Did You Know?

April 2, 2009

Incredibly exciting, inspiring, and motivational video. 50% of the credit goes to the music and the “style” of presentation.

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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.
Camtasia / Jing [...]

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Case Of The Disappearing Blog?

March 21, 2009

You probably know about my book, “No Business Like E-Business”, that sells on Amazon.
I have also developed this really powerful Membership Software, whose primary “Claim to Fame” is that it can “drip” content little by little on a list, much like an email autoresponder drips emails.
So, I had this rather brilliant idea and [...]

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What Happens When You Get Too Good At Marketing

March 20, 2009

WARNING: SHOCKING LANGUAGE FROM CUSTOMER BELOW
Ok, so maybe the title was a little dramatic, but still, I didn’t know I was *this* awesome at marketing
Over the weekend, when I thought of giving away my best-selling book on Amazon for free on the book’s blog, I never imagined that my copy writing style [...]

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‘Curiosity’ starring Seth Godin

March 16, 2009

This is turning into a “Seth Godin Week” at RavisRants.com.
But if you’re like me, you can’t get enough of what Seth has to say. So enjoy…
‘curiosity’ from Nic Askew on Vimeo.

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Seth Godin’s take on Social Networking

March 16, 2009

What does Seth think about the Facebooks and Twitters?

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Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights

March 11, 2009

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Special Invitation: FaceBook Group

March 11, 2009

The first web page I ever designed was in 1995, for a buddy who wanted to impress his girlfriend on her birthday.
So, I ended up publishing a (what was then popular) “Java Applet” thingamajig, on a free site called Geocities (Y! bought it later). It created this rotating cube that had a different picture of [...]

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My Book on Amazon

March 3, 2009

Amazon currently has 17,338,442 books available for sale.
Of those 17 million, my book is currently ranked at 20,969. Which means my book is ranked at 0.1% of all books on Amazon.
0.1% means high up among the top 1% of all books.
These numbers mean not much more than a pat on the back. And maybe some [...]

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Frames Rock!

March 1, 2009

No, I did not just time-travel back to 1995.
Frames have always been considered a bad idea…
Bad for SEO.
Bad if you’re using JavaScript.
Bad if want to use DHTML.
Bad for bookmarking.
Bad for passing around links.
But here’s probably one of the few (or only?) remaining uses for frames (this is where frames absolutely ROCK!)
Check out how I’m using [...]

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Digital Access Pass v2.0 is here!

February 23, 2009

DAP v2.0 is out now. Very excited. Stuffed with really cool features.
We now have a new WordPress plugin with a pretty slick name (at least I think so , called “LiveLinks“.
It makes your blog appear “alive” – as in, show different content to different folks (members, non-members, those who just joined, those who [...]

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Marc Andreesen on Video, iPhone, FaceBook and Google

February 22, 2009

Excellent interview by Charlie Rose.
And the discussion about monetizing FaceBook is very interesting.
And a cool thing about Google Video (not to be confused with YouTube) is that you get a link right on the page, to download the video (iPod/iPhone friendly). So load up for offline viewing at the gym or on the train!
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Oops, I Sold A Subscription By Mistake

February 22, 2009

Something amazing happened today: A customer paid money and purchased a ‘monthly’ subscription to one of my sites.
Ok, so maybe nothing spectacular about that. But now get this…
I haven’t even launched that web site yet!
Tons of spelling and grammatical errors on the page. I hadn’t even done a spell-check. Can’t remember publishing an actual working [...]

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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 are [...]

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Insane Web Hosting Deal From DreamHost

January 5, 2009

My favorite web host DreamHost is offering an *insane* deal…
2-year web hosting (normally $214) can now be purchased for just $21.48 – that’s almost a 90% discount. And I just got a new account (already have 3 accounts with them!)
This is not an affiliate offer. This is just a coupon I found online, and am [...]

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Typing Test: Wow, am I good or what?

December 14, 2008

Ok, I promise not to brag too much…
Here is a really cool typing test.
I’m averaging a speed of about 104 words per minute in just 3 tries (proof below)

Take the test, and share your results in the comments below.
http://labs.jphantom.com/wpm/

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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 the [...]

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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 [...]

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Transform Your Marketing – Seth Godin

November 18, 2008

Yet another incredible presentation from Seth Godin.
I can’t seem to get enough of what he talks about…

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To Follow Or Not To Follow

October 27, 2008

If you wish to follow me on Twitter, then I’ll be honored that you chose to do so. I’ll even send you a personal “thank you” note
But if you follow me expecting me to follow you back, that’s probably not going to happen.
Many high-profile Twits (or Twitter’ers) do the Follow-Me-And-I’ll-Follow-You bit.
That’s as pathetic [...]

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