Daniel Watrous

I absolutely love my Kodak Zi8. One of the reasons I chose the Kodak Zi8 was that it accommodates an external microphone. It turns out that the built in microphone is very high quality, but it’s range is only several feet. If you’re recording puts you any further away or want really great sound, you’ll […]

[UPDATE: read below to get free software] I recently developed a tool to increase the optin rate on my websites (and for my clients). During development I got to work with nearly all of the major email service providers. While many of them are very strong and offer some clever tools to make marketers more […]

I recently released some software to all my subscribers. It’s an optin footer that greatly increases the optin rate for your website. In order to help people get maximum benefit from the footer, I held a webcast and installed it for a few websites, including customizations to make it fit with the website. The reason […]

I sat down to write this post about FTP and figured I would make a video about how to do it. But like any good (lazy) engineer, I went first to see what I could find on youtube.  All the videos sucked.  That’s not because they didn’t show you how to FTP. Instead it’s because […]

The video below is a recording of a session I presented on the campus of Boise State University as a presenter at the 2010 Boise code camp.  It covers the entire process for building a membership website, including how to make a plan that will maximize your conversion rate, even before you spend a minute […]

I did several live internet broadcasts at the beginning of the year for one of my membership sites. It’s been about two years since I did my first broadcast and these went off a lot better than my original broadcast. Since I have the technology stack worked out fairly well at this point I wanted […]

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 […]

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 my Internet […]

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. You’ll see […]

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 […]