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Rafflecopter Review: Contest Widget for Giveaways, Sweepstakes, Raffles

15 May 2012

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Rafflecopter Review. Rafflecopter is a Contest, Sweepstakes, Giveaway widget that can be used within a website post or article to help a webmaster run a contest, sweepstakes or giveaway. I previously spoke about running contests on websites here: How to Create and Run a Giveaway Contest on a Website and here: How and When to Promote [...]

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How to Attend CinemaCon: The Annual Film Industry Convention

30 April 2012

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Film conventions attended by movie webmasters and film journalists happen all the time. One recent cinema convention you might have noticed coverage from on movie websites is CinemaCon. Like most noteworthy cinema conventions, the CinemaCon requires registration, has screenings,

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The Brain of the Beginning Blogger Infographic

15 April 2012

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The Brain of the Beginning Blogger Infographic. The infographic The Brain of the Beginning Blogger is accurate and humorous in its depiction of a new blogger’s mindset. The Brain of the Beginning Blogger infographic brings up many of the situations someone new to a website or blog will face, including domain names, making money online, search [...]

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BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 4

13 April 2012

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The final part of this web hosting review of BlueFur, documenting their bad conduct and how my first website’s content was wiped out because of them, is the tomb stone on the grave of a morose chapter in this web master’s life. The final part of this series, what I learned from my experience with [...]

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BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 3

11 March 2012

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Bluefur’s bad business practices cost my first website dearly in data loss. As a website host, Bluefur.com held the precious content from my content management system (CMS) in their hands, mishandled, and destroyed part of it under the guise that everything was hunky-dory or would be.

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BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 2

19 February 2012

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This Bluefur Review, User Review, former Customer Review, segmented Web Hosting Review about their Canadian web hosting bad conduct is a cautionary tale. As I mentioned in BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 1, my movie website was previously hosted by BlueFur. While with BlueFur, the movie site was down from most [...]

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BlueFur: Web Hosting Review, Bad Conduct, Content Wiped Out: Part 1

29 January 2012

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BlueFur Web Hosting, BlueFur Dedicated Server, and BlueFur Personal Customer Service. Advertised and lauded on BlueFur.com home page, these were all things I unfortunately experienced from the Canadian web hosting company. This will  be a long, sad story and the post about it will be lengthy and melancholy as well (though it will not begin [...]

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Interview: Reel Talk’s Candice Frederick: Moving Beyond the Blog

21 January 2012

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Building a movie website or blog is not the end of a movie webmaster’s journey when it comes to expressing themselves about film and the film world. It can be only the first step if they want it to be. There are other avenues such as podcasts, newsletters, video reviews or film commentaries on YouTube, [...]

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The Importance of a Business Contract: ReelTime’s Rodney Brazeau

17 August 2011

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Movie websites are businesses (if you have a single Google AdSense ad unit on your website, that includes you) and like any other small or large company, when the company is managed in a way that garners acquisition attention, it is a very gratifying occasion. Movie websites constantly come into existence and then blow out like a [...]

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Saving A Business Deal: The New York Salvage Campaign

20 July 2011

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Rescuing a turbulent, tribulent business deal sometimes takes imagination and creativity. Sometimes even those elements can not save a business deal on a downward trajectory. Thus begins the near tragedy of The New York Salvage Campaign. Through the diverse articles we have published, our movie website has garnered attention. A percentage of this attention has been from potential advertisers.

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Interview: Trailer Addict’s Ryan Parsons: Filling a Need with Your Product

19 March 2011

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Having a business idea and bringing it to fruition is the hallmark of being an entrepreneur. A few years ago I began seeing movie trailer embeds from a website I had never heard of before. The embeds were snazzier than most and had high definition options. That website, as you probably have already guessed, was Trailer Addict. [...]

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Applying To IMDb’s NewsDesk: Tips, Qualifications, Lessons, and Insights

25 February 2011

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Applying to IMDb‘s NewsDesk can be an exercise in futility if the articles in your RSS Feed are not up to their requirements. Their requirements aren’t challenging but are rigorous and with good reason. IMDb is one of the top tier movie websites on the Internet. I spoke earlier of all the requirements here: Movie Website Traffic: IMDB NewsDesk.

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