More and more companies are catching on to the massive exposure that its possible to get through Twitter.
Some are using “bribes” to get people talking about their products and services.
Usually they use software like Viral Tweets to accomplish this.
Fine enough, but I don’t want to be handing over my Twitter password to all and sundry. [...]
Entries from March 29th, 2009
Want people to Tweet for you virally? Don’t ask for their password.
March 29th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: bfm · butterfly marketing · mike filsaime · pdf · php · sales letter · twitter · viral marketing
How to Install PHP / MySQL and Apache on Windows - WAMP
March 29th, 2009 1 Comment
Just did a new video on downloading and installing WAMP
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=53965013
For some reason the “voice” audio codec I used only works on MySpace. The other video sites are silent.
WAMPserver is a hugely powerful and very easy-to-use package that allows you to run a complete server on your local computer, running the Apache webserver, MySQL [...]
How To Scale Your Web Technology For Product Launch - Lessons Learned From The Butterfly Marketing 2.0 Launch
March 25th, 2009 4 Comments
When the order link for the Butterfly Marketing 2.0 launch was emailed to Mike Filsaime’s “Early Bird” list yesterday, the BFM servers crashed pretty spectacularly. Ustream chatrooms were packed with unhappy punters jabbing the refresh button like woodpeckers - fearful they might miss the opportunity to be one of the first 5000 to grab what was undeniably [...]
Tags: bfm · butterfly marketing · mike filsaime · mysql · php
How to do FTP with WinSCP: Video
March 11th, 2009 No Comments
How to download, install and use WinSCP for moving files between your local computer and your web server.
If you still get a bit scared when someone says FTP, watch this video! I hope its useful to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAEZWmeRoU (6m 14s - best in full screen mode)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWAEZWmeRoU
