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Twitter fun

17 Aug, 2008 No Comment

If you don’t know the power of Twitter!, You don’t know the internet!! I won’t get into twitter right now, but I will get into a great wordpress plugin for it. It takes your wordpress post and publishes your post to twitter. You can Download it here.

The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.

Eg, when you edit a post, your Twitter gets updated with:

Fiddling with my blog post: Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin) ( http://www.JohnBocook.com/?… )

Instructions

Download and unzip the Twitter Updater folder
Upload and copy the twitter updater folder to your WordPress plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/)
Now you have to tell WordPress to activate the new plugin. You do this by going to your admin panel > Plugins. And click on ‘Activate’ next to ‘Twitter Updated’. If you don’t see Twitter Updater there, you may have copied the Twitter Updater folder to the wrong directory.
Go to your WordPress admin panel, select ‘Manage’ at the top menu, then select ‘Twitter Updater’.
Enter your preference and your Twitter account details.
Test by creating a new post!

What other uses do you see twitter having?

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3 Habits of a Billionaires by Forbes

17 Aug, 2008 No Comment

Forbes.com interviewed several of this year’s top billionaires, and as I was reading through some of them, I noticed three things that repeated over and over again:

1. Exercise daily.

2. Follow your passion.

3. Read. A lot. At least two hours a day, but many said they read four or more hours a day.

I totally agree with all three of these, I think First thing in the morning you need to exercise. I can not stress to you how important that is. A strong body equals a strong mind. If you don’t believe the same thing, that is why your business schemes havn’t taken off.

Read… Read…Read, I would say I read around 3-4 hours a day. I read everything, blogs, books, GNC pamplets. EVERYTHING. I know there has been alot of talk about, “unplug, de-informationalize yourself, work four hours a week”

Really? I dont think so. The more you read the more educated you are in whatever your undertaking. What do you think? How many hours do you read a day?

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Affiliate marking mistakes you dont want to make (Part 3)

13 Aug, 2008 No Comment

This next post in the series of Affiliate Marketing Mistakes you don’t want to make is going to be about name servers and dedicated hosting.

As some of you may know, I have three dedicated servers at my favorite web hosting company but this post really isn’t about that.

When you get large enough in the affiliate realm to need a dedicated server, most dedicated server companies encourage you to host your own private name servers. Sounds professional and cool right?

For anyone who doesn’t know, a name server is a server which basically points the domains to IP addresses on your server. In other words it makes your domain access the files on your server.

So what’s so bad about having your own name servers?

In 99% of cases, having your own name servers is the be