This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and a timelapse of Eyjafjallajökull on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Writing
UPDATE: Check out my Popup Domination Review and Subscribers Magnet Review for ideas on how to increase your mailing list subscribers. These reviews go beyond what you get on the sales page – see actual screenshots of what you will get and how to set them up to meet your needs.
Popup opt-in forms are not new by any means to web surfers and blog readers. There have been several plugins built for WordPress, and designs by email marketing services available to manually install a popup form to greet visitors to your website asking them to subscribe to a newsletter or mailing list.
Popups Sweeping the Blogging World
The latest incarnation of popup opt-in forms seem to have hit websites by storm. This plugin creates visually appealing lightbox forms that increase your opt-in rate substantially.
And when I say hit websites by storm – I mean that I come across a blog using them at least once a day, and sometimes five times a day or more while perusing new articles from blogs I enjoy visiting.
The Survey
There are many sides to the argument – those who love it, those who despise it, and those who are in between. I have asked several website owners who use either the latest plugin, or another form of popup opt-in form, why they use them, and also the opinions of those who feel strongly against them. Here are the results of this survey.
This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, the 2010 Facebook Success Summit, and some funky hamsters on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.
Blogging / Writing
This is a guest post by Hugh DeBurgh from The Passionate Warrior, who has dedicated his life to the achievement of the ultimate family lifestyle.
I’m a personal development writer. So I don’t usually contribute to social media sites. But I thought it might be interesting to uncover how today’s social media technologies are making it possible for many people to live the life of their dreams right from their living room – or, in my case, from my RV.
An Unconventional Lifestyle
I’ll start by telling you a bit about my own family’s experience.
You see, we don’t live a conventional life. We don’t work at conventional jobs. We don’t drive conventional cars, you name it – we aren’t conventional. We travel when we want. We live how we want. We stop and live anywhere that the scenery suits us. Or where the neighbors are nice. And if the neighbors become annoying? We move, of course.
I have no boss. Neither does my wife.
My kids attend no schools. Yet they know more about the world and the people in it than most kids can ever dream of knowing. And they can read faster than I can (at least my 11 year old can). They are children of the world, just as their parents are. No, we are not hippies. We don’t live out of a VW bus and sell hemp products.
We enjoy the good things in life. Luxuries. Technologies. Comforts.
If you met us on the street you’d think we were ordinary people, though perhaps a bit well-to-do. We shed the heavy expensive crap that sucks up most people’s resources. We discovered that we really didn’t need it.
So, what does our unusual lifestyle have to do with social media?
