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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th November 2011, 08:52 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 564
Posted By dholowiski
Re: How would you monetize novelty stuff?

Well, Reddit is the king of stupid images. If you look, they're all hosted on imgur.com and that would probably be a good place to start your research (Reddit is also a great place to publicize your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th November 2011, 08:46 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 417
Posted By dholowiski
Re: How much to ask/should I ask anything?

I agree - with 20 visits per day it's just not worth it, and the company isn't going to be happy when they see how many (few) impressions they're getting.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th November 2011, 08:44 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 529
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Should you really be doing that?

While this is often true, it's also often a good idea to learn to do the hard stuff yourself, even if there is a steep learning curve. If only for the reason that when you outsource it later, you'll...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th November 2011, 08:20 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 552
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Any real SEO benefit to having a mobile-friendly version?

Google's algorithm is designed to favor the content you're most likely to want/need in any situation. When you do a search, many different "search signals" are used in addition to the words you are...
Forum: Programming 4th November 2010, 10:43 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,809
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Uploading large files with PHP

A Java Applet running on the client side (in the user's web browser) can upload by just about any method you program it to - including PHP, FTP and HTTP - the client side does the hard work, so the...
Forum: Programming 4th November 2010, 10:15 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,904
Posted By dholowiski
Re: What Programming Language is Iphone 4?

The IOS is programmed in Objective C, which is different from C. And no, it doesn't support Java at all. The web browser does support Java Script, which is totally different from Java.

You must...
Forum: Programming 4th November 2010, 10:07 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,809
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Uploading large files with PHP

I would recommend using a Java - not Java Script and/or Silverlight file uploader. You could also have FTP accounts automatically created when a user creates an account on your web site.

Every...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th January 2010, 04:39 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 496
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Need some wordpress help with simple press- Can anyone please help me??

What version of Wordpress are you using? My first thought is if you are using 2.9, possibly the plugin hasnt been updated to be 2.9 compatible yet?
Forum: Website Design 7th January 2010, 04:36 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 630
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Creating Pages in Wordpress

I know you've got alot of replies but here is an easy one. Install the 'redirection' plugin in Wordpress.
It has a simple interface - you enter a source url and a target url.
So - say you want...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th January 2010, 04:32 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,328
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Installed wordpress - Can't change Files!?

Well, Wordpress should be telling you which files need to have their permissions changed. Is it telling you it can't change the wp-config.php file?
I would say, delete everything and try again, if...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th January 2010, 04:26 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,400
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Whats the difference between linux VPS and windows VPS hosting?

Almost, but for a few important differences.
*Make sure you get a Managed VPS server... you want somebody else to be responsible for security and operating system updates.
*VPS usually gives you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th January 2010, 04:18 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 2,357
Posted By dholowiski
Re: How To Protect Your Product/WSO From Blackhatters !?

1. Make content so wildly popular that you have a rabid following who will throw money at you no matter what you do, and the money lost on a few BlueFart losers doesn't even cross your mind.
As...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd January 2010, 06:05 PM
Replies: 85
Views: 2,331
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Does anyone else HATE marketing sites?

Excellent post, I couldn't agree more! Have you read crush it? Basically the idea is, make yourself and your brand so authentic and irresistible that people beat down your door to give you money.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th December 2009, 07:15 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 692
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Software To Submit Podcasts?

Here's my opinion... submit your podcast to the iTunes store and the Zune marketplace, maybe put it up on Podcast Alley and Blubrry, and that's pretty much it (make sure you have a web site for your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th December 2009, 11:20 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 422
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Selling on Amazon. Need HELP!

I have a couple of US accounts for buying stuff (I'm canadian too) that's only available in the US and it's not too tough if you are within driving distance of the U.S., but selling is different......
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th April 2009, 11:27 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 398
Posted By dholowiski
Getting your ebook on an iPhone

I was talking with a customer today by email, and he told me something shocking - he bought my ebook months ago, but hasn't even looked at it.
My ebook is in PDF form. He doesn't like reading...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd March 2009, 10:14 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 14,932
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Best Wordpress based storefront

I used the paypal buy it button as the basis for a storefront in wordpress. they give you a little code snippet that goes on your site that adds in a shopping cart. I just made a new post in a...
Forum: Website Design 10th March 2009, 05:24 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,005
Posted By dholowiski
Web hosting with 30 day trial?

