The blog redesign is complete for BruceMarler.com and it is now much more advertiser friendly. If you are looking to promote a product to the domainer community or to any of the followers of the blog I am now offering ad spots to people looking to offer their products or services. Although the blog has been targeted at the domain investment commun...

Whether you are looking for ways to promote a new small business website or a major web development project it is important to find ways to promote the site, although search engines and targeted PPC advertising help drive traffic it is very important, especially for local small businesses to promote their sites on a day to day basis as their store...

I usually try to avoid reporting the same thing everyone else has, we have all read tons of stories today about the Snapnames debacle and Halvarez (Nelson Brady). As someone who has been up against Halvarez countless times and wondered who was the man (machine....) on the otherside I was not the least bit surprised that it was that specific account...

And now for something completely different:) Recently I had the pleasure of doing and in-depth, behind the scenes interview with the DomainGang.com reporters (Lucius "Guns" Fabrice and Giovanni "Crazee" Mossolini). The two have taken the domain name news reporting industry to a whole new level as of late and I was honored they took the time out of ...

One thing I think many of us with a background in technology or a bit of development experience take for granted is that everyone understands how to FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or upload files to web hosting providers. For many of use we have been doing this for years and it is something we do not even think twice about. So, before I go any furthe...

Just a quick post but something I have failed at doing so thought it would be good to remind folks. After selling a domain name through another channel (i.e. direct contact) make sure you take the time to delete it from your accounts at Sedo and other aftermarket sites. A day or so ago I received

I hear people talk all the time about people that just do not get this or that, and in many cases? it is because no one has taken the time to actually present to them the value of the product or item they are expecting them to get it on. Normally, if you really have

I will be away from the laptop quite a bit over the next couple days so blog posts may be a few and far between. The few days away will hopefully be a mix of both business and pleasure (although when you love what you do it sometimes you cannot tell the difference). Interesting enough

Recently I did a series of posts on how to setup a Facebook fan page as well as a few other Facebook fan page how to examples. After doing those I thought it may be good to list a few examples of various types of businesses taking advantage of the promotion that Facebook allows. Here are

No surprise here, but it was reported today that newspaper circulations continue to decline and in the latest report they were shown to have accelerated their pace of eyeball loss even faster. The overall drop was 10.6 percent in the April to September period, even when the economy comes back full force these numbers will

In anticipation of installing my custom blog theme that is being worked on literally as I type I have been working to tweak some of the plug-ins and doing some other fine tuning to the blog. You may notice some changes over the next couple days as I get close to making the full change.

I had to go no further than 1 mile from my house to find an example of an offline business starting to take advantage of social networking, in this case Facebook, to promote it's business. I was heading to dinner last night when I happened to see a sign at the car wash sign (see

Sometime during the next week EzDevelop.com will be launched to a group of beta testers. Although I already have several lined up I wanted to give some others a chance to test a tool we have been working on that allows us to save time, money and effort when launching new sites. I will randomly select

When I am hand registering a domain name or searching through dropping domains I typically spend a lot of time analyzing search volume based on exact match results from Google. Although this is a good way to look for hidden gems for back order or hand registration there are times that it may be valuable

Thanks to the .ME team for the mention in their press release today. Here is the release below. /h1> EVERYONE WANTS A PIECE OF .ME Catchy ccTLD Sells for Big Bucks and Makes Bold Branding Statements PODGORICA, Montenegro ? Oct. 21, 2009 ? The .ME Registry is celebrating significant success in its most recent online auction. NameJet? auctioned off...

Well, last night I finally got a chance to launch my personal blog, no surprise that I launched it on a .ME, to be exact Bruce.Missouri.Me, and a fun little tagline you will notice on there "My Other Blog Is A Dot Com." With the focus of BruceMarler.com being on domaining and building a business on

As more and more domain investors are looking towards developing their top properties into real businesses I thought I would share my experience with working with a business partner when launching Localtek. From the very beginning of the Localtek launch it was a team effort. My current business partner and I had been discussing various projects...

I usually shy away from any sort of reporting that has been hit by several others but in this case I wanted to at least say a bit since I have had some level of success with some of my AEIOU.com sites. First off I think people are missing what happened, no one said Minsites do

As the team here has grown we have added various different skill sets that allow us to offer various services, one of the areas we decided to add staff in was in-house writers. Our writers are located here in Missouri? in our offices. Our lead writer has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri

Tonight I had the pleasure of speaking to a group of people in Perryville, MO interested in growing their business with a specific interest in how to use the Internet to their advantage in doing so. The invite to speak came after one of the members of the group attended a seminar a couple weeks

Although the economy is starting to show signs of life most businesses are still in? a very conservative mode when it comes to any sort of spending. As anybody will tell you advertising and marketing in general is usually one of the first things to be cut when the paring down of spending begins. Today

OK, before I even start this post I want to start with a disclaimer: I do not have domain investments in the .BIZ or .US extensions and only a few .TV names.? Although I am a believer in being able to build a business on alternative extensions as a domain investment, specifically .BIZ has just

Dear Small Business Owner, This letter is being written to help you understand the changes that are occurring that will have an effect on how you run your business and specifically on how you promote your business. The Internet is here to stay, historically small business has relied on legacy media such as newspapers and radio

One of the less talked about but most effective social networks is Linkedin. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, which allow for business to be done but are really not focused in any one specific area, Linkedin has one focus and that focus is to help you use your network to get business done and get access

Setting your Facebook username for a fan page is just as important as setting it up for your personal account. I have noticed many people have overlooked this step when creating their fan pages so thought I would point out the details here real quick. It is an easy task but has a few caveats

George Pickering is someone I like to keep up with in the domain industry, George has a proven business background and it has been interesting to watch him grow his domain business specifically because he focuses on local niche business sites which is an area I have strong interest in. George is presenting on Domain Success

As I mentioned in a post last week the Missouri.me branding efforts are starting to work, there is still plenty to do but the initial work is starting to pay off. One thing that always needs to be associated with your company brand and products is success. Although we had already had plenty of customers

The past two days we at Localtek have been moving into our much more spacious office space. After the past several months in our startup (translation: low cost) office we had grown out of our space and were in major need of an upgrade. We were lucky enough to find space less than a half

I noticed this morning that I was just 5 posts away from 100 since I launched my blog earlier this year. When I initially launched I knew I wanted to blog but was not sure where it would head. I thought as I lead up to my 100th post I would show a few things

Today while reading the post at TheDomains about Google declaring the recession in Ad revenues over I was reminded of a post I was meaning to do last week but never came back around too. I have noticed over the past few weeks my Adsense revenues have been looking up. My traffic overall has not

As I mentioned a couple weeks ago I have been working to focus my domain portfolio in certain niche areas, and really am 90 percent focused on selling domain names to end users rather than at wholesale prices between domain investors. That said I have several that I would like to give my blog readers