We have a few members of the Pleth crew hitting the road this month, possibly coming to a town near you soon! One upcoming event will be held at let us know! Getting Started with Social Media for Businesses Facebook How to Set Up a Facebook Page for Your Business Tips for Integrating Facebook into […]
A Healthier Diet of Content Consumption
While I have been multi-tasking on several projects this weekend I have also forced myself to do something pretty uncharacteristic of me, I have completely changed my daily information gathering routine. This plan will go into effect this next week. This is a plan that I have had for a few months now but have […]
Blogging is Foundational, Social Media a Tool
While everyone is out spreading the gospel of social media I have found myself spreading a slightly different message lately. Now, don’t get me wrong, social media is an awesome tool for running a marketing campaign, I am on board completely with this, but it is just that, a tool. Social Media is not the […]
7 Minutes of Blogging Wisdom – #SoSocial
I was honored to be one of the presenters last night at the Inaugural Southern Socials Event #SoSocial in Little Rock. The presentation format was pretty interesting, we used the Pecha-Kucha format where you basically present 20 slides x 20 seconds each. So, each speaker gets roughly 7 minutes to do their presentation, then of […]
Some Thoughts Regarding the FTC Disclosure Rules
I have been out of pocket the past few weeks and haven’t had a chance until today to go over the FTC Rules for Disclosure as they apply to Bloggers. I know that this caused a serious uproar inside the blogger community, ShoeMoney (Jeremy Schoemaker) even called an emergency town hall meeting on TinyChat to […]
I am Really Liking Disqus
I knew that I was going to like Disqus a lot before I installed it on my blog, but I don’t think that I realized just how much. My first observation after installing Disqus was that I immediately got about 3 or 4 comments on a few of my posts. One of the posts was […]
Twitme, LiveWriter, WP 2.8 Bug – Workaround
The other day I posted an entry about a bug that I had ran into using the Twitme plugin for WordPress, and as I mentioned in my post the only thing that had changed was that I had recently upgraded to 2.8.1 on WordPress. I also mentioned that I was getting this error when I […]
Possible Twitme Bug w/ WordPress 2.8
A few days ago I updated my personal blog to WordPress 2.8 and for the most part everything seemed to be working fine but I noticed yesterday that when I published to my blog using Windows Live Writer I started seeing an error message. If you are not familiar w/ Live Writer it’s a great […]
More Affiliate Marketing Tips…
A while back I posted My Approach to Monetization after I had been doing a lot of experimentation on various projects and for the most part it was well received, after I had posted this I ran across ProBlogger’s 10 tips for using affiliate programs, and I was amazed that I had a few of […]
Every Company Needs a Blog…
I deal with a lot of clients today that have been with me since I got into this industry almost a decade ago, and for the most part my partners and I have had a hand in developing every aspect of their web presence from the bottom up so when they see their competitors launching […]