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- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Can I get my money back, Wikipedia?
I’m not a huge contributor to Wikipedia. However, in the past I have donated some money to the foundation and contributed content to their site. I love Wikipedia… I use it all of the time and I reference it often on my blog. Wikipedia assisted me as well – generating some hits for my site AND Wikipedia improved my overall…
A Day of Service
I heard on the news today that Dr. Martin Luther King’s wife wished for the day to be a day of service. There is some irony in the message as I write this post from Starbuck’s. Here’s my day today: My daughter came home last night with a fever that we’ve been nursing for the last 24 hours. It’s been…
WordPress: Build a Home Page in 3 Easy Steps
I was working on a site for a friend today who had WordPress but he wanted a simple home page rather than a home page utilizing the latest blog entries. This is really useful if you’d like your blog to be a part of your site rather than the entire site. You can basically utilize WordPress as a CMS. Below…
- Content Marketing
Direct Mail that Works!
I’ve been meaning to write about this since before the New Year but I had to get the ‘ol scanner out to pull together these images of some direct mail I’ve received recently. The bottom line is that some direct mail still works. Here are 3 examples: Jack Hayhow sent me his book, The Wisdom of the Flying Pig. I…
- Content Marketing
RSS: Make your Feed Link Obvious
With the advent of new browsers, I was not too concerned about putting my RSS link within the content of my site. I’m starting to rethink that. If you weren’t already aware, these new browsers can automatically detect an RSS feed as long as it’s identified within the header of the page. Clicking on the RSS symbol results in you…
Beginner’s Guides to SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting
I’m not in a position where I have to worry too much about security, but I often hear of vulnerabilities that we’re protecting ourselves from. I simply ask some intelligent system architect and he says, “Yea, we’re covered.”, and then the security audit comes back clean. However, there are two security ‘hacks’ or vulnerabilities that you can read about a…
I am Iron Man!
I am Iron Man! Inventor. Businessman. Genius. Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz… I was a little skeptical until I noticed how the colors matched my theme and the description was so dead on! 😉
A Personal and Heart-felt Thanks to You
This is an incredible season for my work online. Today my blog was mentioned on both John Chow and Seth Godin’s blog. And I was recently the a topic of a very flattering blog entry on Pat Coyle’s blog! Last week, Mike at ConverStations was gracious enough to mention me as a “Z-lister”. His selfless promotion of me got my…
- Marketing Books
Amazon Associates: Does anyone make any money?
I have to be honest… I love having my bookshelf on my blog and I love discussing books I’m reading with other bloggers. I don’t think I’ve ever made a dime on Amazon Associates, though. It makes me wonder if my associate account is broke or people simply just don’t buy books off of web sites. My second honest point:…
- Content Marketing
Blogs: Written by Fools to be Read by Imbeciles…
Mr. Rago, assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal, eloquently addresses the blogosphere as: The Blog Mob: Written by fools to be read by imbeciles. Joseph Rago This may be the most pretentious attack I’ve seen by a journalist yet! As a former newspaper professional, it’s disappointing to see this attitude. Even worse, I’m a fan of the…
