Archive for April, 2007

Miraserver Gets Sponsored Placement in Hotscripts

Many moons ago, I put Miraserver onto the waiting list for a sponsored listing in the CMS directory over at Hotscripts.com. Hotscripts.com, if you don’t know, is probably THE leading source to go to when you’re looking for some software to use on your website. Its a very cool and comprehensive directory, and the CMS [...]

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Why a Drop in Adsense Revenue?

I recently made some adjustments to the layout over at PCMech. Nothing I thought was very drastic. I was simply re-organizing some elements and fixing some long-time problems (like creeping CSS layers in IE). Well, after I went live with the new layout, I began keeping a close eye on the various revenue sources. One [...]

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My Marketing, Useful Resources

Below is this week’s commentary “blurb” portion of the weekly newsletter we run every week here at WebbyOnline. I don’t usually post these things on the main site as a blog post, however today I thought I would. To recieve this content in your inbox each week, just subscribe in the form at the top [...]

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Traffic Secrets Course

One of the things I am working on this year, as I have mentioned, is kicking business and revenue into high gear. One of the things I am doing to get this done is to broaden my horizons and learn from others. Now, I’ve already learned alot from others, but one thing I have never [...]

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WebbyOnline Podcast: Episode #1

Call it a snap decision, but I decided to try my hand at a podcast for WebbyOnline. Actually, the thought was in my head for a couple weeks now, but this morning I decided to break out the mic and hit the record button.
This episode is completely unedited and unpolished and is simply an introduction [...]

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Does Don Imus Matter To Us?

The situation with talk show host Don Imus has been getting quite a bit of attention the last few days. The story is very simple, and here it is in summary:

Talk show host says stupid thing. Targets of the comment happened to be black
He gets “called” on it.
Black “leaders” like Al Sharpton act all hot [...]

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How Projects Really Work

I found this one this evening and thought it was hilarious. And I’ve been in this business long enough to know that this is pretty much EXACTLY how it usually works.
I think one of the biggest drawbacks to hiring a web developer is the lack of knowledge. Web developers can be a bit cocky to [...]

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I Can’t Do Everything

Boy, have I been thinking this one lately. It seems that as soon as I put my mind to increasing business, I get exactly that. And then comes the side effect - being so busy that I end up playing a huge juggling act. As I see it, I have three choices here:

Try to be [...]

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Lazy Linkage - Issue Two

OK, today I am going to post the second “issue” of the lazy linkage. You might wonder why I call it that. Well, its just a lame dork attempt at humor because rather than creating content of my own for you, I’m just linking to other people’s content. But, I try to be fair and [...]

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StumbleUpon - Good For Promo?

In looking at my referrers in Google Analytics, I often see StumbleUpon.com as one of the referrers. I checked it out some time ago and thought the idea was very cool. It really is the ultimate social networking site. OK, well, maybe not “ultimate”, however cool nonetheless. It essentially uses the StumbleUpon community to scour [...]

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