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s02e03 Miss Pivot talks about their new book Fire Cupid @misspivot

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Today I talk with Joshua Mitchell and Kevin Emmons of MissPivot about their release of their new Interactive Book Fire-Cupid. You can find Fire Cupid in the AppStore and Amazons App Store.

s2e2 Chris Zelenak of @FastestForward

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Today I talked with Chris Zelenak (@netshade) who's a developer and partner of FastestForward, a development shop in Broadripple who's done some amazing work with products like Words With Friends and Hanging with Friends.

s2e01 Interview with Max Yoder and @Quipol

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000

Yes my friends, Season 2 has finally started! In this episode I talk with Quipol's founder Max Yoder. Max is a 23 year old who's absolutely crushing it in Indianapolis.

#29 How to Podcast, Part 2 with @jaredbrown

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Continuing our conversion from part 1 of how to make a podcast, Talentopoly.com's founder Jared Brown and I talk about what it takes to create a podcast. Go independant media!

#28 How to Podcast w/ guest @JaredBrown. Part 1.

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Ever thought of creating your own online radio show? To be heard? To promote your own brand or company? Listen to Talentopoly's creator Jared Brown and I talk about what it takes to get a podcast up and running.

#27 Chris Vannoy and Montabe.com – @chris_vannoy

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:30:00 +0000

How do you build a startup and still maintain a full time job? Listen to my conversation with Chris Vannoy about his startup Montabe, a photo submission service for newspapers to find out. Montabe is a photo submission platform that allows corporations to accept pictures via email, mms, twitter, facebook and more.

#26 Randy Stocklin, creating an eCommerce empire. @randystocklin

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:30:19 +0000

How do you go from being a developer to running multiple successful online stores? Listen to Indianapolis' own Randy Stocklin tell his story of launching One Click Ventures. Between 2006-2009 Randy has grown One Click's revenue over 2,000%.

#25 The Tyros, let the games begin! @theTyros

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:00:00 +0000

How do three friends go from an idea to launching a business and getting some killer PR in only a few months? Listen to this interview with The Tyros to find out. On this July 4th episode we talk with Josh Koch, Tony Monteleone and Kyle Armstrong about their new startup that’s going to change the face of Officiating.

#24 Kyle Lacy, Social Media Kung-fu Master Interview. @kyleplacy

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:30:00 +0000

How do you create a national social media brand and non-profit digital agency? Listen to Kyle Lacy tell his story to find out. Kyle was named Young Alumni of the Year from Anderson University, Forty-under-40 by the IBJ and Young Entrepreneur of the Year by Tech Point. He's also the author of Twitter Marketing for Dummies and Branding Yourself.

#23 Bill Corbin, the original Indianapolis Entrepreneur. Fathers Day Interview.

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:00:53 +0000

How does a young entrepreneur pivot from selling peep holes door-to-door, to creating a local magazine that turns in to Angie’s List? Listen to my interview with Bill Corbin (my dad) on this Fathers Day edition of 8iFY. My dad and I also talk about our adventures trying to work together, and how as an entrepreneur you’ll lose your [...]

Whore IT Up – Free Audiobook

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:30:00 +0000

No show this week due to a killer vacation in Gulf Shores Alabama. Instead here's an audio reading of my short book Whore It Up - the Developers Guide to Shameless Promotion.

#22 How to build a community for technologists, with Jared Brown @jaredbrown

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:30:00 +0000

How did a resume / job search platform pivot to be a exclusive members only community for developers and designers? Jared Brown and I talk about his journey building Talentopoly.com, and his long term goal of creating a sustainable and easy to manage online business. Mentioned in this episode Code Monkeys At Work – Jarred’s [...]

#21 Doug Karr, International Man of Marketing. @douglaskarr

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:00:00 +0000

How does someone with almost no cash start a business that in less than 2 years serves companies in virtually every country? Listen to DK New Media's founder Douglas Karr tell his story of jumping the corporate ship to create a new world digital agency.

