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Have you ever wondered how annoying it was to follow me (or anyone else) on Twitter? Well, now you can find out. A new site call Follow Cost has created a cute little application that will tell you how much it will cost to follow any Twitter user. The application works by using the Twitter API to figure out how […]
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BlogRush, the traffic building widget started by Internet marketing kinpin, John Reese, has decided to close it doors forever. Launched in late 2007, BlogRush spread like a wildfire all over the Web as thousands of bloggers (me included) installed the widget. However, fast growth brought its share of problems. BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems — from […]
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A while back, I made a video post call The Dot Com Lifestyle that showed what can be achieve if someone is willing to change his mindset and really go for it. That post was one of the most popular posts I’ve ever made and received a ton of positive feedback. One of the readers who read the post was […]
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Give Me Some MacBooks! Shoemoney is giving away not one but TWO Apple Macbooks. A brand new latest gen MacBook (the one with the gimped glossy screen) from Market Leverage and a MacBook Air from Neil Patel. To win, you have to subscribe to Shoe’s newsletter. The winners will be posted in Shoe’s November newsletter. That’s less than three days […]
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Wouldn’t you know it. The day after I wrote a post about increasing subscriptions with the Aweber Lightbox, the blog sets a new subscription record and broke 38,000 for the first time. It was only a month ago when I wrote the post on how I broke 33,000 RSS subscribers. That’s a growth rate of 5,000 subscribers per month. The […]
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Last week, Darren Rowse at Problogger.net showed how he increased his newsletter sign up for his Digital Photography blog by installing an Aweber Lightbox Hover sign up forum. I knew that Aweber offerred this option but had never thought about adding it until Darren showed his results. Adding a Lightbox newsletter sign up box is pretty straight forward. I’ve made […]
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When I set out to update John Chow dot Com to Version 3, one of the main objectives was to speed up page load time while being able to handle a large volume of traffic. The key to doing that is by turning the contents of the blog into a static page. This is where the WP Super Cache comes […]
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Charity 0-Lifting Clinic Stephen Fung’s girlfriend, Kelly Frankson, is hosting two Charity O-lifting Clinics next Saturday, Nov. 1. The first clinic will be from 12-3 and will break down the clean and jerk into its individual components. The second clinic will be from 3-5 and will only be open to those who have attended one of the previous clinics and […]
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