Friday, July 30th, 2010

To Template or Not?
Choosing whether to use a website template can be a little controversial. Some website designers believe themselves to be purists and think using other peoples templates makes for a bloated website that can be difficult to maintain. Personally, I believe one of the main reasons for the introduction of CSS was to [...]

This week I did my second marketing push via submit-everywhere.com
I love this company. I believe they are based in Ukraine and basically for a small fee they manage the process of posting software onto the hundreds / thousands of shareware sites, bringing valuable traffic and customers to my site. They have a great system that [...]

I can’t even count how often I do this. So today we’re going to look at new tool from Polychrome. Onlooker is a Microsoft ® Outlook ® add-in that checks your e-mails, think of it as a friend in your outbox. We all know the scenario, we type that e-mail diligently point out why our [...]

Scheduled ODBC Exporting on Steriods

The Polychrome ODBC Export Tool exports data from any ODBC data source but that’s not all. It does a whole lot more, like emailing the results or calling a command line application and passing the exported data filename. Now you can create CSV extracts from your software and because it can [...]

Getting a higher ranking is easy but it takes effort
Ok so you need to check out my other SEO posts for more detail because I do a lot of indepth explanations and some of these posts are very long. The good news is that I am a business software company so I’m not even trying [...]

Great to see that PowerSlave is making it’s way in to the press all over the world!
Press box
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/guide-to-save-laptop-battery-life-tools-part-3/
I nice mention on technospot.net from Ashish Mohta who is a Microsoft MVP. Great to see this starting to go viral. Thanks Ashish.

Places you can find PowerSlave
Ivertech Software Central – Provides free service to developers to submit and promote software and public users to search, purchase, and review software.

CuteApps.com – Freeware, shareware and quality commercial software downloads

shareware plaza
www.markdown.me – free directory of free and shareware software, scripts, desktop applications, games, screensavers
myzips.com – PowerSlave a Power Savings assistant
DownloadCourier.com [...]

This week we hit the big red button and PowerSlave went out to the masses. I used a software submission company to submit the software to about 1000 shareware websites and on day one I got about 350 emails back from the publishers. The reaction was awesome with lots accepting my software immediately and some [...]

How to Adjust Power Settings in a Windows Vista Laptop
from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit
In Windows Vista, laptop owners can now choose and even make power plans to their preference. Depending on whether you have to make the most of the laptop or you want a short session to watch videos [...]

The Experiment
In case you didn’t read my previous blog, my plan was to try and get ranked in the top ten for Google.com for the term “Business Software Solutions” in 90 days. If you skip to the bottom you’ll see that I made it but here’s the time line.
My IBP Software SEO Scorecard Timeline
Nothing done [...]