We are launching a viral video contest for Dive Provo, a diving outfit in the Bahamas. Brent Brooks from Blank Stage Productions and I are launching these viral videos and a contest as part of our venture, Viral Video Brothers. The contest is simple, go to the contest home page, diveprovo.com/vote - watch some videos [...] [...more]
Here is a great example of WordPress as a CMS. The design of this site was intended to be less “bloggy” and more like a traditional web site.
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Most of my customers using WordPress are running version 2.5.1, which was released by WordPress a couple of months ago. Folks who an older version of WordPress like 2.3 were usually quite impressed with the added functionality version 2.5 offered. Well prepare to get swept away again. If you want a preview of what you [...] [...more]
Twitter is certainly a cool way to keep friends and family abreast on what you are doing. I have used it in the past and have started using it to keep folks up to date on RF Web Studio. I was looking for creative ways to show off my twitter feed. Among the best that [...] [...more]
The folks at Hubspot have done it again. They are currently beta testing another great tool for bloggers, internet marketers, and webmasters, called Press Release Grader. It is similar to their great Website Grader tool, which I reviewed a couple of months ago. If you have not read that review, make sure you read my [...] [...more]
I know that the whole concept behind Digg.com and other similar social bookmarking sites is that you do not pay people or encourage them to Digg an article. But knowing that the effects of getting on the front page of Digg just makes me wonder. Even the link quality coming from Digg and the possible [...] [...more]
New to blogging, interested in starting your own blog, or are you just looking to boost your blog traffic and effectiveness? If so, be sure to attend the How to Blog Workshop, at the Blank Stage Theater in Marietta, GA, June 16th and 17th (time TBD, please select best time below). You will learn how [...] [...more]
I have noticed, as anyone who runs their own blog had undoubtedly as well, a ton of spam comments showing up. Now most of my clients, and even most Wordpress newbs know about askmet and some of the other spam prevention tools available. What I am still stumped over is the high number of garbage [...] [...more]
I have been thinking for the last couple of months about some times I was able to close large web development deals, and likewise some of the times I was not able to close the deal. I even thought back to my very first web site sale, and tried to find out if there was [...] [...more]