I flickr. That’s an understatement, I SHINE!
Blogs are a very personal way to communicate. Blogs share your thoughs and your opinions. People need to know who you are if they are going to read your blog on a regular basis. Flickr is the best way I have seen to get readers to know you better.
I have seen flickr badges on many sites, but not too many revenue blogs. Why not? I know that many internet entrepreneurs have money, but do they have lives?
I don’t have the money (yet), but I have a life. I’m going to show you my life. My flickr badge will run in my top sidebar widget from now on. I encourage you to show your life, place a flickr badge on your site.
On the other hand, maybe your life is just not interesting enough for pictures.
My second daughter is due today…my wife is scheduled for a C-section at noon. My thoughts are a bit scattered, but I wanted to make a useful post today. The following post is short, sweet, and useful…enjoy. For pictures of Layla Jae, the new baby, check out SlifeFamily.com later on tonight.
“Members Who Have Visited Today (or in the last 24 hours)” is a vbulletin module that I have found very useful at my forums. This module adds a list of all members that have visited the forum either today or in a rolling 24 hour time period. It’s a great way to simulate the long list of names in the “Currently Active Users” field of large forums.
For example, here is Digital Point’s “Currently Active Users”. It is obviously a very active forum. As a guest, this encourages me to join (nobody wants to join a dead forum).
Here is my “Currently Active Users” from The Chalk Bucket. My forum appears to be inactive or dead. In reality, I get 30-50 posts per day. Not bad if I do say so myself.
A rolling display of all the users from the last 24 hours is a great solution. This shows guests that members are frequently coming to your forum. It also shows members who is online on a regular basis. I check my last 24 hours all the time to see if my friends have been around. If they have, I know I’ll have answers to some of my posts. Below is a screenshot the last 24 hours on The Chalk Bucket.
As you can see, this box is much more impressive than my 2 currently active members. You can download this module here.
Later,
J.B.Slife
The other night I saw a story about comedian Eddie Griffin. He wrecked a $1.5 million Ferrari Enzo. Oops! For complete coverage and video check out this site.
Anyways…as I was searching the net for info on the Griffin crash, I came across WreckedExotics.com. Here’s a description of the site:
Welcome to the internet’s largest collection of exotic car crash photos. We display over 6,000 wrecked exotic cars to show you the real consequences of reckless driving.
Below is a shot from WreckedExotics.com, I though John Chow would get a kick out of this.
I decided to apply for BuzzBums the other day. The reason being, it started popping up on some of the sites that I frequent. BuzzBums is the brainchild of Jon Waraas, an online entrepreneur. What really caught my eye was the logo…great work Jon!
BuzzBums - Community of High Quality Blogs
Being a small, niche ecommerce site (around $50,000 in gross sales last year), customer service is very important. We can’t afford to lose a customer because of miscommunication. With that being said, “Is email always the medium of choice to talk to your customers?”
Leotard Crazy is a gymnastics pro shop. Our customers are not buying our products online because they are net junkies; they just can’t find the products anywhere else. Our customers are not gymnasts, they are the mothers and grandmothers of gymnasts. Our customers are NOT computer literate…are yours?
We know our customers and we know what works for us. We send emails each and every communication that we make with a customer, but that is not enough. There are certain messages that require a personal touch.
Any time there is a problem with an order on either side (ours or customers) we give them a phone call. If an item is on backorder, we give them a phone call. If we are no longer stocking a specific product, we give them a phone call. Credit card issues, we give them a phone call. Some of our customers do NOT check their email and we know it’s our responsibility to keep them informed.
Keep your customers order after order, give them a phone call! Many of our customers know us by name.
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