The Evolving Internet Marketer » Humor (?) http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress Growing Your Business with Local Search, Social Media and Internet Marketing Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:03:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Growing Your Business with Local Search, Social Media and Internet Marketing The Evolving Internet Marketer clean The Evolving Internet Marketer tom.gray@essentialsocialmedia.com tom.gray@essentialsocialmedia.com (The Evolving Internet Marketer) Growing Your Business with Local Search, Social Media and Internet Marketing internet marketing, small business marketing, social media marketing, email marketing The Evolving Internet Marketer » Humor (?) http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress/category/humor/ Social Media Humor http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress/2009/05/social-media-humor/ http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress/2009/05/social-media-humor/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 15:56:10 +0000 Tom Gray http://www.gemsolv.com/wordpress/?p=1006

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Scott Friedman is  a friend of mine and a motivational humorist who keeps audiences laughing all over the world. Every month he sends out a post card with a very humorous ‘top 10′ list. His upcoming April Fools’ list really tickled my funny bone, something sorely needed amidst all the gloomy economic news, and I asked if he’d mind if I reprint his list here. Scott was happy to give permission so with a drum roll (or a rim shot) … 

Scott Friedman’s “You Know It’s an April Fool’s Kind of Year When…” List

Scott Friedman Wishes You a Happy April Fool's Day

10. Instead of keeping up with the Joneses … you drag them down to your level.
9. You’re now selling furniture for a living. Unfortunately, it is your own.
8. No need to worry about upgrading to Digital TV as all of your TVs have been repossessed.
7. Even your imaginary friend on Facebook won’t write back.
6. Your partner asks, “How much do we have in the bank?” You respond, “Hmmm, let me shake it.”
5. You trade your stock portfolio for what’s behind Door #2.
4. Your seven course meal is now Rice-a-Roni and a six-pack.
3. Taking your honey on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen.
2. You join a bridge club. Your jump is scheduled for next Tuesday.
1. You wake up screaming and you haven’t even gone to bed yet.

You can find information on Scott on his web site at www.FunnyScott.com. Click Fun Stuff on the menu to read a collection of his funniest top 10 lists.

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They sucked me right in on this one, didn’t they?

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Blogging guru and author of Blogwild!: A Guide for Small Business Blogging, Andy Wibbels was given his comeuppance today by my Outlook client.

Andy Wibbels, Blog Guru, ignored

In Andy’s defense, I am a subscriber, my Outlook felt he was being a bit pushy. (Cue Alanis Morissette.)

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Do you like your site’s design but your graphic artist or web designer is no longer available? Now you want to make changes but you have images that use fonts and color schemes and you don’t which fonts or color schemes were used? 

Aside from things like ftp login info, domain registration documentation and all of that stuff, you also should know what the colors and fonts were used in creating your site graphics. It can save a lot of aggravation later.

By the way, a couple of nice tools that will help you solve these mysteries if need be…

To find the name of the fonts used, check out “What the Font”. I used this on a recent client site where we were building a new header for his blog which used the existing site header but needed a new label. 

To figure out the color I use a Firefox addon called Colorzilla - it’s simple and works quite well. 

Colorzilla Tells Me What Color I'm Using in My Blog's Title

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