How anyone can build a business around a blog.
The other day I posted this on my Facebook page: One of my pet peeves: When I unsubscribe from a mailing list in an effort to cut back on unwanted email, and then I get an email confirming my unsubscription. JUST TAKE ME OFF THE LIST! I was inspired to write that after I had {Continue reading…}
So I was surfing doing research recently and I saw something I see a lot. It has to do with the social sharing buttons you find on blogs (like the cluster of buttons you see at the end of this post). Specifically, it has to do with sharing on Twitter. Total sidenote: A while ago I posted {Continue reading…}
I need an Advertising page. It's one of the many things I need on this blog, so one day I'm hoping it jumps from my to-do list to reality. Just to make sure we're all talking about the same thing here… The purpose of an Advertising page is to provide essential details to those who {Continue reading…}
If you use YouTube to post videos, make sure you're leaving a clickable link to your blog in the first part of your video description. It's a great way to drive traffic to your blog from your videos. Update: This tip was originally published in April 2011, but I'd like to refine it because, well, {Continue reading…}
I'm not sure what has happened to me over the last week, but I am on a major organizing kick. Here are some of the things I've done in the last 2 weeks: I sorted through my lingering papers and written notes. I had a few binders and a couple folders of paperwork and successfully {Continue reading…}
I like the new Timeline on Facebook, but I have to say, I got the urge to streamline this week. Between emails, DMs on Twitter and private messages on my Facebook personal profile, it was becoming a lot to keep track of! So, I decided to turn off messages on my Facebook page. I'm not sayin' I'll {Continue reading…}
I've gotten many questions lately about WordPress, and specifically, what the difference is between a WordPress.com blog and a WordPress.org blog. There's definitely a difference and I'm the first to admit, it's confusing. I thought of an analogy that I hope will make it easier to understand. Of course analogies always break down at some {Continue reading…}
YouTube makes it easy to share videos in your posts, but resizing them to make them fit well isn't as straightforward. Here's a brief rundown of sharing, linking, embedding and resizing. Can't see the video? Watch it here. Video Notes: Click the "Share" link on the video page. Grab the highlighted code for text links. {Continue reading…}
Goals are great, but I think they can be problematic. I went to school. I did relatively well. I worked my tail off to be the best at as much as I could. I got good grades, nearly straight A's all the way through. I played piano and the flute, was in band and orchestra, {Continue reading…}
I recently saw a blog post in which the author was promoting a product as an affiliate (here's an explanation of affiliate marketing if you need it). It was a great post in which they explained how they used the product and why they liked it. They sprinkled their affiliate link throughout the post appropriately and {Continue reading…}
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