Category: Technology

21 Actionable Landing Pages for Content Marketers

April 17, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you’re a content marketer like me, you’re in the sales funnel front line for your business. You blog, yes. You create amazing content. But how are you turning your efforts into lead generation? How do you get the numbers to show your results and increase your ROI? I’ve got a simple and super effective method: landing pages. With landing pages you can generate warm leads and show your ROI in a boss-appealing number crunching way. Here are 21 actionable lead generating landing page tactics you can use to get qualified leads. I’ve also included a short section on what content marketing is – just in case you don’t know. What is Content Marketing and Why does my Business need it? Many of…

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21 Actionable Landing Pages for Content Marketers

Microsoft 2.0 Converter Tool Targets VMware VMs with Migration to Hyper-V and Azure

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

If you thought the war between Microsoft and VMware was over… well, it isn’t. Of course, “the war” these days looks more like skirmishes rather than some of the bloody battles that took place only a few years ago. So in that respect, perhaps the war is over, replaced instead with a more sporadic bar room brawl of sorts. Last week, Microsoft took another punch at VMware in an effort to win over its VMware vSphere users. To do that, the Redmond giant has rolled out a new version of its Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool, version 2.0 for those of you counting at home. With the latest release, Microsoft is pitching its converter tool as a way to convert virtual machines and virtual disk formats from VMware …

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How to Download Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 Installation Media

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

You can reinstall Windows from scratch using the product key that came with your PC, but you’ll have to find installation media yourself. Microsoft offers free Windows ISO files – if you know where to look. These tricks let you reinstall Windows without visiting a shady BitTorrent site and downloading ISOs that may be filled with malware. These links give you official installation media straight from Microsoft. Note: depending on the OEM version of Windows that you are running, you will sometimes have an issue using the OEM key with a retail version of Windows, but you can always install and then call Microsoft and get them to straighten it out and allow your copy to activate. The most important thing is that you have a…

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How to Download Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 Installation Media

101: How to Make a System Image Backup in Windows 8/8.1

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

How Do I Create a System Image Backup? How to Create a System Image After the successful installation of Windows 8 on a computer, administrators are strongly recommended to create a system image backup of the operating system. Administrators do so in order to get the system back up and running in case the operating system fails to boot, or otherwise gets corrupted for any reason.Since the system image is exactly the mirrored copy of the operating system and contains the configuration of the OS, after restoring the computer from that backup image, the computer comes back to the state at which the image was created. For example, if the image was created on the 1st of June, and the system got corrupted on the 22nd of …

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101: How to Make a System Image Backup in Windows 8/8.1

Windows 8.1 and the Land of Forgotten Modules: Part 2

April 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Summary: Explore and discover the additional Windows PowerShell modules in Windows 8.1. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here this week to go where no Scripter has boldly gone before! Into the modules that are often overlooked in Windows 8.1! “Dude! No!” “Dude, yes!” Yesterday we saw that Windows PowerShell allows you to manage settings for search and for Windows Defender. These settings could even be stored from machine to machine in an XML file to set up standard configurations in a peer-to-peer environment. For more, see Windows 8.1 and the Land of Forgotten Modules: Part 1. Today we’ll look at a module that’s been a long time in the waiting: DISM. Most of us new to deploying Windows may not be aware …

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Windows 8.1 and the Land of Forgotten Modules: Part 2