#20 Indianapolis Startup Attorney – with Brian Powers @indyattorney

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:32:52 +0000

How does a pre-bubble dotcomer go from running a successful job board network, to be being on of Indianapolis' premiere startup attorneys? Listen to my conversation with Brian Powers and find out

#19 How @Grabachat is one upping Chatroulette. Interview with Zach Zuber.

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:30:18 +0000

How many of you know of Chatroulette? How many of you have used Chatroulette? How many of you STILL use Chatroulette? You want to know why? One word, penises. Grabachat is the solution. Grabachat is a face-to-face social networking site that connects people with similar interest, hobbies and experiences.

#18 How can a full time developer start a business by himself? Travis Ryan and @WeeBehave

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 16 May 2011 10:30:00 +0000

In this interview I talk with WeeBehave's CEO Travis Ryan about how he created his idea, got started and got some great PR - all by his lonesome. Indianapolis' WeeBehave helps parents and teachers keep track of their children/students progress in behaviors and chores. Now Travis is looking for a co-founder to take WeeBehave to the next level and dominate the education market.

#17 Make money coding with @AdamTal and @Binarypress

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:00:00 +0000

How do you turn your code in to cash? In this Interview I talk with Binpress.com‘s Marketing leader Adam Tal. You’ll hear how Adam got his start making money online, creating revenue generating machines and landing at Binpress.com, a new source code market place that’s going to make a lot of good coder a lot [...]

Make money online, for real. 3 online services that pay.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Making money online schemes have turned in to some of the biggest scams on the internet. Most claims are flat out lies in order to fool consumers in to buying some book, crappy software or video tutorials. Today I offer a handful of methods to actually make money online. Sure these services won’t afford you a [...]

13 sweet ass web tools & resources for web developers

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:30:33 +0000

Google Hosted jQuery. Use Google’s hosted version to save bandwidth and decrease page load. Packer by Dean Edwards. Take that huge ass Javascript file and compress it! ProCSSor. Make that ugly CSS beautiful. JSON Formatter. Makes JSON pretty. YQL Console. Build Yahoo Query Language for quick JSON or XML from mashup data. PHP Snippets. Bunch [...]

#16 The rise and fall of Appendant Marketing [podcast]

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:57:03 +0000

Mark Anderson and I relive our experiences launching Appendant Marketing Group, a personalized direct marketing agency. We candidly cover: Meeting at TruStar Solutions. Leaving Enfront to launch our first product RecruitCard. The pain and excitement of building an company, office and hiring 15 people. An accidental firing. Generating $1.2 million in sales in our first year. Promoting your business using conferences for virtually free. Raising $350,000. Growing big egos and more! Not selling when we should.

#15 Alan Wlasuk [podcast]

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:00:49 +0000

Alan is one of the founders of WDD, Inc. an Indianapolis based software testing / development firm, he has also rocking technology longer than most of you have been alive. In this weeks show, Alan and I talk about his journey from being an AT&T intrepreneurial to launching a new WDD spin off called 403 Web Security - launching later this month (april 2011). 403, will focus on secure web app development and website security scanning.

Vintage Apple Commercials

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:00:00 +0000

1994 Power Macintosh Apple Cube Commercial 2000 Powermac vs. Intel Then Apple went in Intel. PowerBook – early 90′s Corporate Mac The greatest commercial ever aired

4 helpful WordPress hacks

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Add the following functionality to your WordPress blog by coping and pasting any of the snippets directly in to your Themes function.php file. Add Browser Type to Body Class Helpful for creating browser specific styling. function browser_body_class($classes) { // A little Browser detection shall we? $browser = $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_USER_AGENT' ]; // Mac, PC ...or Linux [...]

#14 Bad ass online business models with co-host @MuhammadInc

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:30:00 +0000

Mohammad Yasin and I talk about some great online business models. Like: Rock Melt, Angry Birds, Dino Dash, CraftSquach, Moki.TV, Learnable.com, Flippa.com, Evernote and Raidious.com

How much to pay per click. estimating your EPC.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

It’s important to know how much you can spend in online advertising (Google AdWords, Facebook Ads) and still come out net positive. To do this you’ll need to calculate the EPC (earnings per click) for a given offer. Story Time: Let’s say you’re promoting an ebook called “Billy Bob’s guide to Goat Milking” as an affiliate. [...]

