Internet Marketing Offline

Yesterday I had an interesting experience about how to market an online business opportunity – offline. In other words how to try to sell the idea of “internet marketing” in an offline environment. This is how it happened thanks to Anthony Morrison:

Last week I got in my PO Box an envelope addressed with my name (spelled correctly) and with my correct and complete postal address. Obviously, someone out there sold my personal info with my address: it must be a service provider, which is supposed to send me bills, invoices and other paper documents… because the address included my mailbox number, too. FYI: there is no mailman in this
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HTML Headings in WordPress – Part 3

Remember, last time I said there were two “evil” factors that intervened and didn’t let WordPress’ TwentyTen theme to be the solution for ever. Actually, only one factor was evil – namely the Internet Marketers’ willingness to cheat any system for short-term gains.

I know, I know: I shouldn’t call them internet marketers, since I know quite a number of very honest business people who do business on the internet and they do NOT use cheesy tactics. It’s a shame they are called the same name as those crooks that give the bad name to a whole industry.

Internet Marketers(?) messing with the
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HTML Headings in WordPress – Part 2

Heading tags in WordPress

Even before the new WordPress version and the new default theme — TwentyTen — has been introduced, there were theme developers and bright coders suggesting to break the pattern used in the default WordPress theme when it comes to the usage of H tags.

For the main index or other multipost views (archives, search result etc.) the placement of the H tags was excellent: on the top the site/blog title in between h1 tags… below the list of posts with their own titles, all in between h2 tags – this gives a very logical structure for those pages. See the
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HTML Headings in WordPress – Part 1

About headings

Most people don’t understand the significance of the heading tags in HTML, so no wonder, historically, the WordPress developers performance in that regard was also less than stellar. So, what are the HTML heading tags, anyway?

For a quick explanation we may need to go back in time to the pre-web era and take a look at the printing traditions: even if many are not aware of it, during the development of the web page technologies we “borrowed” a lot from the traditional print media (books, newspapers, scientific papers etc.)

All of the above examples, but especially the most organized type of them, namely the
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Do we need SOPA for this?

I think not. Here is a classic example of copyright infringement, but I still don’t think SOPA or its twin PIPA should be the answer to it. As it happened, in this case my own copyrighted work has been stolen: the Profit Crushing WordPress Mistakes that is sold here.

The story:

1. Last night I got a Google alert for “wordpress mistakes“. (Yes, I set up such alerts to track where my products are mentioned.) The alert said this site

http://www.libanonchat.org/socialnetwork/view/post:1576

is mentioning “wordpress
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