Proactive Networking, Inc.

I’m embarrassed to report that I fell for a Phishing email a month ago. It happened when I signed up for a new Yahoo! Search Marketing account. I signed up for the account and ten minutes later I had an email similar to the following email in my inbox: There is an obvious part of [...]

If you want to continue answering mindless emails while you’re away on vacation, keep a few things in mind.  First, make sure you have access to webmail.  If you have POP email, you’re going to be frustrated.  Almost all hotels are blocking sending outgoing email from your POP account now.  This would be the time [...]

I am continually surprised that many people I talk to have little to no understanding of how the Google results page works.  If you know that Google’s own proprietary search results are shown on the left hand side of the page and paid search (advertising)  is on the right, you are doing well.  If you [...]

Had to get a Windows XP Pro install down to as small as possible to deal with a small hard drive.  The smallest footprint I could get it down to (without going to heroic lengths) was 3.6GB.  This includes all Windows updates through today 3/25/08.  I turned off system restore.  Removed all unneeded Windows programs, [...]

Had lunch with a friend of mine today.  Asked him if he was doing any marketing on Google for his mulit-million dollar business.  He was not and didn’t feel it was necessary as they are getting plenty of new business via word of mouth.  (In all fairness he works for a traditional company that has [...]

In the first years of the decade we did a brisk business with upgrades to XP and Server 2003. I could easily find compelling reasons for clients to upgrade. So far with Vista, I am at a complete loss. Everyone at our office switched to Vista last year and (almost) everyone switched back to XP. [...]

We have used Mozy online backup for a while.  We only use it as a supplement to a more robust backup strategy running onsite.  It’s nice to be able to look at a graph and see that all of our clients have another layer of backup. Since EMC bought Mozy they have implemented  a “feature” [...]

I love the internal Sprint EVDO card in my new Dell D830. On a 10 day trip throughout western Colorado and Eastern Utah, it never let me down. Almost always had 5 bars wherever I fired it up (always within a town). No more worries about breaking the antennae off of the PCMCIA card.

We’ve used Google Adwords extensively, for ourselves and many of our clients, but have not tried Yahoo Search Marketing until two weeks ago. I had always read that Google owned this category and that there was no point going anywhere else. Recently, after Microsoft made an offer for Yahoo, I heard that Yahoo Search Marketing [...]