What Kind of Webmaster Are You?

Some sites are built to attract a high volume of quick traffic resulting in quick sign-ups and sales... other sites are built for the long run - to attract regular visitors, multiple purchases over time and site-recommended programs, products and services. What kind of webmaster are you?

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Riding a New Wave to Success

One day it happened. Somebody took a chance. Do you remember where you saw your first odd sized banner? The first time I ever saw a non-standard issue banner on a webmaster-based site was on an anime link trade site back in late ’99. At first I thought somebody screwed up, some new webmaster had just done it wrong. Well, he’d actually done something quite right. The odd-sized banner caught the attention of the surfers like nothing else had in a long time.

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Team Work: The KEY to Your Success!

There comes a point in every business when you realize… it’s time to get HELP! A lot of web-based businesses start out in-house, I mean REALLY in your house. But after awhile, most businesses grow to a point where they have to hire some outside help in order to maintain what you’ve built so far, while taking your business to the next level of success. Unfortunately we can’t do it all by ourselves, and for the obsessive perfectionist work-a-holic in all of us hiring staff can be a scary concept.

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Has the Surfer Gone the Way of the Dinosaur? - by Kath Blackwell

New studies show that the age of the “surfer” is a thing of the past, with 9 out of 10 of today’s Web users claiming to go online with a specific destination already in mind. A UK-based government program conducted the survey via Tickbox.net, an Internet community service that conducts online surveys and measures ‘Net trends. The study also revealed that despite there being well over 75 million websites currently hosted on the World Wide Web, the average surfer only visits six sites on a regular basis – with top destinations visited including eBay, Amazon, Google and other popular sites.

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