Boxee or Roku for Internet TV.

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Since 2003 I’ve been an avid consumer of television and movies over the internet. Over the years, consuming online video content on a Television has become much easier thanks to companies like Roku, Boxee and even Google. But with any new market, picking the best solution can be a bit confusing. Boxee Box I’ve been [...]

#13 Yaw Aning co-founder of Pocket Tales #podcast

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:00:00 +0000

In this episode of the 8iFY Podcast, I interview Yaw Aning the co-founder of Indianapolis startup PocketTales. PocketTales is an online social gaming platform for children – built around reading books. They got their start at the first StartupWeekend in Indianapolis, and had a chance to present at SXSW in 2010. Also mentioned in this episode: [...]

#12 How 8iFY is (or isn’t) making IT money.

Brandon Corbin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:08:10 +0000

This weeks podcast covers how the last 3 months of the 8iFY experiment have been. I started 8iFY to test different ideas in making money online, and to share those results with the readers / listeners. In this episode I talk about what has been working and what hasn’t.

Mobile Porn – 5 frameworks for building your next mobile app.

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:55:02 +0000

Mobile, mobile, mobile is the new location, location, location. Your product / website needs to work on mobile devices. When I say work, I mean transform for the device the user is … usering. Also, just having the full blown website scaled down on the tiny screen doesn’t cut the mustard . Luckily, there are [...]

#11. A few of my favorite things. With guest co-host @dougrowe72

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Doug Rowe and I talk about a few of my favorite products and services in a pseudo-Oprah style, minus giving things away. MacBook Pro, DropBox, Audible, My Daughter, Kim Crawford, Brewhouse, Roku, Netflix, Hulu, Dexter, Amazon Prime, GarageBand, GetClicky, Prycast and [shameless plug] JobExpose podcast.

How to make money developing with the DocRaptor API

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:00:00 +0000

DocRaptor is a killer new web service that makes generating BEAUTIFUL PDFs as easy as writing HTML. The raptor also does Excel Documents, however for the purpose of this post I’m going to focus purely on the PDF side of things. Many many years ago, I started a PDF Book Printing service called PrintFu and [...]

The 8iFY Pivot

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:50:33 +0000

I wanted to share some changes I’ll be making to 8IFY over the next few weeks. I’ve been absolutely ecstatic with the traffic, the response and the outreach of the 8iFY readers and listeners – however, I need to make some changes to the 8iFY format in order to maintain my sanity, which is fragile [...]

5 places to teach your kids how to program.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Back when I was a kid, we had very limited access to technology and if you really wanted to do something great with a computer, you had to code it out yourself. Now that kids today have access to virtually anything they want to do – online, I have a feeling that there will be [...]

50+ killer Premium WordPress themes for $39.

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Building a blogging platform is incredibly easy thanks to WordPress 3.0′s Multi-Site feature. I’m using this feature to power my corporate podcasting platform (work in progress). I wanted to be able to offer my clients a bunch of unique themes to choose from, but wasn’t happy with any of the “free” themes available in the [...]

#10 Miss Pivot on the 8iFY Podcast. The Science of Dating.

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Today I spoke with Joshua Mitchell and Kevin Emmons the creators of new killer new startup in Indianapolis called Miss Pivot. Here's how MissPivot.com explains it:

Lion tastes good! Sneak peak at the next Mac OS.

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:11:32 +0000

I’ve been using Macs since 1984, some might even say that I’m an Apple fan boy. Call me what you will, I just simply love a good experience with technology. I’ve been through the good times and the bad (OS 9 anyone?), but I have to say – it looks like Apple has, once again, [...]

Talentopoly, a new private network for sharing the best links. [guest post]

Ryan Cox — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:07:32 +0000

Talentopoly aims to be the private network where talented people go to share the best links. Plain and simple. Founder Jared Brown wanted to create a network that made his time finding quality stuff to read easier. The fact is that most developers, designers and IT professionals aren’t the most socially aware of the Internet [...]

