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An unknown secret about web marketing is this — you only have 5 seconds to accomplish 3 things after a visitor clicks into your home page. Research proves that if customers don’t see what they’re looking for immediately, they simply press the back button and you lose them. If you give what they need in those few seconds, then you can easily keep them onsite for another 30 minutes or even longer. And, during that much longer visit, your chances of making a sale are immeasurably bigger. That means on the very top of your front or home page “above the fold,” you must present these 3 main ideas simply, dramatically, and persuasively — and do it fast! Here they are — the 3 things that must be done for every new visitor, in only 5 seconds Establish what it is you do, what is the nature of your business [Click Title to read more...]

For the millions of you who are running WordPress blogs or who use it as a content management system, you’ll be happy to hear that they’ve finally released the long-awaited version 3.0. We’ve been using various versions in the 2.x line for over a year, and now can use the much improved major upgrade to the full release of 3.0. Among the improvements are more than 1,200 bug fixes — can you believe that? We’ve been using software with over a thousand bugs? Wow… anyway, there are also major functional improvements and new features in addition to the bug-squashing stuff. Here are some of the new features: Custom backgrounds Headers Shortlinks Menus (no more file editing) Post types Taxonomies New custom theme called “Twenty Ten” that implements these features Support for WordPress MU that enables managing almost unlimited number of WordPress blogs installed on one or many servers Auto-update feature [Click Title to read more...]

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