An ARO Interview with Fabeku! Part 1
Who in the HELL can resist this smiling face? Not me. And with a name like Fabeku Fatunmise, who would have thought he’d live right down the road from me in Cincinnati? Not you!
Fabeku does everything right. Ok, his wife probably doesn’t agree, but in the world of authentic, relevant, organic networking, you bet [...]
And The Comment Debate Continues
Insert heavy sigh here.
At GalaDarling.com, she’s turned off comments and gives a nice explanation for why she’s doing it, but also how you can still interact with her.
Honesty, Space & Staying True: Why I Turned Off Comments
I’m beginning to think that turning off comments is the new way to say “I’ve arrived!”.
And a divider between [...]
AROinterview with Colin Wright
NAKED MAN ALERT!
I know. You don’t expect to see a naked man on THIS blog. Naked Maggie Gyllenhaal is far more likely but I’m a bit enamored with Colin Wright (and Adam Lambert) so here he is.
Colin is living life, both on and off line, the ARO way: authentic, relevant and organic. He’s the man [...]
Email Marketing? MailChimp is King Kong
Newsletters, email marketing, email blasts (all also known as “campaigns”), auto-responders, signup forms. UGH!
If you just want to do what you do best, but you know you need to reach out to your subscribers, just deciding WHICH of the many newsletter/email services to choose from is overwhelming. Aweber, Constant Contact, Emma, iContact…and a lot of [...]
Mixing The Business “You” With the Others
This blog is about being authentic. But it is also about business. And thus, I split it up again.
The decision has been hard. Very hard.
I’m glad to put my personal stuff back over here because I don’t have to think so hard over there. I love just popping on and saying “read this”, “watch that”, [...]
Is Twitter in Jeopardy?
Is it bye bye birdy?
Can you really keep up with 3000 people, or more?
I’m a huge Twitter fan…but that fan-dom was threatened when I realized I was increasingly “selling” myself and not having an authentic conversation with people. And that they weren’t having one with me. People I had promoted heavily and believed [...]
PayPal for Dummies
Ok. So I was a PayPal dummy once too. It’s no big deal. We all are.
But let me tell you. Adding the ability to pay for your services (this post is not for selling products) on PayPal could hardly be easier. I just did it this week for the first time. You can do it [...]
The Water Cooler: Do You Owe Your Community?
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Writing this post has been scary for me. I’m like all of you. I want to be read and respected by people I admire. I feel shaky hitting publish, but I feel in my bones this post had to be written. By writing it, I’m not judging any individuals – just the decision to [...]
My Favorite Wordpress-Plugins
Plug-in sounds dirty. Sorry. It just does.
That said, in Wordpress, plug-ins and widgets are handy little tools for those of us who are not coding experts but are power users instead.
After unnecessarily struggling to reorder my pages and finding the Wordpress built-in tool for this was simply not working, I did a bit of Googling [...]
Blog Commenting and Your Community
Danielle LaPorte, like Seth Godin and a few other “power bloggers”, has now closed comments on her blog. And, of course, she is free to do so. A blog is your land, your house, your territory. The readers are your (invited) visitors, though some become family.
But I don’t like the idea in general and here’s [...]
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