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Working With an Outsource Partner

Author: Stu McLaren

Q:  I have been trying to hire somebody for an oursource project but I cannot seem to get the responsiveness that I am looking for. What is the level of responsiveness that is reasonable to expect?

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Adding People From an Address Book to a List

Author: Stu McLaren

Q:  I have a question about list building. I was wondering about using my Yahoo Address Book as a list. If I did that, would I have to input those into a broadcast message?

I think I have about 250 names on my Yahoo Address Book or something but I guess some of them are just people I probably have not mailed or talked to in three years.

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Should I Forget About Google AdWords?

Author: Stu McLaren

Q:  I had someone recently tell me to forget about AdWords because it isn’t worth it. I had a coupon to try out Microsoft adCenter so I have been playing with that the last two or three weeks and it has given me some education, writing ads, and seeing more keyboards people are clicking on and that kind of things, so it has been educational.

Then I looked at Google and most of the keywords that I have, you are looking at $2, $3 and $4 as their estimated cost per click.  I do not have that kind of budget so do you know the differences between Yahoo, MSN, and Google as far as the cost?  What would be your recommendation for somebody starting out?

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Linking WordPress to Your Main Site

Author: Stu McLaren

Q:  My regular website gets 50,000 visits a year and now I have the new one and it is on WordPress. I was thinking about linking one to the other to send traffic because I do not want to mess up search engine optimization because I do come up on page one in the Google Search for a lot of my keywords. So when I link it, would it just be a straight message that says go here or would I want to put a hot link and would the hot link mess up the optimization of my main Yahoo site?

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How to Find Questions To Design Your Product Around

Author: Stu McLaren

Q: I am in the process of designing a product. Is there an easy way to find questions that people are asking about a certain topic online to design my product around?

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