Alan M.

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Halloween at Corky & Company

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 3:27 pm
In a continuing tradition many at Corky come to work dressed in costume on Halloween. Here are a few pictures back in the office after our pot luck lunch. One thing I almost forgot, tradition dictates that those who wear a costume leave early. I'm off to break the good news to the lucky few. The...
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How to Find the Date for the Corky Warehouse Sale

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 12:04 pm
Here's how to be one of the first to know the dates of the next Corky warehouse sale, to be invited to the non-public openings and receive special promotions. A couple months before the next sale, the exact dates and times are posted at Corkysale.com. The fall sale always starts on the Saturday of...
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Special Benefits for Corky and Company Facebook Fans

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 3:54 pm
The Corky & Company Facebook fan page, now six months new, has developed into an active social site with 1500 fans. If you Facebook, you should check out Facebook.com/Corky and consider becoming a fan. It's a fun community moderated by Kim, our founder and head of design. See our new designs mo...
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Corky Coats Cover Girls, The Crystal Anniversary Edition

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 10, 2009, 9:13 pm
My daughter Courtney, aka Corky, just celebrated her sweet sixteenth birthday. It was a blast, we had a bouncy bounce set up in the yard, an event tent, cotton candy machine, popcorn machine, DJ with strobe lights, the pool heated to 80 degrees, a bonfire and an awesome fireworks show courtesy of m...
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Parked.com Buys WhyPark.com

Alan M. posted an article on - May 4, 2009, 8:57 am
This will be my last post on the WhyPark Insider. Wow what a year! I started this blog on May 15, 2008 shortly after I made an investment in WhyPark. Exactly one year later Parked.com bought Whypark. Incredibly ironic is I made this statement in my first post "This blog will have a short life...
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WhyPark in the News

Alan M. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2008, 8:33 pm
WhyPark has been in the press a bit this week and I thought I'd pass on a couple of links. Thanks to the bloggers who reported about WhyPark. You may get a chuckle from the perp walk at the end of this post! Namecake.com Interview About the New Platform Domain Name Wire Announces ContentPromote.c...
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WhyPark's President Speaks At Traffic Down Under

Alan M. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2008, 7:22 pm
Last week Craig Rowe, WhyPark's president, attended the T.R.A.F.F.I.C Down Under conference to deliver a speech titled, Web Development, Content is King. Presented below are the slides from his presentation. The intent was to provide an unbiased view of different types of domain development projec...
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Make Sure to Describe Your Website with Good Anchor Text Links

Alan M. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2008, 8:02 pm
At WhyPark we provide content to populate your sites. However, by writing your own article and syndicating it among your sites or via article directories you can help tell search engines what your site is about. The effective use of anchor text that links back to your site, is a statement of what...
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Launching A New Boys Clothing Company: Downtown Joey

Alan M. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2008, 6:08 pm
Every now and then your path seems to cross one individual over and over. I've never met Lisa Corroccio in person, but we always seem to meet on-line. I'd like to tell a phenomenal business story about Lisa. There's also an extraordinary personal story of courage and love which you can read abou...
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WhyPark Sitemaps for Google, Microsoft and Yahoo

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2008, 1:12 pm
Submitting a sitemap through your Google webmaster tools account and WhyPark is an easy way to increase the probability of having your domain crawled and indexed. But, did you know with WhyPark you can also easily submit your sitemap to Yahoo and Microsoft! Here's how. Here is view of the WhyPark...
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New York Kids Market - Are Expensive Trade Shows Necessary?

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2008, 11:04 pm
Sometimes the way an industry conducts business changes and it presents opportunities for the visionaries who see the disruption on the horizon. In my industry, kids wholesale fashion, such an opportunity may have arrived. The four times a year New York fashion trade show schedule no longer meets th...
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Local Kids Boutiques are Great For the Community

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2008, 11:01 pm
Kids Boutiques on Target: Specialty store owners work hard to choose a product mix that is cutting edge, fresh and novel, and represents a compelling value to the consumer. Basically kids clothing specialty stores will never compete with mass merchants on price, but the product selection at the loc...
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Great Fashion Starts with Outstanding Quality

Alan M. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2008, 6:27 am
At Corky & Company, like most small companies, we pride ourselves on the quality of the garments and products we make. The image of your company and ultimately its brand longevity will depend on product quality. A small branded apparel manufacturer can’t afford a large quality assurance departmen...
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Socially Small World in Kids Fashion

Alan M. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2008, 9:36 am
There's a great social network site that recently launched for designers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers that have an interest in the kids global fashion industry. In their own words; "My Kids Fashion is the kids fashion industry's first social network connecting designers, retailers, man...
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Widget Wonk Increases Your Sites Interactivity with Creative Use of Widgets

Alan M. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2008, 8:20 pm
There are some awesome ideas for enhancing WhyPark built sites using widgets at the blog Widget Wonk. Suonim, a customer of WhyPark, started the blog to share some of the neat widgets he's used to spiff up his WhyPark sites. I've used some of his suggestions like the Google translate widget and ...
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WhyParker's are Site Builders, Not Domain Parkers

Alan M. posted an article on - Jul 10, 2008, 6:05 pm
A few days ago we highlighted a customer's domain Go Telepresence as one example of how you could use WhyPark to quickly build sites. Since then he has made a few tweaks and put the site on a Name Pros Wed Site Design Review thread. The feedback consensus is "this isn't a parked domain." WhyPark...
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WhyPark Hacks: Customize Sites with Google Gadgets

Alan M. posted an article on - Jul 3, 2008, 8:03 pm
Google Gadgets are an easy way to customize WhyPark sites. With over 46,000 gadgets to choose from there is a gadget for every site. The screen shots in this post are links to the corresponding site, so click away to see the gadgets in your own browser. The Google Gadget home page is where you ca...
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WhyPark Hacks: Affiliate Widgets to Replace Stock Photos

Alan M. posted an article on - Jun 29, 2008, 3:48 pm
A WhyPark customer brought to my attention a really slick modification where he replaced the stock images with an Amazon affiliate widget. This is a great way to add CPA to your sites along with the CPC income currently being generated. Here are some of his sites; I encourage you to visit by click...
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WhyPark: Organic Search Traffic

Alan M. posted an article on - Jun 21, 2008, 9:33 am
Organic search traffic is a huge benefit provided by WhyPark. I'll use the example of GasJam.com in this post to show how WhyPark can monetize a domain with "no type" in traffic. I anticipate that this domain will sell in the next year due to the current state of gas prices, but when I choose the ...
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The Best Jobs Stayed In America

Alan M. posted an article on - Jun 1, 2008, 8:48 am
This week I’m at my apparel factory in the Free Trade Zone in the village of San Pedrode Macoris, Dominican Republic coordinating and planning back to school programs. Key staff or I come here about every third week; it’s a Monday through Friday drill, from 7 AM to sometime after 7 PM. With ...
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Mill to Produce Fabric for the Domestic Market?

Alan M. posted an article on - Feb 5, 2008, 9:46 pm
The Fashion Incubator wrote an interesting post today titled, The Impending Crisis. Three issues were explored 1) the state of the economy 2) the rate of exchange and 3) the price of energy and how this has affected the apparel industry based on comments from Birnbaum's Newsletter. Just last week ...
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