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Jun 9
2010

Norman City Council members tonight passed a budget that temporarily, at least, saves 26 jobs from being eliminated.Read more on NewsOK.com Read more

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Jun 3
2010

Southeast Oklahoma once again has the highest rates of unemployment in the state, but for the first time since December 2008, the jobless rate of all Oklahoma counties dipped below 10 percent last month. According to statistics released Wednesday by the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission, Hughes, Latimer and McCurtain counties shared the state’s highest jobless rate at 9.9 percent. All three counties were above 10 percent in March. Oklahoma’s statewide unemployment rate in April held steady at 6.6 percent, still well behind the national rate of 9.9 percent. Three Northwest Oklahoma counties had the lowest unemployment rates — Beaver (3.2 percent), Harper (3.6 percent) and Dewey (3.7 percent).Read more on NewsOK.com Read more

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Jun 1
2010

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co. said Tuesday it will cut about 9,000 jobs and take $1 billion in charges over three years as it creates fully automated commercial data centers. The Palo Alto-based technology company said it will invest $1 billion in its enterprise services unit over a … Read more

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May 27
2010

The American jobs machine is sputtering. At the current expansion rate, it will take years to absorb the eight million people who have lost their jobs since 2007.

Young people have been especially hard hit in this recession, as the unemployment rates for those aged 16 to 24 has been well above other age groups.

So what can unemployed GenYs do to secure good-paying jobs in the future? Read more

Well, they can start by reading this blog ;-)

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May 21
2010

There are many types of Internet business nowadays, and many have a great success due to the real match they make with the world wide web market environment these days. Everybody tries to sell, but what makes a difference is the way they promote products and services. Online and offline strategies are combined to increase product awareness and answer to the clients’ requirements in the most successful way possible. And the platform for all the online transactions is the WEBSITE.

Every Internet business begins with web design. This is also the reason why web masters make so much money from their design and optimization projects. It is more common to have marketing knowledge than to be able to set a website up and running in optimal conditions. In the majority of situations, business owners hire a web master and together discuss about the best ways to achieve a user-friendly interface. And you’ve got the first stage of Internet business growth.

Then follows search engine optimization. An Internet business depends on traffic, and the page visitors have to be as relevant as possible to convert into prospects or clients. Therefore, SEO becomes the key process to get a high conversion rate. Keywords are highly important given the fact that they make the Internet functional. Every Internet user has to type some words in the search engine box to get results for a query.

If your website is well indexed and optimized, the search engine will display the link to your pages among the first results. Only websites with very good page rankings get in such positions. Then there are other aspects of Internet business marketing that you have to keep in mind in relation with SEO and advertising. It is not easy to achieve good page rankings, and this job takes a lot of time and constant monitoring of web performance.

An Internet business has lots of advertising solutions, and the ideal is to find those that are both efficient and little costly. Article marketing, blogging, forum posts and social network posts are considered among the most efficient ways of attracting relevant traffic to Internet business website. Given the fact that pay-per-click advertising systems like Google Adwords are pretty costly, web investors have to find alternatives to such forms of business promotion.



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