Once you have read and crawled around in the world of affiliate marketing, you have to let the ideas simmer. This is where I am in the process. I know the basic terminology. I know the reasoning behind affiliate marketing, but I am still working on where I fit in the world of affiliate marketing. …
Once you realize that you have some applicable experiences as a teacher that would serve you well in the world of marketing, you have to crawl around in the affiliate marketing world. First, you have to think of what you have to offer to this new environment, which means you have to have something to …
In order to envision yourself as a marketer, you have to consider how many applicable experiences teaching has given you for the marketing world. You know how to sell. How many students have you convinced to try something that they claimed they “hated?” How many parents have you persuaded that you were really working with …
You are really in three different worlds while working in marketing, teaching and pursuing seminary, aren’t you? I’ve gotten this response quite often this fall and I can understand the initial reaction, but we don’t live in an compartmentalized world. I would argue that we never have. With my History 5 students last year, I …
The mechanic monotony of the windshield wipers of the numerous cars across the parking lot reminded me that I can’t sit still. I know that most teachers I talk to think that they way I see marketing and teaching’s inevitable merge as inconsequential, but I don’t and I won’t. Else, this is the future of …
There was a trend on Twitter identified not by a hash tag, but rather a yellow sign placed in the bottom left corner of your Twitter profile picture that looked a little like this: I understand that this provides a continuity and a marketing symbol for the movement, but the Save our Schools March was …
In preparing for my first Affiliate Summit, Geekcast has become an essential weekly podcast. The discussion this week started with business cards and whether they were old school or not. They argue that the card can help you recall someone’s name or company: What was that guy’s company name? The card will help me …
Should unlimited access between teachers and students through social media be restricted? School administrators acknowledge that the vast majority of teachers use social media appropriately. But they also say they are increasingly finding compelling reasons to limit teacher-student contact. School boards in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia …
As I share my family Christmas traditions with others, I am often met with a confusing look and the question, “Now how did that get started?” You don’t think about how different your family traditions of beliefs sound to others until you try to start explaining it. I’ve had the same feeling in trying to …
If you are continuing to use Blogger as your blogging platform, you should consider that you don’t own your own blog. If you try to customize by using html coding, you’ll run into this: If you take a look at your code, you’ll notice that it looks somewhat like regular HTML and CSS, but also …
