http://www.garthkoyle.com Open Online and Optimized Wed, 07 May 2008 21:00:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seasonality is the idea that business volume ebbs and flows at different times. While landscapers and lawnmowers know that their busy season coincides with summer, seasonality is affected by a lot more than just the weather. Retailers' busy season coincides with holiday shopping (of course), wedding season is ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/285625149/seasonality-and-key-business-indicators http://www.garthkoyle.com/analytics/seasonality-and-key-business-indicators I added about 100 new Utah businesses to the list this week. The new list of firms comes from the MoutainWest Capitol Network of fastest growing Utah companies by revenue. This is a good list to be familiar with. Note that most firms dropped in rank, primarily because of ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/281959045/innovative-utah-company-index-march http://www.garthkoyle.com/business/innovative-utah-company-index-march Someone Should be Asking for More Work So you finally got that IT project done and after all the hassles and bugs, things seem to be working smoothly. Your anxiety levels are returning back to normal and your managers seem to have the new processes under control. But what about ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/281959046/estimate-staff-bandwidth-after-it-project http://www.garthkoyle.com/business/estimate-staff-bandwidth-after-it-project I'm a huge fan of performance based compensation. This Compare Hospital tool from the Department of Health and Human services should help empower health care patients to avoid poor health care treatment, and what to expect in terms of both treatment and cost. The Hospital Compare ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/270217605/which-hospital-youre-more-likely-to-die-at http://www.garthkoyle.com/business/which-hospital-youre-more-likely-to-die-at If your business model requires employees to help you provide your good or service, then being able to identify: who is looking for jobs (and more specifically Utah jobs), where they live, and how to reach them can help you fill your job openings. This post shows how you can ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/270217606/using-google-trends-to-find-people-looking-for-jobs-and-utah-jobs http://www.garthkoyle.com/business/using-google-trends-to-find-people-looking-for-jobs-and-utah-jobs At work we've been looking into advertising with Business.com. I've been corresponding with them about their systems, ad serving technology, and giving them a hard time - like I always give ad sales reps. A colleague walked in on my phone call with them and was intrigued because ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/270217607/ex-businesscom-advertisers-receive-free-listings http://www.garthkoyle.com/advertising/ex-businesscom-advertisers-receive-free-listings I'd like to start tracking innovative Utah companies and publishing their online progress, or regress every month. We can use this type of list for a lot of things, but I'd like to show where internet professionals can look to for a good, local, example of good online strategies. ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/276579953/innovative-utah-companies http://www.garthkoyle.com/analytics/innovative-utah-companies Omniture recently announced that they are working with Adobe to: "provide greater measurement of rich media for applications built with Adobe® Flash®, Adobe Flex™ and Adobe AIR™" (source). In my opinion this could cause a monopoly for rich media analytics, but hopefully they would share with the rest of ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/270217609/omniture-adobe-possible-rich-media-analytics-monopoly http://www.garthkoyle.com/analytics/omniture-adobe-possible-rich-media-analytics-monopoly Welcome to my website, which describes the Advertising, Marketing, Email Marketing and Search Engine Optimization consulting services I offer. You know your business and probably your customers, but you may not know how they are searching for your product or service online. Now that you're open, I can ... http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/garthkoyle/tzCf/~3/270217610/you-can-now-be-open-for-business http://www.garthkoyle.com/marketing/you-can-now-be-open-for-business