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This is a review of Realtor Dwayne Launt's website: Read more
This is a pretty cool site that lets you create overlays that are linked to external things.They seem to be heading down the affiliate product marketing line and it's a natural to do that sort of thing.I'm guessing we'll be playing with it in a fe...Read more
Have you done your Keyword Research?
If you are just starting out, you should do it before you build your site, not after.
Even before you buy your domain name.
It's not the end of the world if you already have your site made. But it gets...Read more
Looking for the secret to nail yourself to the top of google for all your keywords?Learn what you need to know about driving traffic to your site.
More Traffic in Traffic Videos on my specialty video site, if you liked this one.
Social Bookma...Read more
This is a little slide show that I did up to show how search engines work and how you can do your own keyword research.Pay particular attention to slide 6 - it's got all the links to "the good stuff".This will help you research the popularit...Read more
Thought this was a fun little cartoon that explains a good point that we all get from time to time ... Designers Need To Eat Too! from Helen Olney on Vimeo.Read more
This is my little rant about creating engagement with your audience as a web 2.0 marketing basic tool set. Engagement with audience = returning audience + growing audience + more engagement tools+ more audience= more revenue POTENCIALRead more
If you don't already Blog and Ping, you should.There are many services (Ping-o-matic.com) is one I like and this is another I'm just trying out.I'll let you know how it works out for me in my analytics.Read more
We all want tons of passive income right? Isn't that the goal?Well, this is a little experiment in how well our site will do as a video site generator.I take the template that we have for a video site in XLsuite I then edit the links and set...Read more
Sunday rolls around and they team over at Overlay.TV is going live with another beta version of the site. Looking much nicer and close to a final release I must say.I was glad to see that the overlay I'd created while messing around ea...Read more
"News of Adobe's decision to work with Google and Yahoo to make
Flash searchable spread like wildfire. But so far, agencies aren't sure
what this change really means. "This is very big news for those of us in the SEO game. While I love the r...Read more
We are always searching for the best way to quickly communicate the power of our application, and of course with one that is as deep and complex as XLsuite, it's sometimes hard to encapsulate all that it is in a few paragraphs. The following...Read more
My old friend and board member Ben Watson is currently working for a start up in Ottawa that are doing some cool things with video overlays.They are launching a product for people to overlay things on web video allowing you to enhance a vide...Read more
I found a couple of interesting things out today.First of all that paypal owns x.com - only a few 1 letter TLD's out there and PayPal owns one of them?While visiting X.com I signed up for a widget they had for creating a shopping cart that y...Read more
This is an outtake from a current Foresters article that I'd recommend you read:" Up Selling: “Of course I’ll buy it, I helped design it!”
Every product gets replaced, it’s the law of innovation. As customers are now part of the design pro...Read more
Ahhhh, the load_listings liquid tag... this baby is responsible for loading multiple listings, support for searching by text, tags, status, or MLS number, the ordering (or randomized ordering) of the listings, pagination support... we can't live w...Read more
Alrite, so lately we've been really busy with the Listings vertical. My next couple of posts will probably focus on listing related documentation for our designers and CMS coders. We use liquid tags in our CMS, and we wrote a bunch of our own liqu...Read more
Oh wow I'm excited. This is my first blog ever, what am I supposed to do here? I guess I should do a bit of introduction eh... :)My name is Spencer and I'm a developer for XLsuite. Just like Harman, another developer for XLsuite, I'm a Computer En...Read more
This clip talks about how using the right set of keywords in your domain name is a big help when trying to get found by the search engines.We can help you with your domain name search or you can use the same tools that we do (well ok, some of the ...Read more
How many traffic sources do you have driving traffic to your website? We like to set up as many as possible, then track the traffic for you and start to really focus on the ones that are working.Our traffic building programs start at $...Read more
How to make more money and reach your goals of financial freedom. Isn't that what we all want?Read more