8iFY Podcast now on your Dashboard [mac widget]

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:29:10 +0000

Want to get the 8iFY Podcast delivered to your Mac’s Dashboard? Damn Skippy, now you can. I shouldn’t have to say this, but I will; this will only work with Macs. After downloading the file above, if your browser does not automatically “unzip” it – then double click on the file. Once you see the [...]

#9 Matt Hunckler on the 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:30:00 +0000

Matt Hunckler is a non-stop startup adventurist and the driving force behind the hugely popular Indianapolis Startup meetup known as Verge (formerly known as Hackers and Founders). Matt is the Chief Evangelist of Repurify.com and is the Director of Marketing for Slingshot SEO. You can follow Matt on Twitter @hunckler Repurify sells pure, non-toxic beauty [...]

Friday’s mind bending joy with Bobby McFerrin and an audience [video]

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:00:15 +0000

I’m a huge fan of musicians who are also brilliant; and Bobby McFerrin is one of my favorites. In 2009 Bobby was part of the World Science Festival where he showed the power of our collective musical talents and the pentatonic scale by turning the audience in an impromptu piano.

10 amazing book to get pumped about business.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Here are 10 of my favorite business books I read in 2010. Flash Foresight by Daniel Burrus and John Mann Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook Multipliers by Greg McKeown and Liz Wiseman Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook The Referral Engine by John Jantsch Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook The [...]

4 more bad ass WordPress Plugins

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Here are 4 more WordPress plugins that I love and use on 8iFY. Auto SytnaxHighlighter If you ever include Code Snippets in to your blog posts, then Auto Syntax Highlighter is a must have. This great plugin will automatically format your code into a pretty and colorful format. Currently Auto SyntaxHighlighter supports: AppleScript, ActionScript3, Bash/shell, C#, [...]

Getting started with an Affiliate Program for your products or services.

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Let me ask you this, how much more money would you be able to make if you had 1,000 sales and online marketing people working for you? And what if they required no benefits, no salary, no expense account and no training? And, what if you only had to pay them every time they actually [...]

#8 Doug Rowe take 2 on the 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

In this episode of the 8iFY Podcast we talk again with Doug Rowe. The feedback from last weeks podcast was so high that we decided to continue our conversations and expands on some of the recruiting tips and suggestions for job seekers and companies. I’d like to apologize for the audio quality on this podcast, I was [...]

6 software products worth buying. What are you favorites?

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000

I really don’t like paying for software. Many times I will spend 10 hours writing my own software simply to avoid paying the $30 for someone else’s. Yes, this is stupid and ends up costing me more than If I would have just bought the product in the first place. That being said, I wanted [...]

Embed a Mailchimp form in to your Facebook Fan Page.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Do you use Mailchimp and have a Facebook Fan Page? Then follow along to learn how to get more subscribers using this great little Facebook App. First off you’re going to need to install the Application FBML to your Fan Page. FBML allows you to simply include HTML directly in to a tab on your [...]

Create an ebook (without writing or designing) for only $360.

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:30:00 +0000

eBooks might seem passé, but I assure you they are a great way to get more sign ups for your mailing list, to drive traffic to affiliate links or drive more people to your website. I used my eBook Whore IT Up, as a freebie if people signup for the 8iFY Mailing list. While this [...]

Make money online with a targeted Marketplace [wordpress]

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:00:00 +0000

In my never ending quest to generate cash from this blog, I decided to build a marketplace where individuals and companies could actively promote their goods and services for a small fee. So far the results are looking very promising. In addition to allowing people to place ads in the marketplace, I also will give [...]

Do you listen to Podcasts? [poll]

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:09:57 +0000

As you might know, I’ve been doing the 8iFY Podcast for about a month now; so far the results have been outstanding and the listenership continues to double every episode. That being said, I wanted to get an idea of how you, my beautiful readers, use podcasts – if at all. So let me know [...]

How to get kicked in the nuts by the Google Adwords Team.

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:30:00 +0000

I logged in to my AdWords account the other morning only to find a big red box that yelled “Your Google AdWords account has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of AdWords or Landing Page and Site policies in this or a related account”. Ain’t that a bitch?! The other night I setup two AdWord [...]

