Archive for October, 2008

The WordPress Autoresponder is working great. It’s still operating in BETA, so that means the paid upgrade is very reasonably priced… but it’s going up soon when the BETA is over! In testing it, it DOES integrate SO effortlessly with WordPress it’s amazing. One thing that’s cool is that you could purchase this for your [...]

Twittad.com promised to monetize your Twitter account. WhatsYourTweetWorth.com promises to estimate what your Twitter account is “worth” to an online advertiser on a monthly basis. Of the several times I’ve tried the site, it’s always been “too busy”… sort of like Twitter. The time I was able to try it, the estimate seemed fairly reasonable [...]

I’ve already mentioned some ideas to help you sell more in a recession. Adrian Ling has a good post on Opportunities in Recession. He mentions a variety of opportunities that exist online and off line. You may agree with them, or may not. But one thing he suggests is worth building on … learning a [...]

The rules are changing for “brick and mortar” businesses… those home based businesses and small storefront businesses that market their services locally (at least in part). Now even your local hardware store needs to think about how it ranks in Google’s (and others’) local search rankings for it’s product and services. At this stage of [...]

A friend of mine noticed something interesting on Google’s own blog – Trackback Spam! It’s from this post Weird!

My friend Bill Platt sent me an email about his new program TrafficandSubscribers.com New members instantly receive 250 traffic credits just for signing up! Bill has run a successful article distribution system for quite some time I enjoyed using. He recently created this tool. Here’s how it works: In every advertisement display box shown, five [...]

In recent days I hear, the automated posters on Digg who used their scripts to generate vast amounts of “phony” interest for pages that would profit them have been “banned”. I received some email saying there is a power vacuum currently on Digg. Now posts with as “few” as 100 diggs can make it to [...]