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Even More Facebook Advertising Coupons

After hearing about so many Facebook Advertising coupons out there I decided to make a master list with all of the ones I could find.

Screenshot Source: Baldizzle.com

1st Coupon Code ($50): T5V6-1JKV-TNH9-2MRH
2nd Coupon Code ($50): 2JXY-WTFK-72Y0-VJ6Y
3rd Coupon Code ($100): For the this one you have to sign up for the Visa Business Network Facebook App

If you use all three coupons you get $2o0 free!
 
I’m sure you all know how to use them, just go into your account and then billing, and then funding sources.  Sometimes I have problems when it asks you for a password though.  I always type in the right one but it says I got it wrong.

Just reset your password through their system and you should be good to go.

Later,
Nick

EDIT: Found a fourth one for $50: I’ll throw it up here, but as a favor I would really appreciate it if you subscribed to my feed! (Here’s the code: R1X5-0NH7-5FXW-5YEC)

SEO Cartoon Quiz

Saw this on Super Affiliate Mindset… got an 80%. Not even sure what that means. Maybe it means I’m good at matching phrases to a picture? You’ll know what I mean if you take the quiz.

Give it a try and see if you can beat my score!

Nick

Top Five Free Wordpress Theme Sites

I spent a little bit of time today researching some good places to find GOOD free Wordpress themes. The keyword there is “good”. I see so many bad Wordpress themes used over and over again so I thought I would put together a list some of the places I go to for some good free Wordpress themes.

I originally was going to post individual themes, but found there are already other posts doing the same. So I just linked to those ones!

Ok here comes the list, in order from my favorite to least favorite.

1. Just skins
2. “100 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes”
3. Skinpress
4. Top Wordpress Themes
5. WPzone.net

Here are the additions! More will be added as found or received.

1. Best Wordpress Themes

If you know of any others I should add to the list let me know!

Nick

edit: I thought I would give the rich text editor another chance, but it failed miserably…

RE: Getting the Party Started

“Cow has a point.”

I’m posting this in response to an interesting post Jon Cow made on his blog entitled “Getting the Party Started“. The original intent was to post this as a comment, but I decided it was just getting a little too lengthy. I also thought I could make use of the methods in his post.

This isn’t so much a response on the post itself, but something I thought goes right along with it that can’t be without mention.

When you have those 20 posts of awesome content and you are ready to start making your blog popular, I think there is one other huge aspect that you have to think about. What is it you say? Well it’s your design! I think to stand out in the blogging world you are going to not only need great content, but a good design that users can remember you by.

The look of the site is a pretty big deal for me. I never subscribe to blogs, I visit them every time. So even if the blogger’s content is A++, if the site sucks I might not be coming back. A prime example for me was Joel Comm’s old adsense littered blog. Even though I knew the content was decent, I never enjoyed coming back to the site because it only seemed like he was trying to make some cash. It really bothered me.

I think the quality of the design in part might also have an effect on how appealing the content looks to someone. i.e. A good design only makes the content sound even better. I have noticed that if I like a website’s design, I tend to indulge deeper into the content than I would normally do. I get hooked quickly on a good design, even despite what the site has to offer.

You do have to have some content though, this kind of goes back to one of my old posts “Getting people to read your blog“. A design is nice, but when all is said and done you still need something good to keep the reader engaged. This might not be so in certain cases, but in a blog you better believe it.

All in all, it takes a good combination of both content and design to make it in the long run. Great post Cow!

I dunno, just some thoughts. What do you think?

Nick

P.S. I hope it all makes sense, I just woke up and can barely think yet!

Managing Your Time and Productivity

So I came across this Mac App called “RescueTime“.  It allows you to track and publish data about what you are spending the most time doing while you are using your computer.  It helped me to realize that I need to cut down on the “Youtubing” and “Facebooking” and get to work!

You can keep your stuff private, otherwise you can make it public and even embed your data on your site.  Below I have my current usage stats on my computer.  It not only tracks just applications, but also websites you visit!  You can also tag everything and sort of organize and put stuff into categories. 

I highly recommend this app for those who have trouble getting to business, or even for those who are curious and want to see where their time is spent.

To be honest I didn’t get the app to save time, I just thought it sounded like something cool to try out.  So I did!

All in all I kind of realized i’d like to spend less time on the computer, and having more fun in real life (IRL ;)).  I also learned that I spend way too much time on sites like youtube and facebook.  If I were to cut down on the usage of those two sites, a lot of my time would be saved.

Nick

When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold

Don’t forget to pre-order Atmosphere’s new album “When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold“!

It’s going to be incredible.  Especially with the children’s book written by the man himself.

Nick

CSS diagnostics script

I recently found a really cool script comprised of 100% CSS that will check to make sure your css is valid. All you have to do is add this code to your current CSS file and it automatically highlights all of the possible code mistakes on the page.

/* Empty Elements */

div:empty, span:empty, li:empty, p:empty, td:empty, th:empty 

{ padding: 20px; border: 5px dotted yellow !important; }

/* Empty Attributes */

*[alt=""], *[title=""], *[class=""], *[id=""], a[href=""], a[href="#"] 

{ border: 5px solid yellow !important; }

/* Deprecated Elements */

applet, basefont, center, dir, font, isindex, menu, s, strike, u 

{ border: 5px dotted red !important; }

/* Deprecated Attributes */

*[background], *[bgcolor], *[clear], *[color], *[compact], *[noshade], *[nowrap], *[size], *[start], 

*[bottommargin], *[leftmargin], *[rightmargin], *[topmargin], *[marginheight], *[marginwidth], *[alink], *[link], *[text], *[vlink],

*[align], *[valign],

*[hspace], *[vspace],

*[height], *[width],

ul[type], ol[type], li[type]

{ border: 5px solid red !important; }

/* Proposed Deprecated Elements */

input[type="button"], big, tt 

{ border: 5px dotted #33FF00 !important; }

/* Proposed Deprecated Attributes */

*[border], a[target], table[cellpadding], table[cellspacing], *[name] 

{ border: 5px solid #33FF00 !important; }

For more information check out: http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.asp?PID=3

Take care,
Nick

Aim Spam, what the heck are we coming to?

As I just finished my last post I ended up getting “Aim Spammed”.  Have any of you others ever been spammed through AOL instant messenger before?

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binil muthu: 260k yahoo accounts ready for sale
binil muthu: 250k fresh yahoo acccounts are ready for sale, Please let me know if anyone need this
binil muthu: Jesus is not in tomb, He is risen (Matthew 28:6,Mark 16:6), and he said “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature”(Mark 16:15). Let us preach the Gospel to every creature to fulfill his word to make his second comming soon, May god bless you more in this Easter day, Wish you a happy Easter to you, Thanks Bi

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