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In a not very beautiful day, you visit your website and may suddenly see this warning "This website at www.MyWebsite.com (example) has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preference". This is not a fictitious scenario; we have seen this problem hurt businesses time and time again and it just happened with our client a few days ago.

I read an article on Inc.com written by Jason Fried from the company 37signals, entitle "Never read another Resume". The article describes how to recruit the right people for your company. It inspired me to write this post about the three rules we follow (1) value personality over experience, (2) when hiring the best designers, look for sensitivity and big-egos, (3) make sure the people you hire for virtual office are active communicators.

On May 26, 2010, I attended an event at Asia Society New York. The speaker was Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos. His talk was about "Delivering Happiness", his coming book this June, 2010, and it was very inspiring.

Today I received this email from service@paypal.com with the subject: "Your PayPal account has been limited". It was marked with "High importance". It sounds serious, doesn't it? I've seen many PayPal phishing emails before, but this one looked reliable.

Many businesses now consider Search Engines as an important lead source for business. The question is how to drive relevant traffic that is more likely to be converted into customers. These 6 quick notes may help you improve the quality of the traffic from Search Engines!