Over the past 4 years my business has changed out of all recognition. The reason for that change is open source software and free (or near free) resources that can be found and leveraged on the Internet. I teach WordPress classes around the country and am expanding my class material to include eCommerce and CRM Continue Reading…

Note: This post is taken from the Studiopress site promoting their new theme but is so interesting, I thought I would share.  This is the link to the original post:- I know, it seems weird, right? Email is supposed to be dead. These days it’s all about social networking, mobile marketing, and the latest and greatest hot Continue Reading…

According to the latest figures, WordPress now powers 14.7% of the top million websites in the world, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running WordPress. If you’re still running a static HTML website, you’re missing all the benefits of a dynamic Content Driven, Continue Reading…

Now that Larry Page has taken back control of Google (much like Steve Jobs did at Apple), the focus seems to be streamlining the whole operation and ‘social networking’. Google has been worried (obsessed??) by Facebook for some time and hasn’t made much of an impact with its own social networking products to date; at Continue Reading…

It seems that the whole world has come to expect everything digital should be free. To a large extent, and for a large proportion of Internet users, digital is pretty much free. Granted, you pay for your Internet connection through your Comcast, Qwest, AT&T cable/DSL services but even then, many people ‘piggy back’ off someone Continue Reading…

There are many differing opinions about how much time you should spend online marketing your business and it is easy to while away the hours thinking you are doing effective marketing.  In reality, all too often the hours are spent chatting, drilling down through friends and colleagues Facebook walls and news feeds; tweeting about the Continue Reading…

It is important to realize that the 3rd layer of a WordPress website is the ‘Theme’. The 3 layers consist of (1) Database (MySQL), (2) WordPress itself (development environment, dashboard etc.) and (3) the Theme which sits on top and provides the interface that is seen by visitors to the site itself. There are literally Continue Reading…

I was reading an article about an 8 year old boy who took a loaded gun to school (thinking it was a toy gun) and sold it to his friend for $3. A teacher saw this, confiscated the gun and called the police. The parents were arrested. Until yesterday, I had never held a real Continue Reading…