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Andy Warhol said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime. It might be true of invisibility, too. I know. I was invisible for 15 minutes. Never happened before that, hasn’t happened since. All I can say is that it was a surreal experience. Several years ago my wife  Judy and I walked [...]

After I did a Hangout On Air in anticipation of Mid-Hudson Valley Digital Marketers Meet-Up, Paul Rakov asked “how could a business in the Hudson Valley stand out using social media?” See Paul’s comment below. I mean, sure. I could have given Paul a half-assed answer in Youtube comments, but I figured a blog post would [...]

“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.” ~Coco Chanel When I first started my business and my Facebook Page, I scoured the internet & blog posts for Twitter tips and ideas on how to improve my own overall Twitter experience. I would read, implement and be very excited to have learned something new. [...]

How come Google is able to make money indexing blog content, and yet bloggers are not able to make money creating content? Something is wrong with the system. It needs to be re-imagined. Embed This Image On Your Site (copy code below): Courtesy of: DIYBloggerNET

If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog, then you might be familiar with the pain and agony of filling out this little guy. Tags. That painful afterthought that stands between me and getting my next blog post done and done with. Tags. That annoying thing I don’t want to fill out but have to because [...]

Some of you will know the story through a film adaptation of a graphic novel by Frank Miller. 300 is a story based on the Battle of Thermopylae as described by the Greek Historian, Herodotus. According to Herodotus, King Leonidas of Sparta held off a million man Persian army for seven days. Outflanked, Leonidas stood with his [...]

I’ve written about basic tribe building strategies already. The niche, the low-mid-high strategy and timeline strategy. After using Triberr for a while and with ample input from everyone in Triberr community, I’ve devised three additional strategies. Here we go. The Posting Frequency Strategy It might be perceived as unfair if one tribe member posts 3-4 [...]

In the age of choc-o-block mediocre blog(s) that no one reads, and the emergence of A list bloggers with book deals, it can be a difficult decision to decide to launch a new blog into an over-saturated market. And harder still if you’re a total tech newbie? A Twitter ignoramus, and wouldn’t know CSS or [...]