#7 Doug Rowe, Founder of ProfyleTracker. 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Today on the 8iFY Podast we talk with Doug Rowe the founder of ProfyleTracker an Indianapolis based Recruiting company and the first sponsor of the 8iFY Podcast! Doug is not only a great friend, but one of the most agreesive and relentless recruiting guys in the US. During the podcast we talk about how Doug [...]

Fanimation Sponsorship Outtakes 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 23:48:50 +0000

Here’s the latest outtakes from the newest sponsor of the 8iFY Podcast, Indianapolis based Fanimation. Honestly, you’ve never seen fans like this before. Check them out at Fanimation.com or Follow them on Twitter @Fanimation The mere fact that Fanimation and it’s president (Nathan) allowed these outtakes to be aired, show the type of progressive business [...]

The right way to attack @StartupWeekend #swindy

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:30:00 +0000

Last November was my first StartupWeekend in Indianapolis. I’m happy to say my crew StatsSquared won in Indy, won in the US and came in 2nd globally. Not bad for a 32 hour blitz. If you’re planning on doing StartupWeekend this April; then this post is to offer how I’d do things a little differently, [...]

#6 Kristian Andersen on the 8iFY Podcast @kristianindy

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Kristian Andersen @kristianindy In this 8iFY Podcast I interviewed the energetic and powerful Kristian Andersen. One of Indianapolis’ startup mavens who continually promotes and impacts the Indianapolis Startup Scene. Kristian works with entrepreneurs and business leaders to design compelling brand experiences, create new business models, and innovate new products and services. Kristian’s clients range from venture-funded start-ups to established [...]

Make money online by finding a niche, creating an email list and building a landing page. [members only]

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:59:00 +0000

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Drive Traffic Without Google.

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:19:08 +0000

Apparently Google doesn’t like the idea of people learning how to drive traffic to their website WITHOUT Google. Usually Google will display”Did you mean:” when you misspell something – but in this instance, if you search Google for “Drive Traffic Without Google” – they suggest Drive Traffic WITH Google. Now that Google has suspended my AdWords [...]

How to build a smart Zombie Twitter Account

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:05:00 +0000

This tutorial will show you how to "combine" a ton of different blogs in to a single Twitter account. Unlike the Zombie blog, this Zombie will send traffic to the original blog posts, thus giving the authors more traffic. Need proof that this works? Check out @locosocial and @use_this - both of which are powered by this technique.

Mac and WordPress user? 3 reasons you need MarsEdit.

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0000

MarsEdit is an amazing Mac App that takes your WordPress writing and publishing, out of the browser. It also works with Tumblr, Hosted WordPress.com and a bunch of other publishing platforms. Why would you want to write posts outside of WordPress’ interface? Well here are just a few of the reasons I use it exclusively: Copy [...]

#5 Jeremy Dearringer The Search Deity – @slingshot_seo on the 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Today I had the pleasure of talking with Jeremy Dearringer, the deity of search and co-founder of SlingShot SEO. Simply put, Jeremy’s knowledge of search is unparalleled in the search market. Slingshot is the one of the most impressive SEO company in the US who’s pulling in close to $1mil a month in revenue. During [...]

Make money building a hosted LESS Service (CSS) [idea]

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:00:00 +0000

LESS is a technique that makes CSS insanely more powerful, using Variables, Mixins, Operations and Nested Rules. It does this by incorporating a little server side code and is available for virtually all popular development platforms. If you’re looking for a new product to generate a little money on the side, this type of service [...]

How much do you like your Technology job? [poll]

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:54:06 +0000

Love your job or hate you job? Whats your overall job satisfaction?

How to make a simple API for almost any website.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:30:00 +0000

YQL (Yahoo Query Language) is one of my favorite tools for grabbing content from other websites. It’s completely free, scalable and opens up a whole new world of data. In this quick tutorial I’ll show you how to grab the latest plugins submitted to WordPress.org’s Plugin Directory and return the results as a clean XML [...]

