Episode 7: Evidently, it’s social media day since that’s mostly what I talked about. I’m not even a huge “social media marketing” person. I also talk a bit about how I podcast. Give it a listen. (about 22 mins / 22mb’s)

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Show Notes

- Logitech Headset: BestBuy
- Tata’s Mini Car: Engadget
- 40+ Social Media Sites: Dosh Dosh
- Twitter as a Business Tool: BobAngus.com
- Getting Your Feet Wet in Social Media: Ignite Blog
- Star Wars Design Presenation: Brian Oberkirch

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Lots of hacks floating around about Wordpress this week, but this one is particularly helpful for a few occassions I’ve had to deal with in creating my own blogs.

Share your thoughts in the comments…

For instance, let’s say you have a client that wants all the pages to have the sidebar except for his bio page. On his bio page, he wants the content to extend all the way over where the sidebar used to be. Here’s what you do:

Using WordPress Page Templates : The Blog Herald

Linda Buquet links to some very sage advice from super affiliate Jeremy Palmer… grow slow. Start thin and then let your site grow into a fat and overweight middle aged affiliate (you’ll see enough of those skantily dressed for the Miami heat at Affiliate Summit this July). There’s something to coming off the starting grid at full speed, but make sure you save something for later in the race. Affiliate marketing is a marathon… not a sprint.

Start thin and grow fat! Jeremy shares some wisdom and suggests you test market by 1st building a quick & easy THIN affiliate site for PPC. Then build it out into a FAT & STICKY affiliate site, after you’ve proven to yourself the viability of the niche and are sure it’s a topic you want to put additional energy into.

5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs, Google and SEO Blog » Start Thin - Grow Fat :: Million Dollar Affiliate Advice

Putting forms (feedback, contact, subscription) into your site can be a huge pain. There are a number of “free” ways to do this without hard coding, but most of them give lackluster results.

FormLogix is a new platform that solves some of these issues. So, if you’ve got a blog or site that requires forms, this is a handy fortune cookie for you…

Whether you want to build email contact forms, feedback forms, or online surveys - you will find FormLogix useful. It will also host the HTML forms for you.

FormLogix has an intuitive design interface where you simply drag-n-drop the form elements (like textbox, radio buttons, etc) on the canvas without having to write any HTML - the forms still look stylish and beautiful.

Create Web Forms Online; Embed Them in Your Blog at Digital Inspiration

Granted, affiliate marketers aren’t normally design snobs (except for Jim Kukral), but potential users and customers can be easily turned on or turned off from a site due to its design.

So, make sure to consider the aesthetics of your affiliate niche site as you’re building in SEO functionality and call-to-action implementations!

Here are 60 incredibly beautiful designs for you to copy learn from.

It’s quite easy to get stuck in creativity blocks, but it’s damn hard to get out of them. Particularly if you are out of time and don’t want to compromise your professional principles selecting the first “quick-n-dirty” solution you can think of. To get things done, you need inspiration and creative thinking. You need fresh ideas and elegant approaches. And you need to be able to find them as quick as it is possible. Handy references and examples are therefore both useful and enjoyable - after all, who can resist gorgeous, professional, elegant and visually appealling designs?

60 Elegant and Visually Appealling Designs | Smashing Magazine