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Making Affiliate Deep Links Available In aMember

By Lynette · Comments (0)
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
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According to Wikipedia… “Deep Linking is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on a web site instead of the home page” A real live example is in the paragraph above. I just deep linked to Wikipedia so you will land on the exact page explaining this term. You may not even think twice about it when you’re on blogs and other people’s site. You may even be actively doing it because it helps make your content rich and relevant. Deep linking is also good to establish usability. The last thing you want to do when creating content is to frustrate readers and make them search for the page or item you’re referring to. People expect logical continuity when they click on a link. As an affiliate, I always love it when marketers allow me to use deep links to their content and still cookie my referral. It makes me want to talk about that program, their content and link to their stuff everywhere in all types of content I create – videos, blog posts, reports, tools, landing pages etc. In short – deep linking is good for you and your affiliate. Many shopping cart and

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5 Management Tools For An Efficient, Focused And Accomplished Year

By Lynette · Comments (16)
Friday, January 6th, 2012
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The beginning of the year is usually a time when organizing, creating systems and finding better ways to stay on top of things are at the forefront of our minds. If you’re looking for new ways to help you jump start your year and hopefully keep it on the right path for the rest of the 11 + months, you might want to give these tools (sans Basecamp) a spin. GQueues I so really need to write a full fledged review of this system. When someone in my Google + circle asked about it, here’s what I shared. “I’ve been using it for a few months I REALLY like it, the simplicity, the ease of adding tasks etc. I held off from upgrading before as it needed one premium account for every person you want to share tasks with but now, you don’t.” While they don’t have a dedicated mobile app, they are accessible online via mobile. Mobile is very very important to me and it does not matter if there is an app or not. Actually, I rather prefer not having dedicated apps. GQueues is also very affordable compared to many other tools in this space. That is definitely

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Client Work vs In-House Projects

By Lynette · Comments (0)
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
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This is a continuation of a Cross-Blog-Conversation with good friend Kelly McCausey. She wrote a wonderfully insightful post in reply to my last question. Loved it. Kelly – let’s just say I’m very, very glad to know that you do it despite the anxiety and you do allow yourself time to ache over a project that is going bye-bye. Now I won’t feel so bad when I do! Now on to the question she asked me in return it’s actually two parts so let’s tackle the first part: Part One: So many people rely on you for your tech expertise. How are you going to balance helping others with growing your own business projects in the new year? Years ago, very early in my business, I decided I was not taking in new clients. Looking back, I’m not entirely sure why. That’s how inexperienced I was. All in all, it worked out great. I charged enough to keep money coming in but high enough that I didn’t exactly need a gazillion clients who’d take up all my time. This was great because it allowed me time to give the handful of clients full focus when I was working on their

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Most Helpful Web Development Posts In 2011

By Lynette · Comments (1)
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
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My friend Lexi is a fantastic blogger, often coming up with some of the most interesting posts and I do enjoy her blog – a lot. Yesterday, she inspired me to write a ‘Best of’ post. Instead of focusing on me, I thought I’d share other people’s posts I discovered in 2011 and found extremely helpful. These are ones I refer to many times throughout the year and have them bookmarked or clipped. Note:  Some of these posts are not necessarily posted in 2011 but I only discovered them in 2011. Another testimony why good posts bring you traffic again and again. Pretty CSS3 Button This one is almost 2 years old by now but still very good. I have the code snipped and these buttons make into a lot of my sites. There are a lot of CSS button tutorials but I like this best because it’s easy to understand and edit. WordPress Tutorial – Load The Template You Want It’s one of the best illustrated posts about template_redirect in WordPress. Extremely helpful to me for developing plugins, could definitely be used in themes too. Just a fair note of warning this stuff is pretty geeky. Google Web Fonts

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Code HTML Emails The Right Way Every Time

By Lynette · Comments (0)
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
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In general, I’m not a huge fan of sending HTML emails. If you signed up to receive emails from me you might find that surprising – especially if you are pretty seasoned and know how to tell the difference between a pure text email and an HTML email made to look like pure text. It is true that almost every email that goes out is sent with an accompanying HTML one but I do not go fancy with it. Not like these: Must admit sometimes it is tempting to get creative like that. They look so nice. This week, I thought I’d buck the trend a little and send out a nicely formatted email. Before doing that though I decided to find out if I could use HTML5 in my emails. From experience, I know that email clients are still not as sophisticated as browsers when it comes to HTML display. There are some snazzy stuff that you can’t do, external stylesheets don’t work (as of time of writing) and positioning stuff  in your design is still best done using tables – yes, you read that right. Tables. In short, there is some art and science to coding HTML emails.

