Automatic upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1
Filed under: Marketing blog news by Sasha on May 3, 2008
Just after I have upgraded the blog to Wordpress 2.5 version 2.5.1 came out and I was really lazy to do another upgrade. Today I have decided to be good to my blog as it is good to me so I have upgraded it to 2.5.1 but I was using Automatic Wordpress Upgrade plugin which is great. It does everything for you and it can even do you a back up just too be sure.
Great little plugin that made my life a couple of minutes longer for every upgrade that will come in the future.
How to get 2000 highly targeted rss subscriptions
Filed under: Marketing blog news by Sasha on April 27, 2008
I have never liked rss and I don’t really know why. It is very cool thing, keeps you more organized and more up to date than anything else. Still, I have a trouble getting used to it….
As you may have notice there is not “Subscribe to” buttons or link currently right here. This is going to change today. I have set myself a goal of getting 2000 rss subscribers and I’m going to do whatever it takes to get them. Well, almost whatever.
First things first, After I publish this post you’ll notice Feedburner counter and new subscription links/images/buttons/something and this is the first step on my trip to 2000 subscribers.
Wish me good luck.
Marketing blog 2.0
Filed under: Marketing blog news by Sasha on April 13, 2008
Looking at my last post, better say blop, I have notice how much time have passed since I wrote it. Even though I have been busy it was not like I didn’t have enough time to write a couple of posts. Right now I’m considering writing a post every day before work. That way I could be sure to post regularly and these days one must post on regular basis to keep the readers occupied right?
So what’s new with this blog and what’s up with the title? Well, two days ago I have decide that it is about time to make it look more web 2.0 like. So I have started to do design my new template. The design itself is finished and it has been sliced, now it is left to make it table less and of coarse to code it for Wordpress 2.5
While checking my stats I have noticed many visitors with adult oriented keywords. This is the consequence of my SEO girls post (look a couple of posts down). What can one learn from this? Trust rank with good title can give you more visitors but sometimes they won’t be targeted 
For a while now, almost two years, I have been fighting with myself about leaving comments on blogs that I read. Now I have decided to leave a reply on every post I read because I like to see people commenting on my blog and it is also a good way to bring more targeted visitors.
I’m going to finish my coffee and end this post 
p.s. here is a sneak a peek preview of my new logo designed by owner of Split News
Creating a social network site
Filed under: Marketing blog news by Sasha on December 18, 2007
No posts lately, I know but this time I have a excuse. Last week
or so I have been working on a social network site with a friend of mine. I have a cool domain name for it and I was waiting for a right time and a right partner(s) to start working on this cool project.
So we have started working, design is done, many modifications have been implemented but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. Before you start telling me that there are many social networking sites I am going to tell you that this one is targeting very specific market, non english speakers. The market is small, around 20 million people if you count near by countries but it makes the challenge even more fun from the marketing point of view.
I can’t describe how happy I feel when we work on the project, only the thought about it makes me happy because I know it will be a success and it will make a lot of money even though money is not my main motivator but still it play a big role in anything you do.
Marketing blog update and Real life problems
Filed under: Marketing blog news by Sasha on December 8, 2007
So I am sitting at home doing some minor jobs on my pc and suddenly I have a need to print some documents that I needed to print like two weeks ago. While looking at my TV I am pressing CTRL + P and what do you know, I am out of ink. I really hate when these things happen and it just makes me want to have extra ink cartridges all the time. Don’t you think that it is one of the worst feelings when you don’t have something you really need?
The headline said update so I must tell what really made me happy today. It was my very first affiliate sale! I have sold a product that I have started promoting couple of weeks ago and today was my first sale. The commission is 39$ which I think is really good. I was getting traffic both from paid search (Adwords) and organic search. I have only spent 6.5$ on Adwords and I think that with conversion like this one it would be really great to do PPC for living.
Being very optimistic after this sale I’m planning to increase the number of keywords I bid on and maybe even work on getting better organic listing as well. Organic search will surely bring more sales in the long run.
I almost forgot, I have started working on my new design for this blog. As you may have noticed current design is not 100% mine and I believe that it is time to create something 100% custom made. I’m doing everything myself so it won’t cost me anything accept my invested time.
