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  Robert Bruce

  28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  This week on The Lede … Seth Godin’s simple cure for writer’s block. Why David Ogilvy called himself a lousy copywriter. A case study in the power of the blog. 10 ways to use Pinterest for your business. If you want more links you can use than the seven we highlight here every week, follow @copyblogger on Twitter. // A Stalker’s Guide to Competitive Research If you ever wanted a shot at becoming a private detective (without the hassle of becoming a private detective), this is it. Comprehensive does not begin to describe this article from Ms. Narayanasamy. In it, she…

• Answers to the 3 Biggest Email Marketing Questions We Get

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  Robert Bruce

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  We’re back and we’re ready to talk email marketing. I asked two pros to come on and spill their best advice on the three biggest email marketing questions we get here at Copyblogger. DJ Waldow joins me and Sonia Simone to discuss: The best way to build an email list The 2 reasons why people open an email The most important element of an email that sells How to write emails that get opened How to stay out of your reader’s spam filters Sonia’s secret weapon of email marketing that works This one’s fast and useful, so keep your ears on … Hit the flash player…

• How-To Reverse Negative eBay Feedback

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  Gavin Simone

  17 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Don't be blindsided by negative feedback (Photo: _Max-B) I’ve been selling on eBay since 2006.   I started selling my own belonging after picking up a book about eBay selling.  Although I loved watching people bid on my stuff, I hated the packaging and shipping part of it.  Later on I began drop shipping by finding some great companies though Thomasnet.com as well as Worldwide Brands.   The one thing you give up when you use a drop shipper is control over problems like lost packages and late shipments that occasionally occur.  Sometimes the problem is not with the product but…

• 5 Camera Accessories for iPhone 4

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  alexis

  13 Jan 2012 | 7:49 am

  As a professional photographer, Chase Jarvis once said, “The best camera is the one that’s with you.” And, grateful to various smartphones such as the iPhone and Android devices, almost all of them have a camera in them. These cameras are continually getting improved, and gossip has it that the next generation’s iPhone camera (8 MP) will be even better. Right now, there is always chance for development, if you wish to take photos captured by your iPhone to the next generation. Check out this post containing 5 best must-have accessories, including flexible tripod,…

• iPhone Photography with CreativeLive: The Trip Out and Instameet

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  Scott Webb

  15 Jan 2012 | 2:21 pm

  TweetIt was 3:30am, a time I’d get used to seeing on a bedside clock, on the day before the CreativeLive workshop for iPhoneography with Jack Hollingsworth. I needed to get to where a shuttle was picking me up to drive me a few hours and end up at the Detroit Metro Airport. This was the first time I’d be flying own without another person with me. This could turn out great or turn out to be a terrible scenario. I’m pretty amazing at inducing high levels of anxiety in such situations but my love for iPhone photography was going to get me through it. So, how did it all go?

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• 25 Reasons Why Google Hates Your Blog

  Guest Blogger

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:02 am

  This guest post is by Belinda of The Copy Detective. Your blog is a good read. Everyone says so. Although “everyone” is really just people you already know. Like your Mum. So why isn’t your blog being found by other people? The millions and millions of people hungrily consuming blog content out there in the global online space we call the Internet? The cold, hard truth is that Google hates your blog. And it’s nothing personal. You just don’t have anything that Google wants. Creating high-quality, relevant content is a must if you want your blog to be noticed by search engines but…

• 2 Different Tales of Blog Growth

  Darren Rowse

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pm

  “What was ‘the tipping point’ for your blog?” This question is one that I’m regularly asked in interviews, and it is one that is challenging to answer. The assumption behind the question is that there is often some kind of event that pushes a blog into the limelight. The reality is that it’s not always this way. Let me illustrate this by telling the stories of my two main blogs—ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. ProBlogger’s tipping point: dramatic growth Here on ProBlogger, the only real tipping point-type event that I can identify is when…

• 6 Fatal Symptoms You’re in the Wrong Niche

  Guest Blogger

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:06 am

  This guest post is by Martyn Chamberlin of Two Hour Blogger. “What should I write about?” It seems such a silly question. Of course you know what to write about! In fact, you could argue it’s even impossible to write about the wrong thing. That’s like ordering the wrong iPod! Whoever heard of such a thing? As you know, if you write long and hard enough, someone will listen. An audience of five is great if you’re just blogging for fun. But what if you’re trying to build a profitable business? Can you get enough people listening to make a business? The answer…

• 10 Ways Multi-blog Authors Can Stay Creative and Generate Great Posts

  Guest Blogger

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:02 pm

  This guest post is by Jo Gifford of Cherry Sorbet Creative. Keeping fresh and creative is key to keeping on top of the game when writing different blogs across various sectors, and for various clients. Working with efficient workflows, time management and organization all help to keep that valuable information harnessed to be used when you need it, but how about making sure you can produce great content on time and on demand? Keeping creative and informed means you are working efficiently to produce content that’s engaging, informative, and, of course, profitable for you. After all,…

• Ramit Sethi Exposed: How He Earns Millions Blogging

  Guest Blogger

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:07 am

  This guest post is by Michael Alexis of WriterViews. In this post, I’m going to show you the exact steps one blogger used to earn over $1 million. Not long ago, I interviewed Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich. If you’re serious about making money blogging, then you need to read this interview. But a heads-up: this post is long and extremely detailed. It took me over 20 hours to write. It will take you about 15 minutes to read. If you like, you can download a PDF of the entire article here. I know you may be skeptical about the $1 million, so let’s start by looking at…

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• 7 Useful Marketing Articles for Your Weekend

  Robert Bruce

  28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  This week on The Lede … Seth Godin’s simple cure for writer’s block. Why David Ogilvy called himself a lousy copywriter. A case study in the power of the blog. 10 ways to use Pinterest for your business. If you want more links you can use than the seven we highlight here every week, follow @copyblogger on Twitter. // A Stalker’s Guide to Competitive Research If you ever wanted a shot at becoming a private detective (without the hassle of becoming a private detective), this is it. Comprehensive does not begin to describe this article from Ms. Narayanasamy. In it, she…

• Answers to the 3 Biggest Email Marketing Questions We Get

  Robert Bruce

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  We’re back and we’re ready to talk email marketing. I asked two pros to come on and spill their best advice on the three biggest email marketing questions we get here at Copyblogger. DJ Waldow joins me and Sonia Simone to discuss: The best way to build an email list The 2 reasons why people open an email The most important element of an email that sells How to write emails that get opened How to stay out of your reader’s spam filters Sonia’s secret weapon of email marketing that works This one’s fast and useful, so keep your ears on … Hit the flash player…

• The Glee Guide to Attracting a Raving Horde of Social Media Fans

  Beth Hayden

  26 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  If your memories of high school involve wedgies, broken hearts, and getting stuffed into your locker, you probably love Glee. The musical comedy TV show — Ryan Murphy’s smash hit about the nerds, misfits, and social outcasts of McKinley High School’s glee club — is equal parts quirky, cheesy, heartbreaking, and surprisingly delightful. Over its first two seasons, the show has also attracted millions of obsessive fans from all over the world. Glee fans, or “Gleeks,” follow the moves of their favorite show with a passion once reserved for Cabbage Patch Kids…

• 4 Simple Steps to a Facebook Timeline that Tells Your Marketing Story

  Andrea Vahl

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  So how about that new Facebook Timeline? Love it? Hate it? Either way it’s here to stay (until it isn’t). As always, Facebook loves to change things up and people love to kvetch about it. You can always use new Facebook Features to improve your marketing, so how can you use the Facebook Timeline to your advantage? Read on. First, a few facts about the Facebook Timeline. The Timeline only affects personal profiles at the moment. Facebook has not announced when (or even if) they will roll the new Timeline look out to Facebook Pages. Second, not everyone has the Timeline yet. If you…

• How to Instantly Transform Your Landing Page Images from Good to Great

  Sean D'Souza

  24 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  Reading this post made us smarter, richer, more fascinating, and an average of 3 inches taller. Let’s say you place a photo of a client on your landing page. Just the photo. No client name. No title, or business name. No clue as to what industry that client is in, or where they come from. Now, photos are a great addition to landing pages. Photos of happy clients help to build trust with your readers, showing the type of people who do business with you. But would anyone even know that person was a client? The moment you add in a few important details — the client name, the…

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• Five Steps to Stronger Email Relationships

  John Chow

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:36 am

  Aweber and MarketingSherpa have released a special report and five-part email series on how to create stronger relationship with email. The report is based on a survey of over 2,700 email marketers, and features in-depth analysis, the latest benchmark data, and five actionable step to creating a strong email relationship with your readers. Research reports from MarketingSherpa normally cost $97. However, Aweber is making it available for free to their customers. The information and advice in the report are dead on, and you should definitely download a personal copy to add to your success…

• Newport Beach Restaurant Week – The Cannery

  John Chow

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:15 am

  Newport Beach Restaurant Week allows you to “Savor the Flavor” of the OC’s best restaurants for a reasonable price (reasonable for Newport Beach anyway). Running for a full nine days and two weekends during January 20th – 29th, this citywide culinary celebration, serves up special prix-fixe gourmet menus that would normally cost you an arm and a leg, but during restaurant week, will cost you only an arm. The Cannery Restaurant in Newport Beach covers nearly 90 years of history. It started life in 1934 as a real cannery and turned into a seafood restaurant in 1973.

• Six Practical Tips for Better Blog Content

  Guest Blogger

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:11 am

  For all the tutorials available online regarding SEO and marketing techniques, you could be forgiven for forgetting about the true key to successful blogging, quality content. It doesn’t matter if you are an SEO genius or have the flashiest wordpress theme around, if your posts aren’t up to scratch, you’re blog will never really take off. And while keeping the quality up can seem relatively easy when you first start a new blog, after a few months your enthusiasm can start to fade and with it the spark that was present in your early post. So how do you ensure that your content remains…

• Affiliate Summit West 2012 – Shoemoney Keynote

  John Chow

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:08 pm

  The closing keynote of Affiliate Summit West Las Vegas was delivered by my good friend and enemy (frienemy?) Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com. The keynote would be Shoe’s 50th presentation and his last. I actually recorded the entire presentation and was going to process it with Shoe’s slides, but had to scrap the idea when I found out that recording of any Affiliate Summit sessions were not allowed (this is why the other ASW session videos were removed). Shoe went and got special permission to make the presentation available. He then had a member of his staff processed the…

• How To Track YouTube Conversions

  Guest Blogger

  24 Jan 2012 | 3:06 pm

  Do you have a YouTube conversion tracking strategy? If you’re like me, then you’re probably uploading product reviews, screen capture tutorials and other short videos on YouTube to promote your affiliate website or affiliate links. But how are your YouTube promotions really impacting your profits? Is YouTube really worth your time? There’s no real way to know unless you implement a systematic way of tracking your YouTube clicks and conversions. And of course, you can do this easily with LinkTrackr. The easiest way to do it is to embed your LinkTrackr tracking link right on the video…

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• Online Marketing News: Say NOPA to SOPA, Google+ Strikes Again, Coca Cola “Gets It”, Twitter Gobbles Up Summify

  Ashley Zeckman

  20 Jan 2012 | 6:31 am

  The Social Job Seekers The social media job market is hot! This infographic visualizes the 2011 Social Job Seeker Survey that was conducted by Jobvite.  It examines who the job seekers are and how they are utilizing social media to find jobs.  Some interesting statistics you may not be aware of: 61% of all employed Americans are open to a new job or actively looking for a new one. 4 out of 10 job seekers are “Super Social” and have 150+ contacts on Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedin. 1 in 6 job seekers found their last job through an online social network. This Week in News About Google…

• Social Media & Blogging Listmania with Curated Resources & Lists

  Lee Odden

  16 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am

  Being included on a popular list of credible resources like our own BIGLIST of top Marketing Blogs or one of the many other collections of useful resources posted online can feel pretty satisfying, validating the hard work many are putting in to their business blogs. Great lists get socially shared, linked, and emailed, giving those included quite a bit of valuable exposure. By association, the list publisher also gains value in terms of exposure, links, and a connection with list participants. Curation is essential for sorting through the mass of data published online and with the closer…

• 4 B2C Examples of How Companies are Using Twitter to Attract & Engage Customers

  Ashley Zeckman

  3 Jan 2012 | 5:36 am

  If you are a B2C company, interaction on a social platform like Twitter can increase engagement and even sales if executed properly.  Small businesses like Tender boutique in Birmingham, Michigan have promoted special offers on Twitter and sold out in just a few days. Social interaction via platforms like Twitter allow companies to gain a true understanding of their prospect base and serve as a real-time source of market research. Customer engagement is a key benefit of executing a B2C Twitter marketing strategy. A recent survey by Chadwick Martin Bailey found 67% of Twitter users are more…

• Blogging On A Budget: 3 Tips for Bigger Impact

  Ashley Zeckman

  29 Nov 2011 | 7:00 am

  Blogging is one of the top sources of online content creation for many companies. Blogs are a great vehicle for interacting and engaging with current and prospective clients.  Blogs are also an effective way for prospects to associate stories, anecdotes, and personalities with a company or brand. Taking on a blog can be a large undertaking.  There are many things that should be considered including cost, availability of resources, strategy creation, time commitment, and measurement.  Simply creating content and expecting instant success is not realistic.  If you have recently decided that…

• The Dynamic Duo of Business Blog Marketing: Optimize & Socialize

  Lee Odden

  25 Nov 2011 | 5:59 am

  Blogs are often rated one of the top content marketing tactics for attracting and engaging customers and eMarketer has reported blogs reach over 50% of the internet audience. But many companies fail to combine two of the most important tools for boosting relevant traffic and reach: Optimization for search engines and for social media. Most marketers and bloggers understand the basics of a good business blog and the notion of search engine optimization but often focus more on keywords than the customers that are actually searching.  Adding keywords to blog posts is a common SEO tactic but…

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• Six Essential SEO Strategies for Bloggers

  Denise Wakeman

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:20 am

  Bloggers can never get enough advice about SEO. This is a guest post by Chrisian Arno at Lingo24.  Six Essential SEO Strategies for Bloggers When a blog forms part of your marketing strategy, you need to be confident your words will reach the right people. With search engines constantly refining their algorithms, not to mention the huge amount of information competing for your readers, this can seem like an impossible task. Here are six strategies that can help you regain your confidence with SEO.Do Your ResearchIf you are someone who dashes off blog posts when inspiration strikes, slow…

• Blogging Without Dates - The pros, the cons and meeting in the middle

  Linda Dessau

  6 Jan 2012 | 8:45 am

  This is a guest post by Linda Dessau of ContentMasteryGuide.com In his October 2011 post about why you no longer need a blog (in the traditional sense), John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing predicts that soon our content will "no longer be consumed in chronological fashion." When Jim Connolly of Internet Marketing Jam explored the question of why people remove dates from their blog posts, in the end, he came to the conclusion that for his blog, the benefits far outweighed any risks. What are the pros of blogging without dates? What benefits did Jim Connolly see? People were spending more…

• Pitching to bloggers - the do’s and don’ts of blogger pitching

  Denise Wakeman

  22 Dec 2011 | 8:25 am

  This is a guest post by Kristy Shaw of Punch Communications. Pitching to bloggers… the do’s and don’ts of blogger pitching Life as a PR has certainly changed over the last few years; with the rise in popularity of blogs it has meant having to adapt the way I pitch to different types of media. Bloggers can be just as influential as many print publications and therefore should always be on PR agencies radars.  Pitching to bloggers is a world away from traditional pitches to journalists; there are many more things to take into account. For example, in contrast to traditional media…

• Two Tips for Generating More Leads on Your Business Blog

  Denise Wakeman

  19 Dec 2011 | 8:55 am

  Recently I joined the Social Media Biz School as an instructor. In the video below, I share a couple of the business blogging tips to give you a taste of the kind of strategies, tactics, tips and tools you'll be learning in the free 27 minute webinar on demand: How to Generate More Leads with Social Media... [Can't see the video in your blog reader? Click here to watch on YouTube.]  You can get instant access to the free webinar here. Your instructors are: Viveka von Rosen (LinkedIn), Lori Gama (Twitter), Andrea Vahl (Facebook), Lou Bortone (Online Video) and me (Blogging). Get…

• The BIG SEO Secret for Bloggers

  Denise Wakeman

  13 Dec 2011 | 11:02 am

  This is a guest post by Adam Stetzer of Hubshout. The BIG SEO Secret for Bloggers I talk to bloggers just about every day. For a while last year my blogging blog was on page 1 for the Google search "blogging", though we are now on page 3. With this type of exposure comes some crazy organic traffic. In fact, over 39,000 bloggers have registered with my blog since I opened it in 2007. With each passing year I am continually amazed by just how many bloggers are convinced that there is a BIG SEO secret out there. The conversations seem to follow a familiar pattern. It goes something like this. …

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• Why You Shouldn’t Drive Traffic

  Chris Garrett

  16 Jan 2012 | 9:58 pm

  In the first 7 days of this blogs life, 20,000 visitors checked it out. Sounds like a pretty nice result doesn’t it? I was super happy, but a little disappointed in one specific respect. Only 500 people subscribed. Now, don’t get me wrong, I loved and nurtured those 500 subscribers and 500 subscribers in any time frame is not to be sniffed at! My problem was, how can you have 20,000 visitors check out my blog and only 500 of them want to stick around? The cause? I was “Driving” traffic … Big Lessons Learned I had been involved with a couple of successful blogs at…

• How to know what your audience really wants

  Chris Garrett

  23 Dec 2011 | 1:53 pm

  Your audience does not want your content. Your audience probably does not want to hear from you at all. If you think that because your website looks great that people will want to visit it … think again. What do they really want? Your audience and potential customers know who they are and probably have a very good idea of their goals. At the very least they know their immediate needs. They are looking for answers to questions, advice, and resources that help people like them get the stuff people like them want. When someone seeks out and clicks on your content it is only as a means to…

• Finding and Communicating Your Value

  Chris Garrett

  5 Dec 2011 | 1:06 pm

  Many bloggers don’t have a value problem. They have a great deal to share. I am sure you do – I have never met someone who doesn’t. Why then do people struggle to find an audience. Never mind an audience who knows, likes and trusts them – ANY audience? It’s weird but a lot of the time it is because you have SO much to offer, it’s hard to know who you are for and what specific benefit you provide. A lot of my coaching clients have this problem and, thankfully, there is a solution. The solution is simple, but it isn’t always easy. Check out Ryan…

• How to REALLY make money from a website

  Chris Garrett

  23 Nov 2011 | 5:08 pm

  As much as I tell people to seriously reconsider buying too much into the hardcore “Make Money Online” hype, I can not argue against its allure and the fact that, well, people DO make money online. The problem is, there are the usual caveats: It’s not fast. It’s not easy. You WILL encounter problems and tough challenges. You might not always enjoy it. These are challenges facing Roman who asked me for a blog critique. He has been building a site all about his experience of creating a website that makes money called “How this website makes money” (how meta).

• Moving the Fear Line

  Chris Garrett

  15 Nov 2011 | 4:39 pm

  Imagine being under water, upside down, trapped in your Kayak. You can feel your lungs burning because you didn’t have time to grab a full breath … though you are surprising yourself how long you are managing to force yourself from gasping down a lung full of water … All you can hear is your heart pounding. Scary? I don’t need to imagine what that would be like because I can remember in vivid detail. In fact I have had nightmares about it. My overriding thought was drowning myself was a heck of a way to celebrate my birthday! Learning from the things that scare us…

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• What Does Twitter’s New Censoring Ability Mean To You?

  Allison

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am

  Like many social networks, Twitter is a very powerful platform for connecting people. While some of us might use it for nothing more than complaining about coworkers or sharing pictures of our lunch, others are using Twitter to take down governments and stop poorly-worded bills from becoming laws. Yesterday, Twitter announced that it has refined the technology enough to censor tweets in specific areas of the world. This doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. We all have this knee-jerk reaction to instantly hate anything that even questions our freedom of speech concepts, but before…

• 27 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Public Speaking

  Allison

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:36 pm

  Brilliant Bloggers is a weekly series here at BlogWorld where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. Every week, we’ll feature three of the most brilliant bloggers out there, along with a huge list of more resources where you can learn about the topic. You can see more Brilliant Blogger posts or learn how to submit your link for an upcoming edition here. This Week’s Topic: Public Speaking One of the ways you make money with a blog or podcast is to use this content as a jumping off point for public speaking. Serving as a speaker had two benefits:…

• Eight Ways to Make More Money as an Affiliate

  Allison

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Every month, I make a few hundred dollars in affiliate sales as a blogger, and those who focus on this form of monetization make even more. When I first started selling products as an affiliate, I was lucky to make a few bucks a month with Amazon. Lots of bloggers have given brilliant advice about working as an affiliate, but today I wanted to talk about some tips that worked for me to increase affiliate sales. You can make a few changes to increase passive sales, like me, or you can really run with these tips to make a full-time income with affiliate sales. 1. Capitalize on search terms…

• Can You Create Better Content on Google+ Under a Pen Name?

