Archive for May, 2009

Unique Marketing Idea to Fight Against Human Trafficking

May 28 2009one Commented

Categorized Under: Marketing Case Studies

Back in January my long time friend, Eric Proffitt, called me and said he had a crazy idea he wanted to share with me. First, though, before I share his idea I have to give a little background on Eric. I’ve know Eric for 13 years and ever since I’ve known him he has sang [...]

Fixing WordPress Image Caption Issues

May 26 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Theme Fix

Earlier this year I wrote about a quick way to fix wordpress themes that wouldn’t wrap text around your images correctly. It was just snidbit of code that you dropped into your style sheet, but it worked like a charm. I have since used the code on several free themes. Recently, I was having issues [...]

The Top 100+ Books Every Internet Entrepreneur Should Read

May 24 20094 Commented

Categorized Under: Top List

For the last several months I have been working with Janet (aka newspapergirl.com) on creating a title for her new online pr book. That’s right, I said several months! We have gone through hundreds of possibilities. Personally, my favorite so far is, “Lois Lane’s Complete Guide To Online Press Releases” (her blog tagline is: The [...]

If You Link To Me I’ll Sue You!

May 19 2009one Commented

Categorized Under: Web Nonsense

Have you ever wondered what the web would be if it was run by lawyers? Nah, me neither, but I received a tiny glimpse of what it might look like when a friend emailed me Advanstar’s Terms of Use for Linking. My friend wanted to be sure that her company was compliant to Advanstar’s Gestapo [...]

Why Do We Put Up With Twitter?

May 8 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: Marketing Ideas

Why do we put up with Twitter? Oh yeah, it’s free! Yet, only twitter would give me the below error (midday Friday) and still be  considered the web’s beautiful darling! Related posts The New Generals of the Twitter Army Internet Money: Five Ways To Use Twitter For Business Facebook Fan Page vs Groups The Top [...]

Review: Website Cloaking At Its Worst

May 6 2009No Commented

Categorized Under: SEO

I remember back in 2003 learning about cloaking to help your search engine ranking. The basic concept is that you give the search engine bots a different page than what you give a real live person. I recall reading at that time that cloaking wasn’t yet determined to be black hat. However, six years later, [...]

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