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How to Win Friends and Influence People With Excel

Posted by on Friday, September 20th, 2013






Yes you read that headline right, Microsoft Excel can help you make friends and influence people. You wouldn’t have thought something as cold, logical, and well, left-brain as a spreadsheet could help you with something as warm and fuzzy as your social connections, but it is true! Read on … When you are networking there […]






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An Easy Introduction to Creative Commons

Posted by on Wednesday, July 10th, 2013






Creative Commons is something I now believe all bloggers should know about. While I heard about Creative Commons a while ago it was only after talking to Yoav the other day it struck me how ideal for web content creators, and bloggers in particular, their license idea really is. What is a Creative Commons License? […]






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How to Use Excel to Identify Your Best Customers

Posted by on Monday, July 8th, 2013






In the previous article I showed how you can measure visitor value and engagement using Excel. Now I would like to show you how you can identify your best, most profitable customers, also using Excel. Now immediately you might think it is obvious who your most profitable customer is. Isn’t it the one who spends […]






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Introduction to Using Excel to Calculate Your Website Visitor Value Metrics

Posted by on Thursday, July 4th, 2013






Do you know how much each visitor to your website is worth? If you buy advertising, do you know how much money you can spend and still break even? Do you know the long term value of your visitors? We all want as many visitors as possible to our websites, it almost seems like crazy […]






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How to Use Google Analytics to Get a Better Picture of Your Twitter Traffic

Posted by on Saturday, May 11th, 2013






How do you know if your Twitter activity is paying off? An obvious return on investment is more people reading your tweets and as a consequence checking out your website. This certainly does work, but apart from a gut feel that you are gaining visibility, how do you know exactly what you are doing is […]






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Sketch Your Presentation With Sketchcasting

Posted by on Sunday, February 24th, 2013






This is a neat idea that I found out about through Jim Kukrals blog, Sketchcasting! The idea is to create a video, much like a webcast, but rather than show the concepts you are talking about, you draw them. If you have ever seen any of the Whiteboard Friday videos over at SEOMoz you will […]






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Happy Birthday! PDF2XL is 5 Years Old

Posted by on Monday, October 11th, 2010






Dear Friends, This month Cogniview is celebrating the 5th Birthday of PDF2XL – our flagship product. It’s not that we always had PDF2XL, the truth is that Cogniview started as an Enterprise software company that aimed to sell its Enterprise-Level software products to IT departments in large organizations. We spent a lot of money on […]






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How to Create Personalized Invitations Using Word and Excel

Posted by on Thursday, April 8th, 2010






If you have ever had to hand write a whole bunch of invitations then I am sure you have had the thought “There has to be an easier way”. Well, if you have Microsoft Office then you are in luck! Here is how you can create and print your own personalized birthday party invitations in […]






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The Best 5 Twitter Services You Might Not Know

Posted by on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009






  It took a while to find a balance of fun and utility versus timewasting, but I now love Twitter. There is just enough signal in the noise to keep me involved. I imagine most of you will have tried the service by now, but did you know third party services are being built around […]






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Announcing Cogniviews Excel-to-PDF-Converter (and a bribe)

Posted by on Monday, November 30th, 2009






I am very proud to announce that we have released the beta version of Cogniview’s Excel to PDF converter. The ‘Excel to PDF Converter’ is the first out of several open source projects we will be releasing in the coming months and it is the only free Excel-to-PDF converter that supports hyper-links. here is the […]