Brent Haeseker

Just for fun.

While I want to focus on ways to help build your business online I also want to take time and smell the online roses.  While you are entering new products in your e-commerce shopping cart or checking your website statics, here is a fun site you can have open in another browser window:
http://www.pandora.com
It is an [...]

Don't Let Your Emails Get Lost in the Clutter

Everyday we get tons of email.  And if you are like me, everyday you send out tons of email.  A while back I noticed that a good portion of my emails were not getting found in the cluttered in-boxs of the individuals I was sending to.  It wasn’t a matter that the emails weren’t getting [...]

Useful (and fun) Online Tools – Toodledo.com

There are a lot of very useful and fun online tools out there that can help you with your business and/or personal life.  A enjoy using an online to-do list tool called Toodledo.  This is basically a very customizable to-do list that you can access from anywhere on the internet.  And if you are fortunately [...]

RSS Feeds – How To Guide

Are you using RSS feeds?  Do you know what RSS feeds are?
If you answer no to either of the above questions, you are not alone – actually you are part of the large majority.  While RSS feeds are continuing to gain more and more mainstream use, they still remain a bit of a mystery to [...]

Browser Wars Are Getting Interesting – Google Chrome is Here

Last week Google released their new Chrome browser, a very slick and and visually understated browser that holds alot of promise.  I downloaded it last week after it was released and played with it.  What appeals to me most is the performance enhancements that it is bringing to the table.  For example, if you have [...]

Website Security – Is Your SSL Certificate Up to Date

Repost from my November 2007 eNewsletter: 

“Do you have an e-commerce website?  Do you collect any financially or privacy sensitive data?  If so, make sure your SSL certificate is up-to-date and working.  An SSL certificate encrypts the data sent from your website, such as online orders a customer has placed.  Without encryption from an SSL certificate, [...]