Creating an iPhone version of your blog

iPhone

So the iPhone hype has died down a bit. The early adopters got their hands on the first version, while the rest of the world somehow managed to continue with their lives. :) But why not cater to those few that may actually wait a minute and a half for your website to load on their iPhone?

Well, you can speed up that loading with an iPhone theme for your blog. Make that an iWPhone Plugin and Theme. ContentRobot has created such a package that automatically detects if a reader is using Safari on an iPhone, then serves up a custom theme formatted to replicate an iPhone application (clean and minimalistic).

All you have to do is activate the plugin and you’re done. It will automatically serve up the iPhone theme to iPhoners.

You can customize the theme like you would any other for WordPress. Add in your little logo to the header, remove post details, or whatever you wish. But the default installation shouldn’t take any more than a minute or two.

This is a handy plugin/theme combo, that the two or three people who have an iPhone and know you exist, will love. You can download it here.

Entreprenews of the Week

The Art of Guest Blogging: Should You Pay Guest Bloggers to Blog?
There comes a time when you can’t handle blogging by yourself anymore. So you start the hunt for guest bloggers. The question(s) is, should pay them, and should they expect to be paid?

Sleevage
Ashley from Bannerblog recently launched this site, and has been working on it with EMI for quite some time. Sleevage is a great source of inspiration for any creative or musicphile.

Magazine Creators Not Familiar With Internet
OMFG, this is why some businesses should consult young go getters.

Flip your thoughts: The key habit for weight loss, frugality, happiness, success
An unconventional guide to helping you develop habits in getting your ass in shape and bettering your life all-around.

Stunning toaster from the German Manufactum
The scariest toaster, ever.

The Madness Begins with a 300-Page AT&T Bill for iPhone
I see your 20 page cable bill, and raise with a 300 page phone bill, and a case of uber-hotness. (makes phone shape with hand) Call me.

Hairy Soap - A Look at Old Spice Body Wash
Matt shares one of the latest ads from Old Spice. I think their rebranding effort has been a success in stepping away from the BOLD and AGGRESSIVE styling. See for yourself in this ad and their new packaging.

Staying Motivated
It’s hard enough to get the ball rolling. But it’s even harder to keep it rolling. A List Apart tries to help you out in that department with this article.

Dry Erase Paint
Now, this is a good idea. Have an idea? Scribble it on the cupboards. Have a word or two for your spouse? Share your emotions on the living room wall.

The Beauty of Letterpress (video)
This is such an incredible craft that can be traced to the origin of almost every medium. If you have the opportunity at some point in your life, take a letterpress class. You won’t regret it.

The Starbuckian Handbook
Sally shares an essential list of standards for anyone living the Starbucks lifestyle. If you’re a n00b to the way of the Buck de Star, this’ll help you blend in with the in-crowd. (I’m so damn Punny)

113 Must Read Blogging Tips
Part of an ongoing series at ProBlogger, this list should reveal an insightful tip or two to help you better your blog.

Coca-Cola Happiness Factory
This is the second spot in this animated series (they seem to take a year to make). If you’re not already addicted to the unhealthy liquid blend of caffeine, sugar, and the other ingredients not recommended to be part of your daily diet, this commercial may just make you take the leap.

Have a link or article you think should make the Entreprenews? Send it to us before Saturday each week, and if we think our readers will like it, we’ll include it and give you due credit. hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com.

What if you spoke like you commented?

You’d look like this. Hilarious.

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Don’t give the same thing to everyone

Junk Mail

Every single day, I go to get the mail, and next to my mailbox sits a garbage can, filled to the top with the exact same things. New condominium fliers, special offers, government newsletters.

If the postman were observant, he would put all this junk directly in that trashcan instead of our mailboxes. If the post office weren’t so greedy, they’d be honest with the advertisers and how effective these mailers really are.

At times, they think they’re smart, they’ll drop one of these on our doorsteps. Same difference.

When we see that you’re lazy, don’t take the time to think about each of us personally, don’t care if I say no to you, you’re immediately blacklisted. All the “thought”, time, and money you put into buying that mailing list, crafting that copy, acquiring those stock photos, running them off the press, a complete waste.

Had you sent me a simple, personal, creative, and genuine letter, you would have increased your efficiency ten-fold. Sure, thousands of others may have received similar letters, but I don’t know or care about that — look, I got this nice letter and great offer, just for me.

Eliminate the term “mass” from your vocabulary. Each of your customers are more important than all of your customers. And existing customers are more important than potential customers.

In everything you do, “Hey Travis” will get you a lot farther than “Dear valued customer”.

Mark your calendars — Blog Action Day

Our friends over at Freelance Switch have put an enormous amount of thought and effort into creating an event to better this world. We were one of the first sites to commit to it, and hope you will as well.

It’s called Blog Action Day, and the blogging event is scheduled to take place on October 15th. The idea is simple: 1) Write a post about about an issue or solution that relates to the environment. 2) Donate your advertising earnings from that one day to an environmental charity of your choice.

Some large blogs have already hopped on board (GigaOm, Copyblogger, Reddit, and YGG of course :), and we’re sure, at the end of the day, the list will be gigantic and feature every celeb-blogger you can think of, including yourself.

