Tim Ferris: How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself

Lately I have been doing a lot of work that requires me to research for hours in front of the computer. I decided instead of listening to music (I still can’t figure out how I can be sick of my iTunes when I have like 60GB worth of music) that I would listen to different presentations on the web about WordPress and Social Media. To be honest I have had …

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 4:00 pm by Kevin

After the Deadline is pretty suite… I mean sweet

I had heard about the release of the After the Deadline plugin for WordPress awhile back but I didn’t have time to look at it or try it out until yesterday. After trying it out for a bit on multiple blog installs I have come to the conclusion that this might have been one of the best plugins developed for WordPress ever. After the Deadline is a contextual spell checking …

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 @ 10:47 am by Kevin

Rethinking Brands in Public

One of today’s visionary minds, Seth Godin, creator of Squidoo, a publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create “lenses” online (lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest–and snap it all into focus). Last week, Seth and his team launched Brands in Public.  Their objective at first glance was to consolidate …

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Monday, September 28, 2009 @ 7:19 am by Tim

Inactivity on Twitter

I freely admit that I use Twitter in a totally different way than most people out there. I have two accounts, one that has been around since shortly after the service launched, which I consider my “personal” account and the one that is attached to my business and blog. The one that is attached to this site I use in a little more professional manner and probably have been using …

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Monday, September 28, 2009 @ 7:10 am by Kevin

Mobile Web vs. Mobile Apps

Mobile continues to defy gravity. One of the reasons for this recent ascension into superstardom has been the perceived growth of mobile applications, along with the growth in Smartphone adoption. With over 2.5 billion downloads and 85,000 applications to choose from in apples app store, it is hard to deny these numbers.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 @ 3:15 am by Tim
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How I Would Promote a Small Band Using Social Media

This is post goes hand in hand with my post from yesterday. How bands promote themselves online has been an interest of mine for years. I find it interesting to see how they are trying to build a brand with nothing but their content and their sweat. With a nonexistent marketing budget some people have been able to make a name for themselves. (Take Lilly Allen for example sending out …

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Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 8:03 am by Kevin

Free! Got Me Thinking

On my summer reading list this year was “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” by Chris Anderson. I really enjoyed this book, it was an interesting read on the history of free, where it is going, and the different shapes it takes. While I might be a couple of months late to the fray that Free caused I still wanted to share some of my observations specifically around the …

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Thursday, September 17, 2009 @ 8:02 am by Kevin
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Marketing Profs Releases the Dumbest Survey Ever

I just saw a tweet that directed me to this blog post entitled “Digg, StumbleUpon & MySpace are Worthless Compared to Twitter “ and my head almost exploded. In fact it irritated me enough that I stopped trying to get caught up from my two-week vacation (that is why updates haven’t happened) and decided to sit down and write/spew this. While Marketing Profs didn’t post this blog post, the “social …

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 @ 10:00 am by Kevin

Social Land Grab

Everyone knows the first thing to do before creating a website and/or company for that matter is come up with a name and subsequent url. For years, entrepreneurs and marketers have searched high and low on GoDaddy to find what precious .com real estate is still available without resorting to premium url prices. In 2009 however, finding the right .com real estate is just the start, next step is see …

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Monday, September 14, 2009 @ 5:47 pm by Tim

Mobile Marketing: Top 10 Terms Every Marketer Should Know

1.)  Short Code – 3-6 number phone numbers for sending SMS or MMS messages 2.)  WAP Site – Wireless Application Protocol Site or mobile website 3.)  Mobile Analytics – WAP and Application analytics providers such as Motally and Bango 4.)  MMA – Mobile Marketing Association http://mmaglobal.com/main 5.)  2D Barcode – Funny looking barcodes that gives the user more information about something by either scanning the code with an application or …

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 @ 8:11 am by Tim