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How Premise by CopyBlogger helps build great landing pages

April 1, 2011

This is the first co-authored post by Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek. Together, we’ll give you some insight on why we chose the WordPress plugin Premise (affiliate link)from Copyblogger to design the ColorMetrix User Group Meeting landing page, what we liked about it and some advice from our experience with it. To fully understand this post, [...]

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Small business resource that will save you time and money

March 28, 2011

A while back my Third Tribe Marketing friend Matt Mansfield interviewed me for his “The Elephant in the Could – How Safe is Your Data?” blog post. I enjoyed the “interview” because it turned into a conversation and Matt and I got a chance to know each other better. Matt is a man of integrity [...]

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Four online business tools I love and use most

March 14, 2011

There are several online business tools I use as a blogger and business person that make my life both easier and more successful. I’ve written about all these business tools before so you may wonder why I’m utilizing this post to do so again. There are a couple reasons: As time passes, I have come [...]

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How to do advanced e-commerce with WordPress

February 7, 2011

As of this writing, I am responsible for the e-commerce activities of two sites that run on the WordPress content management system platform. I’ve taken vastly different approaches with these two sites. This post will explain how I manage online stores with multiple products both physical and virtual. The two sites MolkkyUSA.com is a site [...]

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21 days to a (better) blog – part 3

October 22, 2010

This is the third Installment of the 21 days to a (better) blog series. It will make a great deal more sense if you have read week 1: up and running and week 2: the devil is in the details. This week I am leaving out the redundant writing, posting and editing schedule. By now you [...]

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21 days to a (better) blog – part 2

October 15, 2010

Please be sure to refer back to Week 1: Up and running if you didn’t get a chance to read the first installment of 21 days to a better blog last Friday. This week I am focusing on some of the devilish little details that separate a fun blog from one that has the potential to be [...]

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18 Useful WordPress plugins

October 11, 2010

Recently while speaking at the Central Wisconsin Social Media Conference I was asked by Jim Carlson for a list of the WordPress plugins I use. I figured as long as I was taking the time to pull the list together I may as well share it with you as well. The link included with each [...]

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21 days to a (better) blog

October 8, 2010

I’ve been blogging a little more than five years now. Admittedly the pace has picked up in the last year and as a result I’ve learned a few new tips and ticks to go with the old tried and true ones. Over the next three Fridays I am sharing the best of what I’ve learned. The format [...]

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The idea box idea

September 20, 2010

After reading Mitch Joel’s The Internet Is Your Media Lab, in the comments I shared an idea to add a simple “tip box” to my blog. Your blog after all, is your media lab, right? Racing down the rabbit hole The next thing I know I’m spending a few hours on a rainy Saturday morning [...]

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WordPress Theme Frameworks and Child Themes (Skins)

September 7, 2010

Over the last few weeks I’ve been asked by several people how do you pick a WordPress theme. The real answer is I got lucky and fell into one of the best ones, Thesis(aff link) about a year ago when I was redesigning ColorMetrix.com. Recently I discovered the power of a child theme or skin [...]

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