http://www.lastw2.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:56:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I began this blog I was self-employed, although not entirely in an occupational area I wanted to stay in.  I thought I would leave a digital paper trail toward my goal of doing for a living what I really wanted to do.  Too long I have been doing what ... http://www.lastw2.com/rantings/last-w2/ Went to show off a Joomla based affiliate site to a client yesterday and found some jack-ass person had defaced it.  I haven't had a hacker in several months, so I figured I was due. His work wasn't very extensive.  It was just a bunch of gibberish on the home page ... http://www.lastw2.com/uncategorized/joomla-admin-password-reset/ Call me a n00b, but I like to use the theme editor in WordPress to get the themes to suits me.  I can move around all the different files needed to make changes to the sidebars and tweak the CSS files fairly quickly and when you use the Find box ... http://www.lastw2.com/basics/how-to-really-enable-the-wpmu-theme-editor/ The world was stunned this week by Susan Boyle, the dusty old miracle voice from Scotland.  Yes, her voice was incredible.  Yes, the audience and judges were rude to her.  The judges probably had more reason to be because it is sort of their show.  The audience was following mob ... http://www.lastw2.com/social-media/susan-boyle-and-the-power-of-social-media/ My kids are into Pooh as any little kids are.  My personal favorite is the classic, 'The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh' and we all spent hours watching it over and over. But, then came the much anticipated, Pooh's Grand Adventure, which really stunk, in my opinion. That one ... http://www.lastw2.com/rantings/pooh-marketing/ All right, no-brainer quiz here.  What's the number one thimg to do on a routine basis to ensure the survivability of your sites and your business?  Obviously back them up on a regular basis.  Everything.  The databases, files, themes; everything.  We all do it all everyday, right? Right. Well, I have this ... http://www.lastw2.com/basics/back-up-back-up-back-up/ Ripping off campaigns is s a fact of life in this business.  Some clever, original marketer finds a technique that works well, then some idiot either outs the lander on a forum or chat room and every lazy punk kid marketer out there wants to just copy the thing verbatim ... http://www.lastw2.com/rantings/there-are-thieves-and-then-there-are-thieves/ div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_85551">Death by http://www.lastw2.com/uncategorized/death-by-powerpoint/ I see a lot of people on the various marketing forums trying to do something with internet marketing without being willing to aquire basic skills. It's true, that this business can be started and a basic amount of success can be had, with a basic set of skills.  But that is ... http://www.lastw2.com/basics/prepare-yourself/ Robin Williams said in a stand up thing several years ago, "Reality, what a concept".  The same goes for Affiliate Summit West. The Summit 09 was in Las Vegas again.  For someone who had neither been to Vegas nor an Affiliate Summit, it was a grueling 3 days.  I'll be posting ... http://www.lastw2.com/affiliate-summit/affiliate-summit-west-09-what-a-concept/