Mike Seidle ...notes from the road

LinkedIn Group for people with an Indiana connection. Link to the invitation page. Feel free to invite yourself

RSS Feed Republishing tool

Many SEOs are reporting dramatic reductions in traffic to their website from Google, despite holding high search positions. First reports came in May 28/29, 2008 and after a week of watching, we believe there is a trend. There's no consensus on the reason for the change in Google referred traffic although there is an announced initiative to reduce the number of Made For Adsense (MFA) Pages in the Google index.

Interesting article on new ways people are finding to get deeper into debt.

Crowdsourcing is outsourcing to a mob of people... here are a few sites that do so.

Pay Per Click Network

SEO Tool Site

Clean and Free icons for web and software designers

Social Bookmarketing Aggregator. Like Plaxo without the suck features!

Great tool for reviewing Content Management Systems.

 I was reading Pursuasive Business Proposals by Tom Sant and a thought occured to me.  When was the last time you delivered a proposal worth more than $5,000?  Did you just email it? Or did you give it the royal treatment and bind it and hand deliver it?  Chances are we all would sell more if we took a few minutes and realized that presenting a proposal worth $5,000 or even $50,000 in a $2.00 three ring binder from Staples is not going to make the impression you need.  I wonder how many proposals get thrown away because they just don’t look good.

Here are a few quick ways to make that proposal look like it deserves to be considered:

• Get a Unibind Machine and some Steelbook covers.  When you bind your proposal in a Steelbook, you get a genuine hardback book which will stand out compared to coil and comb bound proposals.  Unibind also has matching folders for your support material.
• For proposals with lots of tables and charts, use plastic coil or wire coil binding so the proposal can open flat.
• Avoid Comb binding and folders.

Looks like someone is working on building a CRM out of Joomla