Technical
How To Avoid Problems Running Multiple Affiliate Programs Through 1ShoppingCart
I recently relaunched Blog Masters Club and I did it via 1ShoppingCart. They aren’t my favorite system in the world, but they have a good balance of features for the price. One of my biggest annoyances with them, however, is the way they handle multiple affiliate programs through a single account. In this post, I’m [...]
Product Launch Platforms To Make Your Life Easy
As a person who has been in internet business for awhile, I remember when things were hard.
I remember the days before Wordpress. I remember programming my OWN content management system to power my site. I remember having to do everything myself, or else pay some programmer who loved to make things seem like a bigger deal than they really were.
Those were the pioneer days where, well…. shit was just hard to do.
Today, we have Wordpress, with the myriad of themes and awesome plug-ins. And it keeps getting better – and easier – as now, even the process of doing a product launch is becoming SO much easier.
What the Ancient Romans Can Teach You About Your Own Blog
The ancient Romans did a lot of things right. They were actually quite advanced for their time, with many advances in energy, engineering and construction. One of their major innovations was their system of aqueducts.
See, Rome was a bustling metropolis with water demands far beyond what the region would provide without man-made assistance. So, over a span of about 500 years, the Romans built 11 aquaducts to feed the city of Rome. These aquaducts were responsible for bringing potable water into the city as well as funneling waste out of the city (yes, the Romans even had indoor plumbing).
This entire system, built over 2,000 years ago, had a singular purpose – take a randomly flowing resource (water) and funnel it in a controlled fashion to certain destinations.
The Romans would never have pondered that, all this time later, some blogger would find some analogy between their aquaducts and what we do on the Internet. But, that’s exactly what I’ve done. 
Kajabi – Potential Solution For Your Next Membership Site?
Yesterday, a new software service went into prelaunch. I emailed about it yesterday and, if you’re on some internet marketer lists, you probably got an email about it from them, too.
It is called Kajabi. I wanted to briefly explain what this is and why I think it is worth watching. Interestingly, my email last night generated many questions as well as a few knee-jerk reactions about the people behind Kajabi.
So, here we go…
Why Buy A Premium Forms Plugin For WordPress? [Gravity Forms]
Gravity Forms. Perhaps you’ve heard about it. It is a premium Wordpress plug-in which allows you to create forms for your blog.
Gravity Forms was on my “someday maybe” list for awhile. I checked this site out and thought, “Hmmm…. that could be cool. Their website sure is purty.” Then, a couple weeks ago, I went ahead and picked up a copy and gave it a whirl.
So, the question is, why bother with a premium Wordpress plug-in to do forms when there are a bunch of freebies like Contact Form 7 out there?
8 Desktop Blog Editors To Make Your Blogging Faster
Most of us have used word processors such as Microsoft Word or Apple’s Pages. These things are super easy to use when you compare it to the post interface inside of Wordpress.
Don’t get me wrong – they’ve done a great job with the post interface in Wordpress. However, there are certain things you can do with a local program that are much harder to pull off inside a web browser.
Did you know that there are programs you can run on your computer to post to your blog? You don’t really HAVE to use the Wordpress post interface. In this post, I’ll go through a few of the leading options.
Why I Switched Away From Wishlist Member
Today has been hectic.
Aside from some unusual family distractions, I’ve had to deal with a last-minute switch to a different membership site solution. And that’s about as fun as slamming a finger in the door.
I’m switching away from Wishlist Member. Wishlist is a pretty popular Wordpress plug-in for “out of box” membership sites. A lot of people like it. Plus, as a subscriber of mine pointed out to me, I actually promoted it to my email list last week. So, it makes pretty odd timing that I’m ditching it.
Filing For Bankruptcy (From Email)
Yep. I changed my email address. The one I’ve had for over a decade now. And it feels good. Damn good.
So, the questions here are: why and how?
I mean, is it worth it? Because, after all, it is a lot of work making the change, and it is sure to inconvenience a lot of people I’ve had past contact with. So, let’s cover it.
How To Display Your Feedburner Subscriber Count In Plain Text
You have likely noticed that many bloggers choose to display their RSS subscriber count on their blogs. The most common way to do that is by using the little button graphic which Feedburner provides.
A fancier way to do it is to display it in plain-text format, thereby allowing you to style it in whatever way suits your blog.
When I made some recent design changes to DavidRisley.com, I decided to display the FeedCount using plain text. Below is how I went about it…
How To Secure Content On Amazon S3 With WordPress
Amazon S3 is a cheap, flexible and powerful way to store files. If you embed movies on your blog, for instance, using S3 makes a lot of sense.
But, there is a problem – anybody who knows what they’re doing can STEAL your content and do what they want with it. This isn’t a problem with S3. The problem is in how you interface with S3.
Amazon S3 Basics
No doubt, I have a lot of readers who don’t use S3 or have no idea what it is all about. So, let me address that first.
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