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API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. Companies that open their business databases and stream that data out, can have an army of hundreds of thousands (mostly) unpaid developers creating Facebook apps, iPhone apps and blog widgets to help sell their products and services. Amazon API.

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Digging-in to the new Radian6 Dashboard Improvements

Dave Fleet

Nothing flashy; just the ability to refresh widgets by hitting a button instead of waiting for the next refresh or going into the widget settings, toggling a setting then coming back out. In a nod to people using Radian6 to produce regular reports, you can now include a comparison of time periods within your topic analysis widgets.

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Energize Your Fans and Followers with a Sweepstakes

Ignite Social Media

Sweepstakes Widget. This widget allows for you to ask your audience to take different actions to earn entries into your sweepstakes. Once you have your sweepstakes set up in within the widget, you can drive your audience to a landing page or embed it wherever you wish. Culver’s Tweet. Culver’s Facebook Status.

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How I Schedule and Conduct Facebook Live Interviews Using BeLive

Jon Loomer

While I don’t use BeLive for hosting webinars, the ability to share your screen is there… You can also add media, either by uploading from your computer or importing from Facebook… Live shopping is also an option, though you’ll need to contact support to get that feature. You can access these on the left side as well.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

If my WordPress site is slow, is it my host, my plugins, or my theme? If I really need the functionality, could I replace it with a widget or some HTML? My Related Posts widget now is just a custom HTML widget with the links to my most popular posts that I gather from Google Analytics.

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[ANSWERED] Using Lazy Load To Speed Up WordPress While Maintaining Pinterest Pinnable Images

SocMed Sean

SiteGround SG Optimizer – Works, But Not My Preference – Since I host on Siteground (and I do recommend it), I use their Siteground SG Optimizer tool for server and caching optimizations. NOTE: If you are hosted on Siteground, I don’t recommend ditching the SG Optimizer plugin altogether.

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How to Turn Your Business Blog Readers Into Paying Customers

ProBlogger

Use Your Blog as a Platform to Host Deals. Hosting deals on your blog does two things: It encourages readers to shop when they may not have otherwise spent money on your product. Host a deal with 3-5 other people in your field, and post the info on your blog to entice readers to buy. Include In-Line Product Links.

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