Managing all of your social media profiles can be very difficult. Managing all of your social media profiles the way they SHOULD be managed in such a way to where they provide you great personal benefit and success can seem nearly impossible! I have found that the only way you can really do Social Media right is A) you have to come to the realization that it takes time and effort, B) you have to manage your time efficiently and have a specific game plan in place and C) you must hold yourself accountable to that Schedule and that Game plan. As you can imagine I have had my own difficulties being efficient in my Social Media efforts just like many others have. It’s not easy. But over the past few years I have developed a regimen that I am comfortable with and that seems to be working for me. And of [...]

So there’s all this data coming out right now in the world of Internet Marketing on Pinterest, the new social media powerhouse which is taking the “webernet” by storm. Many webmasters are already seeing Pinterest as their #1 referrer of social media traffic. Crazy! Because of this many (did I say many? I meant ALL) Social Media, SEO, and Content Marketing experts are discussing strategies and concepts for leveraging the new social media outlet. And there’s been some great articles with some fantastic strategies. Here are a few: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Pinterest For Marketing 7 Creative Ways Your Brand Can Use Pinterest Pinterest: Link Building & SEO Strategies The strategies are great! But should men be on Pinterest? A one-minute tour of Pinterest and you quickly get the idea, this thing is all about “pinning” things, commenting, and oh yeah it’s definitely for Women! It’s as women centric as the [...]

Join Chase Sagum, Chris Kirkham & Troy Jennings in a discussion about the recent Chris Paul NBA debacle! The following is a summary of the above podcast with notes and sources of reference. Details Of The CP3 Trade That Was Supposed To Happen: Let’s first look at the details of the trade as reported by ESPN. Also note the financial details thanks to the ESPN Trade Machine. Lakers get: Chris Paul (2 years @ $16.4m) Rockets get: Pau Gasol (3 years @ $18.7m) Hornets get: Lamar Odom, Luis Scola, Kevin Martin & Goran Dragic (combined $31.1m) First we should understand that this trade wasn’t done. The salaries have to match in order for a trade to go through according to league rules. Which is why it seems almost obvious that Emeka Okafor (3 years @ $12.6m) was included in the deal to go L.A. Question: what do you guys think [...]

So depending on your blog, audience and purpose you may want to have the ability to display content and/or ads specifically for your RSS feed only. This comes in super-handy, especially because your RSS subscribers are typically among your most loyal followers so you may want to show them content or ads that you think best applies to them specifically. Here are two ways (with code) to accomplish this with WordPress. 1. Insert Ads Across Entire RSS Feed Originally provided by WPrecipes.com, this snippet of PHP when placed in your functions.php file inside your theme gives you the ability to place a global ad across all posts in your RSS Feed. Just change out what’s in the $content variable to the HTML you want for your ad. 2. Feed Only Content On a Post-By-Post Basis This snippet of code from WPBeginner.com helps you use your functions.php file to create a [...]

Not sure if that title makes sense or not. Basically the idea is this: you want to display in your sidebar the most recent posts in your blog, but more specifically the most recent posts for a category. And even more specifically than you want it to be dynamic so that it’s always the same category of the current post someone is reading. note: I’m realizing as I’m writing this that this is one of the most difficult WordPress things I have ever tried to explain. Yikes! So to make this happen we need a little PHP. Here’s what I did. In my Sidebar.php file I used this code: As you can see the code is grabbing the category of the current post that is being viewed. It’s then setting up a simple wordpress loop to show the most recent posts with a title and link. You can change the [...]

I’m often asked by people what specific things I focus on to help me achieve success in my online endeavors. Emphasis on the word “achieve” here because i’m always striving for success… probably because I don’t feel like i’ve “achieved” all that much. oh yes this image has relevance. keep reading! Chances are you probably feel the same way I do. Which is why I chose to write this post. I wanted to quickly share with you the specific keys I focus on that have directly & in-directly benefited me in the past and hopefully will continue to in the near future. Key #1. Hard Work for Long Hours At a Time Some people work hard for short periods of time while others work not as hard but for longer periods of time. I’m talking about training yourself to do both. It’s not easy… but it takes so much work [...]