Monday, November 23, 2009
Small business get a break? (Hope so).
From the Shelby County Reporter
Don't get too excited, there are restrictions. But it's our hope that this will filter out to all Alabama small businesses and help keep our state growing and reduce unemployment.
Read the entire article here.
Don't get too excited, there are restrictions. But it's our hope that this will filter out to all Alabama small businesses and help keep our state growing and reduce unemployment.
Read the entire article here.
Labels: Alabama, business, Shelby County
Monday, August 10, 2009
Very valuable service for local-only websites
If you own a business website like www.servicecare.net, and you only serve a single country (or a state, even) you may find that you are frequently contacted by a few honest people from countries that you do not serve. But more likely, you will find your inbox stuffed with contacts from dishonest scammers from all over the globe, wanting to use someone else's credit card to buy services from you... or share the wealth from a Nigerian president/queen/emperor who's recently been mauled by vampire bats.
If you, like me, see no reason why anyone from Ghana, to pick a random example, would have any real need to view your website (since you don't ship any product overseas, for example), then why not go to a website that allows you to block an entire country from viewing your website.
In fact, you can block a whole bunch of countries if you like.
If this seems to defy the whole free internet, world-wide-globe idea, ask yourself if you would advertise in Australia for your shoe repair shop in Texas. Would you send mailers to Egypt for your hotdog stand in Newark.
No, you wouldn't.
I would be careful to advise that you might want to avoid blocking other states (if you're in the U.S.), but that's up to you. Frankly, I'm only blocking the countries that keep sending me spam and scam.
For those that didn't see it, go to www.blockacountry.com and consider making a donation, or at least a link (like I did, you see?)
If you, like me, see no reason why anyone from Ghana, to pick a random example, would have any real need to view your website (since you don't ship any product overseas, for example), then why not go to a website that allows you to block an entire country from viewing your website.
In fact, you can block a whole bunch of countries if you like.
If this seems to defy the whole free internet, world-wide-globe idea, ask yourself if you would advertise in Australia for your shoe repair shop in Texas. Would you send mailers to Egypt for your hotdog stand in Newark.
No, you wouldn't.
I would be careful to advise that you might want to avoid blocking other states (if you're in the U.S.), but that's up to you. Frankly, I'm only blocking the countries that keep sending me spam and scam.
For those that didn't see it, go to www.blockacountry.com and consider making a donation, or at least a link (like I did, you see?)
Labels: business, scams, spam, web
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