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Shame on those of you business owners or sole proprietors out there who still don’t have a website. I don’t know what you are waiting for but you are sure missing the bandwagon for some free exposure on the biggest marketing medium ever, that’s right….the internet!

For years we have seen and come across many businesses and sole proprietors that have an active and viable service or products that they offer, except that they have no web presence. They are actually handing out business cards with an email address with their ISP instead of “mike@mydomain.com”. Very non-professional and it limits the choice that you offer your clients by not having a website. Let me explain better.

Right now, without a website, you may rely on actually meeting people or word of mouth in order to obtain additional clients and sell additional products. Or you may even go with a more conventional form of advertising such as yellow pages, magazine ads or actual print ads. In the last 3 years or so, anyone spending money on actual print advertising has written it off as almost a total loss or money and effort. Usually it is very easy to convinve them to cancel their print advertising budget, build at least one website and market their products or services on the web. They sometimes even make the decision to spend on pay per click with the search engines which helps a website gain rank in search engines for relevant key words and terms pertaining to their business. It has proven to be break even at abolsutely worst case scenario.

By advertising online and hosting your business website, you also give your customers and possible clients choices that they do not have with print ads or conventional media. They have the choice to send you an inquiry through your website at anytime of day or night. They can find out more about your products and services on the web without having to call you within a pre-determined business schedule. If you sell products, they could even purchase through your website anytime of day or night, hassle free at their convenience. If you sell services, possibly having an online booking application so they can make an appointment for services. More choices equals more business for you.

It is almost foolish today not to have a website developed for you with some professional email accounts set up at your own domain name. At a one time cost starting at $695 for a page or two explaining your products or services and email setup, it will be the best advertising and business development investment that you ever make

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Not too long ago, being the go to tech guy for most of my friends and colleagues, I started being asked to help people out with setting up their ipod and their itunes software. I thought no big deal at first but what resonated in my mind as an MCSE is that Apple and Microsoft have never played nice, but why not give peace a chance.

Having had several kinds of MP3 players in the past and working out any of the bugs involved with setup, I figured I was at least an amateur at getting the task done already. Especially because who knows how to better troubleshoot Windows than yours truly. Until I took the first try at trying to sychronize an ipod. In the past, all the MP3 players that I have owned have allowed you to either use synchronization software of just treat the MP3 player like a drive and drag and drop songs into it. Not an ipod though. Most of the time, the computer soes not see it as just a drive, most of the time it is hidden and their there is the evil itunes. Itunes makes everyone believe the only way you will get tunes on your ipod device is to buy them from their service. They do not exactly make it user friendly to easily get your own cds and existing files onto your device. Matter of fact it kind of sucks. It took almost 3 hours of fumbling with it the first time to get it to finally synchronize. Kind of sucks actually.

I think the nature of the problems stem from the fact that apple uses their own proprietary file system on the device and the itunes software is not that friendly on a Windows Operating System Environment. Most other MP3 players in the market allow you to either drag and drop your files to them as a drive or use a friendly piece of software. Needless yo say, unless you had a Mac, I would not recommend buying into an ipod. If a Computer and Technology solutions Developer like myself was having problems with the device and the software, it is almost a guarantee on the type of experience you will have.

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