  Allison

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:36 pm

  I’ve written about blogging anonymously (under a pen name) in the past, both here at the BlogWorld blog and on the Wright Creativity blog. I’ve made it no secret that I write and manage a fairly successful blog under a different name, and I think there are great reasons for doing so (though it is definitely not the right choice for everyone). Today, Google announced that they’d now be allowing both nicknames and pseudonyms on Google+. This makes it much easier for anonymous bloggers to use the network, which will definitely be an advantage for Google as it continue to try to…

• 35 Brilliant Bloggers Talk about Pinterest

  Allison

  21 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Brilliant Bloggers is a weekly series here at BlogWorld where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. Every week, we’ll feature three of the most brilliant bloggers out there, along with a huge list of more resources where you can learn about the topic. You can see more Brilliant Blogger posts or learn how to submit your link for an upcoming edition here. This Week’s Topic: Pinterest Over the last few weeks, I’ve been blogging and tweeting a lot about Pinterest. It’s my latest obsession, and one that I believe has unlimited potential for…

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• The Two Biggest Guest Blogging Mistakes You Can Make

  Daniel Scocco

  26 Jan 2012 | 10:55 pm

  I receive around 20 guest post submissions per week. Usually I let them pile up and once a month I go through all of them, replying to the ones I think would be a good fit for the blog. There are two types of submissions I discard right away, though, without even taking a look. I also consider those the two biggest mistakes you can make while trying to guest post on some blog. They are: 1. Not including the name of the blog owner If by opening your email I see something like “Dear Sir” or “Dear Blog Owner” I’ll send it to the trash bin immediately. Why? because…

• The Top 7 Twitter Imperatives For Bloggers

  Hal Licino

  25 Jan 2012 | 10:08 pm

  Many bloggers accustomed to dealing with topics in 400 to 600 words are finding concentrating their messages down to a mere 140 characters to be extremely challenging. Twitter can be a minefield and the slightest error can cost you readers and reputation, so follow these top 7 blogger imperatives for Twitter and rise to the level of a whiz tweeter, not a whizzing twit. 1. Wach ur Spelink & Gramma – Your Twitter content represents your blog and if you’re illiterate in your tweets then the reader can expect more of the same in your blog. Even though you only have 140 characters to work…

• 6 Actionable Tips to Really Improve Your Blog in 2012

  Gregory Ciotti

  24 Jan 2012 | 10:54 pm

  Enough of the quasi-motivating “New Year posts” which promise you the world but show you no actions to take. This post is just gonna give you the facts; no B.S. about “taking charge” of your blog’s success, just stuff you need to get done to rock it in 2012. So, how about you stop reading the intro and start taking notes, and after that, don’t go check Twitter, start implementing them right now! 1.) Take Your Email List Seriously It’s time to start taking your email list seriously, because building it is the “do or die” component of your…

• And the Copyright Infringement Hunt Begins…

  Daniel Scocco

  23 Jan 2012 | 10:58 pm

  You probably already heard about SOPA/PIPA and the whole debate around it, right? Last Wednesday it was a really interesting day on the Internet, probably representing the biggest online activism movement ever, with all major online companies and websites protesting against the bills. The movement was pretty successful, with many senators reversing their stance on the SOPA/PIPA bills, and making it much harder to get them approved now (i.e., the Internet folks won the first battle of the war). The day after, however, another blow stroke. The founders and key employees of the site…

• How to Add a Call to Action to Your Post

  Ali Luke

  22 Jan 2012 | 9:01 pm

  You might have written your best post ever — but without a call to action, it’s not going to get you the results you’re hoping for. A “call to action” is a copywriting term. It simply means asking or telling the reader to take a specific action. That might be: Subscribing to your blog or newsletter Buying your ebook Sharing the post on Twitter or Facebook Downloading a free report Trying out a particular technique or idea … or almost anything that will benefit you and/or the reader. Your call to action should be clear and specific. Don’t simply link to a post and assume…

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• Online Marketing News: Women Dominate Community Management, Google Privacy, FBI Social, Twitter Censorship, McD Hashtag Gone Wrong

  Ashley Zeckman

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:40 am

  The 2012 Community Manager Report Community Manager is an essential, yet still uncharted territory for many companies that are expanding their presence on the social web.  What should you know about the current state of this position? 67% of Community Managers work for a brand The most popular city for Community Managers is New York 65% of Community Managers are Female Be sure to check out the rest of this report presented by Social Fresh. Google & FBI: All Your Social Data Are Belong to Us For non-geeks, here’s the reference (Zero Wing video) “Google Privacy Changes: What…

• 5 Basic SEO Troubleshooting Tips for Content Marketers

  Lee Odden

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:34 am

  Content Marketing Not Performing? Troubleshoot SEO Basics. This post is a preview of a new downloadable guide I will be offering for those who pre-order Optimize by March 13, 2012. The full guide will have screenshots, examples and more “SEO Deep Dive” advice. If you want the full, illustrated Content Marketing SEO Troubleshooting Guide, visit OptimizeBook.com to pre-order and subscribe to our mailing list for more details. Content Marketing at its core is about planning information that is thoughtful about the needs and interests of target customer groups as they take the…

• Optimize Your Social Media Schedule: 4 Tips for Avoiding the Social Media Time Suck

  Ashley Zeckman

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:56 am

  Making the time to execute on a social media strategy can rattle even the most experienced marketers.  Unlike traditional marketing, social media marketing can present many different challenges and distractions.  According to a study by eMarketer 73% of marketers say finding the time to create content as their biggest marketing challenge. I recently ran a poll of @TopRank Twitter followers to get a sense of how they spend their time online.  I asked “If you had only 20 minutes a day to spend on social media what would you focus on?”  Some of the answers we received were:…

• 11 Ways to Get Smarter & Stay Current in a World of Social Information Overload

  Lee Odden

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am

  Online Marketing is all about information. And people. Making connections that solve marketing problems in today’s environment of social and technological innovation can be challenging. Like many readers of this blog, a big part of what I do as an Internet Marketer centers around being able to consume large amounts of information or better, the right information, synthesizing it and using insights to help others make sense of the challenges and opportunities they face with marketing on the web. As an author, frequent speaker at industry conferences, advisor to clients and the people who…

• Online Marketing News: Say NOPA to SOPA, Google+ Strikes Again, Coca Cola “Gets It”, Twitter Gobbles Up Summify

  Ashley Zeckman

  20 Jan 2012 | 6:31 am

  The Social Job Seekers The social media job market is hot! This infographic visualizes the 2011 Social Job Seeker Survey that was conducted by Jobvite.  It examines who the job seekers are and how they are utilizing social media to find jobs.  Some interesting statistics you may not be aware of: 61% of all employed Americans are open to a new job or actively looking for a new one. 4 out of 10 job seekers are “Super Social” and have 150+ contacts on Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedin. 1 in 6 job seekers found their last job through an online social network. This Week in News About Google…

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  The Friday Traffic Report

• The One About YouTube Video Marketing

  Jack Humphrey

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:22 pm

  Listen to internet radio with The Friday Traffic Report on Blog Talk Radio Today we discussed the massive-ness of YouTube, the importance of video content marketing, and how to tap into 800 million users, or, the “Beast With A Billion Eyes.” Also: Google privacy update Links from today’s show ou the Friday Traffic Report Fan Page

• The One About Google’s Personalized Search

  Jack Humphrey

  15 Jan 2012 | 12:11 am

  In this, the second episode of 2012, Jack and Jim discuss the major change to Google’s search this week. Learn how it affects how you’re found on Google and how you can increase your traffic with social. Listen to internet radio with The Friday Traffic Report Related articles Google Personal Search Will change the way [...]

• First Friday of 2012!

  Jack Humphrey

  6 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pm

  On today’s Friday Traffic Report we hit the hot button issues.  Important things like, what gadgets we got for Christmas.  And why Twitter lets 3rd parties do things like Paper.li instead of doing them themselves. And, you know, all the other marketing and social tech goodness that comes with every serving of FTR radio! Links [...]

• $50,000 spent by individuals on Mafia Wars.

  Jack Humphrey

  16 Dec 2011 | 1:44 pm

  Where are people spending the big bucks online? And how might you take advantage of human nature to get more from your own customers? Today’s show takes a look at what people are willing to spend on online services and games.  And I bet you’ll be floored by what we found! Think about how the [...]

• Personal curation tools, privacy, and stuff we don’t like…

  Jack Humphrey

  9 Dec 2011 | 1:44 pm

  My co-host this week was Brandon Hall.  Jim Stroud was flying somewhere over North America at show time. Today we talked about: Clipboard, Scoop.it, Facebook, privacy and #D5D5D5 You’ll have to listen to figure that one out.  :) Check out our links on Facebook.

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  The Edublogger

• 3 Major Problems With Apple’s Education Announcement

  Ronnie Burt

  19 Jan 2012 | 8:12 pm

  You probably have already heard about the big announcements from Apple today and how they plan on changing the world of education as we know it. While you won’t find a bigger fan of technology in education than me, as I read through all of the different news articles and blog posts about this announcement, something just didn’t sit right. Here’s why… Rant #1 – You Don’t Own Your Content Most of the concerns I have with the announcements made today revolve around the iBooks Author app. This fun-looking application is marketed as a way for educators to make…

• Travelling Toy Bloggers – Coming to a School Near You!

  Miss W.

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:55 pm

  Note: This post was written by Sue Wyatt, who lives in Tasmania, Australia, and is the fearless leader of the Student Blogging Challenges. In 2011, I went on a fantastic holiday (vacation) in Canada and U.S.A. for 11 weeks. I drove about 10.000 miles in an automatic car on the wrong side of the road without using a GPS or mobile phone. I visited about 25 different classes arranged by 12 teachers in my PLN. I didn’t write a blog about my experiences though. “What!”, you say, “Yet you are writing here about blogging?” Mr. Davo Devil eating dessert! Instead of me writing the blog, I…

• 2012 to be the year of student blogging!

  Ronnie Burt

  12 Jan 2012 | 3:22 pm

  When Edublogs first launched back in 2005, the average classroom had one computer, and many didn’t have even one. Certainly there were next to no 1-to-1 initiatives or tablets in schools – and mobile computer workstations were just starting to be used. Getting to the point, the face of blogging in education is way different now then it was just a few years ago. On Edublogs, the two most popular types of blogs have traditionally always been: Classroom – Teachers providing updates and resources for students and parents Professional – A place for educators to share ideas…

• Posting images to your blog from your mobile device

  Sue Waters

  5 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm

  Significant improvement in smartphone cameras combined with increased mobile device usage means we’re getting more people asking us for the fastest option for uploading their photos from their mobile devices to their blogs. Here’s a few different ways you can do it! Using a blogging app There’s a wide range of blogging apps available for smartphones, iPads and android tablets. They vary considerably in terms of ease of use and functionality.  You can read our review of iPad blogging apps here. Personally I’ve found they can vary in terms of reliability – an…

• Top Browsers, Extensions, and Tips for Education – The Death of Internet Explorer?

  Sue Waters

  22 Dec 2011 | 3:16 pm

  Perhaps I am a bit obsessive when it comes to web browsers? And I’m sure it’s directly related to running four different web browsers daily on my computer for work. But it constantly reminds me how which web browser you use directly impacts your internet user experience. Here’s our review on what educators need to know about the top web browsers. And our challenge to you is to trial some of these web browsers for 2 weeks to work out which browser is the best for you! The top five most used web browsers in 2011 were: Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Safari Opera Key browser…

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  The Blog Herald

• Blogger’s Email Marketing Resource Kit: Don’t Leave Home Without it!

  James Junior

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:38 pm

  Even with the advent of social media, digital newspapers, smart phones, and tablets, targeted email marketing is still the most effective form of marketing online. We shouldn’t expect that to change anytime soon, so in the meantime, it would be a shame to pass-up email marketing as a revenue source. To help you capitalize on it as a blogger, I put together this resource kit that lists everything you need to get up and running with your own targeted email list and campaign except…….. Opt-In Incentive Let’s face it; people aren’t going to join your mailing list because they think…

• Using Pinterest To Promote Your Business [Infographic]

  James Johnson

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:10 pm

  Pinterest in a very short period of time has become a go to destination for millions of users. In fact in December 2011 there were 11 million visits a week, that’s 400% growth over just six months. Realizing the success of the program LinchPin SEO has created an infographic that shows users exactly how to market their items on the interest website and they created their unique infographic using the Pinterest setup. As the infographic rightfully points out Pinterest can be used for a variety of things suck as promoting sales and promitions, offering coupons to readers and even…

• Plink’s Facebook Loyalty Program To Be Tested By Major Chain Stores

  James Johnson

  26 Jan 2012 | 5:35 am

  Facebook has nearly captured the market for 1 billion social media users so it only makes sense that some of the countries top brands would want to turn that loyalty to the network into a rewards program and that’s exactly what’s happening at Dunkin’ Donuts, Red Robin, Taco Bell and Quiznos. Those company’s have signed deals with loyalty marketing startup Plink who will announced a new quick-serve brand test for partners on Thursday. The program works by tracking how much money Facebook users spend at each location and then rewarding them with Facebook Credits which…

• Facebook Suspends Secondary Market Trading, IPO Could Be Around The Corner

  James Johnson

  25 Jan 2012 | 11:43 am

  Facebook on Wednesday suspended secondary market sharing of the company’s stock in what is very likely a sign that the company plans to go public with an IPO in the near future. A letter was sent from Facebook’s law firm, Fenwick & West  stating that shares of the company would stop trading immediately although a reason for that decision is still not known. A recent report said Facebook would release its IPO in May and in an interview with Bloomberg Sam Hamadeh, CEO of PrivCo. said: “Facebook and companies who do this don’t want to expose themselves to lawsuits related to…

• YouTube Now Streaming 4 Billion Videos Per Day

  James Johnson

  23 Jan 2012 | 11:55 am

  Over the last eight months video views on popular video streaming website YouTube have jumped 25% to 4 billion online videos each day. Video views continue to increase particularly in the smartphone and Smart TV market where users are able to download YouTube videos faster and with better display quality. YouTube has also revealed that uploads to the service have greatly increased from 48 hours each minute in May to 60 hours each minute at the current time. While YouTube users are watching more videos through the service YouTube users only spend 15 minutes each day watching videos on the site…

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  Quick Online Tips

• Best Way to Find All Broken Links on WordPress Blogs

  QuickOnlineTips

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:28 am

  Broken Links are bad for SEO. What is the best way to find broken links on your WordPress blog? There are many broken link checkers which will let you find broken links, and many paid SEO reports also which will help you identify broken links, but in WordPress it is easier. I have been using the amazing Broken Links Checker plugin for quite some time since Panda updates became famous and it has helped us find and fix all broken links on our website. Check Broken Links Few months back, the first time we used the plugin it took several hours as it scanned across our entire site and you could…

• Site Traffic Crash by Google Layout / Panda Update

  QuickOnlineTips

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:44 am

  Our site traffic crashed over the week by 50%, closely after Google Page Layout Algo update was announced which was meant to penalize Google search traffic to sites with heavy ads above the fold. Now site traffic seems to have affected all pages across the site as traffic hits new lows. Google Page Layout Update We had only one 336×280 ad unit aligned right and only one 160x90px adlink unit aligned left above the main content. There are few 125×125 buysellads banners in the sidebar. Ironically the same day Google Adsense sent an email that we should place upto 3 Adsense ad units to…

• Google Penalizes Traffic to Above-the-Fold Ad Heavy Sites

  QuickOnlineTips

  20 Jan 2012 | 11:21 am

  Google traffic is set to crash for ad heavy websites with low content above the fold as per a  new Page layout Google algorithm change. If visitors need to scroll down to find your content, you can be sure the new Google alogrithm will reduce your site traffic. Page Layout Google Update The earlier Google Panda update was said to significantly affect Google search engine rankings for websites with high ad to content ratio. This saw many webmasters reduce the  number of ads, remove low quality thin content and generate a high content-ad ratio. What this new Google update does is target…

• Google Adsense Bug Showing No Ads on Sites

  QuickOnlineTips

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:44 am

  Are Google Adsense Ads not showing on your site? It seems an Adsense bug is affecting many Adsense publishers which is causing no ads to display for last many hours, which is leading to loss of revenue for many Adsense users. We are also seeing no Adsense ads on our site, but only blank ad spaces (check this post on our site yourself). No  Adsense Ads When I found the issue, I was surprised and at first it stuck me that its possible the ads were disabled. Then quickly checked my email for any Adsense warnings for policy violation etc., but there were none. I though it might be a browser…

• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich: 8 Essential Tips and Tricks

  QuickOnlineTips

  18 Jan 2012 | 10:10 am

  Here are some essential Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tips you need to know.  As Android has progressed through various iterations, the world’s number one phone operating system has improved and matured. Today we look at the many secrets lurking under the hood as a result of these improvements. Since version 1.0 in 2008, Android has made great use of hardware advances to the screen, camera, WiFi, magnetometer, accelerometer, GPS, gyro and much more. All in all, the OS has done a pretty fine job of creating an interface between man and machine. The problem is that there have been so many…

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  Alister Cameron // Blogologist

• My prediction for 2012 and beyond: gamification of the entire social web

  Alister Cameron

  3 Jan 2012 | 4:42 pm

  I’ve been “fiddling” (as I do) with Empire Avenue and Klout lately. These are two very different attempts at measuring a person’s online influence and authority. If I’m not careful I can spend up to 30 minutes a day on Empire Avenue and I check my Klout most days.Empire Avenue is far more elaborate than Klout, in may ways. It’s a deeply “gamified” experience, where you are given all kinds of things to do to increase your share price and wealth, to interact with others, and to, well, waste lots of time.But standing back from these two services, and others like them, I am…

• Content curation: computers and humans creating collaborative intelligence

  Alister Cameron

  25 Sep 2011 | 11:48 pm

  We don’t have a problem of “information overload”… we have a problem of “filter failure”. And even as you’re reading this massive money is being spent to create better filters. And the best filters are those which allow humans and computers to both do what they do best… in a new thing called “collaborative intelligence”.Content Curation. We’re starting to hear about it all over the place! But what is it?!I think it’s pretty simple. It’s about organizing information. It’s all the extra intelligence that’s…

• Empire Avenue has me hooked!

  Alister Cameron

  17 Sep 2011 | 6:05 pm

  I’ve just connected up to Empire Avenue and it’s proving very addictive. If you have a strong social media profile you’re gonna love it! If you don’t… it will challenge you!! Give it a look-see and let me know what you think  

• Three solid, clean HTML5 WordPress “starting” themes to build off…

  Alister Cameron

  26 May 2011 | 2:01 am

  I’ve found three pretty funky and super clean HTML5 WordPress themes that you can use as the starting-point of your own WordPress theme/design. They are Constellation, HTML5Reset and Roots. Have you found anything better out there? Please drop a comment and let me and other know… 

• My new cool links blog

  Alister Cameron

  11 Apr 2011 | 9:18 pm

  There are some things I can’t do on this blog… so now I’ve launched “alicam’s coolinks!” I’d love you to drop in, give it a quick look-see and stumble anything you like. Google’s yet to find it so any link love most welcome! 

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  Write to Done

• Is Your Writing Career Missing This Single Most Crucial Element?

  guest

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:10 am

  A guest post by Josh Sarz of Sagoyism I read a story a while back about a farmer who was sowing seeds by hand. He would bring his pouch of seeds, go out and start sowing. The farmer threw the seeds everywhere. At first, one would think that he is losing so much because he throws handfuls of seeds on the ground. To the extremely hungry, those seeds could make a decent meal. Why would he be throwing them away like that? But when you look at the big picture, the farmer really does lose handfuls of seeds, but in time he gains bounties more. I was reminded of this story when I was out fishing with…

• Writing Secrets of Prolific Authors

  guest

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:10 am

  A guest post by David Masters of inkably: tell better stories. Isaac Asimov, one of the big three science fiction writers of the twentieth century, published over 500 books including novels, short story collections and non fiction, making him one of the most prolific writers of all time. Asked by Writer’s Digest magazine for the secret to his prolific writing, Asimov said: “I guess I’m prolific because I have a simple and straightforward style.” ~Isaac Asimov (500 books) Could it really be that easy? Write clearly, in a conversational voice Writing clearly, in a simple and…

• Writers: How to Avoid Stagnation

  guest

  20 Jan 2012 | 6:10 am

  A Guest Post by Meredith Resnick of The Writer’s [Inner] Journey When my kids were in middle school they got a lot of make-work for homework and classwork, stuff that kept them very busy but that steered them away from real creativity and by proxy, real learning.  This make-work gave the illusion that students were busy and oh so productive. Wrong. What they were really doing was chasing their tail—in other words: stagnating. Being busy, compulsively busy even with journaling and writing and revising does not always spell productivity. As far as I’m concerned it’s a form of…

• Writers – Have You Developed THIS Skill?

  Mary Jaksch

  17 Jan 2012 | 4:52 am

  By Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor of Write to Done These days, if you want to make it as a writer, you need to do more than just write well. It used to be enough, but … Before we all went digital, every writer’s dream was to be discovered by a publishing house. The publisher would then take care of editing, production, publicity, public relations, distribution – in fact, nearly everything, apart from the act of writing. Now, aspiring writers are free to publicize their stuff on blogs, in digital magazines, or in eBooks. They can control when and how their material is published,…

• The Pros and Cons of Comparing Yourself to Other Writers

  guest

  13 Jan 2012 | 6:09 am

  A guest post by K.M. Weiland of Wordplay: Helping Writers Become Authors With the advent of writing communities on such networking sites as Twitter and Facebook and half a thousand forums and Nings, writers are perhaps more social and less solitary than at any time in our history. This brings its fair share of both benefits and drawbacks, since our easy access to other writers—both those who are striving to be published and those who have a dozen bestsellers under their belts—causes inevitable comparisons. Are we as good as they are? Are they as good as we are? Let’s explore what we can…

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• 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2012) | SEOmoz

  marvos

  28 Jan 2012 | 6:15 am

• Label Cloud Widget For Blogger / Blogspot ~ Blogger Widgets

  joplinus

  28 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am

• 50 Trigger Words and Phrases for Powerful Multimedia Content — Copyblogger

  chrisnaylor

  28 Jan 2012 | 5:45 am

• Free Affiliate Cash Snipers Review - what's inside.Affiliate Cash Snipers Think Again!

  idf3

  28 Jan 2012 | 3:12 am

• 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2012) | SEOmoz

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  Performancing

• Buy Links for SEO or not

  Guest Blogger

  23 Jan 2012 | 1:43 am

  Links, and in particular one-way links, have always been thought to be one of the top metrics that search engine web sites look for when ranking websites. Although the spirit of linking to another website is to show a tacit recommendation for that website, there are many ways in which this metric can be exploited. One way is to simply buy links or pay a search engine optimization company to buy links for you. The temptation of saving the time and effort of having to build relationships and court the opinions of webmasters is quite a strong one, yet many people swear off buying links for their…

• InstaBG Delivers Instagram Backgrounds To Your Twitter Account Automagically

  Guest Blogger

  31 Dec 2011 | 2:59 pm

  While I take great pride in managing my Twitter account through user interaction, quick responses to questions and sparse sharing of my own personal posts I don’t care much for updating my background so it remains fresh upon user visits. It’s for that reason that I began using and highly recommend the program InstaBG. The InstaBG platform connects users to their Twitter account and the Instagram photo sharing platform in order to create backgrounds based on user preference. The program couldn’t be easier to use, simply click on the “Sign in with Twitter Account”…

• Newest Free Mac Apps for Better Productivity

  Guest Blogger

  24 Dec 2011 | 3:29 am

  We all have trouble focusing from time to time. With the massive time waster that is the Internet tempting us with endless pages of Lolcats, YouTube videos, social-networking sites and Netflix, it is practically turning us all into creatures with the attention span of a goldfish. When was the last time you actually got through a task without checking Facebook? Or sending a text? I bet you can’t even remember. It is no surprise that an avalanche of free applications has been released by developers for the Mac that helps to combat the lack of productivity that sometimes occurs in our…

• Have You Selected The Right SEO Keywords?

  Guest Blogger

  15 Dec 2011 | 12:19 pm

  The first step in any successful search engine optimization campaign should be to consider your target market. What products and services do you sell? What sets you apart from your competitors? Why should people shop online with you? These questions help you to build up a picture of those who are likely to buy your products or services online. They also give you an immediate insight into the keywords (search terms) that will be used in order to find your website online. This is a great starting point when considering the keywords that you wish to target. Some would argue that keyword analysis…

• Don’t Overlook These 5 SEO On-Page Factors

  Guest Blogger

  30 Nov 2011 | 12:57 am

  Panda is not all about content. Since Panda came about and kung fu kicked everyone’s poor quality websites down the search results, all people are shouting is that ‘content is king’. No, not true. You, the person handling the overall SEO campaign, is king. The content is just part of the overall picture and really, producing quality content from the point you took over the project should have been your objective, regardless of what Google are doing. It’s basic common sense. With the focus on recent months having shifted across to blogger outreach and spending time writing high quality…

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  It's Not a Lecture

• My surprisingly conflicted take on #scio12

  David

  24 Jan 2012 | 2:37 pm

  ScienceOnline 2012 has concluded, and the snap reviews are glowing and well deserved.  It was great to reconnect with acquaintances, and to meet people whose work I've been reading and admiring for some time.  I'm very grateful for the well-developed program, the brilliant speakers and attendees, and the spectacular organizers.However, #scio12 also left me surprisingly conflicted and frustrated.To me, science is hope.  It's the process by which we discover our origins, try to understand our present, and help shape our future.  It holds the promise for addressing humanity's…

• Some important questions for NCSE

  David

  17 Jan 2012 | 4:27 pm

  I was very pleased to learn (via John Timmer's piece at Ars Technica) that the National Center for Science Education (a.k.a., those nice folks who defend the teaching of evolution in classrooms) is broadening its mission a bit:NCSE is proud to announce the launch of its new initiative aimed at defending the teaching of climate change. Like evolution, climate change is accepted by the scientific community but controversial among the public. As a result, educators trying to teach climate change, like their counterparts trying to teach evolution, are often likewise pressured to compromise the…

• The evolution of that evolution video

  David

  3 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am

  So you and about 36,000 of your friends have seen the video some pals and I put together that features women scientists explaining why teaching evolution is so important.  That pales in comparison to the million-plus views of the Miss USA contestants sharing their thoughts on the topic, but it's a small step in the right direction.Before the holiday break, our group started to share some initial thoughts on the next step.  I don't think we've reached a clear consensus yet, but I do know we will all be at ScienceOnline 2012, we will be talking with a lot of scientists and science…

• Smithsonian's rebrand idea is SO four years ago.

