Are you a motivated sales individual interested in earning additional income for you and your family? If so we can use your help! Barlam Enterprises is currently hiring part-time and full-time sales individuals! Work remotely from anywhere!
Positions Available:
Web Design Sales
We are currently offering 20% commission rates for web design leads you bring in and close, or 10% commission for web design leads we bring to you that you close. Average web design ticket price is $2000.
Search Engine Optimization Sales
We are currently offering 15% residual monthly commission for Search Engine Optimization contracts you bring in and close, or 10% residual monthly commission for Search Engine Optimization leads we bring to you that you close.
If you are interested please send your resume and contact information to:
If you aren’t familiar with Western Digital’s new WD TV, get acclimated. This little unit (and by little I do mean little, it’s not much larger than my 5 port gigabit switch ) is one killer device! It runs $99 and can play every type of media you throw at it from x264 mkv files to divx to mp3s. All available and output to your TV via HDMI in full 1080P HD resolution (the one main feature the AppleTV is missing, not to mention it is more than double the price) .
Anyways, I recently took the plunge and purchased one of these (Thanks NewEgg!) after reading about how they run Linux and seeing the many modified firmware projects that are out there to further enhance the functionality. Now out of the box this thing is still pretty sweet. It has HDMI out, TOSLink (optical audio) out, and RCA out. It also comes with 2 internal USB ports for local media attachment that can be expanded with a USB hub. I tested this out of the box, and copied two test 1080P mkv files and they played flawlessly! The one thing i know many of you are saying to yourself is… “Where is the nic? No network port?”. And this is where out of the box this media player fails. However, enter the modified firmware projects!
Since this unit is built on Linux, a slew of modified firmware(s) that are available for the WD TV have surfaced. They offer expanded functionality allowing you to add that network port you so desperately want so you can stream your huge media library! Luckily that is the case, and with a simple $10 USB nic you can turn this player into one killer networked HD Media player! I immediately got started and flashed my unit.
The flashing process to change your firmware is simple:
Use USB FLASH KEY from 64mb up to 2GB. I recommend up to 2GB but you could also use bigger ones but they could be using different addressing which could be issue for some models.
Format the USB FLASH key to FAT16 or FAT32 filesystem don’t be lazy and DON’T use NFTS for this case
Go to WDTV menu System→About - There is version notice it you will need this number later.
Unpack firmware package to USB FLASH KEY to root directory there have to be 2 files WDTV.BIN and WDTV.VER.
Open with notepad or any plaintext editor and change version in WDTV.VER to something higher than what your WDTV is now. If you don’t change this, it will not detect a new firmware. Save the file.
Detach all USB devices from WDTV and unplug power supply. Wait 5-10sec, plug-in USB prepared USB FLASH KEY and plug-in power supply.
Wait and don’t reboot WDTV during flashing process
Congratulations, you now have a modified WD TV with an enhanced Linux firmware! Hopefully you also have a USB nic attached now too, so you can mount your NFS/CFIS/Samba shares to stream media! Well go get started and check out the WDTV Cross Compiled Software Repository for a plethora of applications such as asterisk (turn your WDTV into a full fledged PBX!), torrent-client, wget, mysql, php, ssh, screen, icq, perl, python, x11 and more! I can see a lot of new uses for this little device, and the small footprint makes it great to take with me anywhere!
I’m sure it is only a matter of time before we starting seeing even more great hacks and apps coming out for this platform because of its open sourced nature. I can see it now, asterisk running on the WD TV and I am watching a movie, which pauses, and a visual caller id pops up letting me know I have an incoming call and shows the caller id! The possibilities are endless!
Welp it is that time of the year again, and we here at Barlam Enterprises finally took the plunge and are launching our brand new search engine optimized site here very shortly. We will be targeting brand new competitive terms, and feature a more complete site layout with lots of useful information for web designers, search engine optimization and internet marketing. Stay tuned for this major structural, graphical and informational update!
The best way to increase your revenue is to increase your customer traffic. Now your thinking to yourself “Ok, I already knew that. But How?”. When we are looking to increase traffic for our website we don’t look at the main keywords that are targeted by our competitors. Instead we look at variations of the keyword or even product specific keywords which will bring in more customers.
For example say we sell Band T-Shirts which is currently searched over 165,000 times per month. If we were number one for that keyword you would be getting the quality traffic we needed. Not everyone though can afford to compete with the companies that show up on the first page. Instead of spending your entire internet marketing budget going after a keyword that you will show up on page 2-3 for why not target a product specific keyword that you offer or what is called a keyword phrase. For example say you sold the band name “XYZ” on your site. Why not target “XYZ Band Shirts”, or “XYZ T-Shirts”. The traffic may be less for this term but you will be able to compete and at the same time convert more traffic.
2) Install tacking mechanisms
If you don’t know why customers aren’t committing on a sale how can you convert the valuable traffic. Google offers a free tool called Google Analytics that can track very detailed information about your visitors. This will help you to see if there are any dead ends or confusion with your shopping cart. We found by using this tracking device that some of our customers would bounce off (Bounce Rate) of a specific page at almost 89%. After further research we found that the products on that page were showing as out of stock when they shouldn’t have been.
3) Test Test Test
One major issue we see with most E-Commerce websites is that the webmaster, owner, or company is so familiar with the website that they become blind to the process. Have fresh eyes make a purchase from your website and ask them afterwards:
What was confusing?
Did you have trouble finding a product?
If you needed to contact us would you know how?
This will help your end users with their overall shopping experience which in turn will increase your sales.
4) Include Mod Rewrite/PHP Meta Tags
What??? Seriously! Have you ever wondered how some E-commerce sites especially the large ones include their product names in the Title tags, keywords and descriptions of every page on their website. They use a Mod Rewrite or PHP script to auto generate this data. If you were to do this by hand it would take you months. The benefit is to generate even more traffic, and will help you with your internet marketing campaign. If you searched for XYZ Band Shirts and the following results cam up which one would you choose?
Company Name Band Shirts or XYZ Band Shirts
5) Blog about your industry
Everyone has a blog discussing anything and everything. Why not discuss what is going on in your industry? There are many free blogging programs out there that can get you started. The reason many companies have blogs isn’t only to get their amazing ideas out onto the internet But to increase the amount of pages on their website, generate traffic, and develop a community that can respond back to the author.
Additionally you can include coupons for new members, discuss how a sale you are having next week relates to the current industry struggle, or just keep the customers on your site longer.
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If you aren’t familiar with Western Digital’s new WD TV, get acclimated. This little unit (and by little I do mean little, it’s not much larger than my 5 port gigabit switch ) is one killer device! It runs $99 and can play every type of media you throw at it from x264 mkv files to divx to mp3s. All available and output to your TV via HDMI in full 1080P HD resolution (the one main feature the AppleTV is missing, not to mention it is more than double the price) .
But to increase the amount of pages on their website, generate traffic, and develop a community that can respond back to the author.
