He also told me that not only am I invited, but I also get to race. Oh snap. I have been thinking about which car do I want to pick? So many neat choices: Ferrari 458 Italia, Lamborghini Gallardo, Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren MP4, Audi R8 v10, Aston Martin Vantage S, Nissan GT-R, Mercedes SLS AMG, and Ferraro F430 F1. You guys help me pick please because I can really use your help here.

As you can imagine, this is a super exclusive event and only a small number of people are invited. All Phase Hosting is going to allow some of my friends to attend. If you’re at Affiliate Summit, and you love the idea of tearing up the Las Vegas Speedway Fast and Furious Style, then go here to apply for an invite.

Like always, Monday night is dk’s Affiliate poker tournament. Bring $50 to the Mirage poker room and play poker! Add ons and buy ins are allowed. I don’t really gamble, but I will be there to watch. The fun begins at 7:00pm at the Mirage poker room. All Phase Hosting is also buying BLT burgers for all attendees. If you are good with them chips, then definitely come hang out.

I look forward to seeing you guys there.

Not only it will cure boredom, but it will consistently conciliate curiosity.

With that idea a site was born. We snatched List25.com which was available to register. Put up a custom theme on it. Now we are just producing content.

One of the obstacles we ran into was that our twitter name was @list_25 rather than @list25…. but thankfully to my friends at twitter it worked out. Now we have @list25 on twitter. Follow us. Your support is what will keep us going.

First, they were all busy with customers (there were like 3)… I patiently waited until the store manager offered to assist me. I told him that I was looking for this laptop that they have for $499 on a SPECIAL, and I have a Staples coupon that will get me additional $100 OFF. Without even looking at the coupon, the manager told me that he has had multiple folks trying to use this coupon, and it is a fraudulent deal. Hmm OK. I said wait a minute, this coupon is not from a 3rd party vendor. It is actually from your own URL because I have it opened on my Android.

This is a fairly old store manager, and he didn’t understand me. He thought I was talking about the logo. He said that a lot of spammers put Staples logo on fake coupons. Then I told him again that I actually got the coupon from the Staples site. Apparently URL was too smart of the terminology. Well instead of dealing with me himself, he pushed me off to the assistant manager, so he can go chatter with the copier guy. The assistant manager wasn’t helpful either. He said, no the coupon is not valid. I don’t know what he entered on the screen, but he showed me the error saying “Coupon is Invalid”.

I hate wasting time, so I am already frustrated. So I just asked them why would their own site put out Invalid coupons that is suppose to start today. The guy said that is a good question… The manager jumps in the conversation again saying the coupon is fraudulent. So I asked him does Staples.com put out fraudulent coupons on their site… The response was “sometimes”… I think he didn’t understand what I was saying… I asked them to call corporate and asked, but they refused saying that they have a system that is here just for that, and the system is denying the code.

Anyways, I got the Corporate Customer Relations number, Store number, and the manager name. I came home and called the folks. Didn’t take this guy more than 2 minutes to locate the coupon and tell me that it is valid. I told him my issue, so he called the store manager. I was asked to pick up the order. I went in the store and asked for the manager. I suppose because of the embarrassment, he sent one of his employees to assist me rather than coming out himself.

If only he would’ve called the corporate in front of me, then he wouldn’t have to deal with that embarrassment. Also, I would’ve left as a happy customer.

Moral of the story, always make sure that you are doing everything from your end when providing customer service. If it requires you to spend 5 extra minute, then spend the extra time. But make sure your customer is happy, and you are happy with the fact that you did everything to help.

So that is when I got the idea for WordPress/Blogging Coupons. We have a good enough audience of WordPress users / bloggers. We also have good connections with a lot of developers, theme designers, web hosts, other bloggers (authors), and other companies. So why don’t we combine the two and bring a quality resource for users that is also mutually beneficial for the businesses. Furthermore, the power of the community always surpasses the efforts of one person, so this way if anyone else finds a deal going around, then they can submit the coupon.

Our editorial staff will review it, and publish it on the site. If it is a kick-ass deal, then it would be emailed out to those who don’t visit the site as often. As I came up with the idea, I am like, “Now that’s what I am talking about”.

So I started jotting down notes, competition, ideas, and everything else that I wanted the site to have. Now because we are using Genesis as the framework, we didn’t need to work that much. We already have the child theme for WPBeginner Gallery. So, we just based the coupons theme off on the gallery child theme and made few modifications. Ofcourse, Gravity Forms made life even easier in terms of creating coupon submission forms.

What took so long is my nit-picking… I wanted to try like 10 different ways before I can agree on one. Well, so there we have it.