  David

  19 Dec 2011 | 1:03 pm

  Thea Joselow pointed this out to me.  It's a story in the Washington Post about the Smithsonian Institution's rebranding campaign. LOVE:The sprawling institution aims to be, in the words of Secretary G. Wayne Clough, a “conversation, not a lecture.”Thea noted this sounded familiar. So I checked to see how long I've been writing under the "It's Not a Lecture" title - about four and a half years now. For kicks, I decided to post an archive.I'm a huge fan of the Smithsonian Institution. They have some outstanding writers and bloggers (like Thea) working with them. And I'm excited that…

• a snapshot of the evolution discussion

  David

  12 Dec 2011 | 3:29 pm

  It's been a really busy few weeks since we introduced the video featuring women scientists explaining why evolution should be taught in schools. More than 33,000 views, 492 likes, 19 dislikes, and 238 comments later, this is what the discussion on YouTube looks like - it's the text from the comments (minus names and dates/times) pushed through the word cloud generator at Wordle.  I don't know that we can glean much from a single word cloud, but I like to look at it. Further, I don't really think YouTube comments are anything more than, well, YouTube comments.  But I do think…

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  Blogging Tips

• Blog Round Up

  Patti Stafford

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:19 pm

  Once in awhile you need to highlight the really good stuff. It’s that time again. Time to share some of the best blog posts I’ve read on this site and on a few others. First up is, of course, the owner of this blog, Zac Johnson. He is a highly successful blogger who you can learn a lot from. He recently discovered some secrets of probloggers. Now, he may not admit it, but he is up there in the ranks of problogger. I think you’ll get a lot out of this post, especially if you’re a new blogger. Another great blog post I read this week is actually a guest post. Nicole Dean…

• SnatchCode Helps You Backup Your Website and Databases with One Click

  Charnita Fance

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm

  SnatchCode is a one-click solution for backing up your website and monitoring it for changes. Not only that, but it will scan your website daily for viruses, malware, and unwanted/unauthorized changes. With each new authorized changed, SnatchCode creates a new snapshot of your website. Depending on which plan you choose this will be done on a daily or hourly basis. You’ll be able to download these snapshots if needed, in order to restore your website to a previous version. For all unauthorized changes, you’ll be notified immediately via email. SnatchCode also uses a 256-bit encryption for…

• 3 Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make as a Blogger this Year

  Onibalusi Bamidele

  25 Jan 2012 | 1:23 pm

  Becoming a successful blogger is a challenge in itself, and if you really want to get results you need to pay the price. It is our duty to keep on learning as bloggers, not only because it will enable us get better results but because it will help us contribute  more value into our readers’ lives. Every new year is an opportunity for a change, and if you embrace the opportunity that comes your way you will increase your chances for success. Most bloggers create new resolutions at the beginning of every year, and while most people are totally against new year resolutions, I think the…

• 5 Underused SEO Tips to Make Your Blog Uber-Successful

  Zac Johnson

  25 Jan 2012 | 12:33 pm

  Recent data has shown that the average search made per user keeps increasing every year, and that over 25% of these searches has never been made before. The same data also shows that the percentage of searches made in some categories has increased by as much as over 20% in just one year. That might not seem like much, but considering the number of searches made through Google every day, that will be several billions of additional searches every year. In case you’re not yet convinced about why to invest your time, or money, into SEO, according to the data linked above, below are a few…

• 10 Uses for WordPress Other Than Blogging

  Patti Stafford

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am

  1. Project management system WordPress can be an easy to use project management system if you work with a team of people who all need access to the same content. It can set up as a members only site to keep your material private. 2. Forum People love community areas and WordPress can be used as a community site as well as a blog site. You can use it as a public forum or a private forum. This is also a great way to do group coaching sessions. 3. Help Desk You can set up WordPress as a ticket system so clients and customers can contact you with technical problems, order problems or any other…

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  Lorelle on WordPress

• This Site Will Blackout Against SOPA and PIPA

  Lorelle VanFossen

  17 Jan 2012 | 2:09 pm

  I’m joining Wikipedia, Reddit, and millions of other concerned web users across the United States to blackout my site on January 18, 2012. WordPress is even against this. Traction is happening. SOPA appears to be dead in congress but PIPA is still alive and just as bad. When you land on Lorelle on WordPress on [...]

• Clark College WordPress Class in the News

  Lorelle VanFossen

  16 Jan 2012 | 2:42 pm

  Wow! I knew my Introduction to WordPress course at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, was getting a lot of attention around the world from those eager to get WordPress into their curriculum, I didn’t realize it would make so much noise so close to home. Check out “Blogging pioneer blazes trail for WordPress at Clark [...]

• Prove It: Kym Huynh Exposed

  Lorelle VanFossen

  16 Jan 2012 | 2:08 pm

  After reading Prove It: It’s Starts With Defining Who You Are as part of my Prove It Campaign, one of my best friends volunteered himself for a bio tearing and ripping as he is now involved in several startups that are gaining the attention of investors, which means everything he does online is now subject [...]

• January 18: Join Reddit in a National Blackout Day of Protest Against SOPA

  Lorelle VanFossen

  11 Jan 2012 | 11:25 pm

  On January 18, join Reddit and the country in protesting SOPA. Reddit announced they will black out their site January 18 for 12 hours in protest of the US government’s pursuit of the horrible SOPA act: The freedom, innovation, and economic opportunity that the Internet enables is in jeopardy. Congress is considering legislation that will [...]

• Happy Birthday, Matt Mullenweg

  Lorelle VanFossen

  11 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm

  As I prepared my annual public “Happy Birthday, Matt” post for Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (with a lot of other amazing people), I spotted the birthday greeting by Jane Wells of the WordPress Foundation. She thanks Matt for all the ways her life has been changed since meeting him, a perfect way to say [...]

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  Blog Catalog Blog Directory: Better Blogging

• Fail Wall

  BlogCatalog

  16 Jan 2012 | 10:38 pm

  The greatest fails on the internet

• Miguelando.com

  BlogCatalog

  14 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am

  A blog to treat issues about money, finances, investments and other things. The blogosphere will be common on our articles too.

• Hit-Spot

  BlogCatalog

  9 Jan 2012 | 12:52 am

  I have been in the IT sector for about 4 Years now. Started as an inexperienced IT student, and 3 years later.... all that changed is the title, but still inexperienced... I believe that there is only one lesson to be learned in the IT which is, there is nothing like 'experienced' in IT, and you should always expect new, challenging, inspiring and unexpected things. Your value in IT can only be measured by the ability to adopt.

• Computer and Internet Hacking Tricks

  BlogCatalog

  7 Jan 2012 | 6:07 am

  Latest Computer and Internet Hacking Tricks.. Tags: tools hacking computer tricks news feed internet tricks facebook tricks

• Let\'s make money!

  BlogCatalog

  2 Jan 2012 | 1:57 pm

  Have a talent, but don't know how to earn money with it? Searching for business idea to start your own business? Find your answers here! Business ideas for different people, work-at-home opportunities, blogging, MLM coaching and many more!

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  BloggingPro

• Ultimate Security Checker Plugin For WordPress. Keep Your Blog Secure And Running Properly

  James Johnson

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:02 am

  Working with an open-source platform that provides open-source plugins means it’s often cheap to build and maintain a website using WordPress, however because the platform and plugins are often open source it can also create a security headache for site administrators and that’s where Ultimate Security Checker comes into play. The program is simple to use, essentially users simply search for “Ultimate Security Checker” in the WordPress repository and upload it to their server or they just install it direct from the WordPress plugins search section inside the admin area…

• Petitios Seek To End ACTA, Bring Up Constitutional Questions

  James Johnson

  25 Jan 2012 | 7:24 pm

  Several months ago President Obama signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) into law by decree of an executive order. While SOPA and PIPA turned the spotlight away from what the President calls a “matter of national security” various new petitions have circulated in which questions have been rightfully raised over the legality of the bills passing. To circumvent a congress unlikely to pass the measure without public scrutiny President Obama signed an “executive agreement” which basically gives the President the ability to sign the treaty (by not calling…

• How I Learned to Love Press Releases

  Jonathan Bailey

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:27 am

  If you blog long enough and get enough traffic, you’ll inevitably find yourself on the mailing list for various companies that send out press releases. This moment comes with a strange mix of emotions as it is both annoying to be getting a lot of seemingly spammy email and flattering to be thought of as important enough to target. However, as someone who came from a journalism background, I had been trained to distrust press releases. To many journalists, press releases are only useful for lazy reporters who don’t want to do their own reporting or can’t find out about news…

• How to Give Feedback to Guest Bloggers the Right Way

  Amanda DiSilvestro

  25 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  As someone who has been a guest blogger on approximately 80 different blogs, I feel as though I’ve seen it all when it comes to feedback. I have been asked to create an outline, articles have been sent back to me full of red and purple markings, articles have been completely ignored, and some of my articles have received nothing but a “no thank you” (no name, not greeting, just those three little words). As a writer, I have personal preferences as to how I think feedback should be handled. However, I also work on the flip side—I run a blog that accepts guests posts and I am constantly…

• How To Kill Your Blog Using Video Based Content

  James Johnson

  24 Jan 2012 | 12:43 pm

  First it was strong written content, then it was killer podcasts and now it’s video. The web and specifically blogging is still in an infancy period and for that reason bloggers tend to jump from one type of medium to another in terms of how they present their content to readers. The truth is while video is great for supplementing a post and podcasts can be taken on the road and to various other locations there’s still no substitute for the written word. Using video as part of your content creation won’t kill your blog, however if utilized incorrectly video can become an…

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  Technofriends

• Scheduflow – Full-Fledged Calendar Software For Better Time and Task Management [Windows]

  swetha

  28 Jan 2012 | 4:48 am

  Calendar softwares are very useful tools that will help you plan your day-to-day or future activities. One of the simplest and the best tool is the Google Calendar tool. I’m sure most of you... [[This is a summary feed. Navigate to http://technofriends.in for full article]]

• Download Videos From Any Website For FREE with aTube Catcher [Windows]

  swetha

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am

  Several websites help you to download videos. Some of them restrict their service to just download YouTube videos and even offer a FREE service to convert them to various formats. But, if you are... [[This is a summary feed. Navigate to http://technofriends.in for full article]]

• Free Music Zilla Lets You Download Unlimited FREE Social Music

  swetha

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:10 am

  Social Music has greatly transformed the way we enjoy Music these days. Gone are the days when you were glued to Radio sets, Walkman, Tape Recorder to listen to your favourite music. Today, the web... [[This is a summary feed. Navigate to http://technofriends.in for full article]]

• How To Build A Professional Resume In 15 Minutes [How - to]

  swetha

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:11 am

  A good resume increases the chances of you grabbing your dream job quicker than you think.  But often, we are perplexed on how to start getting a good resume done. Especially if you are fresher or... [[This is a summary feed. Navigate to http://technofriends.in for full article]]

• Magic Camera – Software to Add Funny, Entertaining Webcam effects To Your Video Chats [Windows]

  swetha

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:32 am

  In some of my earlier articles in Technofriends, I have written some softwares that will add more fun to your webcam chat (video chat) online. Most of these softwares let you add a lot of webcam... [[This is a summary feed. Navigate to http://technofriends.in for full article]]

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  ConverStations

• Display Merchandising: Your RSS Feed

  Mike Sansone

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:39 am

  Do you subscribe to your own RSS feed?  You should. Sometimes, if you could see what I can see (and what your readers-prospects-customers see). A successful retailer and the restauranteur are always looking over their displays and presentation – and so should you. When I click on your RSS button – if it goes anywhere – I sometimes get sent to a page that looks like this:   Feedburner gives you analytics AND a stylized, browser-friendly result when readers click on your subscribe button. Now that you’ve subscribed to your own RSS feed, you can do even more…

• Seasons of Talk

  Mike Sansone

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:46 am

  How do you measure the conversations in a day? Small talk at the grocery store? Debates at meetings? Brainstorming during lunch? Arguments in your own head? How about the conversations where you listen more than talk? Or the ones you have on Twitter? Those where there is no talking going on at all? I’ve never counted the number of conversations I have in a day. You? Yet we struggle at writing a blog or posting a thing on that social network. If you listen to your day, you’ll never run out of things to write about.  Nobody suffers from Talker’s Block. Start with one…

• Single Login to Google = Win for You

  Mike Sansone

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am

  “Complaining that signing up for Google services forces you to sign up for G+ is like complaining that buying a smart phone forces you to own a camera.”  - Marc Razia on Google+ I’ve become wary of the haters, the gripers, the pundits who scream foul like they are owed something. Before anyone jumps to conclusions about what I just said: a definition of wary. Google now offers a single login for new users. When someone signs up for a Google account, the newcomer is also activating GMail and Google+, and Google Maps and … well, it’s a Google account.

• Slide Sunday: One Brick at a Time

  Mike Sansone

  22 Jan 2012 | 6:52 am

  “You don’t try to build a wall. You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t start there. You say, ‘ I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.” – Will Smith Slide Sunday: One Brick at a Time is a post from: ConverStations Find Your Social Media ROI I hear it from a lot of business owners: "Where is the ROI with all this Social Media?" If this is a question you've asked, maybe we should work together a bit more. We can work together solo, or via a professional…

• Ignoring the Social Media Echo Chamber Chamber

  Mike Sansone

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:27 am

  You may occasionally read about the “social media echo chamber” – maybe you even write about it. Me? I don’t think it exists. Not really. And you shouldn’t let it exist – because if you do, it’s all in your head. Yep, I think you’re imagining things. Granted, there are a lot of folks that talk about social media, and as a small business owner using social media – social media is part of the conversations in your day. But it’s not your core business. Let’s say you’re a furniture store owner, you should be more concerned…

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  Court's Internet Marketing School - How To Make Money Online

• 5,263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog

  Court

  9 Jan 2012 | 1:46 am

  So you’re starting a blog from scratch, or maybe you have some experience and want to make sure that you’re not missing anything. Either way, I think I can help you out. I wrote this monstrosity of an article because I couldn’t find one anywhere that was thorough enough. I want people to be able to get started after reading a single article, and there is no such article that I know of. This is the most thorough article on this subject I have seen anywhere on the internet. Lately I’ve had quite a few friends ask me how to start a business online. I’ve even had a…

• 5 Internet Marketing Strategies That Don’t Work

  Court

  19 Oct 2009 | 3:10 pm

  1. Image Search –> Anything that produces income. This strategy works great if you want to boost your ego, because it can be extremely effective for getting traffic. However, if you care about marketing or making money, image-search does almost nothing for you. I challenge anyone to take a stream of image searchers and to try to get them to act. Getting them to click ads is extremely difficult and getting them to make a purchase is even more difficult. 2. Personal Blogging –> Adsense. The bottom line is that people don’t really care about us. They are self interested.

• Tatto Media – Smart Behavioral Advertising Network

  Court

  2 Oct 2009 | 2:15 pm

  When you’re involved with affiliate marketing, it’s always wise to have access to multiple affiliate networks. I have actually been looking for a few new ones lately, so the timing was perfect when Tatto Media (you can sign up here) contacted me about their network. I delete most of the emails I get about this sort of thing, because most of the networks that are out trying to contact people are small and have issues. This network really stood out and I decided to check them out. Things That Stand Out About Tatto Media They allow you to insert your own tracking pixels into their…

• Welcome to Court’s Internet Marketing School

  Court

  11 May 2009 | 2:51 pm

  You’ve found one of the most popular and complete internet marketing websites on the internet. Our specialty is Search Engine Optimization – and this site is the proof. Court’s Internet Marketing School: ranks #5 for the term “internet marketing” out of nearly 100,000,000 pages…ranking ahead of sites with full-blown corporations behind them and a multi-year head start. has been found by searchers typing in nearly 5,000 different keywords in just the last 30 days. has received hundreds of thousands of free organic visitors through Google and the other…

• Premium MMO Site For Sale

  Court

  29 Apr 2009 | 4:47 pm

  A friend and regular contributor to my sites emailed today to let me know that he’s going to be selling his profitable, home based business, make money blog. The site currently makes over $2,000 per month and is being sold on Sitepoint. If you’re in the market for picking up a solid site, this is a good one. It ranks well for TONS of keywords. Here’s the auction and here’s the work at home site. Update: This site was sold for a very nice amount. Congrats to the new owner AND to the seller. Now maybe he can afford to send his kids to a nice boarding school.

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  Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere

• Highlight Social Network Locates People in the Real World

  24 Jan 2012 | 5:13 pm

  Highlight is an iPhone app that aims to help you locate people in the real world. You can only find other people that have Highlight installed. The app alerts you when Highlight users are nearby and tells you who they are. If someone standing near you also has Highlight, their profile will show up on your phone. You can see their name, photos of them, mutual friends, and anything else they have chosen to share. When you meet someone, Highlight helps you see what you have in common with them. And when you forget their name at a party a week later, Highlight helps you remember it. As you go…

• Blogosphere Highlights for January 22, 2012

  22 Jan 2012 | 2:44 pm

  Hugh MacLeod at Gaping Void was ready for the most recent "Blogging is Dead" meme and he will be ready again the next time the blogosphere dies. Former TechCrunch reporter Sarah Lacy recently launched a blog covering tech startups. The blog is called PandoDaily. She has $2.5 million in funding. Get ready to continue to fight again and again and ignore David Pogue's incredibly incorrect and lame SOPA/PIPA article that tells you to put your pitchforks down. Clay Shirky explains why this is wrong here. Consider taking Pogue off your reading list. There is no place in a free world for bills like…

• The White House Joins Google+

  20 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm

  The White House is now on Google's relatively new social network, Google+. The White House's Google+ page, available here, includes news, photographs and videos. It is similar to what you will find on The White House Facebook page. The White House is also on Twitter and MySpace. The White House says, "On this page you'll find news from the White House blog, behind-the-scenes photos and videos, and opportunities to engage with Obama administration officials and policy experts on topics ranging from the economy to technology. We hope you'll join the conversation on the issues that matter the…

• Wordpress, Boing Boing, Reddit, Wikipedia Among Sites Going Dark to Protest SOPA and PIPA

  18 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm

  Wordpress.org is one of several sites going dark to oppose the awful Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills. The bills give new powers to major entertainment and media companies to take down websites they think are violating copyright. These powers could very easily be abused and used to censor vast portions of the Internet. Keeping information freely available on the Internet is extremely important to our society. Anyone backing this bill needs to be voted out of office. Wordpress shared this video to explain why the bills are bad news: Craigslist, Boing Boing,…

• Bloggers Blog is Now on Google+

  13 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm

  Bloggers Blog now has a Google+ page. Google+ is a relatively new social network from Google. Google recently started incorporating results from Google+ into a new personalized search feature called "Search Plus Your World." Search Engine Land has a good article about the new personalized search feature here. You follow Bloggers Blog on Google+ by clicking on the Google+ button below and adding us to one of your circles. You can also find Bloggers Blog on Facebook and Twitter. Permalink | Recent Headlines | Facebook | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

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  Weblog Tools Collection

• PressTrends Releases Plugin for WordPress Blogs

  James

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  PressTrends has released a rather fascinating plugin for WordPress blogs. The plugin will allow you to measure various metrics for your posts, comments, and plugin usage, and compare these to averages across the entire PressTrends community. The feature list may be just a bit basic now, but there are more features on the way, the design is very clean-cut, and if you’re interested to see how you’re doing versus “the status quo,” this is definitely the way to do it. If you’re a theme designer, you might also be interested in their core product, which provides…

• WordPress Plugin Releases for 1/26

  James

  26 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  New plugins Site Background Slider uses fullscreen images (read from a specified folder) to create a slideshow inside your background area. Updated plugins Fast Secure Contact Form lets your visitors send you a quick e-mail message and blocks all common spammer tactics. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. FoxyPress is a custom plugin made to integrate FoxyCart e-commerce functionality into your WordPress website. Slick Social Share Buttons allows you to add Facebook, Twitter, Google…

• Celebrate Matt Mullenweg’s Birthday by Donating Water

  James

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, turned 28 two weeks ago. It’s been a busy year for Matt. Three major WordPress versions were released, he switched back to using a Mac after 8 years on Windows, and he travelled 190,000 miles over 245 days. Even though two weeks have gone by, it’s not too late to say “happy birthday” to Matt. In fact, he would prefer to receive all of his birthday gifts this year in the form of donations to Charity: Water through his birthday campaign. Matt has set an ambitious goal to reach $28,000 in donations by April, but if that goal is…

• WordPress Theme Releases for 1/24

  James

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  Evergreen is a colorful theme that packs a visual punch. Famous is an advanced theme for business, portfolio or blog usage.

• iThemes Launches Web Designer’s Toolkit for Students

  James

  23 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am

  iThemes has now added a huge student discount to their popular Web Designer’s Toolkit. The new Student Edition offers full-time students in the US and Canada access to over 150 themes, over 20 plugins, and over 300 hours of training for only $97 ($880 less than the original). Folks with a strong memory may notice the similarity to iThemes’s Educator Program. While the Student Edition of the toolkit is not free, the $880 discount is something that can’t be beat, especially if you’re busy spending money on your tuition. If you have plans to launch a WordPress-focused…

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  Wordful

• My Vision for Wordful

  Charles

  14 Jan 2012 | 2:34 pm

  I’ve taken a major break from blogging here at Wordful, and it’s in large part to some serious shifts in my personal and professional life over the past year. To make a very long and (painful) story short—the down economy and a few other issues forced me to to shutter my office and consultancy and venture to San Francisco to find “a real job.” On May 6 of last year, I kissed my wife and kids goodbye and left Kona for San Jose on a one-way ticket with $50 in my pocket. My sister picked me up and the next day my dad drove me up to the city, where I met up a good high…

• Should Stupid People Not Blog?

