Today I thought that I would give you some reviews of online business social networking communities that did not make the cut in our book in terms of a quality business social networking sites.

StartupSpace.com – This business Social networking community has a great setup that must have been taken from MySpace or Facebook.

The layout is very user friendly but don’t expect to make any valuable connections on that network.

The website is crawling with spam and self-promotion. All forums, groups and articles are just spam ads and the only articles worth reading come from RSS feeds from websites like businessWeek, NYtimes and such.

The site itself has a lot of potential such as the concept of getting free front page advertisement if the member earns enough points.

If it was not for all of ...

Online Marketing is one of the most powerful and cost efficient marketing tool out there. It can bring your company success or it can take you company down.

First off, Do not Lie on your website or in your emails. Your company and website are an open book in the internet. If you want to take your company down the drain than by all mean lies but sooner or later you will be caught. Continue reading for more information:

Our company receives about 5 to 6 proposals every day ranging from link exchange, to those Spam emails offering to do our SEO and to people wanting to use their services to outsource our services.

My first complaint is not that they are spamming me but rather that the content of their email suck.

Let us start with Emails offering their services to BlindMonkeyMedia

First off, ...

In my last post, I wrote about our company wanting to do away with our physical office and using virtual offices around the world based on the location of our staff.

Well, I am very upset about the quality of service by all of the virtual office company I contacted.

I contacted about 6 virtual office providers and out of those none have yet replied to me.

Of those who contacted me, none have replied to my reply to them.

What the hell is this? How can a company expect to make money if they have such bad customer service and a crappy sales department?

My company is trying to give these people business and they don’t seem to care about it.

Here is a piece of advice for all companies out there, answer your emails and follow up on them if you want to get customers.

Also, follow up on your ema...

Recently, our team has been thinking about giving up our marketing and SEO office in San Jose, Costa Rica for a virtual office.

The reason being that 97% of our staff are never in the office.

Most of us telecommute from home and the only person that is ever in the office is a receptionist during work hours and security guard at night. Telecommuting is great and essential to our business since most of our staff is located in the U.S. and the Philippines.

Being an online marketing company, we have no need for an office since most of our clients are online clients.

On top of that, our offices are only used to meet clients so we probably only use the office 2 to 3 times a week since the majority of the time we go to our client’s office.

This is why we have been toying with the idea of having...

In the past few weeks, MSN has been doing a lot of changes to its search algorithm and adding features to its SERP (Search Engine Result Page).

For one, MSN Live Search is now a bit more interactive to a user’s search giving more options like adding a news link and asking if it was useful.

These little extra features are a nice little addition to their search engine;however, its the other addition to ther search engine results that are a bit disturbing.

MSN Live search has now decided to that they will decide what its users can search for and even change the original keyword used in a search by a user.

For example, if you do a search for “online marketing services” you will get this message:
MSN Live Search Results for

Obviously, MSN Live Search has decided that this keyword is not i...