automation
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Email Marketing: Sure Fire Way to Annoy and Alienate People
This idea comes up every few months in one group or another. Let’s ask unsubscribers why they unsubscribed. Actually… let’s not. Emailing unsubscribers is nothing new, email marketers have been doing this for over a decade but there’s always some newbie that thinks they just discovered the biggest secret in the planet and start sharing…
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Want to Monetize Your Blog? Don’t Use Jetpack Subscriptions
If you want to kill your chances of taking your blog to a profitable place, then read on. This will show you how you can do just that. Clearly, I’m being sarcastic. But I do want to make a case for why you don’t want to use Jetpack to manage your blog’s subscriptions. You don’t…
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Gripes with Jetpack and Alternatives to Akismet Plugin
I’ve grown a bit weary of the WordPress.com approach to things, especially when it comes to the overlap with WordPress.org. One of the issues I have is Jetpack, the massive multi-module plugin that provides WordPress.org installations with some of the functionality available to WordPress.com websites. WordPress.com vs WordPress.org If you don’t know what the difference…
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Living Dot Com
I am totally kicking myself you know where because I totally mis-scheduled some things recently and had to miss the premiere of the long awaited Living Dot Com documentary. I was invited to attend with John Chow who is featured in the movie. This is a pretty good movie. I enjoyed watching it. The preview…
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File Renamer for Mac, Free Download
This is a quick post to share with you a very simple little program that I use almost daily. It is a very simple Automator script that helps you rename a bunch of files. It is a file renamer for Mac only. It’s easy to use. You can download it here: file-renamer. What is Automator? Automator is a…
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Autodrip and Autorespond with Mailchimp’s new Features.
Update (2021-07-19) After numerous negative experiences with Mailchimp, I no longer recommend it. Yes, they’re still one of the leading email marketing service providers, but the headaches and heartaches that come with it just completely removed it from the options I think you should consider. If you want a free solution, Aweber offers a free…
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OSCAR Security Event Management
What is OSCAR? OSCAR is a new virtual appliance based application that helps you detect security events rapidly. Think of it as a modern virtual intelligent IDS. Yes, I said intelligent, because it self learns. OSCAR promises to find anomalies on your logs and alert you of them, faster, and more accurately than a security…