Monthly Archives: June 2009

Twitter Updates for 2009-06-30

By Chris | Published: June 30, 2009
RT @davekerpen: Twit­terKeys: Enhance your Twit­ter con­ver­sa­tions — The Next Web http://tinyurl.com/5d5eyd # RT @RetailE­mail­Blog Ann Tay­lor Email: :Join us on FB “…where our Style Direc­tor is shar­ing the lat­est…” NOT just “join us,” but here’s WHY # Email nav bar con­verts bet­ter than or as well as the main con­tent http://tinyurl.com/rbx6uq #email # Pow­ered by Twit­ter Tools. [...]
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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-29

By Chris | Published: June 29, 2009
OnePageCMS: This is INCREDIBLY COOL. Instantly insert edit box in a bor­ing old .html file, and it’s Wysisyg. http://tinyurl.com/lxmwvc # Email cam­paigns best & worst open rates. Kind of surp­sis­ing. Intereting. http://tinyurl.com/9yb3hp #email # List of web design, SEO, mar­ket­ing check­lists. http://bit.ly/Fk7uE # “Face­book: many ppl have yet 2 fig­ure out the most effec­tive way 4 using [...]
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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-28

By Chris | Published: June 28, 2009
Chris Ander­son: The Q is: cn U use free as a form of mar­ket­ing 2 attract a minor­ity of yr users 2 pay 4 a supe­rior form. http://bit.ly/FCHrD # “give away the abun­dance and charge for the scarcity” … http://bit.ly/FCHrD # RT @inspiredm: 8 Sim­ple Ways to Improve Typog­ra­phy In Your Designs http://bit.ly/bD5JC Nice tips! # To do [...]
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Web Nerd Terminology (CSS Tricks)

By Chris | Published: June 26, 2009
Want to know what your web designer is say­ing? CSS, HTML, server, URL, and many other terms nicely eplained here: http://css-tricks.com/web-nerd-terminology-explained/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realsimplesuccess.com%2Fweb-nerd-terminology-css-tricks%2F'; addthis_title = 'Web+Nerd+Terminology+%28CSS+Tricks%29'; addthis_pub = '';
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FaceBook Pages: What You Need to Know

By Chris | Published: June 26, 2009
This week: Face­Book pages I have been hav­ing a lot of luck lately with Face­Book pages, and have been cre­at­ing Face­Book pages for sev­eral dif­fer­ent clients. This is a good thing, because as Copy­Blog­ger pointed out recently (www.copyblogger.com/facebook-killing-seo/), Face­Book is really chang­ing the game. With report­edly up to 250 mil­lion peo­ple on the site now, you really have [...]
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WP Tip: Using the Quick Add Panel to Store Post Ideas

By Chris | Published: June 25, 2009
I have noticed that it’s very handy to use the Quick­Press panel in the Word­Press Dash­board (the page you land on when you login to Word­Press), to quickly add post ideas, as they come to me. I can then flesh them out later, and not lose them. It’s very quick to add things here, and you just [...]
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Scanning Psychology

By Chris | Published: June 24, 2009
I’m just going to men­tion that I added an Involver.com app to my Face­Book page, and some­thing caught my eye, and even scan­ning, this very sub­tle thing got me to like them more. Screen cap: Why? Well, I’m gonna say it’s some­thing about the infor­mal tone, of the “thank you”. For some rea­son, it felt real. I’m not going to [...]
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CSS Style Sheets: Why They Matter

By Chris | Published: June 8, 2009
photo credit: JB Lon­don For the aver­age con­sumer of web design ser­vices, the move from table-based lay­outs, to css– or tableless-layouts, prob­a­bly means lit­tle. How­ever, it’s impor­tant that you know the basics of what CSS Style Sheets mean, and why you want to find a web designer that uses them. This post is not designed to teach [...]
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Killing the Fear Troll (CopyBlogger)

By Chris | Published: June 8, 2009
photo credit: Wall Tea Sonia Simone has an excel­lent post on Copy­Blog­ger about all of the fear — other people’s — that we are com­ing up against, when we try to moti­vate them to use our prod­ucts or services. Harken­ing back to the days of sea mon­keys, when as kids, many of us were tit­il­lated by [...]
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