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Occupation Spaces Launches New Community Portal for Small Business?
2008-05-06 17:39:00 Dateline 05/06/08 This Just In… Occupation Spaces Launches New Community Portal for Small Business … On Tuesday May 6, 2008 Occupation Spaces launched it’s new Community Portal for Small Business at www.occupationspaces.com as an addition to our Content Library for Blogs and Small Business Web Sites. The new portal is configured to provide full access to all features via free ...
How To Quickly and Easily Pick Hot Topics For Articles
2008-05-05 17:40:00 Many times when trying to find a topic to write about or develop content for a small business web site owner can develop a case of “Writer’s Block”. This can happen for any number of reasons, distraction and being “too close” to the subject just to name a few. We’ve gone into our Content ... More About: Articles , Topics , Pick
LEADING YOURSELF AND OTHERS: IT ALL BEGINS WITH YOU
2008-05-02 01:35:00 Found this article in our main content library and wanted to share… LEADING YOURSELF AND OTHERS: IT ALL BEGINS WITH YOU By Susan Young Leaders come in all stripes and shades. They represent broad varieties of personalities and styles and characteristics. You find them in all kinds of organizations and in most levels of an organization. They may ... More About: Leading
LEADING YOURSELF AND OTHERS: IT ALL BEGINS WITH YOU
2008-05-02 01:35:00 Found this article in our main content library and wanted to share… LEADING YOURSELF AND OTHERS: IT ALL BEGINS WITH YOU By Susan Young Leaders come in all stripes and shades. They represent broad varieties of personalities and styles and characteristics. You find them in all kinds of organizations and in most levels of an organization. They may ... More About: Leading
Making Money With A Content-Oriented Website
2008-04-30 04:30:00 Making Money With A Content -Oriented Website By David Risley Many websites out there have quite a bit of content, but are untapped as a resource for making money. Countless webmasters have heard the stories about getting rich working from home on their website. Yes, many people have done it. Yes, those who got in early on it ...
Making Money With A Content-Oriented Website
2008-04-30 04:30:00 Making Money With A Content -Oriented Website By David Risley Many websites out there have quite a bit of content, but are untapped as a resource for making money. Countless webmasters have heard the stories about getting rich working from home on their website. Yes, many people have done it. Yes, those who got in early on it ...
Occupation Spaces: Site Update 04/28/08
2008-04-28 18:35:00 This Just In… Occupation Spaces was off line for about 12 hours Sunday night and into Monday morning. We were in the process of trying to pull off some major site upgrades that will allow for increased user interaction and manged to knock ourselves off line for a bit in the process. We apologize for ... More About: Site , Update
Occupation Spaces: Site Update 04/28/08
2008-04-28 18:35:00 This Just In… Occupation Spaces was off line for about 12 hours Sunday night and into Monday morning. We were in the process of trying to pull off some major site upgrades that will allow for increased user interaction and manged to knock ourselves off line for a bit in the process. We apologize for ... More About: Site , Update
The Real Value Of Free Reprint Articles?
2008-04-25 17:59:00 Many folks just getting started with their blog or small business web site often find it difficult to create their own content while trying to run their business or in the case of a personal blog, whatever it is you do in the real world. Occupation Spaces was set up to provide free content via our ... More About: Articles , Free , Real
The Real Value Of Free Reprint Articles?
2008-04-25 17:59:00 Many folks just getting started with their blog or small business web site often find it difficult to create their own content while trying to run their business or in the case of a personal blog, whatever it is you do in the real world. Occupation Spaces was set up to provide free content via our ... More About: Articles , Free , Real
Webisodes: Using Multi-part content to bring visitors back to your site
2008-04-24 19:14:00 The concept is pretty simple, use multi-part content to give your web site visitors a reason to come back. For example, Let’s say it’s Thanksgiving and your web site specializes in cooking and recipes. You might write a single long post covering the best way to prepare a Turkey for cooking, what type of side dishes to ... More About: Site , Multi , Content , Back , Part
Webisodes: Using Multi-part content to bring visitors back to your site
2008-04-24 19:14:00 The concept is pretty simple, use multi-part content to give your web site visitors a reason to come back. For example, Let’s say it’s Thanksgiving and your web site specializes in cooking and recipes. You might write a single long post covering the best way to prepare a Turkey for cooking, what type of side dishes to ... More About: Site , Multi , Content , Back , Part
Creating Synergies Between your On-line and Off-line Small Business
2008-04-24 16:43:00 Many small businesses today are missing out on the synergies that can be created between their on-line and off-line businesses by primarily building web sites whose only purpose is to advertise their business and consequently treating it as a separate entity. In this post we’ll attempt to define “synergy” and give examples of how they may ... More About: Business , Small Business , Creating , Small , On-line
Creating Synergies Between your On-line and Off-line Small Business
2008-04-24 16:43:00 Many small businesses today are missing out on the synergies that can be created between their on-line and off-line businesses by primarily building web sites whose only purpose is to advertise their business and consequently treating it as a separate entity. In this post we’ll attempt to define “synergy” and give examples of how they may ... More About: Business , Small Business , Creating , Small , On-line
Change Log: Occupation Spaces - New content added
2008-04-23 21:41:00 Occupation Spaces has gone through a few more changes this week with additional video content being added for various small business categories and the site layout being modified to allow for additional pages. Additional content categories now include: Small Business Video Content Around 180 videos for web sites regarding small business ranging from commentary to training and seminars. MySpace ... More About: Change
Happy Tax Freedom Day America - Hardy, Har, Har?
