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Friday, January 31, 2014 at 6:44PM Today's Archive Dive comes from Feb. 11, 2013, when we discussed the DBA.
A DBA is an important part of establish your business as a standalone entity. The acronym stands for "Doing Business As," and it is a legal diocument that says, "When you see XYZ on a form, that's really John Doe doing business under that business' name."
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 9:18AM AdSense Direct is a system by which you can facilitate selling ads to run on your site directly to advertisers.* You specify the ad unit from your site and sell it on a cost-per-day basis for 100% of your impressions. Key points include...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 10:00AM If you, like me, find yourself setting up several line items in Google DFP, you're probably a little tired of setting up the same settings over and over again. After all, most of your line items probably share the same properties -- especially all of your house ads. Here's a great tip on creating default settings for line items. The next time you set up a line item, these pre-selected settings will be automatically selected. Of course, these settings can be changed after you create the line item.
Monday, January 27, 2014 at 5:00AM Not so long ago, in recording a podcast that hasn't gone public (yet), I blamed Kickstarter for everything.
See, before Kickstarter, I had over ten years' experience in Web publishing. And I had a well-practiced eye-roll for those people who came up to me at comic conventions telling me they had The Next Big Thing. Although I don't remember it specifically, I guarantee you I unleashed one of those eye-rolls the first time I heard about Kickstarter.
Then Kickstarter happened.
Before you know it, it's become the engine behind everything big in Webcomics. So, of course, I'm excited about Patreon (more on that very soon, I hope).
And now Thunderclap -- to me -- has every chance to be a game-changing social-media tool.
Here's the next installment of the first Hitch It / Ditch It critique series of the year. Rules are simple: I go to your site and find one thing I think you're doing great and one thing that needs improvement. I talk about both, and then the Webcomics.com members chime in with their thoughts.
Stix and Friends
The Hues
Nomand Tofu