A one stop shop for WordPress and Blogging Coupons. Use it, but don’t abuse it

If you have feedbacks for me, then please let me know. As I am always up for improving the way I do things. Because this is very experimental, I will post another update on how this site is going as it is fully integrated within the WPBeginner main site.

I want to offer you an opportunity to get listed in our gallery. What do you need? A custom design or highly modified premium / free theme, and the site has to be powered by WordPress (DO’H)

What do you get in return? A do-follow link from our gallery for FREE.

What the heck are you waiting for? Go Submit your site to our WordPress Gallery

With the Facebook like buttons, facebook has been dominating the web. At least for WPBeginner, it has become the second highest source of traffic surpassing Twitter. From my knowledge, it has surpassed twitter for a lot of my top blogger friends as well. Most blogs either have both the facebook like box and the like button, or one of the other. And when facebook went down few times this past two months, it created chaos on the web. Does that mean facebook is becoming dangerous? Are we feeding a giant that is unsustainable? Well I think so.

Not saying that I will stop using facebook because it will be a stupid business decision on my part, but I think facebook is onto ruling the web. It has already surpassed Google in terms of time spent on the site. I think with the new rumors of an email service, Facebook has a great chance of challenging GMAIL (that is only if they have a better search and organization feature).

Facebook gift cards are now on sale in Target, Best Buy, and Walmart. It still surprises me that there are morons who are buying fake products such as Birthday cakes on Facebook. I guess the line between meta physics of reality is just becoming very very thin. I think this aspect of Facebook business will grow not only on virtual products, but on tangible / digital goods as well. I can see facebook competing with eBay because their marketplace is so much better. I have sold tons of stuff for very decent prices on Facebook and I am very happy with it.

With the amount of sites now incorporating Facebook Connect, I think it is not too far away that facebook creates it’s own payment cart. I will use it if facebook doesn’t fluctuate it’s codes as much as they do now. It is equally beneficial for webmasters to use facebook because it is the largest membership site on the web, so almost everyone has an account there. If and only if facebook charges less fees than paypal, I can see paypal going byebye in the next 2-3 years. Because when is the last time you saw connect with Paypal option? I think Facebook connect is a very powerful feature, and it can put facebook as the head of the web.

Basically what I am saying here is that those facebook gift cards can be used to purchase tangible products if/when facebook adapts it’s own payment cart.

Facebook is working on making it’s photo galleries better, so good bye Flickr. I know quite a few people are pissed off with flickr because they ban accounts without any explanation. I think facebook can take over flickr and completely destroy it. If there was a way to embed Facebook photos in WordPress, I would get rid of my flickr right away.

Ladies and Gentleman, I see facebook dominating the web in the next two years. Should we be excited? Afraid? Will this be the Big Brother that we want to avoid?

What is BuySellAds?

BuySellAds is an ad management site that simplifies the entire process of managing and publishing advertisements on your website. Todd Garland, the founder of BuySellAds, created the website to simplify his job as both a buyer and publisher of ads. Todd has changed the face of advertising by adding a new level of transparency to buying and selling your ads.

Why should you use BuySellAds?

BuySellAds presents buyers with a buffet of choices, giving you easy access to the wide variety of ad slots. You can sort by traffic rating, impressions, or price to find the ad space that fits your needs. Publishers have the freedom to approve and deny any advertisers presented to them and enjoy ads that load faster than any comparable advertiser. On top of that, there are no up-front fees for publishers, you only pay when you get paid!

My Review

BuySellAds has been not only a fantastic supporter of Balkhis and WPBeginner, but has been a great way for myself and others to advertise with ease. I recommend that you check out BuySellAds and see what they can do for you today.

But no matter how big your photo is, you will always be able to say that you were in Fast Company magazine under the “Most Influential People”. They let you upload a picture of yours in which you can tag your brand right in there like I has on his photo.

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What does this mean?

From a marketing perspective, one of the best ways to earn credibility is to associate yourself with familiar brands. This makes it much easier to sell products. You can learn this from Nike (Air Jordan Brand). Associating a shoe with Michael Jordan made their sales go much higher than what it could have. You can use this opportunity to benefit your WordPress blog.

I already did for WPBeginner (See my Profile Here)

Well, I attended two WordCamps back to back this past two weekends. I was a speaker at both of these events. Everyone I met was awesome, and I had a great time.

WordCamp Raleigh 2010: How to Utilize Facebook and WordPress to build a more interactive community

WordCamp Fayetteville 2010: I’ve got a blog, Now What Do I DO?

Hope you guys will find these helpful.

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