Mixergy Interview – Chance Barnett

September 29, 2010

If you’re going to be doing internet marketing, you owe yourself to watch the following Mixergy interview of Chance Barnett. It’s just one of the many incredibly value videos on Mixergy. I highly recommend becoming a member.

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Results May Vary

September 7, 2010

About 21 hours ago, I read Carlos Taborda’s blog post on how they were able to increase their conversion rates by 45% through testing and optimizing their design/content. The results were impressive. The key changes they made were: Remove navigation bar. The idea was to limit the users options. They had to either either click [...]

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Recommended Practice For Installing WordPress Updates

September 7, 2010

I got the following email from a client of mine a few minutes ago: What is the recommended practice for the WordPress updates?  Should I be installing them as they become available? This is a great question and below is my general recommendation: Small point upgrades (3.0 to 3.0.1 to 3.0.2, etc) should be applied [...]

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Website Optimization Is A Moving Target

September 3, 2010

When you’re optimizing your website, you need to keep in mind that if your audience changes, your results are mostly likely invalidated and you should re-test. An example of this is our link to the pricing/lead generation page in our main navigation menu. A few months ago, we ran a test that tested various language [...]

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Companies Google Has Acquired

August 25, 2010

Google has a reputation for building amazing products and hiring the smartest nerds around. However, you might be surprised to find out that most of the products & services is widely known for were actually companies Google bought and integrated. The graphic below visually shows details of the companies Google has acquired. Research by Scores.org [...]

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Dude, Where's My Hard Drive Space?

August 1, 2010

For the last 2 weeks, I’ve had some family members over from New Zealand. My uncle had brought his Sony VAIO laptop that was a few years old that had grown painfully slow. The main problem it had was that it had almost no hard drive space left. The first task was to figure out [...]

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Volcanic Acquires 85ideas & SamK

July 30, 2010

Volcanic has acquired the digital assets of SamK.ca & 85ideas.com. We’re going to continue supporting the users of these themes and will soon be announcing some exciting improvements to the themes, as part of a larger, more exciting announcement. I’d like to welcome Sam, who will be working with us to improve the themes, support [...]

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WordPress MultiSite Setup Video

June 18, 2010

WordPress 3.0 has just been released and it features a ton of really awesome features. In the video below, I walk through how setup WordPress 3 and enable the multisite mode, which allows you to have multiple WordPress websites powered by one installation. The setup is easy but can be tricky until you see it [...]

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Visual Communication

May 1, 2010
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I was recently interviewed by Marty Lamers of AdvanceMe.com on how visual communication applies to web design and how to make the best use of your marketing efforts directed towards your website. The interview was summarized and turned into jam-packed article you can read online.

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Inspire People With Your WHY

February 25, 2010
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If you’re looking to build a business that can move your market to buy from you and move your people to deliver the best they can deliver, I strongly recommend you watch the Mixergy interview below with Simon Sinek. Simon goes into depth about why inspiring people really gives your business a gigantic advantage over [...]

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