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I make my living working online. More specifically I make my living helping others manage what they do online; that includes things like social media, newsletters, overall digital presence and of course helping people build their most important online asset – their website! A big part of my life is focused on finding great solutions to hard problems that enable my clients to focus more on their objectives rather than overcoming obstacles. In fact, this is a large part of what people pay me for. When it comes to building a new website there are many options to build on but for me, I always steer my clients to WordPress in large part because not only is this open source (free to use) product fantastic (great technology + an amazing community = big win for user), I also happen to be pretty good at using WordPress so for me and my clients, WordPress is a great solution in large part because as their advocate, I am very able to remove many “obstacles” quickly, which allows us to focus more on objectives. Not only is WordPress an amazing publishing platform, but there is also a very wonderful ecosystem surrounding WordPress with the ability to use both Free and Premium (paid) Themes (and Plugins) to help provide added functionality and usability to the basic WordPress installation. I've used a number of great premium themes on client projects and I have even been invited to publicly demo some themes at the Boston WordPress Group.

• Headway Vs. Thesis Vs. Suffision (I demoed Headway)
• Genesis Vs. Pagelines Vs. Hybrid Theme (I demoed Genesis)

Beyond the demos and my own usage experiences I have also done a ton of research on my own – this is a big part of what goes in to how I “earn” a living - doing the homework and really knowing that I can deliver good solutions.

At the end, I built my site the Headway Theme * so here are 10 Reasons to Purchase the Premium WordPress Theme Headway Right NOW!

Google has another great Google Doodle on their home page today in celebration of Halloween. Pretty fun time lapse video... and to think, for a moment I was pretty proud of the fact that I went "big" with my pumpkin this year!

Hi guys. Thanks for the shirt and even more so for the very much appreciated card. (re: http://su.pr/8fZSfk) Best, David PS - my wife and I went a little photo crazy but figured you might enjoy.

There are all kinds of ways to include a Tweet on your site. Some common ways to put a Tweet on your site are to simply embed a link or

On occasion I like to leave my humble little cave and go forth into the marketing universe and meet real life marketers. Recently I had the opportunity to head down

We've all been there. Doing a little too much in the kitchen. Maybe not paying enough attention to some of the basics. And suddenly there is that feeling of helplessness as we watch a glass careen from the counter down to the floor followed by the unmistakable sounds. Up next of course is a pause (insert a few swear words here...) followed by the first few thoughts:

Everyone once and a while you see something that really makes you think. For me, that started today when I was starting to write a post on StumbleUpon and I came upon a great called the "Hands on Symphony" which is all about encouraging people to become aware of CPR by doing something totally different - making music with your web browser.

One effective strategy when putting together your blog posts is to incorporate what is "hot right now" on the internet and while I know that YouTube has always had a way to sort views by "Most Viewed/Comment/Shared" it appears that the second largest search engine (that's right - YouTube is #2 right behind Google) has also started to roll out a few updates on how to find content that is popular right now.