Posted in Featured by David @ Oct 29, 2007

If you’d like to learn more about a candidate start first with their website. Their website won’t contain any negative ads about their opponents and it will contain their information about what they believe in and want to do as President of the United States.

Once you’ve reviewed the candidate sites then you should do additional due diligence by reading 3rd party information.

Below you’ll find a list of candidates and links to their official campaign websites.

Joe Biden D

Hillary Clinton D

Chris Dodd D

John Edwards D

Mike Gravel D

Rudy Giuliani R

Mike Huckabee R

Duncan Hunter R

Alan Keyes R

Dennis Kucinic D

John McCain R

Barack Obama D

Ron Paul R

Bill Richardson D

Mitt Romney R

Tom Tancredo R

Fred Thompson R

Vote.

Posted in Entertainment by David @ Oct 27, 2007

Anywhere FM offers music lovers a surprisingly easy way to listen to music while sitting at your PC. Signing up is free and very easy. Much of the music is free and you can enjoy your favorite music all day long.

Posted in Net Profits by David @ Oct 27, 2007

I got involved with one of the original network marketing companies, Shaklee, over 30 years ago when I was just 16 years old. I still think Shaklee makes the best quality vitamins and supplements on the market. More to the point, I understand the power of network marketing where individuals earn money that would otherwise be earned by companies in the distribution chain.

Because Shaklee and organizations like it require that products be sold/purchased AND regular meetings be attended I left network marketing like so many others have.

The internet makes these opportunities far more interesting however. One fairly new business that is a MySpace competitor has caught my attention. Here’s why:

Yuwie has set out to steer some of the $20 million in ad revenue MySpace brings in each and every month to it’s community by giving a large portion of that ad revenue to the people who actually do all the work by creating the content. That would be us!

So Yuwie offers a lot of the features that a MySpace or Facebook offers, but the shareholders are the users who make up the social website community.

Please forgive the blatant selling here, but I think you’ll agree it’s a no-lose deal with a lot of potential if recent internet history is any indication. Click on this link to credit me with referring you: Yuwie - http://r.yuwie.com/davidco

Thanks and see you there!

Posted in Net Tech by David @ Oct 18, 2007

If you’re like me about paying for software that you use rarely, like WinZIP, then you’ll be happy to learn about a nice free alternative I just discovered after my WinZip trial expired for the 500th time.

CAM UnZip is it’s name and it’s light. so easily to quickly download, and it’s as easy to use as any other unzipping software I’ve tried before. Best of all it’s free. Not on trial, but FREE. Free for your personal use to be precise.

You can download it here:

CAM UnZip

Enjoy!

Posted in BigGuide News by David @ Oct 16, 2007

Our UK version of BigGuide, ‘BigGuide UK’, has been successfully launched. This new UK directory will deliver UK residents and webmasters quality websites and resources from UK webmasters and others who have something of value offer UK residents.

Listings are currently free for quality UK websites while we reach our minimal acceptable level of usefulness for visitors. Once we’ve established BigGuide UK as a quality web resource we’ll begin charging a modest review fee similar to the one we charge for BigGuide and begin promoting the site more aggressively.

Cheers!

Posted in Featured by David @ Sep 21, 2007

If you’re not familiar with the free office software suite available at OpenOffice.org
then you’re in for a treat. Especially if you’ve been reluctant to spend the big bucks for the pricey alternatives from the “software Goliath”.

Open Office offers a complete suite of “business-duty” office software absolutely free. The suite includes a: writer, calc (for spreadsheets), draw, and a few other necessary software tools for most people and certainly for any home office or business office.

I encourage you to check it out for yourself even if you already have paid for alternatives as you can always help spread the word!

Use OpenOffice.org

For other shareware you can checkout the many listings we have in our ‘Shareware‘ category within the Software top level cat.

Posted in Webmaster Resources by David @ Sep 20, 2007

Ask 100 webmasters which web directories are the best and you’ll get 100 different answers.

