Marketing, SEO, Random Tools

  • 17 Battle-Tested Resources for Marketers Who Stink at Design

    http://unbounce.com/design/17-resources-for-marketers-who-stink-at-design/

  • Use Drush to update multiple environments

    Keep development and production environments in sync with this drush setup: https://www.acquia.com/blog/use-drush-sync-your-drupal-installations-between-multiple-environments

  • Data API’s

    Here are a list of programming API’s that provide access to lots of data   http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory

  • Van Westendorp’s Price Sensitivity Meter

    At what price would you consider the product to be so expensive that you would not consider buying it? (Too expensive) At what price would you consider the product to be priced so low that you would feel the quality couldn’t be very good? (Too cheap) At what price would you consider the product starting…

  • 25 Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wished They’d Known before Founding Their First Startup

    There is some excellent advice from successful entrepreneurs about how to get started and then grow the company.  Many start-ups fail because they aren’t sure where their efforts should be focused.  These experienced businessmen have made all those mistakes and learned how they should have focused their most valuable resource – their time. These quick…

  • preg_match() matching quotes – How to escape quotes

    I was having the most difficult time getting preg_match() to match a double quote. $string = ‘<a href=”https://www.calcmaster.net/” class=”link”>calcmaster.NET</a>’; if ( preg_match(‘/src=”(.+?)”/’, $string, $matches) ) { $url = $matches[1]; } This did not work for me.  I assumed that the source string may have had some unicode characters for the double quotes so I converted…

  • LinkSpawn: Automatically Deep Linking Large Websites

    Deep linking is a proven method for helping to raise a website’s rankings.  Larger websites in particular can benefit from deep linking since not every page can be linked from the home page.  LinkSpawn is one way that deep links can be managed automatically for large websites with very little effort. Links and Deep Linking…

  • Get an Authorize.Net Account

    I’ve processed millions of dollars worth of credit cards and Authorize.Net is one of the simplest to set up and least expensive to use.  It’s totally secure and allows credit cards to be manually run or can be integrated into your website.  It can also automatically charge credit cards each month without having to re-enter…

  • Your Linkbait Isn’t Working

    I could just as easily have called this “How to get free links in 5 minutes for an established site” but the concept is the same.  You’ve built a website, spent an inordinate amount of time writing quality unique content, but you want more incoming links.  All that linkbait isn’t sitting there doing nothing.  It’s probably…

  • Online OCR Document Processing

    We now provide an online OCR processing service which converts PDF documents or images to editable MS Word documents. The processor works by separating layout from text and attempts to lay out the document correctly. OCR processing takes time so our service allows you to upload the file now and then email the results when…