I can’t wait to share this new traffic source with you! Check this out if you want to be first:

As you know I’ve been studying some of the Interenet Marketing BIG BOYS over the last year and applying what they have taught… and it works!

I will have more details over the next week… It’s still ssssshhhhhhh…  secret squirrell for now BUT….

If you want to be the first to see it then give us your details here and you’ll be on the MEGA Uber VIP list and be one of the CHOSEN ONES!

I’m excited! Can’t wait to show you!

Feel free to pass this on to your friends too!

How sick are you of all the crappy spam emails that you are bombarded with in your Wordpress site? This plugin is hands down the BEST spam protection on the planet! The plug in you need to install is called: Akismet and you can download it here: http://akismet.com/download/ OR the easiest way is to install it from within Wordpress.  I’ll show you the whole process in a sec. Once it’s installed you need to get an Akismet log in here: http://akismet.com/personal/ It only takes a couple seconds. Just insert your email address and your away. Watch this video for the full process.

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This process is showing you the FREE version for personal and hobby sites. If you need one for your business it’s only $5 per month. You’ll see that option when you go through the process. For $5 per month it is honestly the best way to stop spam and THAT will stop you wasting your valuable time.

Want to give your Facebook Page or Fanpage a short cool title? e.g. http://www.facebook.com/thewebchik as opposed to one of those long weird ones? It’s really simple!

Go set yourself up right now go here:

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Here is the Facebook Help section telling you how to do it if you need some extra help or else just add a comment to this post and I’ll help you!:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=383008189821

Wicked!

Love it!

I’m in love. In love with what I do. I’m in love with helping people take what they are mega uber passionate about and turning that into an online business. That is what Big Fish Global does.

I wanted to share with you this video from Gary V about his book Crush It! I recommend it to all clients and anyone looking at taking their passion and turning that into an income stream!

It’s so in line with what we do at Big Fish with our Clients. You’ll be inspired and when you are… let’s get on the phone and talk about how you can apply it to your life…  We’ll find a way of turning your passion to cha-ching income!!

Let’s go through the consultation process, talk about what your purpose is in your business, in your life…. then we’ll offer you a package to make that passion into a REAL business online. Something you can’t wait to wake up and do every day.

Lets get on the phone, nut it out and make it happen for you!

Want to buy Crush it! Go to the bottom of my Resources Page

So you have a Fanpage of your own or you want to promote another persons fanpage to all your friends… Great! It’s really easy! I’m pretty choosy about who I add as a friend now or what pages I become a fan of but when I do find a good one I want the world to know. Especially if it is going to help their business online!

All you have to do is go to the page that you want to promote (yours or another persons/organisationa) and click “SUGGEST TO FRIENDS” under their profile pic. Like this image below:

Easy as that! Til’ next time…

Over the past 6 months there have been some really useful blog posts on this site to benefit everyone! So here’s the long list

