AARP commissioned a national telephone survey of the 50+ population, including an oversample of Hispanic adults age 50 and older, to gather information on this age group’s use of social media and technology and thereby better serve all Americans age…
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Ice T teaches song writer that Twitter is a public place
Many people Tweet and Tweet, reaching a point where they forget their Tweets are 100% public. They forget that people search Twitter for their own names and brands. And they forget that responses are public, too. Enter Aimee Mann, an…
Are You Alienating the Color Blind?
Up to 10% of males have trouble navigating your site. Scary, right? It may not be true if you’re using colors with color blindness usability in mind. But most designers ignore this huge segment of the population. And color blind…
10 Reasons Why I Prefer the Miva Merchant Shopping Cart
I have been working with Miva Merchant for over seven years as a user, a consultant, and now as owner of MerchantTutorials.com, a Miva Merchant Flash Video Tutorial site and Miva Merchant Educational Partner. Why do I prefer Miva Merchant…
Automated Twitter App Spam Solution
As my previous post describes, I get irritated by any sort of Twitter automation. Well, I concede that there are some robots that are helpful, like IMDB’s cool movie update bot. But you have to follow them to get the…
20 Ways To Get the Most From Your Independent Consultant
Website Magazine‘s next issue will have an article I wrote about getting the most from independent consultants. It’s an abridged version. The full article is available as a free eBook here.
3 Tips to Improve Your Online Store’s Checkout
Several years ago my son, David, and I created a customized one page checkout system for the Miva Merchant ecommerce platform that we named Pimp My Checkout (PMC). Cool name, not so great idea, it turned out. Many site owners…
Domain squatters, bane of the Internet
I own stayinkauai.com, but I would love a shorter domain. So I went to DirectNIC to see if there were any interesting kauai-dot-something extensions available. You can see the results here. Every single kauai-dot-extension (except 2 China ones) is taken…
Chuck Lasker
Kauai, Hawaii-based Certified Inbound Marketing Professional & consultant, writer, public speaker, Shih Tzu owner, happy husband for 29 years.
