At BlogWorld Expo, I was interviewed by Network Solutions to answer a few questions that their customers might have. There are a serious of almost a dozen videos up now, with some major big names in social media, but with my ego being monstrous, I’ve only linked to the ones I’m in
The [...]
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Posted in Advertising, affiliate, blogging on Sep 24th, 2008
UPDATE: Wow! Take a look at the views now. 1.1M Nintendo seems to have fixed the sharing feature. As the below commenter, ellenb, mentioned, facebook, myspace, email, etc is now working. Even embed is now not falling below the other boxes, which allows me to embed below [...]
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Posted in Advertising, affiliate on Aug 28th, 2008
Maybe it’s just because I’m a geek, but I really ‘get’ this campaign. I got the initial call from Optimus Prime on Sunday, and since then I’ve sent a half dozen of these messages. This is fabulous!
Have Optimus Prime Call Your Friend (thanks Justin)
Oh, and if you are wondering, of the 7-8 people [...]
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Posted in Advertising, affiliate, web 2.0 on Aug 20th, 2008
I’m a pretty heavy Twitter user, with the wealth of my communication going there lately, rather than to this blog. This is not due to any aversion to blogging, but more because of the time constraint I’m under right now. Apparently Gmail knows this, as any good email program/big brother should, and it [...]
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Posted in Advertising, affiliate, blogging on Apr 18th, 2008
I won’t spend a great deal of time on this, but I want to give you a good example of useful marketing. Let’s say you wrote a book on organizing your home, as this woman has done.
Your goal is to get your book in front of the people who are going to buy it. [...]
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Yan was nice enough to let me play around with Buxr a week or so ago and while I’ve only skimmed the surface, it warrants your attention. I’m not supposed to leak screen shots or anything, but if you do a little research you can see that some people have been a little more [...]
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Update: Contest is open to all. This contest is not US only. Yay!
A few months ago I decided that I wanted to do something special this Christmas for my readers and for some kids. While I’ve still been pondering what to do, I got a cool email from a friend over at [...]
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OK, first thoughts on Kindle.
1. How long before this gets ‘upgraded’ and you piss off the early adopters? (a little Zune frustration is coming out here)
2. $400 is high. How come this doesn’t come with a few public domain books on there for fun?
3. Battery life looks awesome, as [...]
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Posted in Geek, affiliate, blogging on Nov 12th, 2007
A thorough run down of of some great ways to quicken your site. Most are for heavy-traffic sites, not really blogs, but if your site is 1-heavily trafficked or 2-subject to heavy traffic at times, more advance optimization may be in order.
While some of this is common sense (reduce number of HTTP requests, make [...]
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While doing my morning reading, I devoured a list from Guy’s blog that led me to this neat seo trick.
Search Engine Optimization Analysis Tool: Use the SEO Analysis tool to see how a search engine spider sees any website. This is a great way to discover your competitor’s SEO weaknesses and consider how you can [...]
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