• Brand new website traffic-getting system BE FIRST!
• The hands down #1 way to stop spam comments in wordpress
• How to give your Facebook Page a shorter URL link
• What do you LOVE doing? Now let's turn that into an online passive business for you!
• How to suggest a Page to your friends in Facebook
• Table of Contents for ALL WebChik Blog Posts
• How to stop "Who is checking your profile" Photo Spam in Facebook
• VIDEO: How to create a Facebook & Twitter account
• The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
• Ultimate plug-ins list for Wordpress.org websites
• Video: How to insert a PDF into a Wordpress page or post
• 8 questions for authors to ask when interviewing web designers
• Wordpress most important icon #3: Inserting a video
• Wordpress most important icon #2: Highlighted quotation box
• Wordpress most important icon #1: Upload and insert image or PDF – VIDEO
• Editing your Wordpress site: The 3 most important icons and tools
• 2 hours of Online Blogging Vs 2 hours of Face-to-Face Networking: Actual Results
• Personal Development Legend John Rohn Golden Tips Video
• Over 300 Free Wordpress Theme Designs
• EVERYONE editing a website in Wordpress MUST know this ONE icon
• Tear jerkin' inspiration: Nick Vujicic teaches us to Get Back Up
• 7 ideas for your website (no matter what your industry) to save you time and make you a truckload of money
• Blogging Proof: check out my actual stats
• VIDEO: How to add a paypal button to your wordpress website in under 3 mins
• Do this 30 minutes a week – You'll be blown away by what it does for your business
• Increasing Sales: The 8 things I did to absolutely nail my best week in sales EVER!
• #3 way to auto-magically promote your blog to the world: Share/Save
• #2 way to auto-magically promote your blog to the world: FeedBurner
• #1 way to auto-magically promote your blog to the world: Ping.fm
• The best 48 hour virtual party, EVER! Awesomeness to the expediential of infinity.
• 7 Blogging Tips to seriously explode your online street cred
• Ask yourself this one powerful question and it will blow your mind!
• Ask a web designer any questions to help you inyour online business
• VIDEO: How to create a Facebook Fanpage in less than 3 minutes
• Cool Stuff that spin my wheels and will help your business
• Getting a website is pointless without this FREE TOOL (& how to video)
• Barbie Girl parody video – just because its hilarious :)
• How you can get a website (with a blog) with just $1 buck!
• ASK YOURSELF… Do you know how to give your website visitors a return ticket?
• ASK YOURSELF… What jumps out and slaps you in the face on your website?
• Get a website (with a blog) you can update yourself for $397
• The Art of choosing good keywords & a FREE golden tool!
• The 4 Pillars of a Good Website
• Flight of the Conchords – Videos for some laughs :)
• Michael Jordan and Failure – Nike ad
• A video of Contagious Enthusiasm
• 7 Simple Strategies to Guarantee Your Online Success in Today’s New Economy
• How to get a baby out and snap yourself out of the worst day EVER!! (No gorry stuff I promise)
• FREE EVENT: Attract More and Better Clients Using the Power of Social Media
• Tony Robbins interview with John Reece and Frank Kern
• How your BUY button can increase your sales!
• The man who made 1 million dollars in one day
• Twouble with Twitters: SuperNews!
• The progression of information technology video
• Who are the biggest search engines?
• The Power of Video with Lou Bortone

If someone has tagged you in Facebook saying “Who is checking your profile” then you need to untag yourself and report it. IF YOU DONT the spammers will invade your entire friends list. This video shows you how to get rid of it so your mates are not spammed!

I’ve got a simple on here for those of you who are totally “green” to the online social networking scene. They are 2 very simple videos on How to set up a Facebook account and a Twitter account.

They’re the absolute basics!

The sound is a bit crap. I’m using JING and my audio settings need some work, but you’ll see how it’s done anway

You’ll be set up within a few minutes! It’s super easy!

• VIDEO: How to set up a Facebook profile / log in for people completely new to Facebook
• VIDEO: How to set up a Twitter profile / log in for people completely new to Twitter

Next video will be How to set up a PING FM account which i Highly recommend for everyone to automatically get traffic to your blog!

Over and out for now!

J

A lot of people get confused between wordpress.com and wordpress.org so lets clear it up so you can make a decision on which to use for your business.

WordPress.com

PROS

• It’s free and very easy to set up.
• It’s hosted for you
• Your posts are automatically backed up
• Do well in search engines
• There are about 70 themes (designs) to choose from but they are very basic
• Setup, upgrades, spam, backups, security, etc are taken care of automatically
• You can add pages

CONS

• Your domain name will be something like www.yourname.wordpress.com – you can pay to upgrade to use a normal URL you purchase from places like godaddy.com
• You can’t simply FTP (upload) stuff to the server because you don’t control the hosting.
• You can’t add plug-ins that make your site do cool and useful stuff that automates your site, makes it more flexible and easier to do things like easily add videos and audios etc.
• You will need an experienced CSS web design to customise the look
• You have to pay a small annual fee to be able to do ANY customization
• There are limitations to the customisation
• You can’t automate it with all the bells and whistles
• You can’t upgrade it to a membership site or full ecommerce site

