It’s SO Simple, anyone…

I was browsing LinkedIn when I came across a very interesting post by Gordon (Gordy) Curphy, PhD, citing a Bartelby article in The Economist. The Economist article is behind a paywall, so I won't be linking to it. But as I read Dr. Curphy's summary (and his snarky comment about writing a book with Read more [...]
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Interview with Paul B Evans

I have followed Paul Evans for several years, and when he announced his upcoming free online marketing course in late December 2019, I signed up for it. True to his word, he started the course on New Year's Day of 2020. I found his course quite interesting and informative, and I also discovered that Read more [...]
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SocialAdr Appears to be Dying

I have used SocialAdr for several years now, and for most of that time, it was a reasonably good way to get backlinks that noticeably improved traffic to my various sites -- and boosted sales. It is basically a link-sharing service that is organized in a way that is fairly clever. It has several users Read more [...]

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Interview with Rob Temple

I had the enormous pleasure of interviewing Rob Temple, a successful Internet Marketer in London, on December 5th, 2018.

I've learned something new every time I have ever listened to Rob, and this session was no exception. I also heard a few things that I really already knew -- but needed to hear Read more [...]

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Interview With Bill Platt

I have been following Bill Platt for a while now.  I don't really remember how long ago it was, but I purchased one of his products (Coloring Books For Adults) at least two years ago. I finally got the opportunity (Bill's a busy guy!) to get a video interview with him. We discussed how he got started, Read more [...]

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Clever Email Subject Line

This morning, I got an email with one of the cleverest subject lines I've seen in quite a while. It was from my hosting company. It said simply:

 
Happy Blue Saturday!
 

It went on to say, "Apologies for the subject, but I'm sure if you're anything like us you're already automatically Read more [...]

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Have you gotten the “Kiss of Death” from Facebook Yet?

Facebook has been acting a bit strange lately. Or at least, "different." I started noticing that one of my "fan" pages consistently gets very sluggish and unresponsive, at least until I respond to a "notice" that tells me that if I pay $3 to "boost" my post, 1,100 more people can see it.

Looking Read more [...]

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SEO is Still a Fool’s Game

I was asked to do a presentation for the North Texas PC Users Group, which I did yesterday (Saturday October 22nd, 2016). I had spoken there about SEO a couple of years ago, and there was a recent major course change at Google with respect to backlinking, namely, they decided (about 3 years late) to Read more [...]

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Hiring a Virtual Assitant

I was invited to do another remote presentation to the North Texas PC Users Group (I'm still a member, even though I have moved to Oklahoma), this time on my experience with hiring a GVA, or general virtual assistant. So I arranged with one of the members there to connect using Zoom (Zoom for #teleconferencing, Read more [...]

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Securing WordPress

I have written about various ways to help secure your website before. Backup of your site is probably the most important of all the things you can do to protect your site.  But there are some things you can do to make it more difficult for hackers (especially "script kiddies") to damage or hijack your Read more [...]

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