Hi, I'm looking for a good web host who has a free 30 day trial.
It would also be nice if it had fantastico or some way to install Wordpress, and would be great if they offered affiliate...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th February 2009, 12:32 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 703
Posted By dholowiski
Re: How wide should a sales letter be?

I'll throw my vote in for 600 pixels. Remember that your sales page might be viewed on very small (phone) web browsers too. You could do a split test of two different pages - one 600px wide and one...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th February 2009, 12:28 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 1,529
Posted By dholowiski
Re: What is holding you back from trying Offline Marketing?

Quite simply, fear and lack of experience.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th February 2009, 12:18 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 603
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Learned Something Very Interesting From A New Job Applicant.

Love him or hate him this is right from the 4 hour work week... it's a lose-win guarantee taken to the extreme.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2009, 12:07 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,089
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Making Your Audio Voice Clearer

The easiest way is to capture better audio. Get a good mic that has an XLR connection, and an external sound card for your computer that takes an XLR input.
I'm using a Creative Professional 0202...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2009, 11:58 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,367
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Are you sharpening your axe?

This is true, but I think the problem many of us have is that we spend all of our time sharpening our axe, and no time chopping.
Sometimes you just need to start hacking away at the tree. Once...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2009, 11:56 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 554
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Critical Vulnerability in Reader, Acrobat

Yes, I second Foxit reader, I used to use it at work. Not only is it more secure, it is much faster.
Or if you're on a Mac, pdf's automatically launch in Preview. I don't even have acrobat reader...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2009, 11:54 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,199
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Canadian IMers Do You Direct Deposit Clickbank to your USD or CAD accounts?

I agree with Syliva. Call your bank. I had to do a money transfer for something else (not clickbank) and they had all the info I needed. They're smart.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th February 2009, 11:52 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 902
Posted By dholowiski
Re: How I Made $200.00 In 10 Seconds

Hey Michael. You should write an ebook about that and sell it :) Catchy title.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th February 2009, 09:28 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 3,003
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Why Is Everyone Using Wordpress These Days?

Fast, Cheap, Good. Pick any three.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th February 2009, 09:24 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 720
Posted By dholowiski
Re: BAD Audio SUCKS - Do You Care? How I Can Improve Your Recordings..

Hi. I have no idea if good audio converts better but I wouldn't be surprised. Bad video quality can give a video character - bad audio just kills it.
What I would like to see as a podacster who's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2009, 11:42 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 773
Posted By dholowiski
Grr just found out paypal has been double and triple billing me

Be warned. If you cancel a hosting service with hostgator and you were paying by paypal subscription, canceling the hosting doesn't cancel the subscription, nor do they tell you this.
They will...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2009, 09:16 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 526
Posted By dholowiski
Re: hostgator experts needed!

Hi, I use Hostgator. I've never used this, but under Fantastico Deluxe, there is something called Templates Express.
The description is:

Short description: Use Templates Express to install...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2009, 09:08 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 990
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Is it OK to Download videos from Youtube and then re-upload?

Well, check the copyright (usually at the end of the video). If it's creative commons, you can probably do this, as long as you preserve the copyright message.
If it's not creative commons it's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2009, 09:02 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 774
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Podcast Submission

Hi Pat, this may sound crazy, but iTunes is the only one that really matters. Most podcasters will tell you that around 99% of their views/listens come from iTunes.
A few others are: odeo,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2009, 08:58 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 623
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Revver down??? :(

Revver is back up now. And they did warn their users... sort of. they posted on the front page that they were going down for maintenance on friday. However they were down 3 days instead of 3 hours,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st January 2009, 03:42 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 712
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Converting PDF to Word?

