Feb 14, 2010 Posted by Josh

What We Can Learn From Energy Drinks

While trying to remedy a hangover the other day I found myself sipping on one of the ubiquitous energy drinks that are so prevalent in our gas stations and convenience stores now-a-days. While I was considering whether or not I liked the “low-carb” version of this particular energy drink better, it occurred to me what a great marketing job has been done for energy drinks. The Beginning The... read more

Feb 6, 2010 Posted by Josh

Upgrading Multiple Wordpress Installations

Yesterday, I asked a local Phoenix web/design guy just how it was he was able to keep so many Wordpress installs seamlessly upgraded, since I have about 30 I’m working on and HATE upgrading. He had a proprietary method that was working well, so I set out to see how hard it’d be to brew my own. Wordpress, like many other open source programs uses a source code control program called Subversion.... read more

Jan 20, 2010 Posted by Josh

Affiliate Summit West 2010 Observations

This year I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to speak at ASW 2010 in Las Vegas. The first thing I want to say is that I had a blast speaking. Nothing gets me more excited than getting up in the morning and talking to people about something I love to do. The first thing I noticed was from my friend Brent Terrazas. If you don’t know him, you should. He often plays in a realm of advertising that... read more

Dec 23, 2009 Posted by Josh

Tracking Your Visitors Out The Door

Finding out where your visitors are going after your site is a pretty valuable thing to know. For example, if you found out that a lot of people were being directed to your site from Google, but leaving via one of your outbound links, perhaps it’s time to write a new post about that subject. Or maybe you’re wondering how effective your affiliate links are, and where you could put them better.... read more

Dec 23, 2009 Posted by Josh

Being Genuine

I just read an interesting post over on Seth Godin’s blog. He was setting up a friend’s PC and was astounded at how much crap there was to dig through in order to accomplish basic things. From this he drew an interesting point: People don’t trust websites because they’ve been lied to, cheated on, and stolen from by the internet. It’s a shit show. By the time someone reaches... read more