  Charles

  14 Jun 2011 | 2:39 pm

  No, they shouldn’t. Of course there’s no way to determine who’s stupid—let alone the validity of stupid being a unit of measurement (or judgement)—but, yes, as a general rule of thumb, stupid people shouldn’t blog. What I’m referring to here are some recent comments made by blogger and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis at ReadWriteWeb 2Way Summit NYC, namely: “There are a lot of stupid people out there … and stupid people shouldn’t write.” “There needs to be a better system for tuning down the stupid people and tuning up the smart…

• Are There Enough Great Names to Go Around?

  Charles

  13 Jun 2011 | 1:17 am

  Being smack dab in the middle of tech-startup world here in San Francisco,  I’ve seen more than my fair share of clever names. Businesses in the Mission where I’m staying all seem to draw on the appeal of one-word randomness, like Beretta (a restaurant), Ritual (a coffee shop) and Revolution (a clothing boutique). Pithy and tidy, these monikers do a good job evoking the zeitgeist of the city hipster. Naming an online property is not that much different, with the glaring exception that it must be wholly unique to qualify for its own URL. So my question is: In such a crowded but…

• Why You Should Adapt Your Email Writing Style to Your Recipient

  Charles

  3 Jun 2011 | 1:27 pm

  Everyone has a their own special way of communication and expression over email. Some are more formal and start each message with a salutation like “Hi, Charles –” and end with a goodbye like “Sincerely, Howard.” They do this every single email, even if it’s a rapid fire conversation. There are others who don’t address me by name at all. Just plain, unlabeled dialog with no greeting or exit. Sometimes all lower case. Then there’s the signature. You’ve got the ones who type out their name at the end of each message, and those who rely on…

• Will Techies Always Have the Upper Hand in Startups?

  Charles

  30 May 2011 | 10:18 am

  My hunch when I moved here three weeks ago from Hawaii is now confirmed: The tech scene in the Bay Area is all about—well, tech. This thriving, buzzing industry is built around a culture of code, of devising niche solutions to niche problems. At its center lie the software engineer, who reigns as queen bee in the hives of the tech giants and startups of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. So what about the rest of us? What about the marketers, the designers, the writers and editors, the community managers and publishers of content? Do we get a fair shake at shaping the future in a world gone…

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  Pearsonified

• How to Tune Typography Based on Characters Per Line

  Chris Pearson

  3 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pm

  In my research into Golden Ratio Typography, I focused primarily on the core geometric properties of text—font size, line height, and line width. But there’s another facet of text that nearly all of the existing research on typography deals with: It’s called characters per line (CPL). If you’ve ever read a study on typography, you’ve no doubt encountered CPL. Many of these studies recommend “optimal” CPL ranges that include anything from 55 to 100 CPL. With an “optimal” range that large, the CPL you use on your site ultimately comes down to…

• Secret Symphony: The Ultimate Guide to Readable Web Typography

  Chris Pearson

  22 Dec 2011 | 1:04 pm

  Right now, there’s a mathematical symphony happening on your website. Every single one of your readers is subconsciously aware of this symphony, and more important, they are all pre-programmed to respond to it in a particular way. The question is this: Is your site’s symphony pleasing and inviting to your readers, or does it turn them off and make it harder to communicate with them? The Mathematical Symphony of Typography As it turns out, this symphony is not unique to websites. You “hear” it every time you read a book, newspaper, magazine, or web site—every place…

• Supercharge Your WordPress Category Page SEO with This Simple Tip

  Chris Pearson

  3 Jun 2011 | 2:49 pm

  If you’ve followed my advice over the last few years, then you already know how to use WordPress categories effectively. But now that you’re using categories in a meaningful way, do you know how to get your category pages to rank well and dominate in the search engines? Using this tip that I’m going to share with you today, you’ll be able to do just that. However, before we begin, I need to let you in on a little secret—by default, WordPress does not provide you with the controls necessary to create category pages that have maximum SEO juice. Fortunately, this is…

• How to Add the Google +1 Button to Your Website

  Chris Pearson

  3 Jun 2011 | 2:08 pm

  Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve almost certainly heard the latest news that has the social media universe in a frenzy: This week, Google released its Google +1 (“plus one”) button to compete with Twitter’s Tweet button and Facebook’s Like button. In order to capitalize on the potential traffic and exposure that this new button can generate, you’ll need to incorporate it into your site as soon as possible. There’s one little problem, though. Unless you’re a ninja, you’re probably going to get frustrated while trying to…

• Interview: With SEO, Less is More (and Where to Eat in Austin, Texas)

  Chris Pearson

  28 Apr 2011 | 7:30 pm

  What’s the latest and greatest on SEO, WordPress plugins, web hosting, and—my personal favorite—the best food in Austin? I’ll keep you up to speed with that and maybe even drop a hint about Thesis 2 in this 9-minute video interview from PubCon South 2011. After you check out the video, be sure to take a look at the new DIYthemes Facebook page, where you can interact with other Thesis users and see hundreds of awesome Thesis customizations!

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  WordPress News

• Year of the Meetup

  Jane Wells

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:17 pm

  We hereby declare 2012 as the Year of the WordPress Meetup. You’ll want to get in on this action. meet·up \mēt-əp\ noun A meeting, especially a regular meeting of people who share a particular interest and have connected with each other through a social-networking Web site: a meetup for new moms in the neighborhood; a meetup to plan the trip; a meetup for WordPress users.1 So what is a WordPress Meetup? Basically, it’s people in a community getting together — meeting up — who share an interest in WordPress, whether they be…

• Internet Blackout Day on January 18

  Jane Wells

  17 Jan 2012 | 5:18 pm

  WordPress.org is officially joining the protest against Senate Bill 968: the Protect IP Act that is coming before the U.S. Senate next week. As I wrote in my post a week ago, if this bill is passed it will jeopardize internet freedom and shift the power of the independent web into the hands of corporations. We must stop it. On January 18, 2012 many sites around the web — from small personal blogs to internet institutions like Mozilla, Wikipedia, reddit, and I Can Has Cheezburger? – will be going dark in protest and to drive their visitors to sites like americancensorship.org to…

• Help Stop SOPA/PIPA

  Jane Wells

  10 Jan 2012 | 1:18 pm

  You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any of our users no matter how much some of us may disagree with some of them personally. Today, I’m breaking our no-politics rule, because there’s something going on in U.S. politics right now that we need to make sure you know…

• WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

  Ryan Boren

  3 Jan 2012 | 3:24 pm

  WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team. Download 3.3.1 or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin.

• WordPress 3.3 “Sonny”

  Matt Mullenweg

  12 Dec 2011 | 4:58 pm

  The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordPress dashboard. WordPress has had over 65 million downloads since version 3.0 was released, and in this third major iteration we’ve added significant polish around the new user experience, navigation, uploading, and imports. Check out this short video that summarizes the things we think you’ll find are the cat’s pajamas: For Users Experienced users will…

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  About.com Web Logs

• Breaking Bad Habits for a Happier Blogger and Better Blog

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:22 pm

  Unfortunately, there are several bad habits that many bloggers find themselves falling into which are very hard to break. But break them you must! Check out my tips for breaking bad habits that are keeping you from being a happy blogger with a successful blog. Are you guilty of any of these bad habits? How did you finally kick the habit? Leave a comment and share your tips.

• 69 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/15/12

  22 Jan 2012 | 2:32 am

  69 writing jobs for bloggers have been listed in the About.com Blogging Forum in the Writing Jobs for Bloggers folder. This week's list includes opportunities to write for MTV and POLITICO. Have you visited the About.com Blogging Forum lately? Some great blog contests have been listed recently. You can check them out in the Blog Contests folder.

• Tax Tips and Help for Bloggers

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am

  It's tax season again, and if you made income from your blog in 2011, that means you might need to claim that income on your tax return. You might also be able to claim extra deductions from your blogging work. Read the articles below to get yourself ready to file your 2011 tax return: Making Sense of Freelance Blogging Taxes Tax Tips for Bloggers Tax Deductions for Bloggers

• Tumblr Users Can Now Publish Animated GIFs as Photo Posts

  17 Jan 2012 | 11:26 am

  In case you missed the news, Tumblr photo posts now support animated GIF files up to 1 MB. Now, Tumblr users can publish animated GIFs quickly and easily! You can see it in action in this photo post of an animated GIF published by the Tumblr team. Check out more Tumblr features for bloggers.

• 78 Writing Jobs for Bloggers for the Week of 1/8/12

  15 Jan 2012 | 4:22 pm

  78 writing jobs for bloggers have been listed in the About.com Blogging Forum in the Writing Jobs for Bloggers folder. This week's list includes jobs blogging for the Village Voice and working with X17. Many blogging job postings ask writers to submit writing samples. Make sure you send your best blog post by running it against the blog post checklist first to make sure it's as good as it can be!

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  Webmaster-Source

• Learning Curve: It isn’t What You Think it is

  Matt

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:34 am

  How many times have you heard the phrase “it has a steep learning curve” in reference to something that is supposed to be difficult? This commonly-used phrase sounds good, but isn’t really logical. Because it’s wrong. A “learning curve” is a visual device used to illustrate the average rate of learning for a skill or tool. Essentially, it is a line chart that shows the learner’s level of proficiency and how it changes over time. Take a look at the two following charts. The first one illustrates a steep learning curve, while the second shows a more…

• BlogBuzz January 21, 2012

  Matt

  21 Jan 2012 | 4:08 am

  Belarus makes it a crime to visit foreign website (Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders Goodbye Admin Bar, Hello Toolbar How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Using The WordPress Repository Adaptive Web-Design & Advertising A Pixel Identity Crisis Cool and creative anti-SOPA blackout messages – Internet protest in action Quick Tip: Encourage Responsive Form Elements to Play Nice WP Honey Badger Why the feds smashed Megaupload

• Git: The Simple Guide

  Matt

  19 Jan 2012 | 5:10 am

  Have you been trying to wrap your head around Git, the version control software that everyone is talking about? It works a little differently than tools like Subversion, so you’ll have to unlearn some habits if you’re familiar with other version control packages. A fancy new one-page website has been circulating Twitter and Reddit of late, serving as an easy into to Git. Git: The Simple Guide helps you install the software, create a repository on your local computer or check out an existing remote one, and start using Git. It’s a good tutorial, and the design looks great. I…

• Twitter’s Bootstrap CSS Redesigned to Look Like Facebook

  Matt

  17 Jan 2012 | 5:02 am

  I guess it was only a matter of time. Someone has taken Twitter’s Bootstrap CSS project and re-skinned it to look a bit more like Facebook. FBootstrap, as it is called, should be very useful for those who make Facebook applications and enhancements for fan pages. In addition to meshing well with Facebook’s design, the grid CSS has been tweaked to match the widths of fan page tabs (520px) and application canvases (760px). Many of the elements don’t look quite like Facebook’s, especially the form fields, but they’re close enough that the average user won’t…

• Alternatives to GitHub

  Matt

  11 Jan 2012 | 5:42 am

  GitHub is great for open source projects, but the lack of free private repositories can be limiting for projects that you would rather not be shared with the entire world. While it does make sense to pay for a tool if you use it extensively for commercial purposes, you may not be ready to if you’re an indie developer just beginning a project that won’t hit the shelves for awhile. Also, if you’re using it for versioning and deploying websites, you may not want to have all of your source be public. GitHub’s business model is primarily the sale of premium accounts with…

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  Blogging Without A Blog

• Did You Pick It or Did It Pick You

  Barbara Swafford

  22 Jan 2012 | 5:36 pm

  Blogging is like partaking in an individual sport. What attracts one person to blogging often differs from that which attracts the next. Not only are we attracted to blogging for different reasons, we also differ in what we blog about (our niche). Today’s Lesson When I started blogging, I was not interested in having a blog about blogging. Instead, I saw myself blogging about that which I had learned over the years; sharing hints and tips and general life observations. With my Observation Mountain blog, I did that, however after writing close to 200 posts, I began to run out of things…

• Why Learning Blogging From Others May Not Be Our Best Choice

  Barbara Swafford

  16 Jan 2012 | 3:22 am

  “Pass it on” is the final assignment in the ebook I read over the weekend. The book, “The Flinch”,written by author and blogger, Julien Smith is a free download from Amazon. To complete the assignment, I am passing it onto YOU. Today’s Lesson My blogger friend Davina told me about this book and when she forwarded the link to me, I downloaded it immediately. Within the first few sentences, I was hooked. I knew “the flinch” played a major part in my life and wanted to learn more. The first words which resonated with me are in the introduction, This is a…

• Are They Fake?

  Barbara Swafford

  9 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am

  Have you ever noticed how much fake stuff there is? In the real world we see fake Rolex’s and other knock-offs. There are also fake breasts, fingernails, hair, eye lashes, tattoos, fake foods engineered to (sort of) taste like the real thing, fake weather conditions including snow and the list goes on. Online and in print media we see fake in the form of air brushing or Photoshopping. On social networking sites, pedophiles take on a fake identity to scam young children. Today’s Lesson On blogs we see fake, too. It may come in the form of plagiarized content or stolen photos. We…

• Everything Old is New

  Barbara Swafford

  3 Jan 2012 | 3:31 am

  With the onset of a new year many people decide to start fresh. Some will restart those goals which were never met in years past, whereas others vow to make the new year the best it can be. With blogging, making New Year’s resolutions isn’t a bad idea either. Today’s Lesson I feel the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to access where we are, blog wise, as well as where we’d like to go with our blogs and to review how we spend our time online. Some of the items we might consider changing are: Post more or less often Spend more or less time on social networks…

• Wishing You All A Happy Holiday

  Barbara Swafford

  13 Dec 2011 | 3:40 pm

  I’m wishing you all a very happy holiday season and a blessed and prosperous 2012! See you in the New Year! Until the, Cheers! Related Posts:Celebrate BloggingTake One Thing OffEverything Old is NewThe Eleven Word ChallengeBlogging Poetry – An AssignmentPowered by Contextual Related Posts

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  How To Make My Blog

• Blogspot Blogger or WordPress: Which blogging platform to use

  Marko Saric

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Blogspot Blogger or WordPress - If you have bigger ambitions like creating a professional web presence or building a business from your blog, read on. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• How To Prevent A Facebook Epic Fail!

  Marko Saric

  24 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Facebook is great and growing at an impressive rate, but many blog owners have been extremely slow to react with Facebook’s ever changing marketing environment. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• 6 Ways Your English Teacher Wrecked Your Writing

  Marko Saric

  17 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  If you want to improve your blog copy, you have to unlearn some of the bad writing habits you picked up at school. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Tumblr or WordPress: Where should I start my blog?

  Marko Saric

  10 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Tumblr or WordPress - where to start your own blog? It all depends on what you want to do with your blog. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• How to get more likes on Facebook

  Marko Saric

  3 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  You need to feel and see the value before you decide to include a specific page on your Facebook profile. Here are 7 tips on how to get more likes on Facebook. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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  David Risley dot com

• Weekly Round Up: Look Ma! I’m A Social Media Guru Now!

  David

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:45 am

  This week was fun. In short, making a few internal changes in my company, planning another direction with the PCMech membership, hosting a pretty kick-ass webinar on affiliate niche blogging, doin’ some more writing, and of course… Finding some cool stuff from around the web. And here it is… Learning Leadership from Congress Not really a “how to” kind of post at all. It is Seth Godin getting political. And I liked it. 3 Secret Pricing Tricks Guaranteed to Make You More Money Interesting post about setting your prices. More accurately, about giving a base…

• The Importance Of Giving A Sh*t

  David

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:10 am

  Let me start off with a quick story about Chris Brogan. And, no, this is not an ass kisser post, although it might seem that way. Chris and I have met at several different events. The first time, though, that we really hung out was at an Izeafest event in Orlando, FL. We ended up going to dinner with several other people, but a small enough group where we all had a chance to talk for awhile. My friend from Vegas, Warren Whitlock, was there, too. It was a great meal. It was at this event, though, that Chris met me. And, an inside joke formed. I don’t even quite remember how it started,…

• What’s Working Now – Secrets From The World Of Affiliate Niche Blogging

  David

  23 Jan 2012 | 8:17 am

  How would you like to learn how to use simple little WordPress to literally deposit hundreds of dollars a day into your Clickbank account? Did that sound…. spammy? Probably. But, give me a minute. Because, what I have to tell you is indeed the real deal. See, there are two ways to go with affiliate marketing as a blogger: #1 – Build an authority blog and go big. (This is the way I do it, and what I usually teach.) or… #2 – Build an ARMY of smaller blogs targeting tight little niches. Even though I don’t do this personally (yet), the truth is… It DOES…

• Weekly Round Up: SEO Tips, Writer’s Block, Adsense for Chrome

  David

  20 Jan 2012 | 1:56 pm

  It is one thing for me to blog and share my own stuff here on DavidRisley.com. It is another to share the love and point out some great stuff I’ve come across in the last week – on OTHER people’s sites. And, so… I am starting what will probably end up being a new weekly feature (probably on Fridays). I’ll share out some stuff I’ve come across during the week. 5 Mini SEO tips to Help You Get an Edge on the Competition Pat  released a Youtube video that is definitely worth watching. The title says it all. What the title doesn’t say is… Pat is SO…

• 5 Things Blogging Doesn’t Teach You About Running a Real Online Business

  Guest Author

  19 Jan 2012 | 8:48 am

  This is a guest post by Henri Junttila from Wake Up Cloud. NOTE FROM DAVID:  This is a great post from Henri that I think every blogger who truly wants to go full-time with blogging needs to understand and apply. These 5 lessons speak right to the core mindset which marks the line between hobby bloggers and pro bloggers. With that, I’ll leave you in Henri’s hands… If you’ve been into blogging for any amount of time, you know that blogging alone doesn’t guarantee an income stream. You may have all the comments and community in the world, but it doesn’t automatically…

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  Twingly Blog

• Nelly.com integrates with Twingly

  Martin

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am

  We are always very happy when we can announce another e-commerce partner that connects with the blogosphere with the help of Twingly. Only a few days ago we could welcome Yves Rocher to the Twingly family, and today Nelly.com is joining us with its integration of the Twingly widget. Nelly.com is one of the largest online fashion stores in Northern Europe, offering more than 750 brands throughout a growing number of countries, among them Germany , Austria and The Netherlands. The integration of Twingly means that on each and every product page on Nelly.com, fashion shoppers can immediately see…

• “Oft ist die Twitter-Tatort-Gemeinde zwiegespalten”

  Martin

  20 Jan 2012 | 2:37 am

  Click here for the English version! Der Tatort ist die in der deutschen Twittersphäre am meisten und intensivsten diskutierte Fernsehsendung. Stefanie Aßmann und Nicole Greiner haben vor einiger Zeit in einem Blog damit begonnen, die Twitter-Resonanz auf einzelne Episoden auszuwerten und zu analysieren. Im Interview erzählt Stefanie, wie es dazu kam, was twitternde Tatort-Fans bewegt und was als nächstes kommen könnte. Wer bist du wieso bewegt dich das Thema Social-Media-Monitoring? Meine Name ist Stefanie Aßmann, bei Twitter @miss_assmann. Ich arbeite bei VICO Research &…

• “Often, the actual plot isn’t what engages users in the online discussion”

  Martin

  20 Jan 2012 | 2:36 am

  Hier könnt ihr das Interview auf Deutsch lesen. The German crime drama series Tatort (German for “crime scene”) is the most discussed TV show among Twitter users in Germany. A while ago Stefanie Assmann and Nicole Greiner started to analyse the Twitter feedback on a couple of episodes. In our interview, Stefanie explains how that happened, what it is that gets the tweeting audience excited as well as what the next step could look like. Tell us a bit about you. My name is Stefanie Assmann, @miss_assmann on Twitter. I’m working as a consultant at Vico Research, a German…

• We welcome Yves Rocher as new Twingly partner

  Martin

  16 Jan 2012 | 4:54 am

  Yves Rocher has recently started to use the Twinly Blogstream widget to show incoming links from blogs to its product pages in the four Nordic countries. We are excited to have this renowned global cosmetics and beauty brand as a partner! Curious to get to know more about the role that blogs and social media play for the company, we spoke to Maiju Romppanen, project manager for social media at Yves Rocher. You have recently added Twingly to your online shop’s product pages. Tell us what you hope to achieve with showing which blogs have linked to your product pages. To show links on the…

• A Twingly year in review – 2011

  Martin

  3 Jan 2012 | 4:27 am

  Happy New Year to all of you! We hope that you are as excited as we to see what 2012 will have in store. If the upcoming next months will only be half as eventful as 2011, there really won’t be a shortage of news! Let’s do a quick recap about what happened during the past year at and around Twingly. January We started the year with preparations of all the good things to come, with introducing a few websites within the public service and public sector that use Twingly as well as with a comprehensive overview about media monitoring companies from around the world that have partnered up…

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  SteitBlog

• Get Quality Followers For Your Twitter Channel

  Steitiyeh

  22 Jan 2012 | 9:33 am

  All brands and twitter users are concerned about increasing the count of their followers rather than focusing on building a proper community around their twitter channel. It’s good to have a good number of followers count, but always worry about quality followers and don’t place the number of followers on top of your to-do list. It’s exactly similar to anyone who launches any web app or a web venture and spends most of his time looking at Google Analytics and how much traffic he got instead of improving his tool and launching new features. But this doesn’t mean you…

• How Geek Are You?

