Danny Brown

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From Stats to Strats – Free Social Media Ebook

One of the things we’re always hearing about social media is how it’s changing the business landscape for companies of all sizes.

What we don’t always hear, though, is how you can be part of these changes, whether it’s from your own business point-of-view, or that of your social media-enabled customers.

To help with this, we’ve put together this free ebook that shares some of the more useful statistics of the most popular social networks, as well as some ways you can use this information to build a social media strategy into your other marketing efforts.

Hopefully you’ll find some use in it. We’ll also be offering other ebooks and exclusive business guides soon, so if you’re interested in these, you can use the sign-up form at the end of this post.

And let us know if you found the ebook useful. Cheers!

Free social media marketing ebook

To download the ebook, simply right-click on the image and choose Save Link As.

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How to Create a Custom Menu in WordPress

This post originally appeared on the blogger resource site For Bloggers by Bloggers, one of the new projects from Bonsai Interactive Marketing.

I wanted to share this here to show some of the cool stuff happening over there. The site’s already picking up some great traction, due in no small part to the awesome team that’s coming together on there.

It’s a multi-platform blog resource, and offers a mix of free resources and some great upcoming offers to help your blogging be the best it can be. We’d love to see you over there, so come on by and say hi. Cheers!

With the introduction of WordPress 3.0, bloggers can create a host of different menus for use either on the blog template or as a sidebar widget.

This allows you to create child pages, sub-categories, navigation tabs with external links and much more.

Here, we show you how simple it is to create and get a custom menu up and running in a matter of clicks.

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The Value of Effort

The great one and leadership in business

?You miss 100% of the shots you never take.? ??Wayne Gretzky.

Think about that. Take it outside the ice hockey equation that Gretzky used it on and apply it to anywhere ? life, business, relationships, goals. How many are you actually aiming for and how many are you striking out blindly at?

Are you happy with where you are?

Have you reached the plateau that you set for yourself when you took to the playing field? Is your job just satisfying or does it fill your creative needs?

How are you using the tools and the people around you to benefit both parties? Are you playing a team role to attack goal, or are you being selfish with the puck? Do the fans call your name or the team?s? What?s more important?

What are you doing to improve your business? Are you reining it in and hoping that the bad times will pass, or are you thinking of new tactics to confuse the opposition and win new fans? How?s your coach ? is he/she a leader or does the team need better guidance?

Wayne Gretzky was a leader on the ice and continues to be one off it as well. His shots were always 100% with intent.

How?s?your aim?

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Who Knew @pearsonified Liked Glee?

Chris Pearson AKA @pearsonified of Thesis theme

First, for anyone not on Twitter that’s wondering why the post title looks so funky, it’s just one of the ways you highlight a specific person.

If you are on Twitter and you use self-hosted WordPress as your blogging platform of choice, you’ve probably heard of the Thesis theme, one of the most popular premium WordPress themes around.

Its creator is Chris Pearson, who’s @pearsonified on Twitter. He’s had a rough time lately, with his theme coming under fire from WordPress over licensing issues (now resolved) and his partner at DIY Themes (the makers of Thesis) leaving the company to go to a competitor.

So I thought that it’d be cool to maybe help put a wee smile on Chris’s face and share his love of the TV show Glee with you.

Now. Take a look at the image of Chris at the start of this post, and then watch the video below. While the YouTube user calls himself Nick Pitera, I think it’s clear that Chris is using that name to allow his Glee alter-ego out.

What do you think, guys – new vocation for Chris while building Thesis 2.0? 😉

(This post includes a video. If you’re having difficulties seeing it in your feed, you can watch it directly here).

Google and the Birthday Smile

As some of you know, it’s my birthday today, so I’m taking some downtime and spending the weekend getting pampered (hopefully!).

But I just wanted to share this with you first, as it was a little surprise and it made me smile. Nice job, Google!

Have a great and safe weekend, guys, and see you online soon (and thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes on Facebook and Twitter). You’re awesome!


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