Mar 12, 2008
Do you really know what’s reality and what’s not?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The future of marketing interactions will be increasingly focused upon mobile devices such as your phone, your PDA and similar beasties. After all, consider the following.
Most likely, your phone is always with you. Therefore, determining its location (via GPS) during particular times of the day is an excellent method of forecasting where you’ll be in the future (if you’re a creature of habit, as many people are).
What does this mean for marketers? Well, lessee….telemarketers would have a more accurate picture of when you’ll actually be at home. And this concept can be extended even further - let’s say that you’re a coffee marketer and know the approximate time of day when your phone (and hence, you) are in a Starbucks. Or a Dunkin Donuts. Or … you get the idea, right? The huge data available from Google Earth and other satellite mapping outlets would make figuring out [Read more]
Mar 10, 2008
One of the niftiest plugins I’ve come across for Wordpress is Psychic Search. I’m finding it very useful indeed!
Psychic Search from MaxBlogPress will tell you what people have searched on in your blog during the last 24 hours, 7 days and last 30 days. This means you can get an idea of what people AREN’T finding on your blog…and then write posts that fulfill those needs.
PS is free, however, to activate the product, you have to opt into their followup mailing list. As a former Internet marketer myself, I have no problems with this; it’s simply good marketing practice (and I have yet to receive anything from them).
I’ve found several benefits to [Read more]
Mar 9, 2008
Yesterday I had the profound pleasure of reading DailyBlogTips’ Check how Search Engines see your website. A long-time SEO enthusiast, I used to focus upon this concept years and years ago (anyone remember when Infoseek would index your site in real time back in 1996?).
The years passed and writing SEO-optimized content became second nature to me. And over the past few months at my FabFitMom Journal (I lost 45 pounds during 2007 and wrote quite a lot of content; it’s now retired and I post my personal insights over at BarbaraLing.com), I found that I could easily get into the first page of SERPs (search engine results) for just about any keyword I wanted that was related to my niche.
Well! With that as an intro, let me dive into the DailyBlogTips article. They refer to [Read more]
Mar 8, 2008
Tip of the Hat Alert!
I’d like to publicly thank the DailyBlogTips site for their excellent posting of Check How Search Engines See Your Website.
I had always known about the SEO Browser (the topic of that post), but haven’t used it in ages. After dealing with my coffeemaker dying an agonizing death early this morning (okay, I turned it on and it laughed at me), I was in the mood [Read more]
Mar 8, 2008
You’ve probably seen Wordpress blogs over at Wordpress.com or Blogger blogs over at Blogger.com but have you also seen blogs at specific domain names as well? Well, okay, that’s probably like saying, you’ve probably seen a car in a parking lot and a car on the parkway but have you also seen them (gasp!) in a driveway as well?
Tons and tons of sites nowadays are being built with Wordpress - the blog IS the tool the owner uses to build their site. Sure, you’ve probably seen:
But did you know sites like:
are powered by Wordpress as well?
The reason why I wanted [Read more]
Mar 7, 2008
As a blogger, you almost certainly follow other bloggers via a feed reader such as:
And that’s all very well and good - feed readers make it super-easy to see what’s going on out on the big blue marble!
But! Did you know that feed readers can be used for far more than [Read more]
Mar 7, 2008
Spambots.
They’re icky things, they are. Their sole purpose is to get their owner’s links on your blog via automatic postings that, if left unchecked, can flood your blog and bring it to its knees.
Luckily, there are several wordpress plugins you can add to your blog and decimate the effect of robospammers. And here they are!
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Mar 6, 2008
If you blog about women’s issues or kids’ issues or model horse issues or anorexic issues or … (you gets the ideas I hopes?)… you’re a gentle innocent if you don’t pounce upon (and blog about) this latest horrendous attempt at sexualizing our single-digit girls:
Strutz, the fashion model whorses!
Good Lord, abysmal, icky and rather disgusting doesn’t BEGIN to describe this!!
I first heard about this from [Read more]
Mar 5, 2008
Howdy all,
Brief, pithy and to the point - I just read from Sarah’s blog that IE8 Beta is now available for download! Visit her blog for the link.
Additionally, you can check out resources like:
You can also see new screenshots of IE8 created by Sarah - pretty neat! I’d write more, but must dash to take the kids to karate.
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
Mar 5, 2008
It started last evening, it certainly did.
I had just returned from my beloved 2.4 mile circle walk with my kids. Refreshed from the early morning late afternoon air, I was about to shut down my computer and actually (I hope you’re sitting down for this one) rest, when I took one last look at my blog reader.
Well! Lorelle had posted an utterly magnificent article about Breaking Trust: How Not To Link to a Plagiarist that just drew me in and kept me reading and reading and reading. Within that article, I found another great resource about personalizing one’s blog by adding a signature image. WOW! What a super idea! I highly recommend reading it - the instructions are spelled out in plain simple language that makes it easy to implement. I’ve done that for my own blog already.
If you’re of a graphical bent, you can take advantage of all the free software fonts that are available online or even make your own! Some resources I’ve discovered are:
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