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Callcenter Suicide
On Saturday, we worked with a call center and one of our clients. I had that fuzzy, gut feeling that it wasn’t going to go well. My gut was right. While we had our application complete and resources sitting idle for months, the callcenter didn’t touch anything. We had a demo and only their developer showed up. The client called…
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WordPress Disaster Recovery: A Step-by-Step Guide to Troubleshooting and Restoring Your Site
Running WordPress as a content management system (CMS) brings enormous power and flexibility. Millions of businesses, bloggers, and publishers choose it because you can customize nearly every aspect with themes, plugins, and integrations. But that power comes with complexity. WordPress is not a single piece of software—it’s an ecosystem of dependencies. Your domain name must remain active and point to…
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Beginner’s Guides to SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting
1.webp” alt=”Attack” />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…
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LinkedIn Testing New Weather Notification Feature
LinkedIn appears to be testing a weather notification across the header bar area. Since yesterday, hovering over the weather information icon indicates that the service is “Power by sun365”, the makers of a Google Chrome extension and the weather dashboard website sun365.me. And, yes, they say “power,” not “powered.” This appears to be an extremely limited test trial, or an…
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FindThatLead: Instantly Find Verified B2B Emails from Social Media Profiles
One of the toughest challenges marketers, recruiters, and growth teams face is reliably finding contact information for decision-makers. While social media offers a goldmine of context and connections, turning that data into verified emails—without wasting hours or violating privacy—is no easy feat. FindThatLead FindThatLead is a GDPR-compliant lead generation platform turns social media URLs into verified email addresses within seconds.…
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Argyle Social: Conversion Tracking and Social Media
For quite a while, friend and colleague Jason Falls has been partnering and touting the abilities of Argyle Social. Jay Baer is a fan as well. We have been using a variety of tools and even whitelabeled one for our social media agency work. It was an okay platform but pricing was nuts. Jason introduced the great folks at Argyle…
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Hold Companies Accountable
I could share some great horror stories with you on my history with banks and credit cards. Some of it has admittedly been my fault but most of it is the ridiculous actions of banks. I wonder how these guys sleep at night… massive profits, bailouts, executive bonuses and ridiculous overage fees haven’t even budged them to improve their systems.…
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Reputation is Authority’s Dark Shadow
The news is full of some incredible stories of humanity recently: Alex Rodriguez admits to steroids (strangely omitted from MLB.com’s AROD news page) Michael Phelps photographed smoking pot. He’s subsequently lost a huge endorsement deal with Kellogg’s. Even Barack Obama has had a couple tough weeks, trying to find cabinet members and pushing through a stimulus package that has sinking…
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MarketSnare: The All-in-One Platform for Multi-Location Growth
For multi-location brands, marketing consistency, control, and performance often collapse under the weight of scale. Whether you manage dozens or thousands of locations, replicating successful strategies locally can feel impossible. Add in compliance requirements, outdated content, or disconnected tools—and your entire brand presence can quickly fall apart at the local level. MarketSnare MarketSnare was built to solve this exact challenge.…
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Looking for a Second Opinion? A Hundred?
There was quite a firestorm when I promoted utilizing crowdSPRING. Those in the design community who I respect so much though it was a bit hypocritical to appreciate crowdSPRING and other spec systems like 99designs, while advocating hiring design agencies as well. I don’t believe it’s one or the other, I do appreciate both! I challenged a couple of the…
