JBCR Virtual Solutions Blog

Archive for January, 2007

Are you involved in Social Net­work­ing? There are lots of places, but Sec­ond Life is new to me.

I’ve been read­ing a great deal about Sec­ond Life so I decided to give it a try myself. It took me a fair amount of time to cre­ate my avatar to a point that I thought it might look a lit­tle like me. I then started walk­ing around the vir­tual 3D world. You use the arrow keys to move, and as in real life you can walk off a cliff

Sec­ond Life gives you a chance to meet peo­ple, text chat (they say voice is com­ing). There are stores, beaches, golf courses, bars, ski areas, high-rise office build­ings, etc., all cre­ated by users.

The talk is that Sec­ond Life could become a place to sell prod­ucts, ser­vices, and con­duct classes — a whole new and dif­fer­ent social network.

One thing I can see grow­ing in this com­mu­nity is adver­tis­ing dol­lars. With a com­mu­nity of almost 3 mil­lion that equals a lot of peo­ple view­ing your ad.

Read more here: http://snipurl.com/18jge

If you join drop me a note so we can connect.

As every busi­ness owner I spend more work­ing my clients sites as other busi­ness own­ers do. The past few months I became very aware that not only did my web­site look stale, but I was not doing what I advise my clients to do (fresh con­tent, update blogs, sub­mit arti­cles, etc.) So I decided to spend more time on my site.

I am thrilled to announce that JBCR Vir­tual Solu­tions now has a Page Rank of 6. Read more here about how to work your site for bet­ter rank­ing and more traffic:

http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html

Did you know that you have less than 30 sec­onds to grab your visitor’s atten­tion? Ok, maybe less than 20. So you can imag­ine how impor­tant cre­at­ing a head­line that works is crit­i­cal to the suc­cess of your page, and yes, your site.

Nor­mally the first thing that some­one sees on your web­site is the head­ing on your home page. This is prime real estate and should be used to the best of your abil­ity. Your head­ing can draw peo­ple fur­ther down your page or right off the site. Let’s look at an example.

Head­ing One: “You can make money if you fol­low these easy steps!”

This head­ing talks to the vis­i­tor who has entered your site and no doubt they also want to “make money” so they are very likely to look fur­ther to see what the “easy steps” are.

Always keep in mind that a head­line that talks TO your vis­i­tor – and — cre­ates a ben­e­fit to your vis­i­tor works!

Read more infor­ma­tional arti­cles here: http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html

Wanted to pass on a notice I received through Syman­tec today.

It appears there is a new Tro­jan going through emails that is now a level 3 threat.

This appears to orig­i­nate from Rus­sia and is push­ing stock, though there seems to be no con­tent, only a sub­ject line with attachments.

Read more here:
http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007–011917-1403–99&tabid=1

To be safe, always remem­ber NEVER OPEN an attach­ment that you are not expect­ing, even if the email is from some­one you know. It may not be them send­ing it.

Be safe out there!

Jan

Did you know that the “Thank You” page is one of the most respon­sive pages on your website?This page pro­vides a prime oppor­tu­nity for pro­mot­ing some of your other prod­ucts and/or services.

You can use this space to eas­ily increase your online sales and/or build your list. For exam­ple, why not use the fol­low­ing mes­sage on your thank you page after some­one has sub­scribed to your newsletter.

“Thank you for sub­scrib­ing to my newslet­ter. Remem­ber to check your inbox for your first issue.

In the mean­time, I would like to intro­duce you to a prod­uct that I recently devel­oped (or say that I highly rec­om­mend if it is an affil­i­ate product).…”

This is an easy way to send traf­fic to your prod­uct and/or an affil­i­ate link so you can earn some addi­tional rev­enue from what is often unused space.

Read more of this arti­cle here: http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html