Do Bad Reviews Hurt Your Business?
October 21st, 2012 @ Scott Davignon
When customers started asking me questions about social networking/ social media strategies, and expressed their fears of negative things being said about them. I was astounded at the lack of strategy, as if this was a foreign invader to their current customer support process. Many companies rely on 1-on-1 communications and some take advantage of [...]
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The First Email Ever Sent…
September 9th, 2012 @ Scott Davignon
The First Email… Around 1971, two years after the invention of ARPANET, the world’s first functioning network. The person to send this very historic piece of text was Ray Tomlinson, who worked on ARPANET, and is believed to have sent several nonsense test messages while working on the system, one of which finally worked. As [...]
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Email Post Contributors as Articles are Published
March 6th, 2012 @ Scott Davignon
Here is an easy way to send an automate email notifying the article contributor that their post (custom post, like videos, events, classified ad) has been published. Paste the following code into the functions.php of your WordPress theme and when a post is published an email will be sent to any contributors listed on the [...]
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My 2012 Predictions for the Web
December 31st, 2011 @ Scott Davignon
Having a user profile and user shared information helps to establish brand identity and viral spread to people with the same targeted interests. I’m not suggesting abolish Facebook I’m saying pull in select Facebook information, along with Twitter and any other social sites the user of the site wants to share on their profile on your website. End goal being to generate more organic traffic with better SEO Credibility.
Read More »Custom Contact Forms Changing Order
November 19th, 2011 @ Scott Davignon
Custom Contact Forms Plugin for WordPress is great for form management. You can create unlimited forms with unlimited items, it records forms input in the database, sends an email and can even work with hand coded forms. If you have forms that you have created and need to edit them you will soon find that [...]
Read More »Simple PHP for Sending a Response SMS Message via Twilio
September 2nd, 2011 @ Scott Davignon
Create a simple PHP script to respond, with a default saying, to all SMS text messages received on your Twilio phone number.
Read More »Using WordPress MU for Departmental Sites
September 1st, 2011 @ Scott Davignon
Corporations have a necessity to convey a look and feel that is consistent across all departments or divisions of the the business. For this requirement we can use WordPress MU to automatically create sites with the corporate brand, design and default content using a template site. In this example we will create an MU installation [...]
Read More »Twilio is Turning Traditional PBX Upside Down
September 1st, 2011 @ Scott Davignon
Over the years I have worked on a few interactive voice response systems for my customers, they have been complex and time-consuming to setup and run. We are hooked on the self-service trend and everyone knows how to press 1 for support. So to get there quickly and with minimal cost, Twilio makes it easy [...]
Read More »Interesting Trends Experiment
June 29th, 2011 @ Scott Davignon
This is a small experiment where I would like to see how publishing current search trends will increase my search engine referral traffic. Current Internet Topics in the USA 1. equatorial guinea ‘Der Bomber’ Haavi hits the target Fifa.com – 1 hour ago With her 84th-minute strike Emilie Haavi not only won the match [...]
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How To Make The Law Of Attraction Work For You
March 23rd, 2011 @ Scott Davignon
The law of attraction sometimes sounds too good to be true: set your intention on something coming into your life and it will appear. But there’s more to it than that, so here’s some help on how to make the law of attraction work for you.
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