Author Archive: Rick
Fresno Convention Visitors Bureau on chopping block
Fresno Visitors Bureau on chopping block Mayor cites dismal budget in plan. SOURCE: George Hostetter / The Fresno Bee 10:35 PM on Sunday, Jun. 06, 2010 The downtown improvement district would assess property owners in a specific downtown area for added services such as security and marketing. Hotels outside the downtown district’s boundaries would not […]
Need help with your online E-Mail Newsletter?
Need help with your online E-Mail Newsletter? Pacific Leisure has a solution for you. We offer a “double op in” newsletter program that can help grow your business, and it can be integrated with any website or WordPress blog. Why Use E-mail Newsletters? Email newsletters are great way to extend the reach of your website. […]
Social Media Growth statistics
Facebook – Second largest site on the web – 400 million active global users – 50% of active users log into the site each day. This equates to at least 175m users every 24 hours. – More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day. – Photo uploads have increased by more than 100% […]
Meet Facebook’s (Soon-To-Be) Billionaires
Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of Facebook, worth $5.3 billion. The site was started by Mark Zuckerberg when he was an undergraduate student at Harvard and grew rapidly to include hundreds of millions of users. Last we looked at the private markets where Facebook stock is traded, the company had an implied valuation of well over […]
Facebook over 500 Million Users
Facebook is preparing to celebrate crossing 500 million monthly active users, AllFacebook reports. Our guess is that Facebook crossed 500 million some time ago, and is just preparing the announcement now in order to bounce bad news out of the press. (Last week, Facebook told Search Engine Land “the user number milestones we announce publicly […]
Use Bitly To Measure Social Media Marketing Results
Using simple tools like Bitly that can track the clicks you’re getting from your Social Networking on twitter and facebook is invaluable. It can show you what type of content your followers and friends appreciate more so that you can see that from real data and then create more similar content… Conversely you can also […]
WordPress or Blogger?
By: Anil Gupta at scopeformoney.com Here are top 10 reasons why self hosted wordpress blog is better than free blogs that are created on blogger.com or any other free blog creation websites: 1. Full Control over your blog Blogger.com is owned by Google and they can delete your blog without any prior warning if some […]
WordPress vs. Blogger
One persons opinion about WordPress vs. Blogger 1. Ownership and branding – I could install the software to the server under my owned domain name with no sub-domain name structures. Like am on thewwwblog.com which looks lot better than thewwwblog.blogspot.com, and having something behind your desired name doesn’t look brandable. WordPress proudly hands over the […]
Why have a business blog?
This should not scare you away. It should, though, inspire you to learn the basics of business blogging before you turn your baby loose on the world. Planning out your blogging strategy first is a wise move, because it gives your blog a greater chance of success. Here are 10 tips for launching your business […]