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InstantSpot.com is open for business!

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:56:00 GMT

You might have noticed, ever since our Version 2.0 release, InstantSpot account creation has only been available for those with a valid invitation code.

Well, that is a thing of the past.

Thanks to all of our testers/users for helping us sort through any bugs encountered along the way. As always, if any issues are encountered please feel free to contact me directly or use the link in the control panel to report problems.

So what are you still doing here??! Go create your 'Spot now!

Selling Yourself

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:42:51 GMT

(No...not in that way.) ;)

For those of you out there that are running your own show (be it full-time or as a side business) what are the most effective ways you have found for marketing your services?

I guess I'm looking for ideas in a few different categories.

-Free:
How do you spread the word verbally?
What kind of directories, classifieds, etc have you used with good results?
-Cheap:
Do you ever do any flyer campaigns? Trade shows? Buy ad spots on other websites?
-Not Cheap:
I'm not even sure what this could be...possibly buying advertising on more expensive sites? AdWords campaigns?

I know a very good way to grow your business is to just strive on pleasing your current customers, but this way is probably ranks near the bottom in the rate of growth.

We just discovered recently that you can do press releases through PRWeb.com fairly inexpensively...there are a TON of press releases on that site though. Which may water it down too much to really notice an impact.

Robots and main page accessibility

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT

On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older "news items" was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first).

A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.

In a possibly related subject, a Google search for 'Aaron Lynch' now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns www.AaronJLynch.com as #3!

Does anybody want my autograph?

UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board!