I had been using Eudora for my e-mail for a very long time, as it was handed out as part of the computing package at my school, Cornell University. And then I disaster happened: while my mailboxes were compressing, I got an end-of-file error, thereby losing about half of the e-mails in my inbox. I didn’t learn my lesson at that point, however—it took a second time, losing most of my outbox, that I finally realized it was time for a change!
- Art of Quitting
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In this feature for StartupNation, I take you through a bounty of tactics for marketing your website. - Planning for a Website
In this podcast, I talk with StartupNation about what kinds of questions you should be asking yourself when you are planning your website.
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A resource for any small business owner operating on a shoestring budget. - Business Pundit
Your daily dose of competitive advantage and entrepreneurship. - Carnival of the Capitalists
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Rob May's Blog About Business, Finance, and Critical Thinking - Compete Blog
Data-packed and ready to talk traffic trends. - Drew's Marketing Minute
Quality marketing-related content from Drew McLellan. - Escape from Cubicle Nation
Pamela Slim teaches you how to go from corporate prisoner to thriving entrepreneur. - Guy Kawasaki's Blog
A practical blog for impractical people. - Internet UltraGeek
Raj Dash shares everything he knows about making money online. - The Lonely Marketer
A discussion for the small business marketing manager. - The Long Tail
Chris Anderson from Wired Magazine shares his theories about the changing strategies of business. - MBA by Blog
A collection of the best of the best in business blogging. - Seth Godin's Blog
The founder of Squidoo has some takes on marketing ethics that I just love. - StartupNation
For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. - Success from the Nest
Inspiration, tips, and advice for the home-based entrepreneur served up with cartoons. - Trust Matters
Charles H Green of Trusted Advisor brings quality back to business relationships.
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- The Top 10 Changes In My Business Thinking
Rob May reflects back on how the past 5 years have changed his business thinking. - From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days
Learn strategies on growing your blog subscribers that are also relevant to any website's traffic. - How Five Years of Blogging Has Changed Me
Rob May reflects on the experiences and lessons learned from blogging over the years. - How to Use Twitter - Tips for Bloggers
This article can help any business with their Twitter strategy, not just bloggers. - Bad, Bad Business Blogging Practices - The Short List
What not to do with your business blog. - Death to Procrastination: Use the 4-day win to get your goals moving
Martha Beck thinks you can get anything done if you can break it down into a 4-day action plan. - Ten Laws for Better E-mail
E-mail netiquette is often forgotten in the business world, and it can lead to a lot of trouble. Here's a reminder on the dos and don'ts. - Subscribe to the Links Feed
Archive for the ‘Technology and Websites’ Category
Less, Part 3: The E-mail Diet
Is Money the Root of All Evil? (Writing with Purpose)
I have been writing in this blog for just about a year, and I have been through a number of changes:
- The blog was once on a subdomain of my company, and now has its own domain.
- I started at infrequent posts, then went to 2-3 posts a week, and now am at 5-6 posts per week.
- The topics have changed as my voice has developed and my experience has grown.
Can Anyone Comment?
I have been having a lot of problems commenting on other blogs lately, which is making it a little hard to participate on some of my favorite sites. Today, the problem occurred to me when I couldn’t submit something in my own WordPress admin. There seems to be some problem between Firefox and the WordPress submit functions. (Mac only? I don’t know.) Has anyone experienced this? How about on my site—anyone have a problem? If you can’t post a comment on this entry to tell me about a problem, just e-mail me. I’m hoping this post will draw some Google traffic for people having the same issues so that we can get to the bottom of it. In the meantime, I am using Safari to read my regular daily fare to see if that helps. Did I mention that I really kinda hate Safari?
Update
I’ve been contacted by the support department at Akismet, who say they have fixed this problem on their end. I am going to test that theory out today and see if it is true.
New Things: Links Feed, WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Feedburner (and some geek code)
I wanted a better way to showcase the really great stuff that I come across by other blog authors. I had been using my shared items feed from Google Reader, but I’m not the biggest fan of Google Reader and the options for display were very limited. (I’ve been trying Google Reader for nearly a month, but I think I prefer NewsFire more.) So, in this post, I am going to attempt to describe how I made a links feed, split WordPress to make that links feed appear in the right sidebar, changed my WordPress templates to exclude that links feed, changed my FeedBurner settings to reflect those alterations, used a new Facebook App to display my new combined links + site feed on my Facebook profile, and carried that all over to Twitter. (Phew!)
In English: I can now share links to quality content from other blogs on my site, and combine those links with my own feed on my Facebook and Twitter profiles. This serves multiple purposes: to add value for my readers, and to increase my reach both through my blog and other social media sites. I will start with an explanation of the whys, and then get into the code in a stepwise fashion.
The Joy of StumbleUpon
I have been getting a lot of traffic in the past few weeks from StumbleUpon. I was discussing this with a colleague of mine, and he asked me how I attract traffic from StumbleUpon. The answer is: I don’t. I do my best to write good content, and the links will follow.
It’s not about writing for search engines or links or anything else. You write for people.
If you’d like to learn more about what I mean by that, check out the recently released podcast I did on using content and code to market your website. You can also read the discussion that came out of it.
Launch Faster: 12 Tips for Avoiding Web Project Delays
It seems like everyone I’ve talked to lately is in the middle of some kind of web development project delay. (We even had an entire thread about it in the StartupNation Community.) I started asking around and thinking about the delays I’ve had or heard about in my own webdev business to figure out why these kinds of delays happen. What I’ve found that if you want your site to be launched several months after you thought it would, do one or more of the following things:
Feeds, Readers, and Providing Value
I really think there’s not enough said about what feeds can do, and what they can do for your business. During the remodel of this site, and the building of two others that I am working on, I have been doing a lot of thinking about feeds and their uses. And now, I’d like to share these thoughts regarding building value and relationships through feeds with you.
Let’s talk about SPAM
Today’s post is a montage dedicated to SPAM: what it is, why it’s bad, how to prevent it, how to not send it, and what happens when people just can’t take it anymore. Enjoy!
Amazon.com Redid Their Site
I owe a lot to Amazon.com; back in the mid-90s, when I had just entered college in the middle of nowhere, Amazon fueled my entrepreneurial spirit by providing me with all the content I needed to learn my craft. (These were the days before the entire documentation for languages like PHP and CSS could be found online.) In fact, I bought so many books that Amazon sent me Christmas gifts each year with a letter from Jeff Bezos himself.
Tracking Clicks from Craigslist
As Craigslist does not provide information on page views or clicks, I have devised a few methods to determine how many clicks come from a particular ad. Some of these require programming knowledge and some do not, but all are good for tracking your campaigns.