Before trying to answer this one must first ask what the definition of “best” is. Is it the number of targeted visitors a directory delivers to a listed site? Or is it the “link juice” or SEO value delivered to the site? Are there other factors that might be considered as well, such as, exposure (listing viewed, but not clicked on)?

The “best” directories are the ones that will deliver a webmaster the best bang for their buck. Where “bang” equals a combination of: exposure to targeted prospects + targeted traffic. Most of us have a finite budget and need to carefully choose which directories to invest in to get maximum “bang” or return on investment (ROI).

Take BigGuide, for example. We offer permanent listings and charge a modest review fee of $7 USD to pay for the time it takes to review, describe, and enter the listing. How many sales does your listing need to generate to recoup your small review fee? Is there risk that the listing won’t ever generate a sale? Of course there is. But, with 400 unique visitors finding their way to BigGuide each and every day over the lifetime of that link you’ve got pretty good odds of generating $7 worth of business and/or traffic.

Although this scenario is self serving, it is exactly how we go about selecting web directories worth investing our scarce resources in.

Some of the best web directories available can be found right here in our Web Directories category or in All Top Directories. There are plenty of directory lists like Directory Critic, the VileSilencer friendly directory list, and many others.

Posted in Shopping Guide by David @ Sep 5, 2007

Whether you’re a manufacturer of products, the owner of an online store, or an online shopper, you should be aware of some trends in online shopping.

First, based on a recent survey of over a 1000 moms they are very sharp shoppers that rely heavily on search engines to conduct research before making purchase decisions at BOTH online AND offline stores. This survey of mom shoppers found that 70% of them used search engines to find information before making an online purchase and 57% used them before buying at offline stores. In the last two years studies have shown an increase in online purchases of higher ticket items by moms indicating an increasing comfort level.

Second, shoppers are increasingly utilizing social navigation sites to read reviews on products and online stores before determining what to buy and where to purchase from. Sites like Buzzillions collects reviews from thousands of people who bought items and post their experiences online. The extra step Buzzillions takes to verify from the store owner that the purchase actually DID take place makes the resulting collection of reviews much more reliable.

For the online store owner these two trends help justify the heavy investments companies have been making to improve their search engine results page (SERPs) rankings through various search engine optimization (SEO)  tactics.

For the online shopper you’ve never had the ability to research a product like you do now. Use the tools and resources available to you before you make purchase decisions whether online or offline.

Those of you involved in manufacturing goods you’d better learn to rely on the realtime feedback from customers posted online in these review sites and blogs to determine how well you’re doing.

Shopping as we once knew it is disappearing and fast.

Posted in Web Resources by David @ Sep 2, 2007

It’s back to school time so we thought this would be a good time to highlight some of the quality web resources available for students in BigGuide:

If you’re a parent or a student in high school or at the collegiate level and need help doing a research paper checkout MasterPapers.com. They offer custom writing services including: essays, term papers, research papers, dissertations, theses and coursework. Their rates are reasonable and your satisfaction guaranteed.

Before it’s too late to improve your kid’s high school report card find some sites that offer help for students that might be struggling in a subject or two. One quality resource worth checking out is EducationReporting.com.

There are thousands of websites available for students and you can get started in our Education category devoted solely to Educational resources. If kids just spent 10 percent of the time they spend socializing online on shoring up their education using some of the educational resources available we’d have a lot more honor roll students amongst us.

Happy learning!

Posted in BigGuide News by David @ Aug 9, 2007

Welcome to our brand new blog. We hope you’ll find the information we post useful, informative, and interesting. We invite you to leave comments, suggestions or questions.

- When we come across a site we think you should know about we’ll post it. 

- When we discover a new net-based technology or tool we’ll post it.

- We’ll review Websites from time to time and post our thoughts.

- Webmasters resources are evolving all of the time and we’ll post when we find some we like.

- When we have Big Guide news to share… we’ll post it.

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