Business & Finances

One of the most frustrating things in life is a slow computer. Every few years, we buy an expensive new PC and love how fast it starts up, runs programs, and loads web sites. Inevitably, though it starts to slow down, until eventually we are pulling our hair out waiting for it to do routine tasks. Why is this? It turns out the answer is actually quite simple and you don't even need to be "technical" to understand the causes and solutions. The good news, it's not the computer hardware that's...

In good times, it's natural that we pay less attention to our individual expenses. But in today's uncertain times, regardless of our current situation, everybody needs to save as much money as possible. When it comes to saving money the best place to start is with your auto insurance. Most Americans can point to a similar list of monthly expenses, including mortgage or rent payments, auto expenses, utility bills, food & clothing etc... Many of these expenses are fixed and can't be changed and...

The cat’s finally out of the bag on Google’s Adsense API, which will provide a simple way for sites to share their ad revenue with users. One of the first services to make use of this new functionality is RateItAll, a community rating site. They put out a press release earlier today: Pioneering online community and social network RateItAll.com today announced that it had integrated Google Adsense into its service via an API in order to share advertising inventory with RateItAll members. By...

Based on the success of the recent ProBlogger post, Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn, I thought it would be useful to put a resource post together for small business owners who would like to use Twitter to drive targeted traffic to their blog. We all know that blogging is a powerful medium for any small business owner that wants to improve SEO, create a social media footprint, or share their backstory. But how the heck do you use to drive more traffic to your small...