Monthly Archives: January 2009
Selling Campaign Monitor to Your Customers
I am a big fan of the e-mail marketing app Campaign Monitor (CM) as you can see in my recent post 10 Reasons Why Campaign Monitor Rocks. Shortly after writing that post I decided to try and introduce CM to my users and see if I can sell them on the program. I developed a promotional site, I rebranded CM to match my chosen color scheme and logo and have started marketing it to my users. In this post I will outline why I choose to resell CM, what I did to get everything up and running and what my plans are for the future.
Implementing Facebook Connect (Part 2) – Establishing a Connection
Two weeks ago I took a look at Facebook Connect (FC) summarizing what it is and why developers would want to integrate it with their own applications in part 1 of this series. Originally I had thought this would be a two post topic but as I have learned more about FC I think it’s going to take a few posts to get up and running successfully. So, in this post we’re going to get all the pre-requisites out of the way and establish a connection with Facebook from our own application. We will then look at how we can do things with that connection in subsequent posts. Ready or not… let’s get started!
Displaying Code in WordPress
Does anyone know of a good way, plugin or other, to display code in your WordPress posts? I have been wrestling with this for a while and have yet to find a solution that works. Please post any recommendations in the comments. Thanks!
Implementing Facebook Connect (Part 1) – What is Facebook Connect?
Image via CrunchBase I have been spending some time recently developing an online community which will hopefully be launched next quarter. One of the things I wanted to integrate is OpenID to try and lessen the burden of signing-up and logging-in. However, after doing some research I’m thinking that Facebook Connect might be the better way to go. This is the first of at least 2 posts about implementing Facebook Connect with your own PHP application. To begin we will first look at what Facebook Connect is and does and the next post will get technical and look at how to integrate it with your next CodeIgniter or PHP application.
JPG Magazine Says Goodbye
I received a very sad e-mail this morning from JPG Magazine announcing they will be shuttering their site on Monday January 5th. In the e-mail they site a lack of funds and troubling economic times as the reasons they cannot continue. It’s unfortunate any time you hear about a worthwhile project going under but I was a fan and subscriber of JPG. I’m not an avid photographer but I am an avid picture viewer and their magazines made great coffee table books. JPG, I’m sorry to see you go… you will be missed!
10 Reasons Why Campaign Monitor Rocks
Image via Wikipedia E-mail marketing apps are a dime a dozen now a days. Each one claims it has better delivery rates than the other, more pre-designed HTML templates than the other and better support. However, I found an e-mail marketing app a while back that has just differentiated itself from the rest of the pack completely. The program is called Campaign Monitor (CM) and it’s not just your typical e-mail marketing app. CM has been built with designers and developers in mind. You can completely rebrand this hosted application to make it look and act like your own application and then resell it to your customers for additional revenue… totally cool!
Who is Chris Monnat?
Chris Monnat (aka mrtopher) is a web application developer and entrepreneur located in Alexandria, VA. This site is his island of information where he blogs about CodeIgniter, PHP programming, business topics, the Internet as a whole and other miscellaneous bits and bytes.
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