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This Blog is Twitterific

Sam — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:55:30 +0000

I was fighting it for awhile and then decided to give in! What good can Twitter do for you? For one thing it can bring you links to your blog, which brings in more visitors. It can also get your name out to more people: repeat views brings familiarity and can help with low level relationship building and trust.

So I took the plunge, if you Twitter add me as a friend with the button below or from the side bar of this blog:

Twitter Follow Me

Then send me your 140 characters of welcome.

Tweet, Tweet,

Sam Carrara

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Driving, Write Notes With Your Voice

Sam — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:19:12 +0000

Here’s the situation: You’re driving down the road and you want to be safe. A great blog post, product creation or any other wonderful idea pops into your head and needs to be recorded before you forget it. You are adept at driving with your knees, but not so much at writing while driving.

The Solution: I call Jott. They ask me who I want to Jott, I say myself. The response is “Jott Yourself.” It almost seems like they are swearing at me every time, then I remember to say my notes. When complete I can set a reminder about this note.

I can also Jott anyone I want, I just need their email address. So I have sent Jotts to my wife and a customer who doesn’t pay their bills (as a reminder).

Later I check my email and the note has been transcribed. The first few Jotts were an OK transcription, now they are very good. I think the computer transcriber gets to know my voice over time. Try it for yourself at:
http://www.jott.com

I even used it for this blog post today. I took the text from the email, made a few edits and here it is.

Jott Yourself,
Sam Carrara

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Opps I Goofed

Sam — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:51:55 +0000

A few days ago I had two different posts about Customer Service and Wendy’s. I was checking my error logs and saw that alot of people were not finding the pages because of the link was wierd. Let me show you how they looked and how to fix them:

Post Titles and Links:
Customer Service- Wendy’s

http://www.samcarrara.com/marketing/customer-service-wendys/

Customer Service- Wendy’s 2

http://www.samcarrara.com/marketing/customer-service-wendy%e2%80%99s-2/

The first one looks fine, but the second looks like awful. For some reason the ‘ threw off the permalink. So what I need to do is change the post’s permalink. In the wordpress admin area I would use this box “Post Slug”:

So instead of having customer-service-wendy%e2%80%99s-2, I would put customer-service-wendys-2. That looks nicer and hopefully will stop errors. So now the link is:

http://www.samcarrara.com/marketing/customer-service-wendys-2/

The other way to fix this is to do it using phpmyadmin directly accessing your database. Use the method above, it’s easier.

How do I run into so many errors? I am taking action and getting things done. You could never have errors, but that means that everything needs to perfect and take months of review. Have errors, they are great learning experiences.

Fail Faster,
Sam Carrara

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We are Mobile

Sam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:12:09 +0000

We Are Mobile, are You? Can people look at your blog from a mobile phone and not have to scroll left and right? To reach a wider audience, you want to be available by RSS, computer, mobile phone and Mars Transmission (well maybe not Mars Transmission).

It’s pretty easy to do. Check out the plug-in Alex king put together at: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress/readme?project=wordpress-mobile-edition

Get Mobile,
Sam Carrara

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Blog Now or Blog Later?

Sam — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:15:27 +0000

That is the question, Dear Shakespeare. Whether ’tis nobler to write the post now or would it be better to do it later. The slings and arrows of other commitments, like spending time with family.

It case the above is unfamiliar to you, its a very paraphrased quote from Hamlet. Here’s the question in plain English:
Should I write this post and then put it on the web while I have time,
Or fear that I will not have time to do it?

To let you know I am writing this post on Sunday (a little while before the Super Bowl) and it will appear on the site Monday morning. Why would I do this? There are a multitude of reasons:

The search engines like content regularly.
I don’t want to be writing this while I should be working.
What if I was on vacation for a week and want to keep giving out gems of info. Do I cry and complain until I get to a cyber cafe? No!
I’m sometimes not in the mood to write.
Making money on the web is supposed to being freeing, I’m not creating another job. I make this on my schedule and post it when I want.
It saves time to batch activities.
There’s more, but that’s enough for now…

So how do I do this trick?

First go into your Wordpress Admin and start to write a new post ( Write –> Posts ). You do have a blog right? I suggest you get one.

Now look on the right hand column… There is a box with the words Post Timestamp, make it viewable (if closed click the +). An image of this box is below:

Notice I clicked the “Edit timestamp” and made the date when I want this to show on the site. Keynote: 1) This post will not show until after 7:15 am. 2) If no one goes to your website until 9 am, that post won’t show up on the site until 9 am. This means it won’t ping update services until someone visits the site after 7:15 am. Also if you go to the site and the post doesn’t show, refresh the page. Your first visit sets the updating in progress.

So if you are planning a vacation, big project or anything else that will prevent you from updating your website/blog, Set It & Forget It.

This post will save you some time, money or headache; please consider bookmarking this post with your favorite Web 2.0 site (Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.) and then making a comment here.

Blog Now,
Sam Carrara

SC Marketing Education

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