7 WordPress Plugins I love and use on 8iFY

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0000

I’m a WordPress junky and obsess about great WordPress plugins, so today I wanted to share 7 plugins I religiously rely on to make 8iFY hum. After the Deadline by Raphael Mudge (download) I’m obviously not a master of the written word, but thanks to After the Deadline I can easily identify clichés, passive voice and many [...]

Authenticity: 3 Lessons for Selling Yourself – by Jesse Kurth @jkurth

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:30:00 +0000

In our world of anonymity, it’s extremely tempting to be dishonest to make money online – and truth be told, you can make money by being dishonest and inauthentic, but it doesn’t sustain and will bite you in the ass in the long run. In this Guest Post, Jesse Kurth covers 3 lessons about being [...]

What’s your favorite web programming language? [poll]

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:30:00 +0000

You're stranded on a desert island and can only program in one language for the rest of your life - what would it be?

#4 Dre Armeda on the 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:30:00 +0000

Today’s interview is with WordPress aficionado Dre Armeda. Dre is the founder of Sucuri, a website security monitoring service and CubicTwo an enterprise WordPress development shop in San Diego. You can find him on Linked, Twitter and his personal blog at Dre.im. Dre also co-found WPVibe a resource blog for everything WordPress. Dre is a proud [...]

4 Steps to increase your geek cred for the non-geek [tip]

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Remember when the word Geek used to have a negative connotation? My friends, those days are long gone! Now it’s chic to be geek! If you happen to be an 8iFY reader and aren’t the most technically savvy; this post is written just for you! Here’s 4 easy steps that will dramatically improve your geek [...]

How My Mobi Manager got a piece of the MailChimp $1,000,000 Integration Fund. By @NickiLaycoax

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:30:00 +0000

MailChimp Integration With My Mobi Manger – Our Application Process. By Nicki Laycoax. On November 18, 2010, MailChimp announced that they were launching a $1M Integration Fund to assist developers interested in integrating their software product with MailChimp’s email newsletter system. Since we have been a fan of MailChimp for a while, and there are so [...]

How to keep yourself blogging. [tips]

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:00:00 +0000

I’m an awful writer, I know this and I accept this; yet I still do it. See, I have a mild case of dyslexia and a major case of the “shiny object syndrome“. I have the attention span of a field mouse and I get bored rather easily. All of these weaknesses usually don’t add [...]

How to make money online with a Stickers Business [idea]

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Stickers are an amazing product to sell online. They’re easy to ship, they cost little to produce and hell, everyone loves a good sticker. So listen closely and act fast because what I’m about to share will contain ideas and names that won’t be around for long. Domains available for a Sticker Business DarkSticker.com StickerPrank.com [...]

#3 Michael Cloran the God Father of Technology. 8iFY Podcast.

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:31:46 +0000

Tonight I was officially blown away by Michael Cloran, the now official God Father of Indianapolis Technology. Early in his career Michael launched the #1 ISP (according to CNET) in Chicagoland that was later sold for a boat load of money. Afterwards he has launched companies like Interactions, Giggil, DeveloperTown and more. This Interview will [...]

How to name a Business or Product [download]

Brandon Corbin — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:00:00 +0000

By no means do I claim to be a product naming expert, but I can tell you that I’ve saved a ton of money by not paying a branding agency to come up with my names; and for the most part they all have passed the sniff test. For example: DigitalGood.me, MemeCard.com, Print(fu), Listy.me, Sutra.biz, [...]

5 ways to fall in love with Rejection [whore it up]

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

The following is an excerpt from my eBook Whore It Up that you can get for free by signing up for the 8iFY Newsletter (look right). “I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle  in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” – Sylvester Stallone “Through my illness I learned [...]

#2.5 8iFY Podcast – My Life by Brandon Corbin #nsfw

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:46:25 +0000

Here’s my first take at a podcast by myself. I hope that this helps people get to know a little more about me, or at least help my ego grow a little bit. This short podcast is basically me rambling about my life and why I built 8iFY. Love it or leave it, but be [...]

