Trying to Figure Out A Business to Start?
Since starting this blog, I’ve had many people contact me directly asking various questions relating to business and doing business online. The number one question I am getting comes down to this:
Many people want to start a business, but they aren’t sure what to do.
My advice is pretty simple: stop searching for the next big thing and figure out a niche business providing a product or service that people are looking for. Read more
How We Snack In Relationships
On Sunday I kicked off a 4 part series on how our society has become addicted to different kinds of snacking and looked at how we snack on information. Wednesday I shared my thoughts on how snacking on food can be bad.
Today I’ll be sharing some thoughts about how we snack when interacting with others. Read more
Apple Press Conference
Some details on the Apple press conference. It starts at 10 AM Pacific (1 pm Eastern, 6 pm GMT). Many events are starting a bit earlier.
Video coverage of Apple press conference
Blogging coverage of Apple press conference
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How to Autoplay YouTube Videos
Ever wonder how to get YouTube Videos to autoplay on a website? I’ll show you how to easily do this. Read more
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
The famous, “I Have a Dream,” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. is just as awe-inspiring today as it was in 1963 when he first gave it. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. If it’s been a while since you’ve seen it, watch it again.
How Google Rates Links From Twitter and Facebook
Google’s Matt Cutts recently gave the definitive word on how Google rates links from Twitter and Facebook in organic searches (as opposed to live search). Here’s the video:
How to Get Feedburner to Update Your RSS Feed
I make use of RSS feeds quite a bit – both to get news and to provide a way for my web site visitors to stay updated on content. I noticed this morning that very few Feedburner feeds I follow were showing new content. I also noticed that Feedburner emails for my own sites didn’t seem to go out on schedule.
I checked with several people I know who use Feedburner on their sites and about half said their sites feeds were updated, the other half said they weren’t. Read more
How to Target Gmail in Google Adwords
If you are a Gmail user, you may have noticed all the nice targeted ads that show up when you are in Gmail. Maybe you’re even wondering if it works well (it does) and how to do it.
Several months ago, I started to target Gmail users with Google Adwords advertising. I really didn’t think it was any big secret. I use Gmail, I saw targeted ads appearing. I figured out how to target them.
A few days ago, I started seeing an “Internet Marketing guru” start to promote a $97 one-hour video that promised to share the secrets of how to do this. Read more
Life Lessons From Will Smith
A friend send me a link to this compilation of words of wisdom from Will Smith.
The best 10 minutes I’ve spent this year and I felt I had to share it. Watch it. Let me know what you think! Read more
Playback for the Free Q&A
I know a lot of people only found out about the free q&a session I held today after it had already started so I decided to make the replay available to everyone for the next week or so. It was a short session (less than 45 minutes) but I think a lot of ground was covered on a variety of topics.
Warning: I talk fast and it’s unedited but I did manage to avoid asking “do you follow me?” – at least I think I did! 
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