Latest Video Production from Metro Ink
Mar 5th
If you need an inexpensive but awesome video for your business call us!
Small Billboards, Big Results!
Mar 1st
Many business owners are looking for a great place to put up a billboard that will be seen by many, however it is very costly. Most companies charge $1000 plus per month for billboard advertising, but we have found a much more cost effective way that has proven successful for us.
Most proprietors are unaware that you only need to be authorized to hang a sign measuring larger than 4ftx8ft, thus we hang 4ftx8ft signs wherever we can. You will find at least three Metro Ink signs throughout Staten Island. Customers have called us mentioning they saw our signs “all over the Island.” They remembered a sign and looked us up on Google. A single new customer proves the signs effectiveness. These signs are inexpensive and can be put in great locations. Please contact me to learn more….
Christian@metroink.com
The difference between hits, visitors, visits, and page views
Mar 1st
I found this article that tells you what to look for when judging how well your website is doing…
The difference between hits, visitors, visits, and page views
Summary
In this article you will find discussion and technical definitions of:
- Hits, visitors and page views
- Unique visitors
- New and returning visitors
And information about:
- Why hits are not a good way to measure traffic
- The difference between server hits & hit counters
- Tracking unique visitors
- The difference between new & returning visitors
Hits, visitors, visits, pageviews: what are the differences?
Technical definition of a hit
Each file sent to a browser by a web server is an individual hit.
Technical definition of a pageview
A pageview is each time a visitor views a page on your website, regardless of how many hits are generated. Pages are comprised of files. Every image in a page is a separate file. When a visitor looks at a page (a pageview), they may see numerous images, graphics, pictures etc. and generate multiple hits.
For example, if you have a page with 10 pictures, then a request to a server to view that page generates 11 hits (10 for the pictures, and one for the html file). A page view can contain hundreds of hits. This is the reason that we measure page views and not hits.
Conclusion: hits are not a reliable way to measure website traffic.
There is an additional potential for confusion here, because there are two types of ‘hits’. The hits we are discussing in this article are the hits recorded by log files, and interpreted by log analysis. A second type of ‘hits’ are counted and displayed by a simple hit counter. Hit counters record one hit for every time a webpage is viewed, also problematic because it does not distinguish unique visitors.
Here is an article discussing hit counters.
Technical definition of a visit
A visit happens when someone or something (robot) visits your site. It consists of one or more page views/ hits. One visitor can make multiple visits to your site.
Technical definition of a visitor
Technically, a visitor is the browser of a person who accepts a cookie. Opentracker utilizes 1st party cookie technology. By this definition, a visitor is a human being, and their actions are ‘human’ events, because only humans use browsers (with javascript) to navigate the internet. If a cookie is not accepted, then we use IP numbers to track visitors.
Opentracker measures unique visitors, which we track over long periods of time by giving them a cookie, this cookie is unique to their browser. We have found that cookies are often more reliable over the long term, as many servers re-assign IP addresses on a regular basis. IP usage patterns are changing. AOL, for example, has recently implemented a rotating IP address technology, to stop log files from tracking their members’ search term queries.
How reliable are cookies when tracking unique visitors? Unless the user deletes their cookies continuously, they will be measured as the same visitor with each visit.
To increase reliability we use first-party cookies, which means they name the site where the visitor is browsing.
Strictly speaking, “one visitor” means “one person” based on the definitions given above. So that if someone continuously visits your site over long periods of time, they will be recorded only as one visitor.
How does Opentracker distinguish between new and returning visitors?
- A returning visitor is a visitor who visits your site with a 24 hour period in between.
- Secondly, we measure visits, a visit is a visitor’s clickstream broken by a ten minute interval, (minimum of ten minutes). So you have a cup of coffee, and return to the site after ten minutes, this will be a second visit. Say you go to bed, and you return to the site 24 hours later; you will be a returning visitor.
If you need help figuring out where to find these stats ask your website developer or call metro ink!
Tip: Stop telemarketers from calling
Feb 11th
Sick of telemarketers calling your home, office and cell phones???
Visit the ‘National Do Not Call’ website
I’m having my cake and eating it too…
Feb 5th
I feel as though we Americans are literally ‘having our cake and eating too.’ We, including myself right now, are so lazy, afraid or blinded. We sit and ‘eat our cake’ while we watch the future of our country be determined by people who don’t care about ‘the people.’
How many emails have you received that point out the fact that American politicians are abusing their power, and we are letting them. We let them do as they please while they tax us more and more.