WordPress.org (Recommended)

PROS

• Free to download and use
• You can use your normal domain name eg: wwwyourname.com as opposed to www.yourname.wordpress.com but don’t have to pay for the upgrade
• You can use this option for website, even without a blog and you can have unlimited pages.
• You can have unlimited pages that don’t show on the navigation, which means you can set up SALE LETTER pages within the same site and just point a domain there. No need for lots of different websites. Needs a plug in to do this.
• You just add it to your normal hosting which sh0uld be about $7 a month which gives you full control over the site
• Ability to upload completely custom themes or use one of the millions of free (and very cool) themes on the net
• You can upload unlimited plug-ins (there are plug-ins for EVERYTHING you can think of) which automates your online business, makes the site easier to use and so many excellent business and brand building tools
• You can upgrade to a Membership Site or Full ecommerce site
• There is complete flexibility to customize code in both look and feel and functions
• Even though wordpress.org do WAY more than the .com there is loads of video and online support on how to run your site

CONS

• You’ll need a web designer to set up up your site on your host but its SUPER fast and easy so wont take long and therefore shouldn’t cost you much.
• You’re responsible for backups and spam but there are plug-ins we always add to do all this automatically for you.

CHECK OUT THE ULTIMATE PLUG-IN LIST

These are the types of plug-ins we include in all our Big Fish Website Design Packages. [view packages]

Wordpress.org sites allow you to add unlimited amounts of the millions of cool plug-ins out there on the web. Most are free.  When our Big Fish clients get a website with us we build it in Wordpress.org and as part of the package we add these plug-ins:

• SEO plug-in – to boost you in the search engines and allow you to control your keywords and titles etc for every page and every post. Search Engines LOVE this!!
• Advanced editing – this allows you to do way more than the standard Wordpress functions. You can control fonts more yourself, add tables, and lots more cool formatting that is really important.
• Auto backup – we set up a plug-in to automatically take a back up of your database every day, week or month and email it to you.
• Social Media Automation – we set up your site to automatically post to your Facebook, Twitter etc when you add a blog post. This is extremely valuable! For me it is where over half my traffic comes from.
• Sidebar controller – this allows you to say which pages you want each item on the sidebar to show. e.g you may only want the RECENT POSTS sidebar widget to show in the blog and not on the pages. This plug in lets you control that.
• Post Expiration date setting – don’t you hate websites that show things like event that have past? This allows you to set the date the post will STOP showing on your site. So if you’[re marketing events it will automatically be taken off your site on the date you specify.
• Broken link checker – this will automatically notify you when you sign in if there are broken links on your website. It will even let you click on them to fix them throughout the whole site in one click. Search engines don’t like broken links so this is a super important plug-in
• Navigation control – a plug in that allows you to simply tick a box to say whether you want the page to show on the navigation or not. (This would usually mean special coding that you can’t control without a web designer but this plug-in allows you to do it easily yourself).
• Form plug in – this allows us to easy add forms with all the fields you want without needing to pay for a form capturing system. When someone fills out the form they can be emailed right to your inbox or saved to a database (or both).
• Simple video insert - with one simple click you can insert videos into your pages and posts from loads of well known websites without having to do any fancy pants embed code stuff that is way too technical for most.
• Google Analytics – lets us simple add in the code for the URL so all your stats are tracked through Google Analytics. These are VERY detailed stats so you can see how your website is doing at any time.
• Page order drag n drop – you can simple drag and drop the pages to the order you want and save and you’re done. Can so the same with posts as well.
• Link navigation to anywhere – if you want to link to a URL that is not within your site or is to something specific this plug-in lets you simple paste the URL in and it will add a button to the navigation that will link there

We are always adding to this list of important plug-ins and we set them all up for you so you don’t have to worry about the technical side We also have how to videos showing you how to use anything that you may want to control in these plug-ins.

Phewl! That was a technical one! Add a comment with any questions you might have!