Our paypal payment integration now supports recurring payments! What does that mean? That means.... you can put subscription items in your account product catalog!To improve the security even further, we also use Paypal IPN combined with A LOT of ...Read more
YAY ME! yet again.... I know I know... what's with me creating couple blog posts in a day eh. Let's just not talk about that right now please? Let's just say that I love our CMS designers so much so I decided to implement interfaces for them to cr...Read more
Ok stop the cheers please! I know you are all happy about this new feature but really it's nothing special for me so stop those claps ok? =pYa.. anyway, I created an interface already for you all CMS designers out there to add/remove products to a...Read more
So... yeah... just like the title says Profile is not the same as Contact anymore. Why you might ask?We want to be able to separate the data between a registered user and his/her related profile. Some people might not want to have profile at all a...Read more
This is a cool tool that let's you search your keyword relevance on not just "google" but each of their data centers.This can give you a good idea of how you rank all over the world, as well as show you upcoming changes to your ranking (your...Read more
This is a series of screencasts that help to illustrate how we can grow our clients business online with a combination of Web Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and better process management using our proprietary system XLsuite. ...Read more
Someone asked me about creating a blog for a professional golfer. While of course we were interested, it really brought up for me the whole argument of having a purpose to your blog.In this case, he was mainly concerned with building his nam...Read more
This is a series of screencasts that outline the way to use community groups in your real estate marketing. Read more
These are a series of videos showing you how to do a variety of things in XLsuite. Read more
Sure, it may sound like fun, friends will be thrilled to have a web 2.0 buddy, mom's gonna look at your work and tell you how proud she is you're not playing WOW & Co all day and ... you get paid for doing what you like. Or not.I'm one of the ...Read more
Here are a number of video's that will appear in the sidebar soon, but for now I'm just trying out the media roll feature.
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This is a good video that outlines how we took the "james" template and made it into a website for a concierge business.The client got a site up quickly and is building his business instead of his website now. Read more
Yah ok after my first silly blog, I'd say it's about time to get to serious business now.Just yesterday I finished implementing the backend stuff so that our profile can link to product categories. The idea here is that we want to be able to relat...Read more
This is my first blog. As usual... what a first blog usually does is introduce the author and so will I!Feel free to continue reading my first blog post, but I can assure you it's going to be boring as hell. Good luck!My name is Harman Sandjaja an...Read more
Welcome to my "XLsuite":http://xlsuite.com/ blog!
I'm "François Beausoleil":http://blog.teksol.info/pages/bio, known for "Piston":http://piston.rubyforge.org/ and my "Subversion Primer for Rails projects":http://blog.teksol.info/2006/3/9/subvers...Read more
Tobiano Liv ing is a flash based site with music and an external contact page. With no search engine optimization what so ever.Read more
I get fairly sales driven emails that are very direct mail style.The site doesn't match the tone of the emails and is not a very effective sales tool in my opinion.See the screencast below.If you have trouble viewing it ... hit play ... the click ...Read more
This is the first Ubertor site that we've reviewed and while it covers the bases, it's not winning any awards.
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At the moment, we're using the dreamhost servers primarilly as a DNS server, where we then redirect hosting (A record) to XLsuite (which is running on AWS - Amazon Web Services, so all their backup power working for us.Here's how you point y...Read more
This is a review of the website : unionstreetstudios.caWe're looking at it from the point of view of how can we add value to their site. unionstreetstudio.ca Read more
I found this tool today. Actually, credit where credit is due: phpBoxxx found me this tool, so I thought I'd share the concept.This gives you an instant way to have a video feedback bar in your blog, site, facebook account or where ever you ...Read more
I thought I'd get a video up for you to get to know us a little bit. It was such a nice day today, I thought I'd go out in the back and shoot some video intro's for the new website.Read more
Thanks to my client Eric Lee for this little tidbit. It's a very good breakdown on what clean tech is.Read more
This is the new file manager functionality folks, check it out. Read more
