Author Archives: Don Orkoskey
Square Up Credit Card Payments
Tell us how you really feel Don I’ve told people over at Facebook about Square but I’ve got to post a blog about it because it’s just freaking awesome. Before you get into the bulk of the post please note that I am not being paid to post this. I’ve got to say it up [...]
Facebook Only Specials
Special Offers on Facebook I’ve ran special offers on my Facebook page for some time and I’ve received very good response to them from my Facebook fans but I wanted to make sure that anyone who comes to the website is aware that they can find those specials and take advantage of them by becoming [...]
Knowing your market
Google Search Insights Every month I run reports from Google Analytics and several other sources to see how my websites are doing. Knowing how many hits your website has gotten is important but how do you know how many hits your website could have potentially had? Keyword Analysis: Pittsburgh photographer The first step to finding the [...]
Spec Work is bad for design
Why I am again writing about the evils of crowd-sourcing and spec work So I’ve been asked to be interviewed by an EDMC employee based on what I’ve written before about crowdsourcing and spec-work. She says she will attempt to explain both sides. Clearly EDMC is a poor source for any unbiased information because they [...]
Photography Schools: Art Institutes
The Absolute Minimum Industry I might have mentioned before that I have a google alert set for Art Institute and EDMC and a few other things that email me alerts about those businesses. One thing I see a lot of are posts or Yahoo Questions asking if the poster should go to this for profit [...]
Student Loan Injustice
Sallie Mae: Predatory Lender It’s taken me nearly a decade of fighting to get a payment that I can afford. During this decade my student loan debt has gone up excessively. I’ve had “legal fees” and “late fees” and “just because we can fees” tacked onto my loans that have been rolled in with them so that [...]
Information Overload
Too Much Information Are we really at the point of total information overload? How we got here Let’s stand back and view the expansion and dissemination of information over the past 30 years since the advent of mass user networking. Even before the internet and hypertext protocol were developed as a means to share information more easily the [...]
WordPress 3.0
WordPress 3.0 If I or someone else has built a website for you on WordPress and you’ve logged in within the past few days you should see a notice under the header that looks like the image on the left. It’s letting you know that WordPress 3.0 is out. Does that mean you should update? [...]
Search optimization for your mail box
Efficiency Fetish It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a geek but what you might not know about me is that I have a serious efficiency fetish. That doesn’t sound right exactly but what I mean is I really need things to work efficiently. I can’t stand extra steps and time wasting. When a client or [...]
Crowd Soresing
Background I’m a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (AIP) and I am, believe it or not, proud of the things I learned there, the instructors I was taught by, and the folks that I graduated with. I say believe it or not because these days AIP is broken. As is most of the rest [...]
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