valuable publicly traded company, lost 1.2 percent to $659.39, dragging the tech-heavy index lower.
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Besides tech, sectors associated with growth were strong. Financial stocks rose, with Goldman Sachs Group
A number of blue-chip stocks hit 52-week highs, helping the Dow outperform the broader market. Shares of General Electric
The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> rose 77.98 points, or 0.58 percent, to 13,515.11 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> advanced 3.82 points, or 0.27 percent, at 1,444.49. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> dipped 2.70 points, or 0.09 percent, to close at 3,113.53.
After a strong morning session, stocks trimmed earlier gains and the Nasdaq briefly turned negative as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the U.S. central bank and its ultra-loose monetary policy as it aims to reduce unemployment.
Stimulative measures from the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank helped the S&P 500 finish the quarter up 5.8 percent, its best third quarter since 2010.
While his speech was more of a reiteration of the Fed's stance, some market participants said the market is getting anxious about the Fed's eventual exit plan.
"He (Bernanke) differentiates money printing and what he claims they are doing by saying money printing is a permanent source of financing for government spending, where he said what the Fed is doing is temporary," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak & Co in New York.
"Unwinding their balance sheet and normalizing the fed funds rate will be highly disruptive," he said.
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On the economic front, U.S. manufacturing expanded in September for the first time since May as new orders and employment picked up, an Institute for Supply Management report showed. The ISM data eased concerns about the economy and offset a gloomier outlook in Asia and Europe.
The ISM's index rose to 51.5 in September from 49.6 in August, topping expectations for a reading of 49.7, according to a Reuters poll.
The U.S. data followed surveys in the euro zone that showed manufacturing slackened in the three months to September while Asia's factories are continuing to struggle in the face of tepid demand from the United States and Europe.
About 6.3 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, Amex and Nasdaq, compared with the average daily volume of 6.38 billion.
Advancers outnumbered decliners on the New York Stock Exchange by a ratio of about 3 to 2. And although the Nasdaq ended slightly lower, the breadth was definitely positive with about seven stocks rising for every five that fell.
(Editing by Jan Paschal)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stock-index-futures-signal-early-gains-092051064--finance.html
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Being the Best You Can Be in Business ... - Yellow Dog Consulting
I wanted to share with you a once a year event I am proud to support taking place on? Saturday, October 6th- called The Being the Best You Can Be in Business series to benefit the eWomenNetwork foundation ? an organization that provide grants to local nonprofits that support women and girls.
This event is designed to give you access to information you need to complete your Strategic Planning and get your 2013 ready to be your best year ever!
The line up of speakers and topics include
????????? Mikelann Valterra ? Seattle Money Coach ? Overcoming Under earning
????????? Joy Ingraham ? Clothes For Kids ? Growing Your Business Through Philanthropy
????????? Debbie Yazici ? Verity Credit Union ? Small Business Lending ? What You Really Need to Know
????????? Tracey Warren ? Ready Set Grow Marketing ? Make Money With Social Media
????????? Vivian Valencia ? Verity Credit Union ? Establishing Business Credit and Separating It From Your Personal Credit
????????? Karen Lynn Maher ? LegacyOne Authors ? Finding An Intern To Leverage Your Business
????????? Debbie Whitlock ? Personal and Business Finance Expert ? Growing Your Bottom Line Profitably and Sustainably
The event is from 9:30-3:30 in North Seattle ? if you are not an eWomenNetwork member registration is $65 and if you are a member it is $55 ? 100% of the proceeds will go directly to a program within our community!
I?ll be out of town this weekend so will miss this fantastic event, but if you?re interested you can register HERE.
Source: http://yellowdogconsulting.com/being-the-best-you-can-be-in-business-workshop-106/
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