Mac or Windows? On my Mac I use PDFPen, it works great.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th January 2009, 07:21 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 585
Posted By dholowiski
Re: (Helpless but eager) Newb @ design & technical areas of IM.

I would check the WSO area of this forum for people willing to build you squeeze pages. This probably isn't the best thing to make your first experience outsourcing overseas, and there's tons of...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th January 2009, 06:29 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 780
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Wordpress "Boot Camp"? Or recommended book/ebook...

Here's what I did ... offer to build a web site for someone for free. They will be way more demanding than you ever could be. You'll have to learn it all quick so you don't look like a fool.

I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th January 2009, 06:22 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 763
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Best freeware video editing software?

Erm, if you're using a mac I would say iMovie- it comes with your computer and encodes/uploads to youtube right from within the application. Final cut express is awesome if you're willing to spend a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th January 2009, 05:29 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 826
Posted By dholowiski
Re: How Do I Get My Videos Viewed?

A) Make them available. Right now this means youtube because this is where most people go for videos. You said 'posted' but didn't mention where
B) Make them worth watching. Either really...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th January 2009, 02:09 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 6,129
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Amazon Reviews + Yahoo Pipes + FeedWordpress = Autoblogging

Interesting, very interesting. Now I am intrigued.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th January 2009, 12:57 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 6,129
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Amazon Reviews + Yahoo Pipes + FeedWordpress = Autoblogging

What are the terms of service for amazon book reviews? This would work great if they are available under some sort of creative commons license. Otherwise I think Amazon would not be happy about you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th January 2009, 12:46 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 490
Posted By dholowiski
Re: How To Make An E-Book?

I agree with Chaiwriter and it's how I wrote my ebook - just do it. Just sit down and start writing. Write as much as you can for as long as you can even if it's junk. Edit it later, not while you're...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th January 2009, 12:41 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 479
Posted By dholowiski
Re: A site review about generators.

Hi I do have one suggestion: since it doesn't look like you're selling online, at least have a link on each product that says "where to buy" or "how to buy" or even a tab along the top that says the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th January 2009, 12:36 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 3,246
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Can you convert Camtasia videos to IPOD viewable?

I assume you're using Camtasia to record those videos, then trying to convert it to ipod format?
Why not try some other software? Camstudio is one, but you can just search for free (or open source)...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th December 2008, 08:55 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 801
Posted By dholowiski
Re: T-Shirt Marketing secret

ste25: giving away t-shirts is a good idea but they end up costing $17.95 off cafepress which is not cheap. I'm sure if I wanted to do that I could get somewhere to do them in bulk. If I were...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th December 2008, 08:02 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 801
Posted By dholowiski
T-Shirt Marketing secret

So for one of my web sites, the traffic has dropped off to almost 0. I designed some T-Shirts on Cafepress, one with the URL of this site. (I'm going to Macworld in January so I wanted to promote...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st December 2008, 06:51 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 551
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Making money with Google Custom Search

Sorry to revive a dead thread but I think I can answer your question as I've recently been doing some research on google custom search.
No you can't do what you're asking. Google CSE won't let you,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th November 2008, 06:29 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 471
Posted By dholowiski
Funny domain name

I was doing some research and found that this domain name was somehow still available.
I have no use for it

dumbfatpeople.com

Should still be available... for a very short time! Enjoy
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th November 2008, 07:40 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 962
Posted By dholowiski
Re: My experience buying a site on sitepoint

Wow, I got nervous just reading that. I would have bailed when he wouldn't give me his address. I don't think I have the guts to do a deal like that. I look forward to part 2.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th November 2008, 07:16 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,130
Posted By dholowiski
Re: Marketing a Webcomic 2.0

If you're allowed to, post the URL here. If you're not allowed, it's not that hard to find yours on the site. You got my vote.
Have you used amazon mechanical turk? For a few bucks you could have...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th October 2008, 08:32 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 957
Posted By dholowiski
Re: what the most ridiculous product/site you can think up

FakeLinuxFAQs.com - doesn't exist, go ahead and register it... a friend and I were going to post fake (funny) linux FAQ's. Stupid enough?
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