  Steitiyeh

  22 May 2011 | 9:28 am

  I started recently watching the TV Series “The Big Bang Theory” and I can’t say more than it’s one of the most entertaining shows I have watched; it’s really funny and talks reality! I have always asked myself whether I am a geek or not and I always wanted to be one, since I was a little kid. I will always fight to be one and you have all my respect guys! What about you? do you consider yourself a geek? How do you usually judge if a person is a geek or not? Below are some questions to I believe will help anyone know how geeky they are. Are you the first person to be called when any…

• 7 Ways To Lose Fans On Facebook

  Steitiyeh

  13 May 2011 | 11:50 am

  It’s 2011 and everybody is getting on Facebook, even the grocery shop around the corner is connecting with people on Facebook. That is really cool and makes me happy, but the problem is what happens after a brand gets on Facebook? How do you expose yourself to your audience? What do you offer on your Facebook page? How do you communicate with your fans? It’s very difficult to get someone to “Like” your page, especially when you operate in a very specific or a narrow niche. Don’t you agree? I will now share with you 7 ways I believe will help you lose your fans. Obviously you will…

• 5 Steps To Take When Writing Your Article

  Steitiyeh

  17 Feb 2010 | 7:01 am

  “How do you write your articles?” A question that I was asked various times and I thought that I had to write an article about it and share its answer with you guys. It’s very healthy for any blogger and her/his blog to set a certain criteria/routine of how they’re going to create content for their blogs. Personally I follow some steps in every article I write that I think are “a-must” for every article, there are other steps I do with some articles only. Before listing these steps or things I do, I would like to say that with time these steps turn into a habit. 1- Collect…

• Difficulties I Am Facing As a Part-Time Blogger

  Steitiyeh

  16 Feb 2010 | 8:48 am

  As most of you know, I am planning to take my blog to the next level and generate full income from it or at least from my online presence/connections. I have to agree that in order to take it to the next level I need to dedicate time for it and commit and honestly this is appearing to be very difficult with my current situation, since I am a full-timer and sometimes I need to stay late at work and I have some other responsibilities alongside that as well. Having said all of this, I will still try hard and do my best to make it happen and quit my 9-5 job just for the sake of this blog! Being a…

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  Blog Design Studio

• How to create Twitter widget with WordPress and SimplePie (Part 1)

  bojan

  23 Jan 2012 | 2:42 am

  There are a lot of Twitter widgets for WordPress but in my experience none of those utilize the powerful SimplePie PHP class that is in the WordPress core. SimplePie is a powerful RSS reader class that has very nice built-in caching system since as we all know the Twitter API is limited to only 150 requests per hour creating problems with high traffic websites. You can download the plug-in here. Step 1: Getting the plug-in ready Create a folder and name it bs_twitter. In that folder, create a PHP file and name it the same as the folder i.e. bs_twitter. Also, in the bs_twitter folder create a…

• Top 10 reasons to select WordPress as the platform for your website development

  rajat

  21 Sep 2011 | 2:17 am

  1. Low Cost to start with: Its open source and thus the platform itself is free to use and develop on – starting on WordPress is like less than half the cost of custom developing from scratch or using any other robust CMS. 2. Additional Functionality with Plugins: WordPress community is huge and developing everyday – they contribute in the form of plugins which gives you additional functionality at ease and most of them are free or really low cost. Try to only use plugins which are regularly updated as it means the developer is active and it was not just a onetime thing. 3. Simple to…

• Paypal website isnt loading for the last 30+ min – is it really down?

  rajat

  12 Sep 2011 | 12:02 am

  I had some transactions to do on Paypal and I have tried opening it but it simply wont load – nothing happens on the page actually. So I called up my friends in Europe and India and it was the same result for them. I went to Pingdom and according to it the site is loading but surprisingly it takes 17+ sec – pingdom tests are from US servers – Its night time in US and so I cant confirm this with anybody. Here is the test link. So I tried to ping and traceroute the site to see the response and make sure that its not only me or the few people I know – here’s the…

• WordPress is the right choice for Business websites or blog – Facts and Figures

  rajat

  9 Sep 2011 | 6:33 am

  About 3 years back we as a Web Design and Development Company, decided to chose WordPress as the only platform we will develop blog/websites on. The progress since then proves that our decision was right. Some of the achievements of WordPress as underlined by Matt in the recent Wordcamp in San Francisco and what it means to us: 14.7%  of the top 1 million websites in the world are now powered by WordPress (one year ago it was 8.5% only) 1 in every 5 new domains created in US are running on WordPress (for new sites its easy to get started with WordPress – design, functionality and cost…

• TimThumb Security Flaw, Akismet-HubSpot integration & Varnish+Apache+WordPress

  mayank

  11 Aug 2011 | 6:21 am

  TimThumb 2.0 – Use it to avoid your WordPress from getting hacked WordPress has been long criticized for security issues although by just applying certain steps one can make it secure and with proper regular backup policy, one need not worry at all.  You must be wondering that why am I talking about security suddenly – well, TimThumb one of the popular library that is used in various WordPress themes has serious security flaws that can be compromised to hack the servers. The flaw was found by Mark Maunder and has started working with the Ben Gillbanks, original developer to…

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  Mike's Life - Business and Marketing

• Road Test - Lexus CT200h

  Mike

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:56 am

  I probably shouldn’t read other people’s road test reports on cars I’m about to try out, but in this case I did. And I can’t help thinking that many other motoring writers simply don’t “get” the Lexus CT200h. They lament the tardy zero to sixty time, complain that the styling isn’t great and whinge about the handling. Let’s start with the acceleration. When was the last time you raced from zero to sixty? It just doesn’t happen in real life, does it? The useful performance area is from 30 or 40 to 70 miles per hour – it’s that segment you use to overtake other cars, and…

• Twitter Chats - A Great Place To Learn

  Mike

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:18 am

  I find Twitter chats invaluable for finding stuff out, and for staying in touch with people who share my interests.  I’m also an avid business learner, so I was delighted when Best Colleges Online sent me a list of the best Twitter chats for people interested in business. Here’s a link so you can have a look at it:  50 Best Twitter Chats For Business Students I’m interested in how you are all finding Twitter these days? When I first started the blog, Twitter quickly became the primary driver of the traffic, and it still contributes significantly. But these days I find myself…

• On Hotels

  Mike

  14 Jan 2012 | 4:53 am

  I like to think of myself as a five star kind of person. All through life, I’ve always strived (and all too often failed financially) for the finer things in life. But a recent experience made me question that whole philosophy. I spent two nights in two different hotels – one a four star Hilton in a big city, the other a lowly Premier Inn, near a provincial airport.  I didn’t pay the bill – I didn’t even see it, but checking their respective websites it looks like the second was less than half the price of the first. To say that the Premier Inn suited me so much better would be…

• Update on 2011 - Part Three

  Mike

  2 Jan 2012 | 4:21 pm

  So we’ve covered all the work stuff and it’s time to focus on the personal side of life. I’m A Triathlete You probably know that I decided to become a triathlete in 2011. Julie calls it a mid life crisis – on my 50th birthday in March I announced I wanted to do Ironman in 2013. Typically, she decided to join me! I can honestly say it’s changed my life. I’ve lost quite a bit of weight, but still need to lose more. But I’m so much fitter than I was! My training schedule is pretty punishing, with most weeks consisting of a couple of 8 to 10KM runs, two 2000 meter swim sessions and…

• Review of 2011 - Part Two

  Mike

  28 Dec 2011 | 12:32 pm

  This is the second part of my review – you can read the first here: Review of 2011 – Part One If you haven’t read the case study of the first year of our travel blog, Lanzarote Information’s existence, then you should do so – all you have to do is sign up to the newsletter to your right. The Lanzarote blog passed it’s third birthday a few weeks ago, and the growth during 2011 has been nothing short of amazing. Almost all of the credit goes to my wife Julie, who essentially runs the site single handed now that I’m fully employed elsewhere. The Headline The site’s income more…

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  Keep it Real with the 'Original' BLOGBloke

• Hell Hath No Fury Like The Internet’s Scorn: The SOPA Soap Opera Continues

  BB

  22 Jan 2012 | 2:06 pm

  This cartoon pretty much says it all don’t you think.I’ve been wanting to add my two cents to the SOPA soap opera but I was hesitant to get involved until now because I knew my opinion wouldn’t be popular given the rhetoric we’ve been reading all over the internet. But here goes. In a nutshell, all... Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

• Trust is a Two-Way Street

  BB

  20 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm

  After my previous post about trust it got me thinking more about the "trust" relationship and how it is a two-way street. We see things through rose coloured glasses and limited paradigms that life's experience has shown us. It's called tunnel vision [...] Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

• Do You Trust Me?

  BB

  19 Jan 2012 | 11:04 pm

  For an experiment I decided to follow some people with large followings on Twitter who promised to follow back. But most of them don’t. I’ve also seen a lot of twits who gathered huge followings, only to delete most of them once they attained a level of online celebrity […] Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

• Forget the Internet Filter Bubble: It’s called Censorship

  BB

  19 Jan 2012 | 2:42 am

  The bottom line is we are not seeing all of the information that’s out there. We are only seeing what Google and Facebook decide what they think we should see. Back in the good old cold war days they used to call it censorship. Today we call it social media. Not all censorship is equal, nor... Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

• Trending News 24/7: BB Blips

  BB

  18 Jan 2012 | 11:08 pm

  Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

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  tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog

• Taking passwords seriously

  Rick Klau

  17 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm

  I used to use the same password everywhere. In 1993, I crashed a Clinton inauguration party at a restaurant in DC, and for years my password was a derivative of that restaurant's name. I'd read somewhere that it was a good idea to include numbers in your passwords, so I picked a number and my "standard" password became "restaurant#name". Sometime a few years later, I read that symbols were good too - so the stand-by became "restaurant[number]name[symbol]". Every time I set that as my password, the password strength meters measured off the charts: it used a number and a symbol, wasn't in the…

• New year's resolution: get a job!

  Rick Klau

  4 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm

  Welcome to the new year. If your current job isn't thrilling you and you resolved to find a job you love in 2012, be sure to visit the Google Ventures job board. Our growing portfolio of start-ups are hiring - as of this writing, there are 371 jobs waiting to be filled. Whether you're looking for a job in California, Colorado, DC, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, or Washington, there are engineering, HR, bizdev, marketing, sales, design and ops roles that need to be filled. (Not in the US? Our portfolio companies are hiring in Germany, China, Brazil,…

• Businesses who don't trust customers

  Rick Klau

  3 Jan 2012 | 2:37 pm

  Comcastic image from barbariangroup.com. Last month I contemplated something unthinkable (for me): I thought about breaking up with TiVo. I started my relationship with TiVo 11 years ago, with a Sony DirecTiVo box that I still consider among the best consumer electronics purchases I've ever made. Since then, I've gone through several TiVo boxes, as we moved from DirecTV to Comcast, from standard def to HD. So why consider leaving? In short, my wife and I (not to mention our kids) are watching less and less broadcast TV, opting instead for what we can get on demand. Netflix Instant is great…

• Becoming a better photographer

  Rick Klau

  1 Jan 2012 | 2:06 pm

  In keeping with my 2012 information diet, I've resolved to both blog more and take more photographs. Late last year I upgraded my camera - from a Nikon D80 to a Nikon D7000. Thought I'd document a bit about the gear I'm using and how I'm committing more to my photography hobby. My primary lens is a Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR II lens; I waffled a bit between this lens and a better zoom (had my eye on the Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8), but ultimately opted for the greater flexibility of the 18-200, along with the VR capabilities in the lens that should make hand-held shooting better. (For good…

• My Information Diet

  Rick Klau

  14 Dec 2011 | 1:47 pm

  This past summer I had lunch with Clay Johnson, and he told me he was hard at work on a book called The Information Diet. I read an early manuscript copy, and am excited to see that the Kindle version of Clay's book is out as of yesterday. I'm over-simplifying, but his general premise is that we don't have an information overload problem, we have an information obesity problem. In the same way obesity is less a result of too much food and more about the wrong kind of food, our problem today is that we are spending too much time consuming the wrong information, and we're not…

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  Newsome.Org

• Extreme Sports, Cat Edition

  Kent

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:39 pm

  Cat Boxing, 1894.  That’s right 18. Cat Juggling So Who’s the Real Pussy, Again?

• Rancho Mix, Volume 3 (Alt. Country)

  Kent

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:52 pm

  While I am still deeply into Spotify, I also enjoy the ability to roll some mixes that are available to those who stubbornly refuse to sign up. My current favorite of the mix-tape sites is 8tracks. Here’s our third mix.  25 great alt. county songs you’ve probably never heard.  Probably the best mix I’ve ever rolled. Enjoy.  Share.  Tell your friends. Rancho Mix Volume 3 from newsome on 8tracks. Archive Rancho Mix Volume 1 Rancho Mix Volume 2

• Help Defeat SOPA/PIPA Now!

  Kent

  18 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pm

  If you don’t think SOPA and PIPA will affect you, you are wrong.  If you aren’t adding your voice to the millions who oppose these bills, you should.  Now.  Before it’s too late. Learn. Sign. Write. Scream, yell, stomp your foot. Be heard.  Make a difference.

• Hey Scott Thompson, If You Really Want to Fix Yahoo, Here’s an Easy Place to Start

  Kent

  5 Jan 2012 | 8:04 pm

  When I heard Scott Thompson was the new CEO of Yahoo, I thought we had this. Not this. I hope trying to fix Yahoo doesn’t turn the latter into the former.  So I’m going to help.  You want to fix Yahoo, here’s an easy place to start. News.  Stay with me here, Scott.  I’m serious. I’m neither a Yahoo lover nor a Yahoo hater.  I don’t and won’t use it for email or web searches.  I do like (and pay for) Flickr, but that’s not a big enough application to be a flagship product. What I like best about Yahoo is its news.  For whatever reason, I find…

• Is Microsoft Trying to Turn Mobile Phone Shopping into a Carnival Game?

  Kent

  4 Jan 2012 | 10:42 pm

  In last nights’ debunking of the ridiculous shop local business, one of my gripes was that far too often retail sales people think the point is to convince, cajole and/or trick you into buying what they want to sell, as opposed to helping you find what you want to buy. Today comes a mind-boggling- at least to me- related development. Microsoft is allegedly thinking about paying retail sales people a bounty on each Windows 7 phone they sell: According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft has put together a $200MM war chest of cash to help promote Windows Phone 7, and is willing to pay store staff…

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  Disqus: The Official Blog

• 54 Languages and Counting

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:13 pm

  It’s probably not a surprise that English is the most popular language that our visitors use — but it was revealing when I discovered recently that non-English languages comprise 40% of Disqus network usage. More than anything, it underscored the importance of having a robust, easy-to-use and comprehensive translation system. We’re getting there… Disqus today supports 54 languages for publishers to choose from (look for the Language options in the Basic Settings area of the admin). They range from French and Spanish to Greenlandic and Azerbaijani, and use translations submitted and…

• We have a Jeff on the team! And a second Jon.

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:10 pm

  I’d like to welcome two new faces to the Disqus crew: Jeff Pollard and Jon Hegranes. Jeff joins us here in San Francisco from SEOmoz in Seattle. He’s now working with our backend engineering team to help Disqus continue scaling. Jeff’s been ramping up very quickly since he’s joined us, and I’m excited about the stuff we’ll be doing together. Also, I’ve always wanted a Jeff on the team (it’s a trustworthy name) and now we have one. Jon is joining our business development team based in NYC. While we already had a John on the team, I think a Jon, sans-“H”, is going to be a…

• How I Customized Disqus in a Flash

  16 Jan 2012 | 1:08 pm

  Today’s guest post was written by Sacha Greif. Sacha is a designer and coder living in Paris as well as the founder of Folyo. He recently put together a fantastic tutorial on how he designed CodeYear.com and here we present another great one on how he customized Disqus.   I need to confess something: I hate blog comments.Oh, I don’t mean reading them, that part’s pretty fun. And moderation tends to be pretty easy, thanks to anti-spam tools like Akismet. No, the part I don’t like is coding them.You have to style the comment text, the commenter’s name, their avatar, the date and…

• Tip of the Week: Personalize your Profile

  13 Jan 2012 | 6:14 pm

  A Disqus account is already very handy as a persistent profile across all the sites you comment on. Did you know it’s also a powerful tool you can use to personalize your identity, promote your site, and customize your experience across every Disqus site? Construct your profile When you leave an interesting comment, people are going to want to find out more about you. Why not tell them a little more? Start by going to your Edit Profile window, accessible on the Disqus dropdown. Make a name for yourself. In the Profile tab, Full Name is the name displayed next to your comments. If you…

• Pseudonyms

  10 Jan 2012 | 4:51 pm

  One day, I’d like to circle the globe. I like traveling, but there’s still so much that I’ve yet to see in the world. But in the online world, I’m already an especially well-traveled man. Through the years, I’ve explored and I’ve experienced extensively. Sometimes I’ll end up at amazing destinations with fun, unique cultures. Other times, I’ll stumble into some of the darkest virtual alleyways. Above all else, I’ve encountered incredible characters. I’ve had conversations with personalities that were wise, generous, or hilarious. I really cared about the things that these…

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  Ruhani Rabin - Tech, Life and Interestingness

• Want To Measure Your Facebook Marketing Success? 5 Questions To Ask

  Guest Author

  12 Jan 2012 | 12:50 am

  You hear people gushing about Facebook marketing, but is it really working for you? Ask yourself these 5 questions to see if your Facebook marketing campaign is a success: 1. How many fans do you have? More isn’t always better – after all, if your business is targeted at 30-somethings, a page full of 16-year-old fans doesn’t help! Successful Facebook pages focus on quality and quantity – meaning that you need a lot of fans that are also part of your target audience. The more targeted fans you have, the higher your chances of getting some word-of-mouth advertising. 2.

• How to Write a Fantastic Guest Post

  Guest Author

  3 Dec 2011 | 12:55 pm

  This is a risky title for a post as I’m potentially opening myself up to what I like to call ultra-critique. Telling people how to write fantastic content is a dangerous topic to get into, as your own writing needs to be absolutely spot on. I’m not sure this is something that I’m going to achieve, but after writing (and publishing) what feels like thousands of guest posts in recent months I’ve definitely noticed a distinct trend in styles and personalities. The first thing that almost goes without saying is that you shouldn’t be writing just to get a link. In…

• 7 Companies Inspired by Greek Mythology and Their Logos

  Guest Author

  1 Dec 2011 | 11:50 pm

  Greek mythology is present in our everyday lives whether we know it or not. It is deeply embedded into our everyday culture, and a lot of the movies we see, books we read, music we hear, and yes – even products we buy – are deeply influenced by the Ancient Greeks. The ancient Greeks had many different gods and goddesses – hundreds of them – and they are reflected through us through our language on an everyday basis. Let’s take a look at 7 companies that use the ancient Greek mythology as their business name and logo. The Tennessee Titans You might not think that…

• How to ensure that your WordPress site can handle enough traffic

  Guest Author

  27 Nov 2011 | 10:17 am

  Creating a blog or website, through WordPress, doesn’t guarantee visitors. While you have created something that might have potential, there isn’t much chance that you will be able to get people to visit it by magic. This part requires a lot of hard work & dedication and WordPress designers & developers from all over the world are regularly involved in making this dream a reality. However, there are plenty of sites that cannot handle the kind of traffic that their content demands, leading to a terrible browsing experience. To avoid that, you don’t have to move away…

• Ok My Business is on Twitter so Now What? Here are 18 tips to Success.

  Guest Author

  26 Nov 2011 | 10:51 am

  We all know Twitter, we may not all be on it (if you not I suggest you do so), but we have all heard of it. If you are a business or a brand or just a person that wants to make a name for themselves, there are certain steps that you should take in order to become a Twitter assassin. It’s not just as simple as creating an account and then seeing your profile go viral (unless you are Charlie Sheen of course), no there is work required.  I myself have a passion for twitter and I am constantly trying to broaden my horizons with the untapped marketing potential of the Twitterverse. So just…

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  TwistedSifter

• Picture of the Day: Graffiti by the 1%

  Sifter

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:58 pm

    GRAFFITI BY THE 1%   Photograph via BuzzedLikeAldrinn on Reddit   Not sure who the artist is but this cheeky piece was spotted in Brisbane, Australia. We see a nice word adjustment from Monopoly’s very own Rich Uncle Pennybags. Most definitely a fitting symbol for the 1%’ers (both the game and character). Cheers to BuzzedLikeAldrin for the find.   via BuzzedLikeAldrin on Reddit           SEE MORE ‘PICTURES OF THE DAY’        

• The Shirk Report – Volume 146

  Sifter

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:54 am

    Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find the 20 funniest images, 10 most interesting articles, and 5 most viral videos from the previous week of sifting. Enjoy! *For those that prefer the links open in a new tab/window, try holding the CTRL key whilst clicking a link with your mouse Stay sifty my friends   20 IMAGES - How big is it? - A beard for all seasons - So phallic - Oh Billy - Preach - After you’ve watched the little dance routine, check for the grandma on the far right - What is this? A hardware store for the Klan? - Sweet autograph dude - Digital billboard…

• Picture of the Day: The Precious Blue Marble

  Sifter

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:55 pm

    THE PRECIOUS BLUE MARBLE   Photograph by NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring     NASA has proclaimed this image the most amazing high definition image of Earth ever. To see the colossal-super-mega high-resolution image, click here (it’s 8000px x 8000px and 16.4mb). This ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth was taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was…

• The Amazing Caterpillar That Looks Like a Snake

  Sifter

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:53 am

  Photograph by KEN RIPPENGALE     Deilephila elpenor, known as the Elephant Hawk-moth, is a large moth of the Sphingidae family. The species is found throughout Britain and Ireland. Its range extends across Europe, Russia, and into China, northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, Japan and Korea (though not Taiwan). Introduced specimens have been found in British Columbia. In most of their range, the adults are seen from May to July and the caterpillars from July to September, when they pupate. However in some parts of the Mediterranean and China the adults may be seen from April…

• Green Home in Ho Chi Minh has Living Walls

  Sifter

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:11 am

  Photograph by Hiroyuki Oki     In the city of Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon, and the largest city in Vietnam), you will notice many of the homes adorned with pots and planters. It’s a local custom and one that adds to the city’s visual identity. Architecture firm, Vo Trang Nghia, embraced this aesthetic as per the request of their clients, a couple in their 30s and their mother. The property footprint is very typical of the tube houses in the city, a 4-meter (13.1 ft) wide by 20-meter (65.6 ft) deep plot. The front and back facades are composed entirely of layers of…

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  Micheal Savoie

• Warrior Forum Summit–Save 95% Off Top Warriors’ Weekend Special!

  Micheal Savoie

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:56 pm

    YOU weren’t invited.. and over 1,000 Internet Marketers paid $3,000 to a live event on… "Traffic" and they weren’t invited either.. to a CLOSED door mastermind outside the doors of the event.. This closed door meeting just happened and some how it leaked out.. http://wsoinsiders.com/go/summit-wf-95-top-warrior-weekend-special and you have a chance RIGHT NOW to steal the "Closed Door Traffic Secrets" but YOU must hurry!   http://wsoinsiders.com/go/summit-wf-95-top-warrior-weekend-special Hope you get this in time! Related Blogs

• Liz Tomey Private Label Rights Package Warrior Special Offer – Emails For Cash Super System

  Micheal Savoie

  26 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm

    Read all about it on PLR Insider Info! http://plrinsider.info/go/emails-for-cash-super-system/ Related Blogs

• Dance Face – Free Weekly Stock Video Clips

  michealsavoie

  26 Jan 2012 | 11:34 am

  Dance Face - Free Weekly Stock Video Clips http://freeweeklyclips.com Download this clip before noon on 1/30/2012 for FREE! Add it to your stock video library! This could be used for commercials, funny music videos and much more! From: michealsavoie Views: 1 0 ratings Time: 00:22 More in Howto & StyleRelated Blogs

• New WordPress Plugin Is A Game Changer For WSO Pro Affiliates!

