Month: January 2013

Xenforo vs Internet Brands

I started developing discussion forums very early on in my career. I can’t recall whether I tried any free scripts first however I do remember that my first discussion forum was built using vBulletin. I continued to use the forum software for around 10 years. Unfortunately, the development of vBulletin …

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Outsourcing Menial Tasks

Outsourcing is an important part of working online. The most successful people delegate tasks to others to free up their time to do other things. I have outsourced certain tasks for projects in the past such as writing and design. For new projects I tend to be a bit of …

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List Building Maniacs Cheat Sheets

Learn Email Marketing with List Building Maniacs

Next week I am publishing an interview with email marketer Travis Petelle. I got to know Travis via Warrior Forum. He’a wrote a lot of great posts over there so I wanted to ask him a few questions about email marketing; a subject which I am very I interested in …

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Trust is a Precious Thing

Trust is a precious thing. It’s something which customers regard very highly however it is a delicate thing and can be lost at any time. How many times have you seen large companies losing millions because if being exposed for doing something less than honest? Trust can make or break …

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A Quick Hello from Iguazu Falls

On Saturday me and my girlfriend arrived in Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil) from a 16 hour bus journey from São Paulo. We didn’t sleep on the bus so, tired and hungry, we decided not to waste the day by sleeping and went to see the famous Iguazu falls – one …

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Should You Copyright Your Content?

We should all copyright our content….shouldn’t we? For most content producers, this isn’t something that is ever even considered. Of course we copyright our content, we wrote it and we don’t want anyone to steal it. Right? Not everyone thinks this way. Zen Habits founder Leo Babauta has an interesting …

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You Need to Write About Topics That Interest You

In the past I have spoke a lot about being passionate about the subject you write about. I was thinking about this the other day as a lot of you had mentioned in comments that you would love to see me write more travel related posts. I’ve been reluctant to …

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Searching for Jesus in Rio de Janeiro

Rio is a city I had wanted to visit for a long time. It didn’t disappoint. Me and my girlfriend touched down at 7am on 1st January. We then got the bus to the world famous Copacabana. It wasn’t what I expected. It looked like a bomb had been detonated. …

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How to Redirect Your 404 Errors to Your Home Page

Last month I showed you how you can redirect your old WordPress permalink structure to /%postname%/. Today I’d like to show you a much simpler snippet of code that helps redirect all 404 not found error messages to your home page. This can be useful if you have a small …

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Never Purchase the Twitter Upgrade from Flippa

A week or so ago I wrote an article which explained all the Flippa upgrades that are available to sellers. In the article I expressed my concerns that they had artificially inflated their follower count by following thousands of people themselves. I’ve purchased the Twitter upgrade in the past but …

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