Grand opening of dotmedias - Online Marketing, Search Marketing, SEO, PPC, Web design
I'm pleased to announced I launched my own business ! An online marketing and advertising company.
Because I personnaly own many websites (all designed be me), I gained knowledge about the online marketing world because I had to advertise every one of my websites.
At dotmedias we offer mulptiple services; here they are :
- Search Engine Marketing (AKA "PPC management")
- Search Engine Optimization (AKA "SEO")
- Link building
- Website design/developpement
- Business card design
- First Impression (landing page optimization)
We know there are severals companies doing those same services on the internet, but a big bunch of those companies are cheap indians that just do crap of try to steal your money. Only big north american and european companies actualy do a great job. We decided to wait before starting the company because we wanted to acquire the necessary knowledge to offer you quality services.
If your interested in bringing more traffic to your website, we can certainly help you out !
Do you know Silver Arcade (Silverlight gaming portal) ?
If you like online games like java or flash games, you will certainly like Silverlight games. Basically it's the same thing, you will find similar games, but they are all made in Silverlight so if you're a Silverlight developper, this can be fun to play with.
The Silver Arcade
Will Bing beat Google in search engine war ?
Microsoft has recently launched it's new search engine called Bing. Because Google dominates the world of search engines, existing search engines like Yahoo, Altavista and Windows Live search had to do something to stay in the competition. Microsoft did a great job with it's Bing but will it beat Google ? No. I don't think (and I don't want) Microsoft to beat Google in the web world (search engine, messaging, etc...). Google has the vision a lot of people want, which is continuously evoluting. They do things like people want them to be. Microsoft always to do same thing : take ideas of other people and copy them so they always are behind people (it's not 100% true but in general it's a Microsoft reality).
Let's compare Bing and Google...
| |
Google |
Bing |
| Average search time |
<1 second |
<1 second |
| Built-in calculator |
Yes |
Yes |
| Global look |
Great |
Great |
| Built-in currency converter |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ads |
Yes |
Yes |
| Relevance of image search results |
Great |
Great |
| Widgets on homepage |
Yes |
No |
| Relevance of search results |
Great |
Great |
| "Did you mean" functionnality |
Great |
Average |
| Caching feature |
Yes |
Yes |
| Definition (define:) functionnality |
Yes |
No |
| In title (intitle:) functionnlity |
Yes |
No |
| Number of search results |
Great |
Good |
| Shopping search |
Yes |
Yes |
| "I feel lucky" functionnality |
Yes |
No |
| Map search |
Yes |
Yes |
| News |
Available everywhere |
Not available everywhere |
| Number of built-in search tools |
Great |
Average |
| Translator |
Yes |
Yes |
| Travel search |
Yes |
Yes |
If you want to see more comparison, you can take a look at this study by the Catalyst group.
As you can see, Bing is not Google, it only wants to be Google !
Be paid to fill surveys online; can we really make money with this ?
If you read this article it is because you are thinking about filling surveys online to make an extra cash every week. Like many other people, making money online is a thing we want to be able to do. If you think you can make money online, you're right, there IS a lot of ways to make money online, sitting at home and working only a few hours per day.
To day I will explain what is all about be paid to fill surveys online.
Is it hard to fill surveys and hard to find surveys to fill ?
Non, it's easy to fill, you only give your opinions about some products/services. You have offers everywhere on the internet, so you can find some good surveys only by surfing on your favorite sites. If you don't trust me, just spend about 5 minutes on facebook and you will see ads for "surveys money".
How much money can we make from this ?
It will depend on how much time you want to spend online filling surveys, but for sure, you will not become millionaire with this ! If you spend a few hours a week doing this you can make from 20$ to 100$ per week. You can make more than this but it general it will look like this. It always depends on current offers and the time you want to spend on it. I presonnaly don't know people who do 1000$ a week, even in a month.
Is it right or me ?
If you want something you can do every week (maybe everyday) because you're tired of spending your time on useless websites playing online little flash game or reading jokes or whatever you do to spend your time on your computer, this can be a little sideline. You will spend time, and be paid to spend it.
On the other hand, if for you time is money, don't fill surveys online, you'll lose your time. At the begginning you will say "Wow ! it's very easy to make money with this, I will do this all weekends and every evening when I comeback home from a day of work", but 3 or 4 days after you will say "Ahh damn it, I'm tired of filling these, I don't want this anymore".
Is it all legitimate or I can really lose my time with this ?
Like any other thing on the internet, you can be fooled if you trust anything you see. There is a lot more scams in online paid surveys than legitimate one so don't be surprised if one day you don't receive your paycheck of even worse, if you get frauded.
Conclusion...
Personnaly, I think that online paid surveys are only for a small audience and whoever you are you should think about starting to fill surveys online to make money. You can lose more time than money you can get.
Good ideas are the start of every dollar made
The title is self-explicative but let met explain it more. If, at your everyday job, you have to create thing (when activily participating in a software development), you know that finding good idea to solve a problem of create something very useful is normaly not as simple as we can think. Sometimes ideas don't come and you have to wait and wait, thinking of it in your morning shower or when you laid down in your bed before sleep 'till you have an Eureka moment.
With internet, if you have a good idea it's easy to test it. For example, my first idea of creating a dating site as a way to make money online took me a few months to find.
One guy, a college student, had a simple but very smart idea to sell advertising on a webpage for 1 milion dollar. Every pixel was sold for 1$ so the potential of this was huge. A lot of people we interested in buying a couple of pixels for some bucks (minimum was 100) because that page was very popular and very mediatized. This project was named the Milion Dollar Homepage.
When you have a good idea, don't hesitate to make efforts to bring it to life. If you don't have ideas, continue to think, one day it will come !