Starting a service through Powershell on the Windows 7 local PC
In 1 sentence Create a shortcut with ‘Run as administrator’ properties which points to powershell.exe path\to\script.ps1 with 1 line in it: Start-Service -displayname “the-name-of-the-service-that-you-want-to-sart” and have the right execution policy for PS scripts. The longer version Through Windows Powershell-scripts administrators can automate almost all computermanagement tasks. All things that can be done through visual windows...
Installation of Railo Express 3.1 OS CFML server on Windows
Railo is an open source server for CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) and it can be used as a alternative to Adobe Coldfusion Server. Below is an howto for installing Railo Express 3.1 on Windows 7. Railo express is not recommended on production servers, but it can be an easy and low footprint development or testing server. For production environments, install -for example- Railo with the Resin 3.1.9 server. On the Railo site there is an installation manual, but...
WordPress site for Miss Minetti
Last month we’ve put a WordPress site online for the fabulous street performer Miss Minetti, ‘Queen of the street’. She is a high powered executive with a novel business plan. She has decided open her corporate headquarters in the centre of town! Her operating budget is very small and office rental prices are just too high so she has decided to set up her office on a small street corner and recruit employees from the crowd that passes by. In order to find the...
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- 25 Things You Could Buy With a Super Bowl Ad Budget 3 February, 2012A 30-second commercial advertisement for Super Bowl XLVI is going for $3.5 million. Can you imagine what you as a marketer could do for your company if you had that kind of budget? If you can't even fathom what you'd do with a marketing budget that big (and just think, this is just one of many campaigns they're running this year!), we've […]Corey Eridon
- How the Third Wave of Media Is Transforming Marketing Content 3 February, 2012As a society, how we watch, read, and consume information is fundamentally changing. News, information, and entertainment will never go back to "the way it was," and this change will have a powerful impact on all aspects of inbound and outbound marketing. In 2012, marketing is publishing, so let's learn how to be a great publisher in an indust […]Kipp Bodnar
- How to Tackle Your 5 Toughest Email Marketing Challenges 3 February, 2012Email is a powerful marketing channel, but it's also one that presents many questions and difficulties. In its 2012 Email Marketing Benchmark Report, MarketingSherpa surveyed 2,735 companies and asked them to rank the significance of 12 common email marketing challenges. In this blog post, we will focus on the top five challenges and suggest some ideas […]Magdalena Georgieva
- 7 Examples of Brands That Pop on Pinterest 2 February, 2012I’m sitting here next to an empty pan of mini red velvet donuts, and all I want to do is find another recipe to bake this weekend. No, my first stop won’t be the Food Network, Gourmet, or Cooking Light. What I am dying to do is head over to my new obsession -- Pinterest -- to discover the next pastry to tackle. Currently, I'm using Pinterest to save lin […]Lauren Sorenson
- 27 Startling Pieces of Insider Info Facebook's S-1 Revealed [Data] 2 February, 2012Did you hear? You probably heard...just about everywhere. Facebook filed their S-1 yesterday, and is charging full steam ahead to their much anticipated IPO. Many of us have been poring over the juicy details that were revealed in the S-1 -- Facebook revealed revenue and profitability numbers, mind blowing usage metrics, and the even more astonishing take-ho […]Corey Eridon
- 6 Different Emails Every Marketer Should Consider Sending 2 February, 2012Whether you're just starting out with email marketing or you already have some experience sending marketing emails, you've probably wondered about the types of email communication you can send to your database. Should you nurture your subscribers with weekly newsletters? Are dedicated sends better at optimizing your sales and marketing funnel? What […]Magdalena Georgieva
- What in the Heck Is Going on With Privacy at Google 1 February, 2012The web has lit up about Google's updated privacy policy, and (shockingly) not all the feedback is super positive. Privacy on the internet has been a hot topic these days, especially considering Facebook's ever-changing levels of users' control over their information. European lawmakers are also introducing the "right to be forgotten, […]Corey Eridon
- How to Distinguish Between PPC Pros and PPC Posers 1 February, 2012Hiring a paid search manager is easy. Hiring a great paid search manager is not. First, let's briefly review this specialty. Paid search managers, of which I am one, are notorious for living in their heads. They are some of the oddest people I have ever met. They are also some of the best people I have ever met, and I consider myself truly lucky to have […]Dan Slagen
- How to Align Sales and Marketing for Results (Not Just Harmony) 1 February, 2012SMarketing is the alignment and connection between sales and marketing. Since Sales and Marketing work closely together in most organizations, it’s often typical for these two revenue generating groups to be in conflict with one another. The typical battle looks like this: Sales complains that Marketing isn’t generating enough quality leads, and Marketing […]Alison Savery
- What Marketers Everywhere Can Learn From P&G's 1,600-Person Layoff 31 January, 2012Yesterday, Business Insider reported that Procter & Gamble is set to lay off 1,600 employees as a result of its decision to cut back on the company's annual advertising spend of $10 billion. CEO Robert McDonald said he can't keep increasing his ad budget even if sales continue to increase because of the prevalence of "more efficient" […]Corey Eridon