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A Sure-Fire Way to Limit Your Business’s Upside Potential

What’s the difference between a food-service employee and a high-price attorney? When it comes to their compensation structure, not all that much. Both offer to perform specific tasks for an hourly rate. Granted, an attorney can charge a much higher hourly rate for their services than a fast food employee can, but both the attorney …

How to Implement the SendGrid Newsletter API in ASP.NET and C#

A while back, SendGrid announced its newsletter functionality that provides functionality for managing and emailing distribution lists. If you’re a developer that makes use of SendGrid, you’re probably managing your list internally in a SQL database and have no need for SendGrid’s newsletter functionality, but there are two distinct advantages to using the Newsletter API.The …

How to Prevent WordPress Comment Spam

If you run a blog that’s powered by WordPress, inevitably your website will be hit by a deluge of comment spam. More often than not, it comes from automated software tools designed to build links back to the spammer’s website for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes. If you leave your WordPress blog unprotected, your posts …

How to Select a Website Designer

If you’re looking to have a contractor or agency build your organization a website, you have more choices than you can possibly consider. There are local design and development agencies, freelance web designers and developers, international developers that can be hired through ODesk and similar services and do-it-yourself services such as Square Space. I estimate …

My 2012 Reading List

This is a list of books that I read in 2012. Books with asterisks next to them are books that I enjoyed and would recommend: 1 – 1/4/2012 – Archeology and the New Testament by John McRay 2 – 1/7/2012 – A Revolution in Generosity by Wesley Willmer* 3 – 1/14/2012 – Multiple Streams of Income by …