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Track your marketing campaigns

If there's one thing most marketers agree upon, it's the measurement of results, so here's a way you can measure your online campaigns.

These days so much of an online campaign involves 'off-page' work - where you put company content in places other than your own website. It could be social media, blogs, or even... yes, a newsletter.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to measure how much traffic is being generated by the content you place, and where you placed it? If you could, it would help you make more marketing and business decisions, right?

Well, if you use Google Analytics you can track this type of measurement. Read our article to find out how.

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Programming crazy!

What's the hottest new job skill for the self-teach market?

You might not have guessed it, but it's computer programming!

People are signing up like crazy to learn how to code, believe it or not.

So much so, that startup after startup is trying to get into the game.

And investors want to play, too. No-one's dominating yet, so people are putting their money where they think the industry winners might be.

Find out more. . .

Faking it?

Well, this is kind of a web developy thing, but it might be of interest if you ever have to place an image on a webpage when you don't have an image.

Fake Images Please allows you to to put an image definition into your page along with the dimensions you want, and some text.

It creates a placeholder on the page so you can see what the image would look like in the general layout.

An essential for all web developers and website administrators everywhere.

More on Fake Images. . .