Author Archives: Alec

How to Replace a Fluid Browser or App Icon: HelpScout

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I didn’t like the existing icons out there for HelpScout so I’ve made a good quality transparent png/icns from this file.

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Tumblr to WordPress Migration Service

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For the next two weeks to celebrate the announcement of Yahoo’s takeover of Tumblr, our migration service is 25% off.

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Red Pig Tools Weeders: a Parable about Effective Websites

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How can you do ecommerce and build a name for yourself online on the cheap? Start by being useful.

Why we moved from Basecamp to TeamworkPM

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37signals don’t do client work anymore and live in a bubble. If you face clients and billing, TeamworkPM is a much stronger solution.

Quora SEO: Best single resource to learn SEO

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Cover $1000 of SEO training in five minutes. Basics of on-page SEO and off-page SEO.

SEO and WordPress.com

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How to use WordPress.com to get into the top ten in Google with your new site for just $18.

Calendar Plugins for WordPress for Cultural Site

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The calendar is for a dance listings site. It must look good and allow quick adding of events, and include permanent records for venues.

Forbes ask for too much Twitter access: Doing Social Media Wrong

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Just because a feature is possible does not make it desirable. Website owners are burdening themselves with overkill every day.

Marks and Spencer Teas Review with Marketing Notes

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Nice packaging, nice marketing, really crappy products. When will companies learn that misrepresenting products just makes clients angry?

Paypal Pickpocketing Merchant Fees: How Paypal steals from best clients

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Make sure you apply for merchant rates as soon as you qualify. Otherwise Paypal will silently pickpocket you for years.

Dropbox doing a Gmail: drops support for unpaid users

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If you use an unpaid dropbox account, be very careful. The support demands currently exceed supply and you are unlikely to get any help.

Is Microsoft paying comment spammers to promote Bing?

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Why are comments spammers out there promoting Bing.com with the anchor text “search engines”? Even stranger, with Gmail return addresses.

Mining Google Places for Business

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After the new rules, here’s how you get dozens (not hundreds) of legitimate reviews for Google Places without penalties.

Effective comment marketing

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Is there really someone openly running a bordello out of 1121 Bay Street, unit 809?

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Changes to Slovak Labour Laws 2013 in English

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Big changes under the new Fico regime. Here are the changes and consequences in English.