Category: Review

  • Book reviews: Influence, Deadly Sunset, Ninja Apprentice

    I’ve had a chance to read more than a few books I’ve bought or received lately, and I owe those authors reviews, so let’s dig in. If it weren’t obvious, I’m stuffing this post with affiliate links to Amazon, too. Just so we understand each other. Mark W. Schaefer’s Return on Influence I enjoyed Mark’s…

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  • Unsolicited Review: Scrivener

    Way back when I was writing Marketing White Belt, I wanted a better writing tool. Evernote was and is a wonderful tool for writing shorter content (like this blog post) but for managing very large documents, it can get unwieldy, even with folders and groups and notebooks. I started looking around for a better writing…

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  • Unsolicited Review: Cloudflare

    About a month ago, Bryce Moore mentioned that he had gotten some good site speed improvements from Cloudflare, and recommended it. Being one of the smartest people I know, I trusted his recommendation and blindly installed it on my web site. The results have been spectacular. First, Cloudflare is a caching service. I call it…

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  • Recommendation: Anticipate Plugin for WordPress

    If it isn’t obvious from the multiple ads around the site, I’m both a fan and affiliate of Elegant Themes, Nick Roach’s great little development house. His most recent WordPress utility, Anticipate, is something worth talking about. If you’re in the middle of redeveloping a WordPress site (be it corporate, personal, whatever) and you want…

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  • Squeezing the webinar juice

    Do you ever ask these questions? What should I blog about? What should I be doing in social media? If I wanted to write a book, what should I write it about? How do I become a better public speaker? If the answer is yes, then your next step is a webinar on the topic…

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  • Recommended: Scarborough Fair Bed and Breakfast, Baltimore, MD

    Recommended: Scarborough Fair Bed and Breakfast, Baltimore, MD There are few places in the world of hospitality that I’d actually recommend. Most of the places I’ve stayed – and there have been many – were sufficient to be a place where I’d get some sleep and a bite to eat, but nothing else. Hotel chains…

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