  Micheal Savoie

  26 Jan 2012 | 10:31 am

    http://wppluginguide.com/go/wso-pro-affiliate-plugin/   If you are a WarriorPlus Silver member and promoting WSO offers as an affiliate this is a game changer… Game Changer for WSO Insiders like you! This new WordPress Plugin allows you to automatically email every buyer that purchases from your WSOPRO Affiliate link AND distrbute bonuses to those people. Even more..it automatically verifies that they paid and locks out refunders! WHAT? No Big deal? If that’s what you think then you’re missing the BIG PICTURE. Do you know how those WSO Owners make all of their…

• Tom Beal as Ricky Martin

  michealsavoie

  23 Jan 2012 | 12:43 pm

  Tom Beal as Ricky Martin Recorded on January 22, 2012 using a Flip Video camera. From: michealsavoie Views: 0 1 ratings Time: 02:40 More in People & BlogsRelated Blogs

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  iWebU

• Web Secret #190: Google Demo Slam

  iWebU

  25 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am

  It is no coincidence that Google is, well, everywhere.They could sit on their laurels like many successful businesses. But they don't. Sometimes they go wayyyy out of the box to remain, well, Google.Take Google Demo Slam. "Google Demo Slam: Technology is awesome. Learning about it isn't." The idea was to invite web users to come up with very clever, very short, videos about Google's many products. You post your mini video - that's phase one, phase two, your video is pitted in a popularity contests against other videos. Now a different set of users is engaged. Finally, in phase three, some…

• Web Secret #189: 4.74 Degrees of Separation

  iWebU

  18 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am

  The world is even smaller than you thought. Scientists reported in November 2011 that there are only 4.74 degrees of separation between any two people in the world instead of 6.The original "six degrees" finding, (published in 1967 by psychologist Stanley Milgram,) was drawn from only 296 volunteers who were asked to send a message by postcard, through friends and then friends of friends, to a specific person in a Boston suburb.The new research used a much bigger cohort: 721 million Facebook users, more than one-tenth of the world’s population."Why should you care?“People can share ideas…

• Web Secret #188: LAL

  iWebU

  11 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am

  So what kind of social media site got funded to the tune of $1 million in 2011?If you weren't born between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, you would never guess. Not only that, you probably would never know, unless you are a college aged millennial or a passionate fan of Tech Crunch. To quote Tech Crunch:"Anytime there’s a startup that has been quietly catching fire, you can always find a trail of investors warming themselves by the flames. Take LikeALittle, for example. Though they’ve kept it quiet, we’ve now confirmed with multiple sources that they raised $1 million..."What, you…

• Web Secret #187: Pew Research Center

  iWebU

  4 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am

  Trying to make an informed decision about how much your business needs to invest in technology, apps, or social media?There is one place to start all your research efforts: The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.The project is one of seven that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the Internet on families, communities, daily life, and health care.Here are but a few of their reports:Half of adult cell phone…

• Web Secret #186: Small Demons

  iWebU

  28 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am

  One of my favorite websites is the curated collection of TED talks. TED is a collection of hundreds of short, epic presentations from some of the world's greatest thinkers. You can look up TED talks by category.My favorite TED category is "jaw-dropping".All things being equal, I spend most of my working days on the Internet, and my jaw rarely drops.Then my friend Alex sent me a link to smalldemons.com.And my jaw dropped. Since I am a person of extremes, I did more than drop my jaw, I actually freaked out.I can't even use words to describe small demons. You have to watch the video:Honestly,…

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  DollarShower.com

• Bye Bye Facebook

  Ajith Prasad

  24 Jan 2012 | 10:49 am

  It’s been two years since I stopped using Twitter as a medium to actively promote my ideas. At the moment, my twitter usage is restricted to tweeting about any relevant (not all) blog posts alone. And I must say that I never found twitter that interesting and hence didn’t really miss it. My facebook affair [...]Continue Reading Bye Bye Facebook

• Blog Private Ads: Are they any Good for Advertisers?

  Ajith Prasad

  8 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm

  Over the past two months I spent $285 on private ad spots alone on various blogs in order to drive my holiday season marketing campaigns. I was primarily using the BuySellAds network to buy banners. Most bloggers know that they can make money from BuySellAds as publishers. But are they any good for your own [...]Continue Reading Blog Private Ads: Are they any Good for Advertisers?

• Holiday Season Online Marketing Tips

  Ajith Prasad

  30 Dec 2011 | 11:53 am

  The US online spending this year’s holiday season (Nov – Dec) was at its peak with Americans spending $35 billion (Nov 1 to Dec 26, 2011). This figure has gone up from $30 billion from last year by 15% and the biggest online sale day this year was the Cyber Monday where $1 billion was [...]Continue Reading Holiday Season Online Marketing Tips

• Top PPC Advertising Networks Comparison

  Ajith Prasad

  15 Dec 2011 | 10:57 am

  Over the past two years, I have spent close to $3,500 on PPC Advertising. Of course, that kind of spending resulted in decent returns but the reality is that, only 3 ad networks out of the 8 or 9 that I tried, actually returned anything significant. Based on my experience, here’s a table that contain [...]Continue Reading Top PPC Advertising Networks Comparison

• Social Trading in Online Forex gaining Momentum

  Ajith Prasad

  6 Dec 2011 | 11:55 am

  Online Forex trading, though very easy to get started, is not so easy to master. A lot of people who want to make instant money, directly start with the online forex tools without having done their homework and end up losing money. In the good old times, there was always a broker, market analyst or [...]Continue Reading Social Trading in Online Forex gaining Momentum

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  Technotip.org

• 5 Facebook Tips and Tricks You Don’t Know Yet

  Guest

  28 Jan 2012 | 3:02 am

  This is a guest post by Tom george. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guest post guidelines. A lot of business owners use facebook as a way to reach targeted customers and to keep in touch with their current customers. If you use Facebook regularly, then you might be familiar with the basic things like creating an album, removing an album, creating a post, or linking a post, etc. But did you know that you can make more from your Facebook using these tips? Here are some of the common facebook tips and tricks, that you, as a hardcore, or even casual facebook user should…

• How-To Update android OS On Sony Ericsson Xperia

  Satish

  15 Jan 2012 | 11:03 pm

  I’m using Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc to illustrate android os updating procedure. Goto phone settings -> About Phone -> Software update -> Update; It informs you to install update via your computer! Now goto your computer install software(pc suites) and try it; once again it shows some connection error messages and other frustrating error messages So does your Sony Xperia doesn’t support os updation? It certainly does. Install some fashing software; follow some procedure; after that you can directly update your phone OS at settings -> About Phone -> Software update -> Update; via…

• How Do I Preview My Site Before Updating DNS?

  Satish

  9 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Keith, Q: How Do I access my files on the new server ? I’ve recently purchased hosting from HostGator and have transferred all my files to new servers. I want to preview it and make changes before letting it live to my audience. Is it possible? If yes, how can I do that ? Yes, it’s absolutely possible to preview and make changes to it before making it live to general public. Here are the simple steps: Usually computers look at the IP in the local host file before looking into the actual DNS( Domain Name System ). So make changes to this simple file on your computer and trick the…

• bbpress(plugin) Theme Compatibility

  Satish

  1 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm

  There are many threads on bbpress forum where people are almost frustrated with the problem of making their theme work with the new bbpress plugin version. Particularly, they have this problem with making a theme, child-theme and applying it to the forum. Ex: Your blog has sidebar and you don’t want to have sidebar in your forum. I had the same problem, and solved it after trying it for a long time. Now I feel like, why the hell did I spend so much time on this simple thing Without much delay: In this example I’ll illustrate by keeping the official “bbPress (Twenty…

• ‘YOU’ Are A Big Deal

  Satish

  31 Dec 2011 | 11:01 pm

  If you’re working on your own i.e., if you are your own boss, then you will have the risk of getting distracted or interrupted easily. This new year, my resolution would be to focus on myself. i.e., You should start focusing on yourselves. YOU You are the highest leverage thing in your business/life. If you are happy, healthy, strong and in good mood, you can perform better and you will have a better result; and at the end of the day you would feel satisfied and thus feel more happy, healthy and strong. Yes, it’s a recursive process. If things don’t work properly, you would…

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  TheAnand

• Tips For Diversifying a Blog That Has Gone Stale

  Anand

  23 Jan 2012 | 1:01 am

  All bloggers have the sense, at some point or another, that their blog has begun to grow tired or stale. They struggle to post new content and feel uninspired by the content that they get. Moreover, their fears are legitimized by dropping comment levels and a decrease in visitors to the site. What to do? How can your right the ship and breath newfound inspiration into a blog that has grown stagnant? There are certainly many different ways to answer this question, and bloggers have take a variety of successful approaches over the years. No matter what you do, however, the key is ultimately to…

• A letter to Kapil Sibal

  Anand

  13 Jan 2012 | 3:53 pm

  Dear Sir, This is regarding your recent attempt to control content posted on the internet. You being one of the very few politicians I have respect and faith in, I am sure your actions were intended for good and comes from the right place. But any attempt to curtail information on the internet will be futile and it will not only cause a major uproar, but also it will cause a major disruption in the daily lives of millions who use the internet for genuine purposes. Internet, as you might know has been a major boon for information sharing and communication in India over the past decade. It has…

• WordZo Launch on 15th November 2011

  Anand

  13 Nov 2011 | 8:31 am

  After almost three years of development, iteration  and reiteration, our earnest efforts on making English language easier – WordZo, is ready for launch. WordZo is a language enhancement application which uses the normal reading process along with assisted tools for accelerated learning. This tool is aimed at students who are looking to enrich their vocabulary for better communication and for performing better in language tests such as GRE, GMAT, TOEFL and others. WordZo application is based on research findings in applied linguistics and reading research  which consistently show a…

• How to survive in a Post-Google World

  Anand

  11 Nov 2011 | 7:05 am

  The recent reshuffle of the Google results has severely affected one of my most active websites with traffic falling more than 80%. It was one of my biggest single earners in terms of money and loosing revenue from it is a big time bad news for me. After almost 3+ years of solid rankings and earnings, the sudden drop on the website was a surprise. The website in question was very genuine, with original content, optimized and valuable content for many keywords. Initially it was curiosity, to know why PANDA update caught my website in its filters and kicked it out of top spots. After a lot of…

• Cell Phone Charger for Motorcycles – Ideaforge ROVER Review

  Anand

  5 Oct 2011 | 8:02 am

  Before I left for the amazing ride to Leh, Ladakh last month, I was looking for ways to keep myself connected while on the move. My trusty Nokia E5 has a amazing battery compared to smartphones in the market today, but when I use the GPS frequently, the power drains a lot quicker. I found the perfect solution on eBay called Ideaforge Rover, a mobile charger for motor bikes. This charger is affordable (Rs. 250/$5) including shipping and the product has been designed pretty well to protect against the usual suspects like rain, theft etc. (left to right) Cellphone connecters, removable charging…

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  Affiliate Blog Online

• Yet Another Goal Setting New Year’s Post?

  Paula

  16 Jan 2012 | 8:44 pm

  Does time seem to speed up as you get older? It certainly feels that way to me. Last year just flew by and here we are already in 2012 and of course that means the obligatory goal setting post. Yeah, I know…ho hum…it’s not the most interesting of topics and most people try to ignore...Read the rest of this entry

• Christmas Giveaway Winners!

  Paula

  25 Dec 2011 | 6:57 pm

  Hope everyone is having a great Christmas. For us here in Australia, Christmas is already over and today we are celebrating Boxing Day. That usually means watching the Boxing Day cricket test match on tv, having a bbq, catching up with family or friends that you didn’t see over Christmas or going to the post-Christmas...Read the rest of this entry

• Our Best Amazon Day for November 2011

  Paula

  14 Dec 2011 | 7:30 am

  Over the past couple of years we have made it a habit to reveal our income for our November-December Amazon sales but as many of our regular readers know we decided to no longer do that for various reasons. (You can read the reasons why here). However, we know that hearing about others successes is...Read the rest of this entry

• Christmas Giveaway 2011 – Canon Powershot S95 Camera, Amazonian Profit Plan & $50 Amazon Gift Card

  Paula

  7 Dec 2011 | 5:26 pm

  UDATE:The giveaway is now closed…you can view the winners here. Well it’s almost Christmas once again, my how the time flies, and to help spread some Christmas cheer we are going to be giving away a few goodies to help get us all in the Christmas spirit. #1: Canon Powershot S95 Camera The first is...Read the rest of this entry

• The 3 Critical Factors You Need to Know to Make Money Online

  Paula

  21 Nov 2011 | 7:16 am

  Do you remember when you were young and your mum or dad (or other significant person in your life at the time) would tell you something extremely wise and life changing but it totally went in one ear and out the other? Today you might think back on it and say, “I wish I’d listened...Read the rest of this entry

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  Maxxelli-Blog

• Luxury cars brans speeding up in China

  Marketing

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:28 pm

  Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche, and other top brands are driving into small cities More and more parking lots of smaller Chinese cities carry the brands of premium foreign carmakers and have large engines. Among the brands that are common there are BMW and Mercedes. Shanxi, a neighboring province in North China and the location of two-thirds of China’s coal resources, is estimated by the industry to contain around 5 percent of all luxury vehicles in China, where more automobiles are sold than any other market in the world. On Nov 30, the British premium car brand Bentley opened its 17th…

• Relocation in the broadest sense of the word

  Marketing

  27 Jan 2012 | 7:38 am

  The rising costs of labour and accommodation in cities like Beijing and Shanghai are driving companies and their (expat) employees to the so-called ‘second tier cities’. “The significantly lower prices for real estate are hard to ignore. This defines our core business today: relocating companies away from the coastal area”, says Peter Kuppens (40), founder of Maxxelli Real Estate, also known from the new Taxi-Book app. Today, Maxxelli is at the heart of real estate in Suzhou, Wuxi, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Dalian and Xi’an; the ‘second-tier’ cities in China that are…

• Tech wonders set to change the world

  Marketing

  26 Jan 2012 | 7:10 pm

  From the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed train to the incredible reach of Sina Weibo, China’s contribution to the range of science-based inventions evolved in 2011, the world over, was noteworthy. From the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan to the death of the tech giant Steve Jobs, 2011 felt like a year of losses, but this rollercoaster of a year also produced a few technological wonders that are likely to change our lives forever. Here’s the list then, in no specific order: The iPad 2 At first glance this looks like a slimmer version of the Apples iPad with cameras in the…

• Sheraton Hotel Chongqing

  Marketing

  25 Jan 2012 | 7:50 pm

  Sheraton Chongqing Hotel is officially open since last 29th September 2011. You can ome and experience the fantastic restaurants and bars. Sapori, the Italian Restaurant at Sheraton Chongqing, represents the simple, yet authentic flavours of the Italian Cuisine Sapori Ristorante Italiano is the first authentic Italian Restaurant in Chongqing, our resident Italian Chef Alex offers you a large variety of traditional Italian dishes at its best, using only the freshest ingredients. Sapori Ristorante Italiano is located on level 2 above the lobby and opens for Lunch: 11.30am to 02.30pm and Dinner:…

• Growth in car sales hits lowest level since 1999

  Marketing

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:23 pm

  Slowdown comes as government cuts favorable stimulus policies BEIJING – Sales of passenger vehicles in China increased by 2.8 percent from 2010 to 2011, the lowest growth rate recorded for those products since 1999. The decline came as the growth of the country’s economy slowed and the government ceased favoring the industry with stimulus policies. Last year, China saw sales of 13.7 million passenger cars, sports-utility vehicles, multi-purpose vehicles and minivans. In December, the sales number declined by 3.3 percent below what it had been in the same month a year ago, said…

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  TentBlogger

• Optimizing via Google Webmaster Labs

  John Saddington

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am

  Author Stats via Google Webmaster Tools Taking a look at the Labs feature in Google Webmaster Tools can show you a more than a few things that can help you optimize your blog – this won’t take too much of your time (at least the first few parts) but you’ll want to not skip over them as part of your weekly (or monthly?) review. The first part is Author Stats with can help you take a look at particular posts and their impact on search. From Google themselves: Google is piloting the display of author information in search results to help users discover great content. This…

• ChairCo: The Business of People Acceleration

  John Saddington

  26 Jan 2012 | 7:04 am

  Last week I was able to sit down with three incredible individuals with three incredibly-different backgrounds and watch them literally pour out their hearts and souls in front of an audience that they had just (physically) met for the very first time. Although they were nervous they were more than prepared. More than that though was a passionate desire to make some significant changes in their lives – you see, what they currently had in terms of their jobs, their vocations, their small businesses, and their overall lifestyles just wasn’t “working.” So I stepped in and…

• The Solopreneur is Dead.

  John Saddington

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:02 am

  From one recovering solopreneur to another let me tell you frankly that the solopreneur within me has finally capitulated to the fact that it’s not nearly as an attractive model as it once was. In fact, I’m now somewhat repulsed by the idea. Not only that, I’ve actually been more successful now that I’ve put the solopreneur act on hold. This idea of doing things “on my own” within my own little vacuum and coming up with ingenuity and ground-breaking innovation is a farce, a lie. The point that I’m making is this: It’s far more healthy, far more…

• Google Penalizes Blogs with Too Many Advertisements

  John Saddington

  24 Jan 2012 | 5:16 am

  A recent announcement by Google has begun to make waves among the blogging community – especially those that are monetizing their properties and making an income via their blogs: We understand that placing ads above-the-fold is quite common for many websites; these ads often perform well and help publishers monetize online content. This algorithmic change does not affect sites who place ads above-the-fold to a normal degree, but affects sites that go much further to load the top of the page with ads to an excessive degree or that make it hard to find the actual original content on the…

• Fixing Blog Issues via Google Webmaster’s Diagnostic Tool

  John Saddington

  23 Jan 2012 | 7:39 am

  Eww. You’ve done a great job so far walking through the Google Webmaster Tools series – so proud of you! We’re near the end, so don’t quit now! The next section is called “Diagnostics” and there’s some great information in here that you don’t want to miss.  In addition, there’s a lot to do as well (hopefully not, but most likely you will)! What we’ll walk through is some of the more important elements and then you’ll be able to take it from there. Let’s go, shall we? Malware The first section is called malware and…

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  まっすぐに愛知の不動産！

• 物件探し　一戸建てを愛知県に

  たつ

  21 Jan 2012 | 9:49 pm

  そろそろ、家でも買おっかな。 ま、そんな簡単に買えるものではないことはわかっているけど 男として 結婚するときが来たら マイホームくらい 嫁さんに用意してあげられないと 格好悪いだろ。 一戸建てを愛知県に買うとしたら いくらくらいの物件があるんだろう？ ネットで 「一戸建て　愛知県　物件」と検索してみた。 そしたら結構の数の物件が出てきて ビックリしたよ。 一戸建てで愛知県と言えば どこのサイトがいいのか…

• 一戸建てを愛知県に建てる、ゲームで御殿物件

  たつ

  19 Dec 2011 | 10:44 pm

  超豪華、小さいお城みたいな一戸建てを、愛知県に建てる！御殿です よ。ゲーム御殿物件。 建築系はシムシティなんかを思い出します。懐かしいですよね。シム シティは原発が一番安全で安い電力でした。しかもつぶすのも無料で す。あれで原発教育間違えましたね。 いや、このゲームは、国内の土地を買って、物件を建築をするんです よ。いろんな建物を選べます。全部一戸建て、愛知県てわけじゃない…

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• How To Generate Traffic Using YouTube

  Jorge_D

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  Image via Wikipedia Are you still stuck on an old idea that you can only get visitors to your website by spending a significant chunk of your financial investment on a Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign? If you are, then this is the best time to expand your online marketing reality. Generating free traffic for a website is not that challenging nowadays. As more consumers are joining the social media networking, the marketing buzz created by popular social media sites can reach millions of potential visitors across the globe. Here are some ideas on how to generate traffic using YouTube to start you…

• Instant Commission Affiliate Programs

  Jorge_D

  22 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  Image by rogercarr via Flickr If you’re looking at getting into the affiliate marketing business, you can see how great of an industry it can be. It’s great for anyone that doesn’t have a lot of money when they’re first getting started.  You have the potential to make a good income by selling products that aren’t even yours. There is a drawback with some of the affiliate programs you may want to join. The problem is that some of them only pay once every 2 weeks or even once per month. If you already have a bunch of cash handy this probably doesn’t really…

• Four Methods To Make Money With Clickbank

  Jorge_D

  18 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  Image by rogercarr via Flickr Making money as an affiliate marketing by promoting products from Clickbank can be a very profitable business.  There are a number of different ways to successfully promote Clickbank products, some are easier than others, some are free while others require some capital.  This article will discuss the top four methods for promoting affiliate products and making a great income with Clickbank. 1. Article Marketing Article marketing is one of the most popular methods for promoting affiliate products.  It is easy and it is free which are two of the reasons for…

• (How To Get Rich) What the mind can conceive and believe…

  Jorge_D

  15 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  … the mind can achieve. Read that again “What the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve”. This a powerful video lesson from the father of self-help literature Napoleon Hill. Every single book or video I have on this subject of getting rich has taught me at least ONE valuable lesson each and every time. And I hope this video will teach You one too! Please watch the video and pay close attention to minute 5:37. Don’t forget to share you thoughts below!    

• How To Choose A Winning Clickbank Product To Promote

  Jorge_D

  11 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am

  Image via CrunchBase When choosing a Clickbank product to promote as an affiliate you want to choose one that will convert well and make you a lot of sales.  It is advisable to have a good solid criteria to follow when selecting a product to promote to increase your chances of choosing a profitable product.  Some of the factors you want to consider are gravity score, competition, the sales copy, commission payout, product price and repeat commissions.  Let’s take a look at each of these in more detail: Gravity Score When first starting out it is best to stick to products with a…

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  Anton Amoto

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pm

  Ad Tracking – Can Help You Duplicate Your Business Every Month When you think of ad tracking, you probably think of tracking the response to your various ads and promotions to determine which of them are profitable and which are just a big waste of time and money. This is all very important... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• The Truth About Marketing Online As a Network Marketer

  Anton Amoto

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:03 pm

  Marketing Online Revealed It’s no secret that the Internet is becoming very crowded with the noise from people who want to constantly share their business opportunity.  Marketing online from facebook to twitter to massive email and mobile marketing spam messages, everyone is trying to get your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• 2 Strategies That Every Internet Marketer Should Be Using

  Anton Amoto

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:33 pm

  Two Key Strategies Let’s face it, seeking to gain exposure on the Internet isn’t really that simple.  There’s the need to set up your sales funnels, generate traffic, build relationships with your followers and amongst it all, close leads into your business or sell them on your product or service.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• How To Create Killer Content Without Doing Any Work

  Anton Amoto

  24 Jan 2012 | 12:43 am

  Content Is The Secret and Key One of the most challenging aspects about marketing online is the need to create content.   The opposite side of the spectrum however is the fact that content is the secret and key to generating leads for your business, as well as establishing yourself as the expert... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• 100 Places to Publish Your Article Online for Free

  Anton Amoto

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:19 am

  Article Directory – publish your article online for free In this quick post I’m going share with you the top 100 places to publish your article online for free. So you can save time by searching them on google. Below you’ll find a list of 100 websites that you can submit your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• BusinessSolution

  ermir

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm

  BusinessSolution is a 2 column blogger template that is so simple with some nice colors and vectors. You can use it for business and finance blogs. Just think about it and use it. Features: 2 columns with right sidebars, widgets ready, business, social icons, featured posts, search box.

• WebConnection

  ermir

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:26 pm

  WebConnection is a 2 column blogger template that is so simple with some nice colors. You can use it with what purpose you like. Just think about it and use it. Features: 2 columns with right sidebars, widgets ready, business, social icons, featured posts, search box.

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  BlackWeb is a dark 2 columns blogger template. It has a misterious background with special highlights that gives to you the great effect. If you use this template you will be very satisfied of it. Features: 2 columns with right sidebars, widgets ready, business, social icons, featured posts, search box.

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  WebDesign is a very tech WordPress Theme. It has an adorable blue colors that at the first sight you would love her design. So fresh and so clean that can be personalized at any time. Features: Options Page, Featured Content, Ads banners ready, Logo .PSD included, Twitter, Facebook.

