Viral Marketing: Digg Style CMS aka PLIGG vs WordPress: Which Is Right For Me?

Advertising is expensive and it does a poor job of helping you develop a relationship with your market. If you advertise on Treehugger.com, even if you get a client or two, their primary relationship and bandwidth of loyalty still remains with Treehugger.com Much like restaurant owners buying the land their eatery is sitting on, you’ll [...]

How to Add the Facebook Like Button to ELGG / PLIGG / WordPress – Dynamic Urls

This took a bit of time to figure out. Once you know how, it’s super easy. Since all the pages in ELGG / PLIGG or any CMS are dynamically generated in PHP, all you have to do is add php code that triggers the physical url into the facebook pluggin. So instead of entering http://DisastEarth.com [...]

How To Get A Bigshot Blogger or Celebrity to Tweet Back to You

This one will be quick. Nobody wants to talk to someone they don’t know. They’d be at a total disadvantage not knowing you or what you’d say in response. So the biggest bloggers and celebs never reply to strangers. Afterall, their rent is on the line. So if you want bigshots like @garyvee @rrw @benparr [...]

How to Get Top Bloggers In Your (MY) Industry To Blog About You : ME…

No, I’m not saying “ME” as in, “I’m the savior.” I’m putting the word, “me” in the title because self centered people will google, “how to get bloggers in MY industry to blog about ME.”And they will find me (this particular “me” refers to this blog post). Then, once they read the above sentence accusing [...]

How to Double Your Page Views Instantly

I really could fluff up this technique and tell you stories and anecdotes or what not but it’s such a simple tip that I’ll just get to the point. Everyone knows that major blogs try to double their pageviews by breaking up their posts into 3 parts. But in doing so, they loose 90% of [...]

Debunk: “Mistakes I’ve Made In Social Media via @Leyla_a”

I’ve always enjoyed “sunday morning soliloquy,” Leyla’s blog. In fact, I’ve always liked Leylas. I’ve had three friends named by the same name all with totally different spellings but I’ve liked them all. One day, it would be a pleasure to meet and possibly befriend this fourth Leyla. But until then, I’ve got things to [...]