• Some Thoughts on Premium Content

    A good friend of mine (and client) forwarded me this article about the New York Times looking at charging for its content and it spurred these thoughts about premium content … Here they are: I can’t wait to see what happens with the New York Times as it’ll define the newspaper industry somewhat as the…

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  • 5 of My Core Business Philosophies and Values

    As part of our WebDesign.com Strategic Plan for 2010, I shared these underlying values that define and guide me as leader of our team. These are ingrained into my personal DNA and what I want instilled in our team. I detailed these so that our team would understand why and how I lead our business…

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  • Why Narcissism Is Necessary on Twitter

    I’ve been using Twitter actively for over a year now. Initially I started using it because I saw its potential benefits for my business. But after a couple of months, I started to absolutely love it. It became a means of expression for quick thoughts, photos, links, whatever, that wouldn’t normally be a blog post.…

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  • Approaching Twitter Like a Blog

    Twitter has been described as a microblogging service for a LONG time, but that aspect really set in with me this week. For a while, I’ve considered it good therapy. I get to express and share what I want, when I want — from photos, links, quotes and thoughts. And I have to admit I…

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  • My New Blog Welcome Video

    We built a video studio for iThemes and WebDesign.com, to be able to roll out new classes and try to put a “face” on what we do … and I decided to do a Welcome video for this blog … here goes!

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  • iThemes Builder Theme Demo Video

    Our new blockbuster theme Builder Theme is coming out Dec. 16 and today we did a live demo webinar with over 100 of our customers.

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  • Three Things We’ve Been Up To: Video

    Just released a new video at iThemes about what we’re doing … Here are the links to the three things I talk about in this segment of iThemesTV: Builder Theme iThemes WordPress Theme Bootcamp Jan. 29-30 WebDesign.com University

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  • I Got a Yo-Yo for Christmas

    Kevin Hendricks of Monkey Outta Nowhere who writes for WebDesign.com sent us a great Christmas present — although I thought it was a bomb! What a great gift idea! And it had a great story about how Kevin got started. Rock on! Here’s a video Matt Danner aka Danger getting some fun out of it…

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  • Our First Roadshow: Dallas Here We Come!

    The iThemes team is putting on our first roadshow — a 2-day intense workshop called the iThemes WordPress Theme Bootcamp in Dallas, Jan. 29-30, 2010. You won’t want to miss it! It’s first-come, first-serve and we only have room for 50 people. Check out the registration details here

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  • On Copycats and Leeches

    This morning, reading my Twitter follow feed and email in bed with my iPhone (typical early morning ritual before I actually get out of bed), I saw something that just pushed me over the edge and thought this (OK, I tweeted something like it too): Business is hard enough without the copycats and leeches, who…

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