Part 2: How to sell products online [ecommerce]

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Part 2 of “Selling online” consists of getting your products listed so people can buy your goodies. If you missed Step 1 I suggest you read “How the hell do I find products to sell online” first. Most people don’t think about the amount of time and money required to move from one eCommerce platform to [...]

Track your website’s impact with Hubspot: Part 2

Caleb — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:47:57 +0000

In the last post, we looked at using Hubspot to analyze our website’s pages, inbound links, and keyword opportunities. In this post, we’ll see how Hubspot provides us with a wealth of information about people once they’ve gotten to our site. Prospecting In my opinion, this is one of the most valuable pieces of Hubspot. [...]

Part 1: How to find products to sell online.

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

This is the first part of the series “How the hell to start selling online” where we will cover how to find physical products to start selling. Chances are you’ve had fantasies of running your own online store; a business that doesn’t need a physical store front and sells easily shipped products. In our first podcast James [...]

8 PHP Video Tutorials for Beginners

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:00:00 +0000

What to start learning PHP? Here are 8 great starter tutorials I found on YouTube. PHP Overview Basic Math Functions IF Else For Loop Do Loop While Loop Array Parameters in Functions

20 things Google says they won’t let you advertise with AdWords

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Each time I launch a new AdWords campaign, it seems a complete crapshoot whether it’s accepted or not. If you’ve had similar problems, this blog post is for you. Here are 20 things Google thinks are EVIL and will disapprove on AdWords (maybe): How to Spam AdWords. Imagine that, Google doesn’t want you to share your [...]

Making CSS dynamic with LESS [video]

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:09:06 +0000

LESS was originally a ruby gem for Ruby on Rails that made CSS significantly more dynamic. Now there’s been ports in PHP, Javascript, and even .NET. None-the-LESS (pun intended), it’s worth checking out! This could change the way you write CSS foreva!

#2 Jon Arnold Truckin’ 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:00:00 +0000

In today's Podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Arnold, a usability expert and Indianapolis entrepreneur who owns and runs the Tuitive a user interface and design company and FunnelBug a sales and lead management tool.

11 bad PHP developers who make more money online than you.

Brandon Corbin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Most of these “programmers” are completely talentless douche bags that couldn’t hold a stick to you; and yet they sell a lot more code than you do. What makes them different is their ability to Whore It Up and get their products in to the hands of marketers. Remember that making money online almost never has to do [...]

How to be a great JavaScript and jQuery Developer [video]

Brandon Corbin — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:19:23 +0000

Microsoft employee Damian Edwards (won’t hold that against him!) gives a great 50 minute long coding demo covering the fundamentals of Javascript as it relates to jQuery. Damian covers things like Javascript Functions, Objects, scopes and closures, CSS selectors, events and jQuery animation.

How to track your websites impact with HubSpot.

Caleb — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:54:39 +0000

First part of a series covering how to understand your websites impact, by guest blogger Caleb Tennis of Data Cave. As part of our marketing plans for 2011 at Data Cave, we wanted to develop a better understanding of our online presence and its impact in the market. Like many businesses, we have a website [...]

The Mac Store is Open For business! [screenshots]

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:32:54 +0000

Cocoa developers, it’s time to put your business caps on. Now that the Mac App Store is open for business, you have a completely new market that I predict will make a lot of developers a lot of money. You will need to run your Software Update and ensure you’re running Mac OS X 10.6.6. [...]

How to build an evil automated zombie blog for advertising revenue

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

What’s an Evil Automated Zombie Blog? Glad you asked! It’s when you leverage RSS feeds to automatically create blog posts from other blogs and news sources. These sites are good for generating traffic from Google, and can run without you every having to create a single real blog post. After a short period of time, [...]

How much money did Android’s Advanced Task Killer make? [chart]

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:00:00 +0000

Arron La, the developer of the Android based Advanced Task Killer, shared exactly how much money he made for both his paid version and free version of his app. While these results will not be typical (he was one of the first paid apps released in the Android Market), it should give you some idea [...]

7 ways to get more comments on your blog posts

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

When people see that a blog post has a lot of comments, they naturally assume that the post is valuable - regardless of it’s true value. If a blog post has 0 comments, then what does that say? It might be pretty obvious that comments are a great way to help your readers become more engaged with your [...]

