As a refresher, we covered the Basics to Purchasing a Domain in a previous post. The more we learn sometimes the more questions we have. Domain Registration, whether for a website, blog or a social media network, domain and/or user names are a valuable piece of web real estate, protect them.
Domain Value
Domains are an extremely valuable real estate, internet real estate, and the earlier you secure your brands and trademark the better. Protect your brand by registering variations of your domain names and other trademarks.
It guards against brand dilution, customer confusion, disgruntled employees, dissatisfied customers or [...]
June 9th, 2010, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: domain, domain registration, protect your brand, registrar, trademarks
Posted in Featured, Web Development | No Comments »
Purchasing a domain name can be a simple process with some pre-planning and understanding Domain Registration basics. Lessons learned, through years of domain management for our customers.
Clients frequently inquire about purchasing a domains, it is a constant question, especially in the web development and design process. I believe developers take for granted that people understand this process and being of such importance, it bears repeating.
This is an overview, with links to specific topics, written in more depth. Please comment adding any information you feel is of value to readers. This topic bears repeating for the benefit of all companies, especially [...]
April 25th, 2010, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: certified register, certified registrars, domain management, domain value, ICANN, Web Development, whois directory
Posted in Featured, Web Development | 3 Comments »
This post has taken an interesting turn. My original thought was to feature individuals, as well as big brands in this set of examples. That turns out to be an entirely different post, as few big brands have actually “branded” their Twitter backgrounds. Valuable no cost space to show their unique brand, being wasted. Why? Maybe it was over looked as they hashed out their ROI justifications.
What the big brands have missed, the savvy business professionals have not. What do I mean? Take a look at these creative backgrounds, not only shows their brand, but also contains useful information in [...]
December 1st, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Branding, photoshop, Social Media, twitter, twitter background
Posted in Branding, Featured, Social Media, Training & Development, twitter | 15 Comments »
You have selected a Social Networking service, created your profile, selected a photo of yourself and invited your contacts to join your network. Now you have built a network! Congratulations!
The network you have created is an important one. You have invited people to become part of your network community, so what is your plan? How are you going engage with your community?
Being active and engaging in your community is vitally important. The same time you invest in your personal face to face relationships, you will need to invest in growing and enhancing your online relationship.
Twitter is an exceptional tool to [...]
November 6th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Branding, twitter, twitter backgrounds, twitter basics
Posted in Branding, Featured, Networking, Social Media, Tips/Tools, twitter | 18 Comments »
I enjoy the benefits of connecting with colleagues, friends, clients and other people in our industry.
This isn’t random spam, this is spam being created by network connections. How can this be? Interestingly, everyone views spam slightly differently. I have found a few, who view it as the reason they have a network, which I find interesting.
The benefits of LinkedIn are plentiful, however using it as an adverting tool is not one of them.
Obviously, everyone in LinkedIn has a product or service to promote, but I find the direct emails, which are apparently random in nature, as they not directed to [...]
October 10th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Business networking, Linkedin, LinkedIn Group, social network, Social network service, Web 2.0
Posted in Etiquette, Featured, Networking | 6 Comments »
