New! Do Founders Make Great Marketers?
Ben Pines on founder-led marketing and WordPress challenges.
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New! Do Founders Make Great Marketers?
Ben Pines on founder-led marketing and WordPress challenges.
Pat Benatar - "Love is a Battlefield" youtu.be/IGVZOLV9SPo?...
With 17-year-old Joseph Contreras and 40-year-old Tiago da Silva, Brazil is the first team in WBC history to use players 40+ and under 18 in the same game
Only other team to use a sub-18-year-old and 40+ year-old in the same WBC at all:
Brazil in 2013: Daniel Missaki (age 16), Ernesto Norris (40)
Wow, I can't even remember Brian Roberts in the WBC.
Spectacle website in 1996
Urban Diary website in 1997
Conscience Records website in 1998
p2 output website in 1998
Grunge Web Design Style in the 1990s
– Spectacle in 1996
– Urban Diary in 1997
– Conscience Records in 1998
– p2 output in 1998
#WebDesignHistory
A comic depicting two scenes. The first takes place in the year 2000, when a woman visits a Circuit City store and is surrounded by salesmen. The second scene takes place in 2026, where a woman's LinkedIn messages are from people with sales pitches and job requests.
Proven Sales Strategies for Your #WordPress Agency thewpminute.com/proven-sales...
Pinterest website in 2010
On March 6, 2010, Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp launched the first prototype of Pinterest, a social network that allows users to share photos, and create collections of images.
#InternetHistory
#WordPress freelancers and agencies are in an interesting position these days. We used to rely solely on new website builds to keep the lights on. Now, it's getting harder to find those gigs. So, how do we adapt to this new reality? Here are a few ideas. 👀 speckyboy.com/new-opportun...
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
The richer they are, the more likely they are to believe all manner of far-out shit.
#WordPress freelancers and agencies are in an interesting position these days. We used to rely solely on new website builds to keep the lights on. Now, it's getting harder to find those gigs. So, how do we adapt to this new reality? Here are a few ideas. 👀 speckyboy.com/new-opportun...
Aggressive sales tactics used to be limited to brick-and-mortar retailers like Circuit City. Now, you can find them 24/7 over on LinkedIn. 😅 pleasehumoreric.com/linkedin-rem...
Aggressive sales tactics used to be limited to brick-and-mortar retailers like Circuit City. Now, you can find them 24/7 over on LinkedIn. 😅 pleasehumoreric.com/linkedin-rem...
Eleventy 👉🏻 Build Awesome.
On this episode of Podcast Awesome, Zach Leatherman explains what changes, what stays compatible, and how the v3 to v4 upgrade works (without making it weird).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnnU_...
Eleventy users: anything you’re worried might break?
New #freelance web designers often start small, working with clients on tiny budgets and limited needs. It's not glamorous, but it's a great way to learn and improve. How does AI impact this portion of the market? I have a few thoughts. speckyboy.com/ai-impact-bo...
Is it me, or has LinkedIn become an incredibly buggy and slow website? It grinds the heck out of my browser.
My condolences, it's never easy 🫶
Somebody, somewhere, thought it was a good idea. I don't get it!
New #freelance web designers often start small, working with clients on tiny budgets and limited needs. It's not glamorous, but it's a great way to learn and improve. How does AI impact this portion of the market? I have a few thoughts. speckyboy.com/ai-impact-bo...
I always preferred plain oatmeal cookies. No need for raisins messing things up.
Happy birthday!
I live in central PA and made it a lot of games in those days. I don't know how I could have missed this, but I'm guessing they weren't sold at the stadium.
As a lifelong Orioles fan, I'm ashamed that I don’t remember this at all.
A white and orange candy bar wrapper that reads "The Cal Bar--a Double Play of peanuts and caramel in milk chocolate", alongside an image of Cal Ripken preparing to throw a baseball
A row of rectangular candy bars, in gold foil an an orange wrapper that reads "Cal Bar", with an image of Cal Ripken playing shortstop, awaiting a ground ball
The Cal Bar (1993-1994, 2000-2001): Baltimore Orioles legend Cal Ripken, Jr. received two different candy bars under the same name. The first was a milk chocolate bar filled with caramel and peanuts. The second version was a crispy rice milk chocolate bar.
The cover of PC Magazine ("The independent guide to personal computing and the Internet") from November 2, 1999. The headline issue, showing boxed software like Wordperfect Office and Microsoft Office in the trash, reads "THROW OUT YOUR SOFTWARE - Save Money! Run your applications over the web instead!" Big callouts mention "Special Report: Which Printer is Right for YOU? PC Labs tests 55 new Lasers, Ink Jets, Multifunctions" with pictures of some old Brother-looking printers; E-Mail Options, "The Internet Provides Multiple Ways To Keep Everyone In Touch"; John C. Dvorak, "Microsoft's Dastardly E-Mail Plot: While Hotmail Really Crashed", and "First Looks: New Desktop Systems, Adobe InDesign 1.0, Giage WebSpace, Consumer Image-Editing Software, Celeron Notebook PCs, Actiontec Call Waiting System" over a picture of a dark late 90s desktop tower.
THROW OUT YOUR SOFTWARE