Why you should consider using evil popup boxes

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:00:00 +0000

Oh hell no, I’m not going there am I? You betcha! I’ve spent most of my career obsessing about usability and building user friendly websites and apps – and I am going to break one of my biggest no-no’s in order to achieve better results. The EVIL POPUP! There’s no doubt that you’ve seen my [...]

#1 James Paden 8iFY Podcast

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:30:47 +0000

Checkout our first episode where we interview Internet Entreprenuer James Paden. James has a handful of online properties that generate enough money online that he quit he full time job about a year and a half ago. If you’re a technologist who has been thinking about leaving your full time job to work on your own, [...]

How to grow your Twitter followers automatically

Brandon Corbin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0000

I’m a huge fan of TweetAdder and use it virtually every second of the day; well not really use it, it just runs… Check out the this overview to see how I use it to automatically grow my Twitter followers. If you’re managing multiple accounts, or simply want to get your Twitter numbers up without [...]

The only free WordPress Backup Solution you’ll ever need.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:49:29 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to Automatic WordPress Backup; the solution that will backup your entire WordPress installation and saves it offsite to an Amazon S3 account. Unlike most backup plugin, Automatic WordPress Backup backs up Plugins, Themes, Uploads and your entire Database. I REALLY wish this free wordpress backup plugin was around when I wrote my [...]

How WordPress Designers can make more money.

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:30:00 +0000

Do you know how to design a WordPress Themes, or know someone that does? This technique is a great way to generate anywhere between $500 and $4,500 a pop without having to deal with too much client BS. There are a lot of businesses that use WordPress for their corporate sites. Most of them either are [...]

Getting insanely targeted traffic [with Facebook Ads].

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0000

You know that little site called Facebook? Yea, that one. Well you might not know that it’s not just for hooking up with old high school sweethearts, or stalking your spouse. Nope, Facebook is also an incredible marketplace that can help you make a boat load of money, ok maybe a small boat, but at [...]

How to get a physical address [tip]

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:33:21 +0000

Google gives websites with a physical address a better rank. MailChimp and other Email Service Providers require a physical address to comply with the CAN-SPAM laws. People feel more confident about websites that display a physical address. So what’s a geek to do? Go get a P.O. Box from your local Post Office; expect to [...]

Make money with Listy.me and Amazon Affiliate.

Brandon Corbin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0000

I built Listy.me last year as a little experiment using Amazon SimpleDB. Surprisingly, Listy boasts a PageRank of 5 and still is completely untapped. Listy is a simple web app that let people create “amazon shopping lists” and share them quickly. It doesn’t have accounts, there’s no registration, nothing but a focus on building the [...]

Using Google Adwords and Amazon to create an automatic revenue stream

Brandon Corbin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0000

Synopsis Tons of people search Google for products they want to buy right now – so we need to get an Ad in front of them, so we can collect the affiliate link. Technique Find what products people are searching for. Find the best selling versions of said product on Amazon. Create an Ad that [...]

Create a free email newsletter for your blog using MailChimp

Brandon Corbin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:00:00 +0000

MailChimp is by far my favorite email management platform. Not only are they funny, their interface is super clean, super friendly, and best of all THEY OFFER FREE email marketing for a list of up-to 1,000 members and 6,000 emails a month. So quit wasting time and signup for a free account – so we [...]

How to make money with Twitter, Yahoo Pipes & Amazon Affiliate

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:00:00 +0000

In this tutorial, we’ll cover a method I use to generate traffic to Amazon Products using only Twitter. This is a technique I have been perfecting over the last year, and so far the results are generating around $100 a month. Sure it’s nothing to call home about, but it’s enough to cover my monthly [...]

Don’t build the next twitter

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:18:03 +0000

“Formspring doesn’t make any money, and it isn’t worrying about it much yet.” - Ade Olonoh CEO of Formspring.me. I think the world of Ade and Formspring, but I believe the decade of “build a huge user base and we’ll make money later” is coming to an end – and Formspring just might be the last company [...]