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How to Create a Mini-Profile in Google+

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On Tuesday, Kim from Today's Creative Blog and I initiated a hangout on Google+. Many of you were gracious to pioneer with us (totally impromptu) and figure out how it works. It was fun to "meet" several of you, chat some and learn together. I'd love to have more of you hop in next time! {Continue reading…}

Blogging Productivity Tip: Find Images in Bulk

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If you're like me and don't take a lot of photos of your own to include in your posts, don't waste time by finding images for each individual post you write. Instead, find images in bulk. Photo by alancleaver. (This is a great tip Amy Porterfield offered in her post, How to Strategically Dominate the Facebook {Continue reading…}

A Free Alternative to Picnik: Pixlr Express

There's always a reason you might want to edit some of your images. Maybe you want to create a watermark or crop something out, make something a bit more fancy or all sorts of things. In my How to Make a Blog Button post (and How to Make and Install a Favicon), Picnik was the tool I {Continue reading…}

How to Customize Your FeedBurner Email Sign-Up Box

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I mentioned before the importance of email subscriptions and making your sign-up form really easy to find. I see a lot of blogs with the generic FeedBurner sign-up form in their sidebar. The default form looks like this: Now, there isn't anything wrong with this and if you have this in your sidebar, way to go! {Continue reading…}

Branding Tool: KnowEm

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When it comes to branding, ideally you'll want your name/username to be consistent across all social media sites. Whether you're creating a new site or a new product, or you want to more firmly establish the one you've already got, a great tool to check if and where your desired name is available is called {Continue reading…}

Have You Written About Tell Your Time?

A bit of housekeeping today if you don't mind… I'm always so grateful when I get an email from someone who has written about Tell Your Time. I'm putting together a page that links to all these posts, so if you have written about it, feel free to shoot me an email and I'd love {Continue reading…}