How To: License photos for your gossip blog

January 3, 2010
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Many of my clients are celebrity gossip and entertainment bloggers.  The gossip niche has been our bread and butter for many years now.  We stumbled across the category by accident really.  It turns out that in 2006, there were a lot of high traffic gossip sites that needed real technical management in order to keep [...]

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New Year’s Resolution: Consistency

January 1, 2010
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I hate New Year’s resolutions. The whole ideas is just silly to me. However, the first of the year for whatever reason feels like a blank slate. There is a new sense of possibility that only seems to come around this time of year.

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Top 5 Tips for Hiring Help

December 31, 2009
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When building your online business (or any business really), you’ll quickly realize that you can’t do it all yourself. You are simply going to have to hire some help. It does not mean you have to go out and start hiring full time employees. However, you’ll probably need a few contract or project guru’s to help you along the way.

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Design By Committee: The killer of great ideas

December 29, 2009
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A colleague of mine sent me this video the other day. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It video so perfectly summarizes the problem with the creative process, it is hysterical. At the same time, it is truly sad for those of us tied to big business.

To sum it up, design by committee is the killer groundbreaking ideas. Period.

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The World’s Best, Recession Proof Business Idea

December 29, 2009
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Be damn good at customer service. Any great leader will tell you that their secret had nothing to do with themselves. Instead, their success was built on the backs of the teams they assembled. The businesses that are going to do well in the long run are the ones that filled with customer oriented people.

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Third Rackspace Cloud Outage in 2009

November 4, 2009
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Whoops. Rackspace went offline again in a glorious fashion yet again. It is a major bummer for customers (BlogCraving.com is hosted in the Rackspace Cloud) because most of us love Rackspace. Outages like this at Rackspace are felt across the web. They host some major sites like TechCrunch.

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Top 5 Online Outsourcing Services

November 2, 2009

Every once in a while, there comes a time when your business could just use an extra set of hands. Maybe you need the help of an expert to finish a project. You certainly do not want to go through the hassle of hiring temporary staff.
So what do you do?

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Chartbeat.com Realtime Stats

July 20, 2009

You may have heard about the cool, new (relatively) service by Betaworks called Chartbeat.com.  It is a real-time web analytics service on steroids.
Chartbeat’s dashboard if fully animated, and updates before your very eyes in real time.  It is all part of the growing trend of tracking the “now-web.”  You simply load your realtime dashboard and [...]

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