This says that the American media is afraid to print an article like what you’re about to read. THE AMERICAN MEDIA IS CONTROLLED BY POLITICIANS WHICH RENDERS US HELPLESS AND MISINFORMED. Please keep reading…
Subj: She said what??
“In my own life in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, “…
Michelle Obama
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.
Just think, Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband’s salary.
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower: One– paid for personally out of President’s salary.
Jackie Kennedy: One
Roseline Carter: One
Barbara Bush: One
Hilary Clinton: Three
Laura Bush: One
Michele Obama: Twenty-two (22)
How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers,prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Ms Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public:
Michele Obama’s personal staff:
One.. $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
Two.. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
Three.. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
Four.. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President
and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
Five.. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Six.. $90,000 Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Seven.. $84,000 – Lilyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
Eight.. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
Nine.. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Project for the First Lady)
Ten.. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Eleven.. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B.(Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
Twelve.. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
Thirteen.. $60,000 Fitz, Alan O.(Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director
for the First Lady)
Fourteen.. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
Fifteen… $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
Sixteen.. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
Seventeen.. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
Eighteen.. $43,000 – Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
Nineteen.. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
Twenty.. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
Twenty-One.. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
Twenty-Two.. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(total $1,591,200 in annual salaries)
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life.
One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .
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Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press had to publish this, perhaps because the American media is too scared that they might be considered racist by the Obama’s.
Sorry America !
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652
I know this isn’t the worst article, you might not even care. But, this shows that we americans have lost our footing, we’ve lost our integrity and soon we will lose most of our freedoms.
I don’t have the answer as to what to do, but i do know that if more of you were better informed or at least had your eyes widened a bit, we might figure out what to do.
If you have anything to say, if you are mad, if you want to secure the future freedom of your grandchildren – stay awake with eyes wide open: comment on this blog, copy and paste this into an email and send it to your friends and colleagues, just do something to raise awareness.
Pantones 2010 Color Forecast
Feb 4th
These are the colors to use for fashion in the spring and summer of 2010. Im sure they will get alot of burn in alot of graphic design. Check them out
Missed Calls Equal Lost Money
Feb 4th
Is this familiar? You meet the owner of an Island company at a Chamber of Commerce networking mixer. You chat, exchange business cards and depart with a farewell that “I’ll call you.”
And the next day you do.
But the telephone at that company rings. And rings. And rings some more. Not only does no one answer the phone, but there’s not even an answering machine in place to take the call.
Yikes! Sound strange? Not really, because, believe it not, many new business owners simply do not understand the golden rule that you never have a second chance to make a good first impression. And
letting a telephone ring is a lousy first impression.
A move like this can usually account for a revenue loss. Studies show that a potential customer who calls a company and encounters a continuously ringing telephone rarely calls back. That potential customer usually tries another company. And that’s a customer that’s probably lost forever.
What to do?
Granted, not every small firm or home-based business can afford a receptionist to answer incoming telephone calls. But in this age of sophisticated electronics, telephones
themselves contain digital answering devices. (The answering machine, as we know it, has gone the way of the wind.)
• Many managers insist that receptionists answer an incoming call by the third ring. A digital answering device can be programmed in a similar manner.
• Answering a company telephone simply with the word “hello” is unacceptable in modern business practice.
• The receptionist should answer in a cheerful manner, quickly giving the company name and his or her name.
That’s a good first impression.
By Bob Williams & Christian Moccia
If you never want to miss a call again Contact: Steven.G@SolTechPlus.com, he has many incredible ways that save you time, money and you’ll never miss another opportunity to earn again!
Uniforms: “…builds a sense of loyalty to the company.”
Jan 26th
IBM for years insisted that its employees wear white dress shirts. Why?
“Having a company uniform instills in a staff the feeling of being part of the team, which in turn builds a sense of loyalty to the company,” explains Tony Lopez of T & S Cleaning Services. T & S outfits each employee with company t-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts and caps — provided by Metroink.
“When in uniform, our employees take pride in themselves and the work they do,” Lopez says. “In addition, our clients are appreciative of the fact that when we are on the job at their facility, the uniform immediately identifies those individuals as T & S staff members.”
Lopez explains that comfort and style were a large consideration in choosing the uniform apparel, but that the firm wanted to insure that it was unique and a reflection of the company.
“All our uniforms utilize the company colors and are predominantly emblazoned with the T & S name and logo,” he adds. “The high visibility that the uniform provides is an important marketing tool that goes hand in hand with enhancing our professional image.”