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Why WordPress Is The Absolute Best Platform For Your Membership Site

January 28, 2010

NOTE: WordPress is right for you, only if you want to actually launch your membership site some day, make money from your site, and do not wish to spend an insane amount of time creating and maintaining it, and only if you do not wish to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars outsourcing the creation [...]

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Turning Lemons Into Lemonade

November 14, 2009

Do you sometimes bitch and complain and whine about your life? If only your parents had given you the right education… If only you were given your due recognition at work… If only your family loved you… If only you had more customers… If only you had more people promoting your product… If only you [...]

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How To Destroy A Brand In 30 Seconds

November 8, 2009

I’ve been a fan of Guy Kawasaki for a while now. Not a fan-boi type, but still admired him enough to call myself a “fan”. I follow him on Twitter, read his blog occasionally, and love to watch his videos as he is a great presenter and speaker who adds a lot of humor and [...]

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Saving Money vs. Making Money

May 12, 2009

I have a friend whose main purpose in life is to find deals and bargains and cut costs. He once spent several weeks filling out an insane number of really long forms and processing rebate information, for a mail-in rebate promotion for a laptop. And he purchased that crappy, low-end laptop because that was the [...]

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How To Make A Viral Video

April 27, 2009
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Welcome to Techiiies.TV

April 19, 2009

I started Techiiies.tv as a fun project, and I’m pretty confident that YouTube would run out of storage space before I run out of ideas for creating techiiie videos. Oh, and by the way, if you’re wondering about the weird spelling of Techiiies, it was of course because the name “Techies” (with the single “i”) [...]

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How To Quickly & Easily Publish Business Videos

April 2, 2009

I use Amazon S3 to host my business videos. S3 offers incredible performance, unlimited storage, and is extremely affordable. Another Purple Cow from Amazon. Plus it looks a lot more professional than hosting your business videos on a crowded social video site with user generated videos and ads surrounding it. Amazon S3 for video hosting. [...]

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YouTube records more searches than Yahoo!

January 21, 2009

Last week, I searched YouTube (not Google) for how to “change wiper blades“, and watching a couple of the videos helped me change the wiper blades on my car in under 2 minutes (something I had been putting off for almost a year!) Here is an interesting article about the shift in the way people [...]

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YouTube Time Anchor Trick: Skip-Ahead Linking To Video

December 11, 2008

Let’s say you found this incredible video on YouTube that you wish to share with your subscribers/friends/family. But you watched it already and say, the first 3 minutes is all garbage (or just plain boring). So how do you link to the video such that your viewers skip the 3 minutes and go directly to [...]

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Chat With Your Visitors: Google Chat For Your Web Site

November 21, 2008

Until last night, I thought I was quite tech-savvy and very up-to-date with the latest and greatest in the web world. But I guess I was wrong I started on a (brief) quest last month to add live-chat to some of my sites. After looking around, I couldn’t find a decent free solution. Of course, [...]

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My Date With Seth Godin

October 7, 2008

Ok, I was being dramatic. Plus I’m straight (and I think Seth is too). Last evening, I was fortunate to be a part of a private group that participated in Seth presentation for his new book, “Tribes” . The presentation was “remarkable!”, as Seth would’ve said himself. Filled with extraordinary images, and almost no text, [...]

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Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen

September 28, 2008

Uncanny! I got “Presentation Zen” delivered in the mail last night from Amazon. And someone tweeted this Garr Reynolds video of “Authors at Google”…

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Seth Godin’s Scalp Is On Fire

August 18, 2008

I’ve always talked to folks about having a sense of urgency in life. Because that’s how I operate. I look at the young & successful, and I feel like I’m 10 years behind. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing either. If you don’t have nowhere to go and nothing to achieve, then you [...]

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Are You Keeping A Tab On Your Competitors – and Yourself?

August 4, 2008

Quite frequently, I am reminded of how we take certain things for granted, while it could be something completely new/interesting/educating/shocking for someone else. Using Google Alerts for competitive research is one such “thing”. During a chat with a friend the other day, I casually mentioned how I use Google Alerts to keep an eye on [...]

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How To Check If Your Web Site Can Run PHP Scripts (or WordPress)

April 10, 2008

Create a file called phpinfo.php Enter these few lines of code in it: (you can copy-paste from below): <?php phpinfo(); ?> Upload this to your root folder (where your home page (index.htm or index.html etc) lives. Access this script via the browser like this: http://www.YourSite.com/phpinfo.php You should see a nice page come up, with the [...]

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Low Cost Online e-Faxing: MaxEmail.com

April 1, 2008

I was recently in the market for an “e” fax solution. I looked at quite a few services. My basic requirements were these: Reliable Low cost (not necessarily free – because I wanted the service to be reliable and accountable) Didn’t need a local area code – anywhere was fine, as I don’t receive too [...]

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Free RSS Feed Publishing Script

March 10, 2008

I’ve thought about selling my RSS Feed Publishing Script for a long time. And then one day, I just decided to give it away. All I want is for you to try out my free newsletter. You can leave any time. No questions asked. And you will never hear from me again. Your permission to [...]

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How To Sell A $3,200 Product Using Free YouTube Videos

December 3, 2007

If you’ve ever wondered about the power of influence that videos – even free ones – can have in selling commercial products, look no further. Recently, I was on the receiving end of this power, as I shelled out about $3,200 to buy a Yamaha Motif Keyboard – thanks(!) to two powerful videos on YouTube. [...]

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Download of the day: Snag-It – Free, Full-featured License

November 26, 2007

Camtasia is giving away a slightly older version of their famous screen-capture software, Snag-it, that lets you go beyond the “Prnt Scrn” button. Here’s where you can download it. A Print-Screen Tip If you press the “Alt” + “Prt Scrn” buttons together, you will capture only the front-most (active) window – which means you no [...]

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7 Steps To Remarkable Customer Service

October 8, 2007

Going by the PageRank (PR 6), you can guess how many sites are linking to this post on JoelOnSoftware. The content is that powerful. Here’s the summary: 1. Fix everything two ways 2. Suggest blowing out the dust 3. Make customers into fans 4. Take the blame 5. Memorize awkward phrases 6. Practice puppetry 7. [...]

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