From: "richard seltzer" Subject: Fall chat schedule for Business on the Web -- restarting this Thursday with auction selling Date: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:52 AM Thanks very much for responding to my request for suggested chat topics. As usual, our chats will take place on Thursdays, from noon to 1 PM, US Eastern Time (= GMT -4 when Daylight Savings Time, = GMT -5 when Standard Time). Connect to http://www.samizdat.com/chat-intro.html to get to the chat room (at SiteScape's Webworkzone). We're going to restart as follows: Oct. 3 -- selling at auction (ebay, Amazon, and related sales methods -- Buy It Now and half.com at eBay, Amazon Marketplace and Amazon Advantage) Oct. 10 -- Heidi Perry hperry@advantage-online.com, different outlets for finding htings to sell on the Web Nov. 7 -- Networking online (topic from Making the Web Work for you, a book by Lori Enos, lenos66@netzero.net) Dec. 12 -- Maintaining your e-reputation (topic from Making the Web Work for you, a book by Lori Enos) available dates: Oct. 17 Oct. 24 Oct. 31 Nov. 14 Nov. 21 (Thanksgiving, Nov. 28, no chat) Dec. 5 Dec. 19 (Christmas and New Year's break) topics suggested by you that still need to be scheduled: conducting promoting and archiving teleseminars, suggested by Heidi Perry hperry@advantage-online.com; she suggests as experts Jenny Hamby www.hambycommunications.com and Preston Campbell www.teleseminarsuccess.com making Web sites compliant with Section 508 for the handicapped, suggested by Pete Vander Haeghen pvh@earthlink.net, he suggests janheck@cox.net as the expert. how to adapt computers for people with diabilities and the Tech program at the Commission for the Blind, suggested by Joe Lazzaro, lazzaro@theworld.com, author of a new book on the topic "the classroom as a database", suggested by Kathleen Gilroy, kathleen@ottergroup.com, who is writing a paper and talk on that topic (topic from Making the Web Work for you, a book by Lori Enos, lenos66@netzero.net) Desigining a good site (topic from Making the Web Work for you, a book by Lori Enos) Keeping visitors coming back (topic from Making the Web Work for you, a book by Lori Enos) topics that I suggested and that you liked (I could use some experts for these): problems with sitechatter (why I cancelled my use of their service), is there an alternative? (HumanClick, now LivePerosn is no longer free, and is exorbitantly priced) -- Bob Zwick can help on this email discussion groups vs. chat, which is most effective for connecting with prospects -- Bob Zwick can help with this coping with email problems (pollution -- viruses, scams, spam -- has made it very difficult to get your marketing messages read by people who are really interested in them) finding and being found with Google (which now accoutns for nearly 50% of the traffic to my site) setting up an online store at Yahoo and driving traffic there pluses and minuses of downloading music and video with Kazaa (and trying to learn of other useful P2P sites) -- Bob Zwick can help on this tips on converting pdf files to html (so your pages can be seen by search engines and so they don't take forever to load) Suggestions regarding topics and related experts are very welcome. Thank you. Best wishes. Richard Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, www.samizdat.com Internet marketing consultant www.samizdat.com/consult.html Books on CD. Give a life-time of reading. A library for the price of a book, http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat 617-469-2269