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How to Keep it All Together & Meeting Ben Ray

Image of Ben Ray This post is a combination between motivation, meeting for the #10in10 experiment, and social media.  I find that people sometimes have trouble “keeping it all together” sometimes.  It’s easy to get burned out and overwhelmed in...

Follow Friday #3: Louisville Edition

Image via Wikipedia I’ve decided to go the local route this week and highlight some interesting Louisville people and places to follow on Twitter for this week’s #followfriday.  Here goes: @wfm_louisville: Just started following Whole Foods Market –...

Dancing to the Beat of a Different Kind of Music

Image by TimmyGUNZ via Flickr Music is a tough sell online, especially in the PPC realm.  You’re taking an item that doesn’t have any distinguishable difference between your version and a competitor’s version, and trying to give the customer reason...

What About Contact Form 7?

Last week’s WordPress Wednesday about how to select a WordPress contact form plugin seemed to generate a lot of good discussion, so let’s continue a bit on the same subject.  Since last week’s post, a recurring question I’ve been asked here and...

Debunking the Twitter Power User Myth

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. At times, it seems there is little else to talk about in the social media world. With the ongoing influx of self-proclaimed experts (from every imaginable field) and those looking for another outlet for receiving and reciprocating votes on submissions from various social media sites, will we see an increased number of Twitter profiles with outlandish follower counts?

Twitter + Inspiration = Twinspiration

Image by anguila40 / Alejandro Groenewold via Flickr For those that know of me through Twitter, you’ve probably come across my morning greetings that go out nearly every day. Some have told me privately that this is a source of inspiration for them.  When I was...

Follow Friday #2: Let’s Get Social

Welcome to our second installment of Follow Friday – beyond the 140 characters.  This week’s #followfriday folks: @theGypsy: First on our band of merry people is Dave Harry.  Dave is a real stickler for qualitative research and often reports on search...

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

Image via Wikipedia There has been a lot of talk lately of how to accurately track your PPC spending across offline. More sites are offering support via chat, phone, and email, and as sites add these abilities they also offer holes into how to track which specific...

How to Select a WordPress Contact Form Plugin

Welcome to our first installment of WordPress Wednesdays! Every Wednesday, we’ll be bringing you fresh insight into the fabulous blogging worlds for WordPress, be it WordPress version updates, hacks, tips and tricks, themes, e-commerce, or plugins. This week...

Periodic Table of Social Media Elements

Image of Ad Age Fellow Ad Age Power 150 member Eyecube, aka Rick Liebling put out a periodic table of social media elements: While it’s getting a bit of criticism (yes, social media doesn’t have anything to do with the periodic table of elements),...