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How Do You Axe A Product Without Anxiety – Cross Blog Conversation

By Lynette · Comments (3)
Friday, December 16th, 2011
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While chatting recently, friend and business partner Kelly McCausey of SoloSmarts invited me to a Cross Blog Conversation. If you don’t quite know what that means, check out her post about it. To kick it off, Kelly asked me this question. Lynette, Why Did You Decide To Focus on Tech? Answer: I’ve always been somewhat geeky. When working at my last job as marketing exec, I hung out with the IT manager a lot. Mostly because he was unlike any other IT guy I knew. He had some really cool ideas how to use technology in our marketing. Then I started this business, with a heavy marketing focus. After all, that’s what I just came from. But a good friend kept asking me to help with the technical aspect and it all just kinda fell in place there. As my knowledge of both tech and marketing grew, I’m finding I like the tech a lot more – sounds like something I should have realized all these years right? And so I trimmed a big, very visible and profitable product early this year that wasn’t quite ‘techie’. I still have the site as part of my funnel it’s great for that,

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25 Tools And Resources That Make Up A WordPress Membership Site

By Lynette · Comments (2)
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
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Among the most popular request in interviews is to list some of my favorite tools for WordPress. As time goes by and WordPress matures, this is almost a meaningless question. True, there are plugins I use on almost every project but for the most part, they aren’t set in stone every single time. I like to assess the project then use plugins, tools and code according to what fits the project best. In this light, there are many tools we use that are never written about or showcased because they don’t really fit anywhere. While working on a WordPress membership site – our very own TechBasedTraining – it occurred to me this would be a perfect opportunity to give you a peek into the many different tools we choose for a project like this. Kinda like peeking into the toolkit. Ready? Here we go. Plugins Wishlist Member – of course. We don’t always use Wishlist. For this project, Wishlist has been used for 2 years. Since were were updating the site, it was a good excuse to upgrade to the latest version. Backup Buddy – on almost all our sites. Usually for backups but in this case it served double duty. The

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Setting Secure Passwords That Are Easy On You Too

By Lynette · Comments (4)
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
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This was sent out to our email subscribers last week but due to an incident that very same week, I feel compelled to post it here for your benefit. You know how you’re encouraged to create secure passwords and you end up with a 5ea11y h@rd 0n3? Yeah… like you’re going to remember that. I know all about Roboform, LastPass and 1Password. Can’t live without Roboform. The down side? I am often *severely* crippled when I don’t have access to these tools. It’s happened a few times. Now, I’ve changed my method. Thanks to a comic of all things, but this is not a joke. It IS secure and easy for humans. Ready? Simply string together a few random words, separate them by a space or some kind of symbol like % ^ or @ – anything. That’s it! For a clearer picture, check out xkcd. Do I still use RoboForm? Absolutely because there’s just too many. For the common stuff this is the method I’m using. Hope you found it helpful. It sure was for me Image by Digital Terrorist

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Thanksgiving Deals For Bloggers, Marketers And Web Geeks

By Lynette · Comments (2)
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
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I absolutely love this time of year because of the season yes, but also because of the great deals I can get for my business. From this week onwards, I’m on the lookout for tools and services I’ve wanted to get all year. I save a bunch and just in time to claim it all in this tax year. While there have always been offers, this year I’m noticing a LOT of new deals from more online businesses. Maybe I’m just paying more attention but wow have those deals been pouring in this week. Of course, I can’t keep all the good stuff to myself so here’s a list of what’s been coming through my inbox. Look through it, if it’s something you’ve been wanting, nab it quickly as you know these are extremely time sensitive. If there are more, this list will be updated so check back throughout the weekend and Cyber Monday of course. Tools StudioPress – YES! The original paid theme but stronger than ever, very versatile system if you work on WordPress you must get this. 25% off entire purchase. Coupon code: THANKS Availability: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 till 7pm Pacific time on Monday, November 21, 2011 iThemes

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Make WordPress Menu Items Open In New Window

By Lynette · Comments (3)
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
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WordPress has a wonderful feature – Menus – that I absolutely love because it lets clients manage their own menus super easily without having to put in a call to me to make edits. Of course I use it extensively within my own sites as well because – well, diving into code sometimes is a hassle. This week, a client asked a good question. How to they make these menu links open in a new window? Well the good news, this is super easy and no extra tweaking required. Here’s what you do. Logged in to your WordPress site (with administrator rights). Go to Appearance > Menus Then on the top right corner under your name, you will see a tab called Screen Options. Click that to expand the options panel Check the Link Target box. You may click the Screen Options tab again to minimize the panel. Now, expand the menu item you want to edit. You will see a Link Target drop down. Default is set to Same window or tab. Simply change it to New window or tab. And that’s it. Pretty painless right?  

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