So many people like to talk about how to use social media for business and I just wanted to give an example of an exchange I had today with site5, a hosting company that I have worked with a lot throughout the past year. Here’s some background information. On May 1st, the main server for Ukulele Underground which is hosted by Godaddy (we signed up prior to learning about site5) was hacked and a malware [...]

Hey everyone, well it’s Sunday, just about 1 week since I announced my website in a week challenge and I’m glad to say, eatkauai.com beta is up and running! It was a very tiring week finishing an entire website from start to finish in one week but I think it will be a very valuable resource to the people of Kauai. Currently, we only have a few menu listings but we plan to continue to [...]

Them: So what do you do again? Me: My partners and I run a website where we teach people how to play the ukulele online. We have around 7500 registered members now and get like 20k uniques a month. Not great but it’s a pretty good start considering we started with $300 and spent no money on advertising. Them: Oh wow, so all those people pay to use your site? Me: No, we give away [...]

When people hear WordPress, majority of them (if they even know what it is) think blogging software. I love WordPress. Blogging to me is the best way to serve up daily, weekly or any kind of regular content. But, I love WordPress for more than that, it is quickly becoming a very powerful content management system or CMS. In fact, almost all sites I build for clients today are built on WordPress. Here are just [...]

I get a kick out of hearing local businesses complaining about negative reviews on blogs or sites like yelp.com. The game has changed my friends. The internet is like a megaphone for word of mouth marketing. It’s word of mouth marketing on steroids, or on HGH, or both. Good or bad, your customers now have a voice and the power to let others know if you suck or if their experience with your company was [...]

4th post into this new blog, 2nd post about Gary V. I’m not trying to turn this into a Gary V nuthuggingfest but for some reason, tonight I was wondering exactly what episode Gary changed the format of his show to really let himself be himself. I’m admittedly a very late comer to Wine Library, started watching it late 2007 but I did know he started very conservatively, very polite and very much catering to [...]