Daniel Watrous

I’ve had a few clients ask me for a very simple tutorial about creating a new post in WordPress 2.9. After telling them to just head over to YouTube and follow the videos there, I finally went myself and looked for a few tutorials to send along as links.
I searched for “wordpress 2.9 video [...]

Hello Ed Dale,
Since you are so into the good old USA, I wanted to sing you the National Anthem. I really hope you like it. I’m looking forward to talking with you on the phone soon.
Daniel

Would you like to replay the video or share the link to it with your friends?

Some tools fall under the category of utility for me. By that I mean that they aren’t cool, they don’t provide anything novel and so long as they work reliably then I never really notice that they’re there or not. It’s sort of like electricity and natural gas. You don’t really think [...]

I’ve found myself growing weary of our benevolent big brother Google recently. Certainly one of the most compelling warnings that I remember recently came from Paul Meyers of TalkBiz fame. He effectively pointed out that Google’s mantra “do no evil” was wearing a bit thin when they decided to setup camp right on [...]

I recently paid the $80 fee and published a press release through PRWeb.com about a program I’m doing with Mr. USA. The results were disappointing, but I’m not sure that PRWeb is entirely to blame. I’ll explain what I was trying to accomplish and some of the things I might have done wrong. [...]

For the New Year in 2010 I decided to try and do a fitness program centered around my fitness and exercise log website, Maintain Fit. I arranged to have a few fitness and health experts on the program and I got to work creating some press releases. I also followed tips I found [...]

Having worked for two large ad agencies, I’ve heard an earful about branding. I’ve even read some books about it, and the only sure conclusion I can draw about what branding “is” is that everyone has his own opinion.
It’s a bit like asking someone to describe what salt tastes like. Everyone has an [...]

I’ve been following some of the self named Guru circle of internet marketers for a couple of years now and I can say that they have a lot figured out.  What genius and execution (more on that another day…).  One thing they seem to agree on are what they consider the leading e-mail providers.  What [...]

This is going to be a long post, so settle in.  There have been a few times that I’ve wanted to get a picture of a fictitious software box or ebook.  There are  numerous ways to accomplish this, including Photoshop action files, custom software, online services and paying someone to do it.  Well, early this [...]

Screen capture video is a big thing these days, and it’s getting bigger.  There are a few reasons that creating screen capture videos is so popular.  Some that are interesting to me include:

Fast to produce and deploy
No cameras, lighting, extensive editing, color correction, etc.
For software/websites it’s the most effective way to illustrate a process
Easy to [...]