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Improve Your WordPress Email Delivery with Mandrill
As a WordPress site owner, you may use your site to send emails for a variety of reasons. Whether your site is running a contact form, product sales, or event signups, it is important that your emails...
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Thoughts at Thirty
I woke up this morning at 2:00am because I had to go to the bathroom. When I rolled over and looked at the clock, I realized that the first thing I had to do in my 4th decade of life was waking up...
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HWChet – The Heebs With Chutspa
Back in college, I decided that there was not enough Jewish Hip Hop (aka Heeb Hop) music, so I joined forced with a friend and started a rap group. While the website doesn’t exist anymore, I wanted to...
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D’var Torah – Rosh Hasahana 2015
When I started thinking about what to say in a d’var Torah for Rosh Hashana, my first thought was to read the Torah portion. When I was reading, though, I had another question come to mind. Why are we...
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Using Amazon SES to Send Transactional Email for Free
With the big news that Mandrill is dropping its free plan, I decided it is time to move on and find a new transactional email service. While it looks like there are a handful of competitors offering a...
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Create a Binge Reading Archive Page on Your WordPress Site
My amazing client and friend Paula Pant, owner of Afford Anything, wanted to give her readers an option to see all posts from the start of her site on one page. She calls it a “binge” reading...
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How to Become a B-List Blogger
Even the most famous actors and bloggers started with day one. It takes time, practice, and hard work to make it to the A-List in anything. But before you get to the A-List, you have to stop by at the...
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TBEX and My Surprisingly Awesome Trip to Alabama
On May 2nd, I hopped on a plane to Huntsville, Alabama on a journey to my 40th state. I would spend eight days in The Heart of Dixie. My time would be split between the TBEX conference in Huntsville...
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The Craziest 72 Hours of My Life: Fires and Babies
It started at 12:30am. I woke to the sound of pounding, far louder than any sound my two-year-old would make in the middle of the night. I jumped from bed and as I lumbered to the front door the knocks...
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Thomas Fire – Touring the Damage
On December 4th, the Thomas Fire ripped through Ventura, forced my family to evacuate home (when my wife went into labor), and ultimately became the biggest wildfire in California history. While the...
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