Twitter Fail: Site & API Down AGAIN!

August 25, 2009 Social Media

It looks like our good friend, Twitter.com is down once again. Facebook has also been giving me problems for a few days, so my guess is that there is another attack happening . . . of course that is just speculation! Where’s the Fail Whale when you need him?

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Don’t Disrespect the Help! You Never Know Who You’re Talking To

August 4, 2009 Blogging

A short while ago, a call came into my office from someone asking for me. My secretary answered the call and asked the caller how he could help them. The caller responded with his name and asked to talk to me (Josh Dorkin). My secretary then asked the caller what this was regarding and he [...]

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What NOT to do in Business – LIE to your Customers!

July 30, 2009 Commentary

I’ve only got a few minutes, but I had to get something off of my chest. After determining that I’m just not going to use my gym membership, I decided to give my 30 days notice. I knew that I had to get this handled quickly, as the end of the month was quickly approaching. [...]

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Changing Your Works from Creative Commons Attribution to All Rights Reserved . . . WHY?

July 28, 2009 Blogging

Yesterday, I received a message that blew my mind. In a post that I wrote for another blog last summer, I had included an image that I found in Flikr’s Creative Commons directory. This image was posted under a license requiring anyone using it to attribute the image to them. (NOTE: Image above is not [...]

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How Often do You Clean Out Your WordPress Plugins?

July 27, 2009 Entrepreneurship

With every few upgrades of WordPress or so, I notice that there is no longer a need for one of the plugins that I’m using. In may cases, WordPress itself has integrated the functionality that the plugin was designed for. Occasionally, I’ll note that one of my plugins has become relatively useless to me or [...]

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End of a Rough One

July 26, 2009 Commentary

This has been one rough week! I learned that my neighbor’s “lawn” was likely sending the bugs that were destroying mine – thanks LawnDoctor for the info. I was hopelessly unable to connect with several key people who I rely on for advice and help. I was the victim of a “glitch” at Paypal that [...]

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Hiding Your Real Identity when Participating in Social Media – Good or Bad?

May 3, 2009 Social Media

Should a Real Name be Required when Participating in Social Media? This question has been floating out there for a while, but I just wanted to get it in circulation again. Frankly, I believe that if you are not willing to reveal who you really are when participating in social networks, forums, and other social [...]

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The Twitter Epiphany: Why post on Twitter when you can post on your blog?

May 1, 2009 Blogging

I’ll admit that I’ve become accustomed to using Twitter (and other social media) throughout my day to share interesting information, links, articles, etc. I’ve been doing it for some time now, but I came to an epiphany yesterday that is going to change my behavior. I wasn’t sharing my every move like the guy in [...]

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How to Lose Twitter Followers in 8 Steps or Just Turn Everyone Off

April 29, 2009 Twitter

Image via CrunchBase By now, you need to live in North Korea to not have heard of Twitter. I’ll admit, at first I didn’t really get it, but after a while, I’ve managed to figure out how to use the site to engage others and make new connections. (The Wall Street Journal actually had an [...]

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Forum Spam Sucks! Learn Forum Marketing the Right Way.

February 22, 2009 Forums

I was just going through one of my forums and noticed something I hadn’t seen in a few years. A 3 year old forum post was brought back from the dead by a brand-new member of the site, whose comment had NOTHING to do with the discussion at hand. While his post was not any [...]

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Feeling Pain Over a $10 T-Shirt? NOPE, But Principles Matter in Business!

January 25, 2009 Entrepreneurship

A few months ago I decided BiggerPockets.com would be a sponsor for a Real Estate Event that was slated to occur in mid-October. This was to be a one day real estate technology-themed event, and in return for the $250 sponsorship, we’d get our company name on the event’s website, and our logo on all [...]

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HTML & CSS Hex Color Code Tools: Triple Hex Codes

September 24, 2008 Website Design

We wrote about HTML Color Codes in the past and I provided you with a bunch of great resources for finding those codes at Tools for Finding the Right HTML Hex Colors: Color Codes, Charts, Wheels, & Wizards. What I left out was a resource that provides the Triple Hex codes for those of you [...]

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How to Quickly Screen an SEO Company in Less than a Minute

September 21, 2008 Advertising

What does a SEO Company Do? I know, it sounds like a simple question, but someone who doesn’t know what an SEO professional does is likely to get screwed by some con man looking to rip him off. Most people will do a few minutes of research and find out that people who help others [...]

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Host Lunarpages Fails to Make the Grade – Again

September 20, 2008 Commentary

I’ve had several clients of mine over the years host their websites with a company called Lunarpages. For the most part, their experience has been a good one . . . cheap hosting, reasonable uptime . . . the basics. Unfortunately, I’ve been informed that Lunarpages has dropped the ball, bigtime! According to my client, [...]

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Important Features for Mailing List Software: Suggestions Needed

September 19, 2008 Marketing

I’ve been using the same mailing list software for close to five years now, a platform called Dada Mail, which is a perl script. While the software is free (GREAT!), it has a lot of limitations. I have little control over bounce rates, click tracking, and other essential bits of data which are important for [...]

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