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• Celebrity Instagram Users: 10 Reasons Why They’ve Been Increasing

  Scott Webb

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:27 am

  TweetInstagram has over 15 million users now.  Amoung those 10 million users are your photographers, architects, designers, and celebrities. Just like a flock to Twitter, Instagram has ignited interest for celebrities to become power users. As of late, I have been thinking about why celebrity instagram users appear to be increasing instead of how other people will focus on the idea of celebrities driving mass adoption of Instagram.  I think it’s the speed of adoption for Instagram by iPhone users that has pulled the Celebrities in for a change.  Instagram doesn’t need to get…

• iPhone Photography: CreativeLive Day 1 Highlights

  Scott Webb

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:24 pm

  TweetHow do you sum up an entire day of learning about iPhone photography? I am not going to reiterate everything you can learn within the class downloads, but I’ll try and highlight some of the days events that I found most interesting.  Following the iPhoneography instameet the day before, I was game for meeting the other in-class students, the CreativeLive crew, and seeing what else Jack had on his iPhone. Jack Hollingsworth Loves iPhone Photography Is iPhoneography contagious or is it Jack’s love for iPhone photography that’s contagious? I don’t know but I could…

• Drake: Instagram Keeps Gaining Celebrities

  Scott Webb

  21 Jan 2012 | 6:24 pm

  TweetIt’s not like Drake joined Instagram today, but he’s closing in on sharing 100 iPhone photos in under 2 months. That’s right, Drake joined Instagram on December 2nd and has posted 85+ photos to his feed since then.  Interesting? I think so.  He’s not the only celebrity storming the Instagram culture or community. Instagram continues to attract famous people like Drake and I think the reasons go deeper than we understand at this point.  I’d even question if the Instagram platform is attracting you, me, and celebrities to the iPhone – It’s the…

• iPhone Photography with CreativeLive: The Trip Out and Instameet

  Scott Webb

  15 Jan 2012 | 2:21 pm

  TweetIt was 3:30am, a time I’d get used to seeing on a bedside clock, on the day before the CreativeLive workshop for iPhoneography with Jack Hollingsworth. I needed to get to where a shuttle was picking me up to drive me a few hours and end up at the Detroit Metro Airport. This was the first time I’d be flying own without another person with me. This could turn out great or turn out to be a terrible scenario. I’m pretty amazing at inducing high levels of anxiety in such situations but my love for iPhone photography was going to get me through it. So, how did it all go?

• Photography Resources to Quench Your Thirst [Week #6]

  Scott Webb

  13 Jan 2012 | 7:45 am

  TweetI hope you didn’t think I’ve forgotten about this series of photography resources and articles (sprinkled with a little of my own photography).  I love it because it keeps my eyes open and if I haven’t filled out a section, I go out searching for interesting content to read, curate, and share.  I first quench my own thirst and then  it allows me to help quench yours.  Sometimes I also like to start off the post with photography quotes.  I love when photographers share quotes on Twitter because they are little bursts of inspiration.  I don’t usually go out in…

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• My 2011 List of Books to Help People Become Interesting, Intelligent, and Sexy

  Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D.

  3 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pm

  Having successfully avoided every year-end recap on television, print, and online, I am required to be a hypocrite and hand you my own. This is not a list of the best books published in 2011, this is my own personal list of books that will transform you into a better companion at the bading pools of your local Korean spa.read more

• Why Do Men Have a Hard Time Making Friends?

  Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D.

  24 Oct 2011 | 10:10 am

  Nearly every society in the world has built in advantages for men. Whether money, power, or the freedom to jog at night without fear, men enjoy greater opportunities. With these opportunities come ambition. And for many men who are successful by society's standards, there is a cost that is simply not talked about: loneliness.read more

• How Much Television is Too Much? Science Weighs in

  Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D.

  8 Aug 2011 | 8:57 am

  Parenting is hard. There is no instruction manual. Television is killing our kids, right? Learn what science has to say.read more

• What Happens When We're Rejected and Ostracized by Strangers?

  Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D.

  5 Aug 2011 | 2:30 pm

  Don't underestimate the power of ostracism to render someone invisible and meaningless. The science is both astounding and bizarre. read more

• 3 ways to be insanely creative by dissecting the world's greatest, maverick scientist

  Todd B. Kashdan, Ph.D.

  8 Jun 2011 | 12:51 pm

  There is a maverick thinker and scientist that never gets his due. By combing through his life and accomplishments, I will share 3 lessons about how to be a more creative person. Want to know who the maverick is? Want to know how to create good, innovative ideas? Read on...read more

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• The Latest In SEO: What’s New With Google?

  ToMakeALiving

  24 Jan 2012 | 12:27 am

  What’s your New Year’s resolution? To lose weight? Make more money? Or finally crack the SEO barrier and get your site to page 1 for that awesome key phrase that gets loads of searches? If you said the latter, this post is for you! As a result of working as a freelance SEO, I get a pretty close look at what is really going on in the SEO world, and right now I can tell you that it is slowly but steadily changing. Here are some tips on how you should proceed with the SEO on your site in 2012. Enjoy! User Behaviour Matters It has been talked about for a while, and often speculated…

• Your Blogging Goals: Can You Meet Them? (Part 2)

  Carmela@Blogussion

  17 Jan 2012 | 12:28 am

  HAVE you ever set blogging goals that have the staying power of a New Year’s dieting resolution? You’re not alone. Many of us fall into the trap of setting lofty objectives at the height of inspiration, only to be derailed later by unforeseen pitfalls. This is why so many promising blogs fail: the goals are not realistic enough. Most of this stems from lack of preparation and flimsy understanding of one’s capabilities and limitations. However, with careful planning and a more grounded view of what one can achieve, these drawbacks can be avoided. Remember that seemingly impossible…

• Can You Make Your Site Work For You?

  Patrick Meninga

  10 Jan 2012 | 5:04 am

  I was first enthralled with the idea of earning passive income online when I discovered Clickbank products about five years ago. So I created my first information product and started buying pay-per-click traffic which was directed to an awful landing page that I had created. I lost money. However, I had glimpsed the power of the internet, and knew that I could create a system to produce income. I want to show you how I created a profitable website, and how you can do the same thing. Get-rich-quick schemes hardly work, if at all. It takes time and effort to build a successful income online.

• Can You Write A Highly Effective Headline?

  Keith@Blogussion

  3 Jan 2012 | 4:23 am

  Why is the headline that important? Doesn’t it all boil down to the quality of the content? The way I see it, great content is pointless if you can’t even get people’s attention enough to read it in the first place. I recall having read somewhere that people who write great headlines in media even sometimes get paid more than those who produce great content, and with good reason. Effective headlines grab attention; they have impact and compel the reader to click. They are also straight to the point, concise, and clear. Coming up with a good headline can be very tricky…

• 2012: Back to Basics for the Future

  Nancy

  31 Dec 2011 | 2:46 am

  WELCOME to the final station of 2011! Amidst all the excitement, it’s also a time to pause for a bit of reflection and re-evaluation before embarking on new goals and new heights. And it’s one of the best ways to gear up for the fresh promise that the New Year can bring. Nothing is off-limits, and this is a blog for “Next Generation Blogging”, so let’s take some lessons learned and start 2012 with an action plan! Nothing sets off the start of the year like a well-thought out gameplan for your goals. Have you started yours? First off: Brainstorming, and specifically for me, this…

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• Get Quality Followers For Your Twitter Channel

  Steitiyeh

  22 Jan 2012 | 9:33 am

  All brands and twitter users are concerned about increasing the count of their followers rather than focusing on building a proper community around their twitter channel. It’s good to have a good number of followers count, but always worry about quality followers and don’t place the number of followers on top of your to-do list. It’s exactly similar to anyone who launches any web app or a web venture and spends most of his time looking at Google Analytics and how much traffic he got instead of improving his tool and launching new features. But this doesn’t mean you…

• How Geek Are You?

  Steitiyeh

  22 May 2011 | 9:28 am

  I started recently watching the TV Series “The Big Bang Theory” and I can’t say more than it’s one of the most entertaining shows I have watched; it’s really funny and talks reality! I have always asked myself whether I am a geek or not and I always wanted to be one, since I was a little kid. I will always fight to be one and you have all my respect guys! What about you? do you consider yourself a geek? How do you usually judge if a person is a geek or not? Below are some questions to I believe will help anyone know how geeky they are. Are you the first person to be called when any…

• 7 Ways To Lose Fans On Facebook

  Steitiyeh

  13 May 2011 | 11:50 am

  It’s 2011 and everybody is getting on Facebook, even the grocery shop around the corner is connecting with people on Facebook. That is really cool and makes me happy, but the problem is what happens after a brand gets on Facebook? How do you expose yourself to your audience? What do you offer on your Facebook page? How do you communicate with your fans? It’s very difficult to get someone to “Like” your page, especially when you operate in a very specific or a narrow niche. Don’t you agree? I will now share with you 7 ways I believe will help you lose your fans. Obviously you will…

• 5 Steps To Take When Writing Your Article

  Steitiyeh

  17 Feb 2010 | 7:01 am

  “How do you write your articles?” A question that I was asked various times and I thought that I had to write an article about it and share its answer with you guys. It’s very healthy for any blogger and her/his blog to set a certain criteria/routine of how they’re going to create content for their blogs. Personally I follow some steps in every article I write that I think are “a-must” for every article, there are other steps I do with some articles only. Before listing these steps or things I do, I would like to say that with time these steps turn into a habit. 1- Collect…

• Difficulties I Am Facing As a Part-Time Blogger

  Steitiyeh

  16 Feb 2010 | 8:48 am

  As most of you know, I am planning to take my blog to the next level and generate full income from it or at least from my online presence/connections. I have to agree that in order to take it to the next level I need to dedicate time for it and commit and honestly this is appearing to be very difficult with my current situation, since I am a full-timer and sometimes I need to stay late at work and I have some other responsibilities alongside that as well. Having said all of this, I will still try hard and do my best to make it happen and quit my 9-5 job just for the sake of this blog! Being a…

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• Social Networking vs SEO – Which is Better For Internet Marketing?

  Noah Mark Rodolfo

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm

  This is a guest post by Noah Mark Rodolfo from BestOnlineBusinessGuide.netSocial networking is one of today’s biggest arena when it comes to online marketing. It’s been an effective gauge for Internet businesses, not only for e-commerce sites but also for bloggers. Facebook, Twitter and even Google+ are making a big impact on the Internet and many practical users are taking the bait. So the question is – “does SEO still have relevance for your online business?”.SEO against social networking is an interesting topic especially if you are looking for the best way to…

• The Best Advice for Home Office Success is More Simple than You Might Think

  James Martell

  21 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm

  This is a guest post by James Martell from AffiliateMarketersBootcamp.com.Starting an Internet Marketing business, or any home-based business, can be intimidating.Where do you start?Perhaps you have already started one, but are feeling like you are in a rut.How do you get out of it?Whatever you do, don’t take that as a sign that you should give up on your dream. It’s normal to have these concerns.What isn’t normal is to actually push forward and not give up. If you look at the statistics for home-based businesses, it’s not pretty, and will discourage most people. Why? Because most…

• 5 BEST Strategies To Get Your Guest Post Published On Popular Blogs

  Michael Chi

  17 Jan 2012 | 12:36 pm

  This is a guest post by Michael Chi from Blast4TrafficNow.net.Do you want to get your guest post published on A-list blogs?A single guest post on a popular blog can cause and influx of targeted traffic, relevant and unique backlink and increase your Google pagerank. I’ve seen the great potentials in these authority blogs and my major goal is to get at least 2 articles featured on their homepage monthly.The strategies I highlight below can get you started on your quest for successful guest blogging.You’ve 3 things to do right away; Read. Understand. Implement.1. Research Your Topic…

• Effective Blogging In Your Downtime

  David

  12 Jan 2012 | 12:48 pm

  This is a guest post by David Sumner from twago.Except for the lucky few, most bloggers have to fit their passion for writing in and around their 9-5 jobs.Unless you’re a professional freelance blogger earning good money from your blogging (which let’s be frank most of us aren’t), and the only time you can dedicate to your blog is in your free-time, then you’ll need to hone your writing skills and blog to the world without becoming a social outcast and gluing yourself to your laptop all weekend.However, blogging on the weekends or at other times brings with it a whole host of…

• GetlinksPro Review – Are They Any Good Or Should You Use Another Linkbuilding Service?

  Sushant Risodkar

  6 Jan 2012 | 10:39 am

  If I am going to use a link building service I definitely want to use one that is going to make it their job to perform their best for me.I know what I qualify as being the best may not be what everyone else considers the best.That is why when I tried out the services of “GetLinksPro” I wanted to see about a few core attributes that I feel would be universally appreciated.Will I Be Satisfied With The Services If I Use Them And Have Others Been Satisfied In The Past?I did a quick check of the testimonials at “Getlinkspro” because I needed to make sure the company has delivered on the…

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• Viral Friday: Samsunged

  Martin Michalik

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:39 am

  Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread. This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Samsunged, the sequel to the next big thing video.  The runner up is NIKE+ FuelBand – this futuristic gadget challenges you to #makeitcount. And Chevy Happy Grad completes this week’s top 3, showing (almost) the best parents of the world, they were really, really close. Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to…

• Facebook #1 Social Network In 127 Countries

  Igor Beuker

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:31 pm

  Strategic social media planning is about Owned, Earned and Paid media. And many global CMO’s are breaking their brains on global, glocal and local social media strategies. This new world map of social networks will make your life much easier… The map, created by Vincenzo Cosenza, an Italian digital strategist, shows the global popularity of various social networks. Unsurprisingly, the blue monster called Facebook tops the list in 127 countries out of the total 136 countries in the list… Facebook has over 800 million active users. And its userbase will hit 1 billion, since…

• Check-in With Air China At Selected Restaurants

  Laurens Bianchi

  24 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pm

  To promote Air China in Sweden, and highlight the fact that it flies not only to China but to destinations throughout Asia, Air China have been using restaurant check-ins on Facebook in a cool concept. The airline created partnerships with a number of popular Asian restaurants in Sweden, to act as ambassadors for Air China. At each restaurant guests were encouraged to check-in with Air China on Facebook as they sat down to eat. Check-ins were displayed on a leaderboard on Facebook and every week those with the most votes won two tickets to China. The campaign garnered over 3000 Facebook…

• 3 Reasons Why CMOs Should Care About CNY

  Chi Chung Man

  23 Jan 2012 | 4:59 pm

  Today marks Chinese New Year, big festivities are going on in China. What’s the big fuss about? Well, it’s one of the biggest holidays for Chinese people. And why is this important again? Because you’re an early bird and are eager understand a market that will most likely change the world economy. Chinese New Year is a very interesting holiday marketers should pay close attention to. Chinese New Year festivities lasts almost two weeks. During this time they eat festive meals, visit relatives, gift red envelopes which contains money. The list goes on but you can probably look it up in…

• Weekly Recap #3

  Martin Michalik

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:35 am

  Time flies and since it’s not easy to follow, read and catch-up with everything, we bring you a Weekly Recap from ViralBlog: all of the past week in one place. Last week on ViralBlog among others “Measuring The Business Impact Of Social Media”, “How Should CMOs Change The Communication?” and “Retail Trends 2012: Bricks Perish, Screens Profit”. Top 25 Stories On ViralBlog In 2011 It was a busy year in the social media space and tech. Google+; new iPad, Facebook launched Timeline, Twitter with a new design for users and  brand pages and embeddable tweets…

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  The Friday Traffic Report

• The One About YouTube Video Marketing

  Jack Humphrey

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:22 pm

  Listen to internet radio with The Friday Traffic Report on Blog Talk Radio Today we discussed the massive-ness of YouTube, the importance of video content marketing, and how to tap into 800 million users, or, the “Beast With A Billion Eyes.” Also: Google privacy update Links from today’s show ou the Friday Traffic Report Fan Page

• The One About Google’s Personalized Search

  Jack Humphrey

  15 Jan 2012 | 12:11 am

  In this, the second episode of 2012, Jack and Jim discuss the major change to Google’s search this week. Learn how it affects how you’re found on Google and how you can increase your traffic with social. Listen to internet radio with The Friday Traffic Report Related articles Google Personal Search Will change the way [...]

• First Friday of 2012!

  Jack Humphrey

  6 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pm

  On today’s Friday Traffic Report we hit the hot button issues.  Important things like, what gadgets we got for Christmas.  And why Twitter lets 3rd parties do things like Paper.li instead of doing them themselves. And, you know, all the other marketing and social tech goodness that comes with every serving of FTR radio! Links [...]

• $50,000 spent by individuals on Mafia Wars.

  Jack Humphrey

  16 Dec 2011 | 1:44 pm

  Where are people spending the big bucks online? And how might you take advantage of human nature to get more from your own customers? Today’s show takes a look at what people are willing to spend on online services and games.  And I bet you’ll be floored by what we found! Think about how the [...]

• Personal curation tools, privacy, and stuff we don’t like…

  Jack Humphrey

  9 Dec 2011 | 1:44 pm

  My co-host this week was Brandon Hall.  Jim Stroud was flying somewhere over North America at show time. Today we talked about: Clipboard, Scoop.it, Facebook, privacy and #D5D5D5 You’ll have to listen to figure that one out.  :) Check out our links on Facebook.

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• 8 Steps to Chiropractic Internet Marketing Success

  Dr. Patrick MacNamara

  25 Jan 2012 | 12:19 pm

  Both Club 365 and my Personal Training Program are geared toward training chiropractors on how to become Internet marketers. Club 365 is more of a do-it-yourself approach while my Personal Training Program is more of a one-on-one approach. Which ever approach works better for you will ultimately come down to your marketing budget. Regardless, chiropractors need to learn and understand how to use the Internet to market their services. They just can’t rely on traditional forms that are becoming more outdated and ineffective as time marches on. They need to appreciate the power of the…

• SEO Copywriting for Chiropractors Made Easy

  Dr. Patrick MacNamara

  23 Jan 2012 | 4:24 pm

  Chiropractic Internet marketing can be daunting for many practicing chiropractors. Not only are you required to keep up and participate with social media networks like Facebook, Google+, and Twitter but you’re also required to build a strong web presence through the creation of consistent content. Why? Because content is king! Don’t believe me? Then read this informative Q&A by Steve Strauss from USATODAY.com titled Ask an Expert: Content is king, entrepreneurs. Although today’s article doesn’t address content creation but rather content optimization, if…

• How Genbook Can Grow Your Chiropractic Practice

  Dr. Patrick MacNamara

  16 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  As we enter a new year, you may be thinking about areas of your practice you want to change, grow or improve. If so, you should be investing in new online technologies to help achieve those goals. As Dr. MacNamara has attested to in a past article, one of the easiest-to-use, most affordable and productive technologies with a strong ROI (Return on Investment) is Genbook, an online appointment scheduling solution for small businesses. In fact, since appointment scheduling is so vital to growing a small customer-focused business like a chiropractic practice, the industry represents one of the…

• Learn Chiropractic Marketing Inside of Club 365

  Dr. Patrick MacNamara

  9 Jan 2012 | 3:33 pm

  One of the biggest struggles I see chiropractors face today is how to market their practices in an Internet-driven society. As more marketing campaigns move online, social media and inbound marketing have become increasingly important assets for chiropractors to get found by and engage with potential patients. Think about the way you find information about products and services – are you watching TV ads? Going through your junk mail? Or are you consulting a search engine or a friend? People have gotten better and better at ignoring marketing messages with DVRs, caller ID, and spam filters.

• 3 Reasons Why Chiropractors Should Use Social Media

  Dr. Patrick MacNamara

  4 Jan 2012 | 11:24 am

  Social media marketing is one of the fastest and most effective business strategies available. Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and LinkedIn all give businesses the perfect platform to showcase their services to thousands of potential and current clients at one time. One of the greatest things about social media marketing is that it works for every type of industry, including chiropractic services. As a chiropractor, you may not know the “ins and outs” of social media marketing — but that’s ok! Becoming a social media chiropractor is easier and quicker than most doctors…

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• How to Choose Your Best Keywords Without a Search Tool

  Deb Lamb

  23 Jan 2012 | 10:08 am

  When you begin working on an online marketing campaign, you will immediately recognize the importance of using the right keywords to boost your content’s search engine optimization. Choosing the wrong keywords can lead to lackluster results for your website. So how do you find the ideal keywords for your business? Many people turn to online keyword search tools for help. These can be very helpful, however, there are a few things that you need to do before turning to one of these suggestion tools for your keyword research. Describe your business in simplified terms. When you sit down to…

• Work Motivation Tips to Help You Succeed

  Deb Lamb

  29 Dec 2011 | 3:47 pm

  In order to succeed and be happy in our work lives as well as our personal lives, it is important to get motivated and stay motivated. Typically, being happy in one life will lead to happiness in the other. For some, though, it is hard to maintain the right balance needed to achieve this goal. There are people who view their work as a means of escape from discontent at home. Others are so miserable at work that home is seen as their refuge. This kind of imbalance can have a negative effect on both your home life and work life. This is why it is important to strike the perfect balance of…

• The Silver Linings of Hopeless Situations

  Deb Lamb

  29 Dec 2011 | 3:09 pm

  There is a saying that you have probably heard or said that goes: For every cloud, there is a silver lining. It can be hard to give this quote much credence, however, when your own personal dark cloud is hovering above you, pouring cold rain down your back. We have all faced hopeless situations in our lives, whether it’s a failing marriage, a failing business, a failing poker hand, or countless other failures. Each unique situation seems dire, and the last thing you are willing to believe is that on the other side, there is a silver lining. It is hard for us to look at these situations in a…

• Methods to Finding the Source of Your Motivation

  Deb Lamb

  14 Dec 2011 | 11:28 am

  We all suffer from a lack of motivation from time to time. Whether it is a project that needs to be done for work, a chore to do at home, or a personal goal that needs to be accomplished, it takes a boost of motivation to get your started on the path to completion. Without the proper motivation, success cannot be achieved in any task. Every person is different, so finding the source of inspiration is different for all of us. Once you know how to get yourself motivated, you can accomplish the things that need to be done. Visualizing your achievement can be a great way to motivate yourself. If…

• Online Content: How to Beat Your Competitors with SEO Content

  Deb Lamb

  18 Nov 2011 | 2:53 pm

  No matter what type of business you have, you are going to have competition. Even more so when you have an online business. You might think you have the edge, but there will always be others out there looking to take the top spot in the industry. In order to take your place at the top of the heap- and stay there- you need to know what it takes to compete. When you start producing online content to support your business, it is important to have a strong understanding of search engine optimization. You also need to know who your competition is so that you can effectively compete. When you have…

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• 7 Tips To Keeping Your Sanity Working From Home

  Robb Sutton

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:07 pm

  Working from home rocks. There are no bones about it. In my life, I have done the years of the hour commute to the office everyday and there is nothing worse. By the time I got home, the frustration level of the work day and traffic about had me through the roof. It is amazing that my wife even married me through that time. So for those of you that are still in that and looking for a way out…I completely feel you and hope you find a way to get some sanity soon.Ironically, working from home also has its share of struggles and adaptations that make it not suitable for everyone. There are…

• Video: Daniel Telling Us About His Day and General Observations

  Robb Sutton

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:43 am

  Lately, Daniel has started to become really responsive to us talking to him. With his motor skills getting better and his ability to try to communicate really taking off…it is hilarious to have conversations with the little guy even if we have zero clue what he is saying.Obviously, at 16 weeks we are a long ways off from him actually saying a word, but this interaction seems to go a long way in encouraging him to make sounds and move around. Plus, he seems to love it and we get to see him smile a lot.While we are going through these things in early development, I am trying to capture as…

• Video: Shit New Dads Say

  Robb Sutton

  24 Jan 2012 | 12:56 pm

  So lately, the cycling community has seen a couple of viral YouTube videos go around that are “Shit xxx Says” which is a playoff of old Shit My Dad says lines. I got the idea to poke a little fun at myself and other new dads out there by making this clip sequencing “Shit New Dads Say”. I probably missed some classics but I am sure anyone who has ever gone through the new dad experience can relate.

