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Using the ShareThis Button To Be More Productive

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I have recently discovered the ShareThis button for Firefox. Many blogs have the ShareThis button already installed on their blog but what if I’m not at a blog or what if the blog doesn’t have a ShareThis button? ShareThis has the answer: their browser button. Using the button gives me the same functionality as if the site had the ShareThis code. Using their button I can share pages I find on Facebook, linkedin, myspace, twitter, or any other major social platforms. ShareThis will also let me e-mail a page to someone. I use that alot to send myself a page that interests me. I can keep a copy of the e-mail do check out the site later.

That’s about it for this post. I hope you find the ShareThis button as useful as I have. I would also like to give out my twitter profile and ShareThis’ profile. Give us a follow!

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How To Add Your Entrecard Top Droppers Link Automatically

I like to give back to my Entrecard top droppers on one of my blogs. Entrecard makes it easy to do this through their “Top Droppers” RSS feed. To get the URL of your feed login to your Entrecard account and click on Dashboard. Next click on “More Stats” in the bottom right of the “Quick Stats” box. Scroll down to the Top Card Droppers. There is a RSS icon next to the text. Right click on that link and select “Copy Link Location”. Use Entrecard Top Droppers Code and paste your URL in the appropriate place. You can edit the num_items variable to display any number of top droppers. I chose 5 for my blog.

This code will need to go in your themes sidebar.php file. In your Wordpress admin area click on Editor under appearance. Next find the file sidebar.php in the list on the right side. Click that and the file will be loaded into the theme editor. Before adding your code in scroll down. If there is an error message you may need to change your file permissions. If there is a submit button you are set to add the new code. Figure out where you want the Entrecard Top Droppers to show up and paste your code in. After the sidebar is saved go back to your blog and your top droppers will be displayed. I’m not sure how often the feed is updated. It’s a great way to give your top droppers some link love and encourage daily visits.

I should mention that this is only for wordpress.org self hosted blogs. Wordpress.com, blogger, and the other free blogging platforms do not give you access to the code. For wordpress.com or blogger you can try going to Feedburner and burning your RSS and then getting an image code and inserting it. It won’t help your top droppers in the same manner as the code above.

If you have a wordpress.org self hosted blog and need help with this feel free to contact me. I’m not free, but my rates are reasonable.

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Great Video on Famous Failures

This video is awesome. “If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived”. How true. Too stupid to succeed? I guess he showed his teacher! More for the video.
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Cincinnati AMA SIG Meeting at NKY Chamber

This morning I attended a B2B SIG meeting of the Cincinnati AMA chapter. The topic presented was “Social Networking for B2B Companies” and was presented by Rob Bunting. This is the second meeting of the SIG group group that I have attended that was at the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. Rob spoke about the various social networks such as facebook, linkedin, twitter, digg, del.icio.us, and more. There was a good attendance also they said 15 registered and I believe over 20 showed up. That is a great attendance especially for a free event. Many free events that I have been to have more register than show up. One fellow Rob was talking to came in from Columbus, Ohio just for the event! Rob is a great speaker and it shows that business in the Cincinnati and NKY area are interested in learning more about social networking.

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What is website conversion?

Website conversion is when a sale or pre-defined action is made. Typically e-commerce sites worry more about “conversion rates” because they pay for traffic. Conversion can be many things such as:

• A sale is made
• An account is created
• A contact form is filled out and submitted
• An item is added to a shopping cart
• Live chat is initiated

Many website statistic programs such as google analytics can track conversions whether they are a customer making a sale, a customer adding something to their cart, or a lead from a contact form.

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