Startup Challenges

August 25, 2009

If you’re like me, you have no shor­tage of ideas for crea­tive things that you could do to make money. We have all had and heard plenty of ideas on how we can “make money online” and run our own busi­nes­ses, or even just gene­rate addi­tio­nal income. I have heard dozens and dozens of great […]

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All in One SEO to Thesis Migration

August 20, 2009

I just recently switched my blog design from a cus­tom theme that I desig­ned over to the the­sis archi­tec­ture. After the­sis was up and run­ning, I wan­ted to disa­ble and stop using the All in One SEO pack, since this func­tio­na­lity is built into the the­sis theme.
I was poin­ted to this post by @godhammer which in […]

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5000th Tweet — A Tribute

July 7, 2009

For my 5000th tweet I thought I’d do a quick post about why I follow the peo­ple I do on my per­so­nal twit­ter account. The peo­ple I link to are the ones I’ve actually met
Star­ting from the top:
@matt­cutts — Gotta follow him, cause I do SEO and well.. He’s Matt.
@chris­win­field — Chris is the man […]

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How to Get More (spam) Followers on Twitter

June 16, 2009

There’s lots of great mate­rial out there on how to build up your twit­ter account(s) and get follo­wers by doing all kinds of cool things that result in qua­lity follo­wers that will sus­tain. This post is not about that.
If you just want to get follo­wers because you like to see your follo­wer count go up (who […]

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14 MORE Tools of Highly Effective Twitter Users

May 26, 2009

Back by popu­lar demand, here is the sequel to the ori­gi­nal 14 Tools of Highly Effec­tive Twit­ter Users. A round up of some of the best tools avai­la­ble for your maxi­mum twit­ter plea­sure!
backt­weets
To kick it off, backt­weets is a great way to find, track and moni­tor links that spread on twit­ter. Check out advan­ced mode to search […]

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Comments Are Like Frequent Player Points

May 21, 2009

Unless you play poker, and poker online, you pro­bably have no idea what I’m tal­king about. Let me explain. If you play poker online for real money, and you win, along with win­ning money, you accu­mu­late what are called “Fre­quent Pla­yer Points” or FPP’s. The term Fre­quent Pla­yer Points is uni­que to the poker site […]

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Jesusita Fire

May 8, 2009

Santa Bar­bara is on fire… Again.. Here are some pho­tos from the past few days:

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IMSB Tools Wrap Up

April 6, 2009

Well since Lisa Barone and Susan Esparza both deci­ded to take a break from live­blog­ging at IM Spring Break, I thought I’d fire up word­press and do a wrap up post about the tips and tools to use from the hot­test con­fe­rence to hit inter­net mar­ke­ting.
Twe­llow
A yellow pages style twit­ter direc­tory to help you find […]

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Social Media for Everyday Life

February 27, 2009

Lately it seems there’s been an upsurge in nay-sayers against social media and the peo­ple who are hea­vily invol­ved in the social media space. The gene­ral con­sen­sus is that peo­ple are sick of hea­ring the term “social media guru”, or other rela­ted terms.
Let’s Not Get Butthurt
Now, first of all “guru” isn’t much of an offi­cial title […]

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