Take a look at the website for Blog Action Day, watch the video above, then immediately register to have your blog participate in the event. As I said, expect the event to have thousands of participants, and hopefully have an impact on our media, government, and personal priorities.

Give and ye shall receive - the secret of being Dugg

Kevin by Thomas Hawk - Flickr

While writing a draft post on a wonderful WordPress plugin, Gregarious — which really wasn’t going anywhere exciting or interesting (probably will remain a draft forever) — I thought about an experiment I’ve been trying for the past several days.

If you Google “make digg homepage“, you’ll see around 10.7 million results. Most of the articles focus on the type of content you should write, catchiness of headlines, adding Digg widgets…….and a bunch of other tips that mean @#!* all if you don’t have a lot of regular readers and/or Diggers.

This experiment I mentioned is based on one of these articles that made the Digg front page a few days ago. Only this time, the author actually seems to know what he’s talking about. Brett Borders of Copybrighter wrote a step-by-step guide, which can be traced back to a simpler version from THE HORSE’S MOUTH, Mr. Calacanis back in December of last year.

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Time Silence is money

Silence is money

Over the past year or so I’ve come to the realization that sometimes the most important thing you can do in life is keep your mouth shut. Personally or professionally, employee or employer, it’s in your best interest to keep your cards to yourself.

Too often we feel the urge to share our opinion because we feel entitled to have one. True enough, in the free world it’s your right to have an opinion, but remember: The workplace is a dictatorship, not a democracy. Employees often miscalculate their place or even more dangerously, their relationship with the boss. Before you speak, put yourself on the receiving end of your comment. Without rationalizing, how did it make you feel? You can bet it’ll make them feel the same way. Now with your job on the line, is it worth sharing?

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Happy Belated 2nd Birthday YGG

Creepy Elmo

Wow, time sure flies. August 1st was the exact two year marker since Young Go Getter was first created by Eric. I’ve been a member since that day and a partner for a little over a year.

What began as just a phpBB forum, then morphed into a horror-show of iframes (I already apologized, back off!), finally became the WordPress/Vanilla mashup you’ve come to love.

It’ll be interesting to look back on YGG a year from today as we reach triple digits (inside Flight of the Conchords joke). I know it won’t look anything like it does today, but I haven’t the slightest clue what it will look like. Let’s worry about that when the time comes.

So to all of the unbelievable readers, members, and supporters of YGG, two cheers to helping us stay above water for over 700 days and motivating us to keep at it.

That’s right creepy Elmo. Yahoo. We’re 2.

Entreprenews of the Week

This was quite the busy week in business and blogging. Hence, the longest collection of Entreprenews to date. Enjoy!

8 Essential Strategies to Saying “No”
Thanks to Verne for this link
Our pals over at FSw share 8 different ways to tell your client to piss off, pleasantly.

Look Behind Our Shirts: Shirt.Woot Exposed!
An extensive photo documentation of Woot screen printing their shirts. Very cool.

Original Design Gangsta
For all the designers in da house. A video rhymin’ and mixin’, terminology from the creative world we live in.

Age, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Precocity
As time passes, so does opportunity. A bit of number and factor crunching to get your ass in gear.

Putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into Practice, Part II: Feature Creep
Features are great, when needed. But if they’re let lose, they can creep into every nook and crany, and result in what’s known as ugaly-as-myspac-a-citis.

Cycle of a Fan
An illustrated look at the difference between being a customer and being a fan.

Chrysler Rebranding
Looks a little less ugly, I guess.

Taberu Me: Peanuts as business cards
Your paper business cards suck in comparison to my nuts. (nastiest pun you’ll ever hear from me)

Eric Staller: Light Drawings
Light art has been getting quite a bit of publicity lately. But these gorgeous captures date back to the late 70s, while today’s artsies were still in diapers.

9 Ways to keep hucksters, shucksters and slimeballs at arms length when starting your own business
How to avoid those “turn your dollar into $13,426.53″ jerks, and save yourself from plenty of headaches and lawsuits.

The new ProBlogger is up
Title says it all. And may I add, about damn time Mr. Rowse!

Baker’s Edge
Who doesn’t love the crunchy edges of brownies? Now everyone can.

10 Ways to Write a Great Lead for a Blog Post
Great articles are nothing without a great lead. Bookmark this goody.

Is good enough enough?
Deadlines and restraints usually result in “good enough”. But what if you changed your objective?

The Ten Most Obnoxiously Overquoted Movies
If you ask for the TPS reports one more time, I’m, going, to, SNAP!!!

An Interview With Ben Gillbanks from Miniclip
We featured and loved one of Ben’s Miniclip games not too long ago. Now, our beloved young go getter, Adnan, went one step further and interviewed him. Great job Adnan.

Have a link or article you think should make the Entreprenews? Send it to us before Saturday each week, and if we think our readers will like it, we’ll include it and give you due credit. hello (at) younggogetter (dot) com.

Quick note: New Directory is up

From the feedback we got in the Forum, it was time for an upgrade to the Directory. So I spent the morning building a new direction for it, and went with the gallery format instead of a tag cloud.

We were just looking to give you a reason to drop by there every now and then, and make it easier to view and visit the sites. In my opinion, it looks a helluva lot better.

All of the dead sites were weeded out, and we encourage anyone that would like to be featured in the Directory to take a moment, register in our forum, and we’ll add it for you.

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