Marketing Books
I mentioned yesterday that I am looking at different ways to market my publications – not just those written by me, but also those by other authors published by me – and I think I may well have found a solution. The solution, however, is considerably larger in concept that I had originally considered, but [...]
Revisiting I Knew It
After my little comment the other day on the failings of getting spam through on my blog, especially with the spammers’ delight post I Knew It, I’ve decided that enough is enough. When I came back this evening there were just under five hundred new spam comments picked up by Akismet and, after I had [...]
Take A Hint
I doubt very much that any spammers will read this simply because they are concentrating on one single post at the moment, and I doubt they’ve even read that either. But, just in case: Give it up. I mean, yesterday I had over five hundred attempted spams on one single post here. Think about it, [...]
Evolution?
I caught this at the start of another film. Now, normally I would skip over the adverts as soon as that little Skip button appears, except that there wasn’t one this time and so I had to suffer all the way through it. So, you may well ask, why are you making us suffer too? [...]
It’s Just Sad
I’d be laughing into my morning coffee if it wasn’t just so sad. I’m not talking about anything real, a sob story or anything like that, but something which appears to be real for some people and is sad simply because they really believe in it. And also a bit sad because one of the [...]
Good, Bad, Eurovision
First up, so that we get this straight, I am not watching the Eurovision Song Contest. Nor am I anywhere near anyone who is as far as I know. It might be that the neighbors are zapping back and forth between something interesting and this song thing, but I suspect most people will be watching [...]
WordPress And Trust
Sometimes it is fun to get into the nitty-gritty of things and see what is happening in the world, what interests people and where – to use a German saying – the shoe bites. So I was a little bit more than amused to see an article on WPTavern asking whether people trust any company [...]
Real Live Nastiness
Apparently Twitter sells books. I know it must be true because someone posted it on Twitter. Leaving aside the snide references about proof of something being true because you read it in the book / publication / whatever being queried: the author John Niven has taken an interesting idea and put it into practice for [...]
Not Selling Through Facebook
If you want a prime example of how not to react to bad press, to comments and Tweets, Reddit or elsewhere, this is it: Restaurant Meltdown. I don’t know how many Internet gurus will go ape over this, but there will be quite a few. After all, everyone in their right mind tells businesses to [...]
Going It Alone
Well it seems that crowd-funding is not for me. As many of you will have seen the crowd-funding link on this web site hasn’t moved anywhere in the direction that I had hoped it would do, a mere seventy Euro raised after several weeks. I was told that it would fail, which is fine, after [...]
Hidden Or Lost?
Another new experience today. It seems, and this is the first time it has happened so far, that the DNS server linking me from home to the outside world has a thing for rain. That is, the server doesn’t like rain at all and has decided to take a short leave of absence. My server [...]
Serious Or Fail?
Raising funds for a project is not as easy as some people may imagine. Whilst an organization like Wikileaks can raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for their legal defense fund, ordinary people don’t have the same scope for publicity or the same level of followers to make their much smaller campaigns work. The problems, [...]
And Another Winner!
You’ve just got to love scammers, always coming up with the same old ideas and trying to pull the wool, over our eyes to make a buck. I’m sure you’ve come across this one: the lottery scam. I got it in my inbox today. Apparently I’ve won two million British pounds, which is interesting because [...]
I Knew It!
There is a spammers’ manual, did you know that? A little book full of dirty secrets on how to spam people, how to send out ridiculous comments to hundreds of blogs which either make no sense, are irrelevant or so badly written that a five year old would crease over laughing. It’s not a very [...]
Do Spammers Read?
I was wondering, a brief thought inspired by a spam I just deleted, whether spammers can – or do – read. You wouldn’t believe the number of comments marked as spam which ask me which blogging platform I’m using – it’s a standalone WordPress – or what my theme is – Desk Mess Mirrored – [...]
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