I have always just used a random photograph or self-portrait for my website and avatars on social media websites like Twitter and Facebook. My Facebook profile picture is a photo snapped by a coworker in downtown LaGrange. It's not bad, but definitely out of date and not really "me." I've been considering having professional portraits/headshots [...]
Intuit, maker of Quickbooks accounting software, is having a contest to give away over $300,000 in grants to small businesses. To enter, you just have to write a short story about your business and offer some advice to other business owners. Fifty finalists will win $5,000 plus a Flip Mino camcorder to help compete for [...]
I'm writing a book! "The Art & Science Of Online Marketing," co-authored with Shayne Tilley, will be released around May 2009 by SitePoint (distributed by O'Reilly in the United States). It will be available at Amazon.com and other online stores, and in bookstores everywhere. I was a little surprised when Shayne contacted me and asked [...]
Last week we sent an email newsletter with a coupon code to about 6,000 recipients. The coupon wasn't fully tested, and was not configured to work with the appropriate products. It was several hours until the mistake was found, and naturally most of the traffic from the email had already visited the site. The site [...]
Some of my friends and family think I’m weird. I don’t believe in luck or superstition. At all. I’m one of those crazy people who thinks we make our own destiny with the choices we make every day. So when, once a year, everyone goes around making “resolutions” for the new year I just kind [...]