If you don’t know who Mike Filsaime is I suggest you check him out, you will learn a lot from him about internet marketing and marketing in general. He is a true inovator on the web and mentored by none other than Mark Joyner…

The video below is for his new Butterfly Marketing 2.0 system, which he is giving away, FREE. He is giving away the manuscript, which he sold for 97 dollars and I purchased a while back now, as a download for registering.

Just FYI but Mike Filsaimes first Butterfly Marketing launch was the first launch I saw as I was just getting interested in marketing. I think he was selling it for $1,997 and I thought he was a crook and out of his mind. He sold 1 million dollars worth in a few days and has become an internet marketing legend. Anyway, history lesson over, the video below is for his launch.

Please note he is using Brightcove http://www.brightcove.com/ for video streaming services and social media tools. Also, look at the twitter graphic below the video. That’s how to use twitter for full effect! Click on that image link and login to Twitter, then look at the update ready to be posted to see what I mean.

This is a link to the video

Go here to get Mike Filsaimes Butterfly Marketing: http://butterflymarketing.com/free/

If you’re not already using twitter signup right now…

** Get over to Twitter and sign up with your name, company name, or the generic description of what you do (example: SkinDoctor, MarketingConsultant, DogExpert, etc.). It’s free, and even if you aren’t going to participate right away, you’ll want to lock in a good name.

** Search for people you know at http://search.twitter.com and follow them, as well as look at who they are following to build a list you are personally interested in. It’s likely a large number of your followees will follow you back.

** Start posting and participating in the community and providing value to your followers. Remember, you are limited to 140 characters, so it won’t take you more than a few minutes to get going, plus it’s fun.

** Follow me at http://twitter.com/SteveTickner for details on what I’m up to.

Apparently the average age of Twitter users is 31, so this isn’t just something the “kids” are doing, it’s a serious business tool. Get started now!!

I was lucky enough to get a great deal on the RadControls for ASP.NET by Telerik recently.

I’d been looking at their RADEditor offering as a replacement for my Content Management System rich text editor. The editor looks awesome and supports lots of browser versions, whereas my editor only works in Internet Explorer (its quite old now(the editor not IE)).

Anyway, I leaped into the RADGrid and began to put it into a project but stumbled upon a problem where I couldn’t get an event to fire. This has been quite a pain in the butt! I finally worked out the problem a few days ago and wanted to share it here in case anyone has a similar issue.

The RADGrid is fantastic and very powerful. It is in fact, huge in terms of it’s functionality and capabilities. After I’d got the grid loaded with data, I wanted to edit a row and save that data or add a new row. At this point I had a problem where I couldn’t get the some of the grid editor events to fire. Specifically the Update and Cancel events of the edit form.

You can find the full post and responses at the telerik forum.

I had thought it was maybe a ViewState problem, which it turned out to be. Even though I had enabled viewstate in properties I found I had to explicitly enable viewstate in the asp.net tags of each form, usercontrol and control that was in the loaded control hierarchy.

It works like a charm and I’m very happy with the results. I’ve only just scratched the surface and I’m looking forward to developing more solutions with this control.