2008-04-23 16:22:00 Sigh, Today is “Tax Freedom Day” or so it is called by an annual study of the nonprofit, Tax Foundation in Washington. It marks the day when America ns, in terms of taxes,on average have earned enough in the year to pay their taxes and supposedly, for the rest of the year, the wages earned are “solely” ... More About: Happy , Hardy
Content Equals Customers for Small Business
2008-04-22 17:18:00 A couple of times a year you’ll hear a news story indicating more and more consumers are making their purchases on-line. Accompanying said story is usually a staggering dollar amount forecasted for on-line retailers over a given period. Pretty enticing for someone considering setting up shop on-line. What is typically not included in these news blurbs ... More About: Business , Small Business , Customers , Content , Small
?Herding Cats?:Keeping Small Business Marketing and Sales on the Same Page?
2008-04-21 22:04:00 Of all the people under your employ, perhaps the most difficult employees to keep on the “same page” as the rest of your organization will be your marketing and sales reps. We actually had a Vice President of Marketing tell us once that keeping all of his reps on the same page was like trying to ... More About: Business , Cats , Small Business , Sales
Content Management Sytems: Considerations for Small Business
2008-04-21 19:00:00 Content management systems (CMS) are programs used to create the “template”, if you will, for the content of a Web site and can vary greatly in scope, functionality, and cost depending upon the content to be managed. Managed content will typically include computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea ... More About: Business , Small Business , Management , Content , Small
5 Tips When Starting an On-line Business
2008-04-21 16:34:00 For many the lure of starting an on-line business is just too powerful to resist. The relatively low cost of entry as well as the hype of making a living in front of your PC while in your pajamas draws thousands of folks every day. Sadly due to poor planning, inexperience, and the unexpected pitfalls of ... More About: Business , Tips , On-line , Line
7 Simple ways to promote your small business web site off line?
2008-04-20 16:03:00 For the small business owner your small business web site on-line is the first step towards developing an on-line presence and in the flurry of activity involved with planning, implementing and promoting their site on-line it’s easy to forget the following simple ways to promote your small business web site off line. 1. Word of mouth ... More About: Business , Small Business , Promote , Site , Small
Blogs, Blogs, Blogs! What They Are and Why They Matter (To a small business
2008-04-19 22:11:00 In the article, “Blogs , Blogs, Blogs! What They Are and Why They Matter ” Trey Pennewell provides a brief history of blogging from it’s origins as an on-line journal through it’s evolution into a marketing device and the impact a blog can have for an on-line business. “…Online businesses are beginning to realize the impact that a ... More About: Business , Small Business , Small
Change Log: Occupation Spaces gets serious?(For now)
2008-04-18 21:01:00 The domain and hosting for Occupation Spaces has been in place for well over a year now and the site has gone through numerous changes over that time. Occupation Spaces was originally going to be a social networking site where people could share information about their occupations (hence the name) and network with other professionals in ... More About: Change
Web Site Demos: Allow your customers to try before they buy?
2008-04-18 20:07:00 With the increased emphasis on multimedia technologies and user interaction, many businesses today, large and small, are creating interactive demonstrations for perspective clients and posting video as well as slide show presentations to You Tube in hopes of luring prospective customers. A You Tube search on the term “busines software demo” yields the following… ... More About: Customers , Site , Demos , Web site
Your First Small Business Web site: Buy it or Build it?
2008-04-18 17:27:00 When considering buying or building your first small business web site the number one thing you should consider is, “Is your business today what it will be tomorrow?” We live in a very fast paced time with business and technological developments changing the business environment almost daily and in most cases to keep up you’ll need to ... More About: Business , Small Business , Site , Small , Build
Using free articles to boost the quality and quantity of content on your sm
2008-04-18 01:35:00 In the article “How to promote your site and also make it sticky” by the Jonathan White, the author suggests using free articles as means to boost the quality and quantity of content on your small business web site. Per the author, “…If you find it hard to find content to add to your site to make ... More About: Articles , Free , Content , Boost , Quality
Busy couple of days at Occupation Spaces?
2008-04-16 22:17:00 It’s been a busy couple of days here at Occupation Spaces . We’ve added six content libraries, with plans for at least another six, and over a thousand different articles for reference use. Many of the articles are free to copy and redistribute as content on your own web sites and blogs. Please see individual articles ... More About: Couple , Days , Busy
Small Business Tip: Know Thy Data
2008-04-16 16:22:00 For today’s small business owner “knowing thy data” is vitally important. True Story: A small business was trying to get a handle on labor utilization during business hours at it’s remote locations. At these remote locations it was typically just the employee performing scheduled tasks for an assigned period of time which were tracked through a computer ... More About: Business , Small Business , Data , Small
Free Content Libraries
2008-04-16 04:39:00 Occupation Spaces is pleased to announce the addition of it’s first free web site content library which contains over 150 informative articles on various topics related to Web Site Promotion. All, or nearly all of the articles may be copied for use as content on your own web site.Please see specific articles for details. Occupation Spaces ... More About: Free , Content , Libraries
Basic Web Hositng Terminology for Small Business Websites
More articles from this author:2008-04-15 22:02:00 In this post we’ll cover some of the most basic terminology that any small business owner considering building a website should know. For starters, let’s begin with Domains Think of Domains as the “phone book” for the Internet which work by translating human-readable host-names, e.g. www.example.com, into the IP addresses, e.g. 192.168.1.1, that networking equipment needs to ... More About: Business , Small Business , Websites , Small , Basic 1, 2, 3 |