• Being A Father Rocks…

  Robb Sutton

  22 Jan 2012 | 8:05 pm

  I know…catchy title right? Like anyone that is a dad didn’t already know that one before. You’ll have to excuse me. I am still new to the game.I spent this rainy weekend in Atlanta hanging out with my family. We didn’t do anything really special. Mainly we just hung out at the house and went on a few adventures (gun range on Saturday and out shopping with my parents on Sunday), but for some reason it is different now.My wife has been transitioning back to work, so time at home is her time to snuggle up on the couch with Daniel and play with him when he is awake. It is…

• The Single Best Thing You Can Do For Your Health and Happiness

  Robb Sutton

  9 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am

  A friend and business partner of mine forwarded on this video to me this morning. In my opinion, it is a much watch for everyone. Outside of being one of the best produced YouTube videos I have seen in awhile, it also addresses how we can live healthier and happier lives by doing something really simple that doesn’t take up too much time in the day.

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• SEO for Small Businesses Made Easy

  Kiesha Easley

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Guest post by BandC from MyBlogGuest For beginners the world of search engine optimisation (SEO) can seem mindboggling. ‘Keywords’, ‘back links’ and ‘page rank’ can all seem like complicated computer jargon. Small businesses may think that utilising an SEO strategy is a time consuming, complicated procedure but it needn’t be. There are 4 key areas of SEO that any small business can put in place and start reaping the benefits: Keyword Research Keyword research is the first and most important step in any SEO strategy. You need to decide who you are targeting – clients, other…

• 5 Ways Podcasting Can Help Your Blog

  danedmonson

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  The early days of a website can be test an entrepreneur’s faith. Most websites see sporadic visits with few visitors returning for more. You might not make enough money to make it seem worth time, and it’s easy to become frustrated after a few slow months. Writing articles and content is time consuming, and with a lack of an immediate audience, the entire process can be discouraging. However, successfully marketing a new website requires the same traits that are necessary for any entrepreneurial venture – patience and flexibility. While establishing a web presence can be daunting,…

• Want To Build A Successful Blog? Don’t Even Think About It…

  Linda Hewett

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  So… do you? Want to build a successful blog? Don’t even think about it… unless… you’re prepared to try all these strategies. You CAN build a successful blog! When I started my ‘other’ blog nearly two years ago I had no knowledge of the blogging world. I didn’t even know there was a ‘blogging world’! I started from zero awareness and zero experience. I didn’t even read blogs! Sounds mad, I know. But I love to write. It’s my passion and I needed a project. My son suggested I start a blog and I began to find out what it was…

• How Will Social Media Impact the 2012 Elections?

  Kiesha Easley

  24 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Guest post by MyBlogGuest Author: Guest Poster10 Don’texpect the T.V. advertising campaigns to be any less intrusive, annoying and frequent just because they are going to be monumentally supplemented by social media campaigns in the upcoming election season. Do expect to be inundated on all sides now:  in your email, on your Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, on popup ads, and on twitter feeds if you are foolish enough to subscribe, as well in T.V. and radio mail advertising. There will be a big advertising investment in all media Considering that almost $2.5 billion was spent on the 2008…

• Blogging for Business: 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Blogging on a Business Trip

  Tal Baron

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  Blogging on a business trip can be exciting. Your friends and family back home get to keep track of how you’re doing, and your colleagues benefit from your experiences almost immediately. Unfortunately, there are a few things you may do which can turn a positive into a negative very quickly. Worse, they could wind up costing you your job. DON’T forget why you’re there! Yes, blogging, Facebook, the Interwebs: They’re amazing. They’re fun. They’re usually more interesting than work, but your boss sent you on the trip to do something important.  If you…

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• Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day…An Infographic In Your Honor!

  James Ball

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:15 am

  Today is YOUR day Community Managers! Celebrate, dance…call in sick and treat yourself to a spa day! Whatever you do with yourself today, know that you are an appreciated and vital component of how business gets done in 2012. Your role is more inportant each year as you bravely carve out and define your place in the professional ecosystem. Started in 2010 by Jerimiah Owyang, Community Manager Appreciation Day is a day where the world is called upon to acknowledge who you are and what you do. I personally want to applaud your bravery and your passion. Now, more than ever the world is…

• Updated 2011 World of Social Media Video Infographic

  James Ball

  24 Dec 2011 | 12:43 pm

  2011 has been yet another banner year for social media. As marketers, it is necessary for us to keep tabs on developing trends as well as the past. The metrics that got us here are our chronicle. This video-Infographic is an excellent visual representation of where we are and from whence we came. I’m pretty much just parking this here as a year-end reference. Some of you may not have already seen the video. If this is the case, enjoy! I hope that all of you and yours are enjoying a pleasant Christmas Eve today!   +James Ball No related posts.

• Social Media, Work Dynamics, & Life – The Two Score and Five Year Lens

  James Ball

  28 Sep 2011 | 9:25 am

  So yeah, this is the first day of my 45th year on the planet…of course I’m reflecting! I really just wanted to jot down a few things to keep you in the loop and as an archive of sorts. Remember the “Social Media Case Study Starting Today” I wrote back in May of 2010? I am supposing that this post will serve as an official update about all of that, and then some. If you’ve been following for any length of time, then you know that there has been a steep decline in the frequency of my posts here on this blog since that very same May of 2010. Only part of that is because I’ve been so…

• Need A Website In Like, 30 Minutes? (1/2 Of All Small Businesses Don’t Have One!) Quick Fix:

  James Ball

  25 Aug 2011 | 4:56 am

  I love it when something turns out to be exactly “as advertised”, don’t you?  I love it even more when a product or a service makes something a little bit easier for struggling small businesses. Today I am super-pleased to introduce you to Onepager. Onepager is a service that allows you to create a dandy little one page website in minutes. Seriously, I built a website using Onepager in 30 minutes last night (I even cropped a pic for the background and made a little logo). Click the image below and check it out. The videos below pretty much explain everything you’ll need to know about…

• Stay Tuned – Big Social Media News Today At 11a.m. PST

  James Ball

  23 Aug 2011 | 5:49 am

  It would appear that we are all to receive some earth shattering social media news today at 11a.m. PST (I’ll be sitting at my comp with an hour cleared at 2p.m. EST!). Robert Scoble stated late last night in his Google+ stream that “Google+ has been matched by a competitor”. Robert is apparently bound by a non disclosure agreement until today. Having already achieved 25+ Million users faster than any other social network in history, does Google+ really need to be concerned? You bet they do. *Not on Google+ yet? Let me know in the comments with your @gmail address if you…

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• Write A Blog Post For Democracy & Civil Society and Win An iPad 2

  Anshul Tewari

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:48 am

  The year 2011 was one hell of an year. It was  the year when people woke up and fought for democracy and for their rights. It was the year when Indians got together to fight against corruption, when the Arab world saw a new wave of protests – all for the good. It was the year when social media took a new turn towards social activism and acted as a tool for change. Here is your chance to make use of this tool and express  your views on civil society and democracy, and stand the chance of winning an iPad 2. Youth Ki Awaaz is getting along with the American Embassy, New Delhi, to…

• 7 Basic Social Media Strategies For 2012

  linda

  25 Jan 2012 | 11:24 pm

  Social Media is the new term for socialising online. Social media includes web-based and mobile technologies that allow users to talk, participate, share, bookmark, network and more. It is indeed a social instrument of communication. Forums and Online Communities, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter – all these are called social media. Companies ought to follow consumers where they head to. People read blogs, give comments, share content in various blogs, forums and social networks. The reason why all businesses need to have a social media strategy is because it prevents sending a wrong signal or a…

• 6 Ways To Get More From Your Twitter Account

  shannen

  25 Jan 2012 | 6:49 am

  Are you on Twitter from a long time and still not getting outcomes as per your expectations? You could be tweeting wrong! Twitter is one of the fastest growing social networks and transforming the ‘wrong’ into ‘right’ is challenging here. Learning how to use Twitter can be one of the best decisions to be taken by an online business person. So, why not take the challenge and find out the six better ways that can help you get more from your Twitter account. Revamp your approach but first – let’s find out how! 1. Do You have something to Offer? No matter how much you deny, your…

• Easy Way To Choose A Perfect Niche For Your Blog

  Aritra Roy

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:56 am

  Before you startblogging, you must make it clear to yourself what you are going to blog about or very simply the main topic of your blog. You can not go and just blog about anything you want, like you start blogging about technology, then someday move to entertainment and later end with video games. This will kill your blog from the SEO point of view. If you are not serious about blogging, and consider this just as your past time, then you may not put importance in this. But if you consider this seriously and want to continue blogging for a long-term, then you must find a niche for your blog.

• 5 Benefits of Guest Blogging You Should Know

  Kuldeep Khatri

  22 Jan 2012 | 10:50 pm

  Nowadays every blogger knows the importance of Guest Blogging. It has been playing a major role for growing your blog business and expanding it in the Internet World. But still lot people deny this important part of their blogging career. They avoid Guest Blogging. In simple words, Guest Blogging is an art of publishing your post on any other person’s blog. No matter how is your blog’s condition or it belongs to an individual or many authors, Guest Blogging is always beneficial.  Most newbies or most individuals are still confused that they should write for other blogs or not.

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• Happy 2012

  Thomas

  11 Jan 2012 | 1:15 pm

  New hope, new goals, new expectations, new optimism, new desire, new faith, new wish….comes along with every new year. Each new year ” is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you are going to get. ‘ Yet people like predictions. They would want to analyze, interpret, evaluate what the future is hold on for them. And here is my humble attempt to predict the year 2012. Here I go………………………. Like the way,  bad is better than worse, and like the way,  something is better than nothing, so will 2012 will be better than…

• The Dirty Picture

  Thomas

  2 Jan 2012 | 11:49 am

  The aroma of cappuccino captivating my senses, I sipped this elixir of life. As I was immersing myself into this divine pleasure……………………….silence broke out………”machi FDI vandhichi naa, namma makkal enga da poovaangoo….marupudium inoru gandhi vandhu ivangala thorathi adikanum polIa” , FDI in retail became the topic of our vetti discussion. Reaching home after the aromatic coffee with ingenious vetti talk, I switched ON my friend the idiot box to see vidya balan showing her assests in The Dirty…

• The Brand – India.

  Thomas

  15 Aug 2011 | 2:43 am

  Today…………. every board room across the world speak about India. NRI’s  wants to return back to India and become entrepreneurs. Business house’s want to have their presence in India. Income levels have risen. Aspirations have risen. A brand new India has risen. "My only regret is that I am not 20 years younger because I think India is going through a very exciting period in its history" - Ratan Tata, 2011. This has been the great Indian growth story. But………. back in 1991, the economy was all time low. India had to pledge gold  to infuse…

• THE FREE-DOOM POLITICS

  Thomas

  17 Jul 2011 | 1:49 pm

  Raining freebies and crushing the previous govt schemes Chennai Super Queen Amma has announced her commeback in her signature style. Free Rice……………… Free Gold…………….. Free Fan……………. Free Mixie……. Free Laptop……….. what not?? Apo tamilam quater ku matum olacha podhum……!!! If I would sit in d time machine and travel ma self back to 2006, it was d dime amma bited d dust and d Big K rose up. And it was K who first announced slew of freebies and signed them on d…

• Shoe shop mentality

  Thomas

  24 Apr 2011 | 1:36 pm

  Loved this video presentation by Ram Charam 1. Cash generation 2. Profit Margin 3. Velocity/Volume 4. Growth 5. Customer focused A business would succeed if an entrepreneur can answer these three questions 1. What is the money making model of the business? 2. How does your team contribute to the money making model? 3. Does every one in your team know the answer for the first two questions? Do you wanna build up a successful enterprise? Then have shop-keepers mentality.

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• Supakitch and Koralie Art Galleries for Design Inspiration

  ID Safairis

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:17 am

  We can’t resist on accepting the fact that these couple of talented wall art galleries painting designers are very creative and truly inspiring. Influenced by Japanese art and tend to showcase images of geishas, dragons and other element of culture, made their designs very unique and amazing. Follow these two videos of which we think two of the best wall art painting in the making ever captured.“Manga and music are my main influences; everything comes from there, but it’s not nostalgia. The subjects I’m working on now are real and even if I treat it with my critical sense and…

• Another 10 Best Website Valuation Tools

  ID Safairis

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:36 am

  Selling a website is not something to be taken lightly. We need to consider many things before putting on the final selling price. Using certain simple tools, we may achieve this mission easily. In respond to the high popularity of our previous article on the list of 10 Best Website Valuation Tools available, here again we present you another 10 Best Website Valuation Tools for your checking. Biz Information (Malaysia) Cubestat  Ebiz Valuations Real Web Worth  Value My Web Web Worth Website Worth What is My Site Worth Your Url Live Your…

• Weekly Inspiration and Web Design Resource no.2

  ID Safairis

  22 Jan 2012 | 7:00 pm

  Continuing from last week, this week we will be featuring another small list of useful resources and web designs that we found across the web. From it we hope they can be of inspirational and reference for designers, web developers and newbies like us. Together let see what is inside for us in this week no.2.Articles from WPTidBitsAnother 30 Cartoon Style Website Design for InspirationsAwesome Transparent Smart WindowExtraordinary and Unusual Bed Designs IdeasInteresting Web Designs and Articles ResourceTop 5 Tips For Creating a Portfolio Website8 Best WordPress Video PluginsCase Study:…

• Another 30 Cartoon Style Website Design for Inspirations

  ID Safairis

  20 Jan 2012 | 11:31 am

  Not just they looks fun and interesting, at the same time they also attracts more attention and less boring compared to other normal site. Cartoon style website designs always have place in web and could be having their own loyal frequent visitors. They may not be featuring whole cartoons or animations in their website, but more to put some color fondness and harmony through creativity of childhood memories. Next in this we bring you another list of 30 cartoon style website design for your inspirations. Behind The WebsitesBest Mortgage DealsBookkeeping In A BoxCarbon MadeCrownCute Little…

• Awesome Transparent Smart Window

  ID Safairis

  19 Jan 2012 | 10:03 am

  Imagine you wake up in the morning and first thing you see is your room windows with Eiffel Tower surrounding scenery, even better you can have Yellowstone National Park best sight or the view of high altitude of Himalayan rocky mountains of Everest. Anything! Customize it whatever you want to see. This is the potential of an awesome transparent smart window that we are going to show you.If you have attended, you might have seen this at CES 2012, the annual event of largest consumer technology exhibition participated by giants like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HTC and others as well. Samsung…

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• 2 Simple Steps To Make Money From Your Electric Bill

  Sean Smith

  23 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am

  Imagine what it would be like to make money from your own electric and gas bill. Everyday you use energy; a life essential service necessary to cook your food and light your home. Yet, very few people know you can actually make money from home with your energy bill. It’s easy to make money from your energy bill. All you have to do is two simple things. Check out my latest video to learn 2 things you can do to make money from your electric and gas bill and the electric and gas bills of thousands of others. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for more great content and instant access to all…

• What Tim Tebow Can Teach You About MLM Success

  Sean Smith

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am

  Tim Tebow is not well known for his athletic ability nor his successes as an NFL quarter back with the Denver Broncos. On occasion he has an impressive performance on the football field. However, it is what he does off the field that can provide you with significant insight into how to achieve success with your MLM business. In the following video, I discuss Tim Tebow’s off field habits and show you how we, as MLM/Network Marketing professionals, can take a knee and learn from Tim Tebow what we need to succeed. Check it out now! Subscribe to my YouTube Channel for more great content and…

• 8 Free Mobile Web Apps To Grow A More Successful Home Business

  Sean Smith

  18 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am

  As a home business owner you fill many roles; you’re juggling your work, family and your home business. With so much going on, it is easy to become overwhelmed. Running a successful home business requires you to stay connected, organized and balanced. To build a strong, thriving, successful home business, you’ll need to think “outside the box” to manage your business more efficiently and provide a more balanced life. Mobile web apps can help you do just that! Today I want to share with you 8 free mobile web apps and some unique tips on how to use them to stay…

• Is An At Home Biz Making Money From Electricity A Smart Choice?

  Sean Smith

  16 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am

  Fortunes can be created by those with a vision to take massive, immediate action. With so many at home biz opportunities out there, it can sometimes be very difficult to determine what business is right for you. The key is to find an at home biz that is well established, has great products or services and provides you with all the tools, support and training you need to succeed. But what type of at home biz should you choose? In today’s video I share with you 7 reasons why an at home biz that allows you to make money from energy services such as electricity and gas may be a smart choice…

• Social Media Strategy for Home Business Domination

  Sean Smith

  13 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am

  If you’ve been building a Home Business on the internet for any amount of time, you’ve probably come to realize the value social media platforms play in growing your business. Yet many Home Business Owners don’t have a solid Social Media Strategy to truly benefit from its value at all. Social Media is a great way to increase visibility to your business as well as nurture a relationship with existing customers and business partners. If you have a good Social Media Strategy, you can achieve many great things through Social Media that you otherwise would not through more…

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• 4 Ways to Make Your E-Mail Marketing Mobile Friendly

  Jessica.Sanders

  28 Jan 2012 | 1:20 am

  E-mail marketing, with 92% of the U.S. internet users sending and reading e-mail, according to E-mail marketing no longer reaches your audience the way it used to. People used to sit at their Gateway desktops every night, dial into their Netscape and check e-mails while watching Family Matters. The story is now a bit different. One in five marketing e-mails is opened on a smart phone. This changes a few things for your e-mail marketing campaign. Though you may have to modify a bit, you can and should make it work in your favor. Give Your Newsletter a Mobile Lift More than ever, it’s now…

• 8 Effective Tips to Get More Traffic to your Blog

  jasmine

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am

  “If You Build It, They Will Come” is the famous quote from the show having developed a blog does not automatically guarantee us any readers, no matter how attractive your blog is or how informative your contents are. You would need to put in internet traffic sources. The major internet traffic sources include search engines, social media websites and advertisements. But since I plan to discuss on free traffic sources, I will focus on the first two sources. Tip 1: Quality of Content First and foremost, you should Quality content is crucial in determining traffic to your blog. If a…

• One Surefire Way To Improve Your Writing

  Joe Pawlikowski

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:18 am

  Sometimes the most obvious advice is right in front of us. In fact, people might be screaming it at the tops of their lungs. But for some reason, we are deaf to these pleas. That is, until it’s laid out for us in the clearest, simplest possible terms. For that we’ll turn to ton of motivation, but it pays off in the end. It will imbue you with a sense of style and authority, two qualities necessary for any writer’s success. Here’s how to start your reading regiment. Remember King’s words here, too: “If you feel you need permission to do all the reading and…

• 5 Essential Upgrades your Blog needs for 2012

  LauraMoisei

  23 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am

  Your New Year’s resolution as a blogger surely sounded something like “I’ll take more care of my precious and make it grow like never before”. fresh plugins for WordPress? This means 14 out of the box features you’ve never experienced before. Technology is constantly evolving. New trends in graphic design and content writing are round the corner. And the readers can sense if your blog is keeping up to the times or not. So where to start upgrading? Here are a few tips. Polish your blog’s design and usability. - Most bloggers stop thinking about updates once…

• Good Morning Sunday: 8 David Ogilvy Quotes to Help You Write Better Blog Content

  ZK

  22 Jan 2012 | 7:21 am

  He dropped out of college. He had been a cook, a salesman, a diplomatist and a farmer. He knew nothing about marketing, had never written any copy. He was unemployed at 38 when he approached advertising agencies to hire him. No American agency hired him, however a London agency did hired him. Three year later he became the most famous copywriter in the world, and in due course built the tenth biggest agency in the world. “The King Of Madison Avenue”, Ogilvy was know largely to help clients understand consumer insights. Real advertising or copy works best when based on consumer…

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• Make Money By Selling WordPress Themes

  SmashingShare

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:32 pm

  Make Money By Selling WordPress Themes is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials Our sister site, ThemeLabs, opened a new affiliates system and is offering a generous and high commissions of 50% over any purchase made by any user referred by you. This kind of sites usually gives low commissions but since our expenses are low we want to share...

• PhotoBleep: Photography Contests Projects

  SmashingShare

  5 Sep 2011 | 11:34 am

  PhotoBleep: Photography Contests Projects is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials PhotoBleep did a radical change on its services and re-launched the website with a cool service: Photography projects contests (also know as challenge or assignments). Anyone can register for free and submit photos. If your photo is on the first 3 places, then you...

• How Behance.net Can Showcase and Improve your Designs

  Aimee Sway

  2 Jun 2011 | 8:45 am

  How Behance.net Can Showcase and Improve your Designs is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials How Behance.net Can Showcase and Improve your Designs is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials In the creative world of graphic design, there can be much loneliness. Much like a writer sits in a...

• Earning with Youtube? Yes, It Is Possible

  Aimee Sway

  25 May 2011 | 6:58 am

  Earning with Youtube? Yes, It Is Possible is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials Earning with Youtube? Yes, It Is Possible is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials Isn’t Youtube just for fun? No, you can actually earn from it and it is not an urban legend. In fact, if you know how to...

• Launching an Online Business: 7 Steps How to Promote it for Free

  Aimee Sway

  21 May 2011 | 12:39 pm

  Launching an Online Business: 7 Steps How to Promote it for Free is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials Launching an Online Business: 7 Steps How to Promote it for Free is a post from: Smashing Share | Web Resources, Design Inspiration, Freebies and Tutorials If you have been looking for a way to create another stream of income, building an...

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• WordPress Affiliate Management Plugin: Thirsty Affiliates

  Dave Doolin

  15 Jan 2012 | 1:26 pm

  (Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes) Does managing affiliate links feel like underwater barbecue? Like, no matter how much work you put into it, it’s just impossible? Well, you’re now in luck: Managing affiliates links has never been easier, with the Thirsty Affiliates plugin for WordPress. Introducing Josh Kohlbach’s Thirsty Affiliates My biggest problem with affiliate marketing is keeping track of everything. For some reason, I’m not naturally inclined to maintain the business documentation allowing me to find out where all my affiliate links are stashed. It’s a…

• On-page SEO: Multiple H1 Elements Yea or Nay?

  Dave Doolin

  9 Jan 2012 | 5:19 pm

  (Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes) Here’s an interesting email I received concerning on-page SEO html structure and its effect on search results: I finally have a minute to reach out. We haven’t spoken since you left your comment on my site. I haven’t had a chance to review the hRecipe plug in [sic] and all the updates you made. Could you please advise if the layout now has the option of tagging the <post type> titles and subtitles to H1? -Grace After a few back and forth emails concerning whether hRecipe plugin for WordPress should, by default, use the h1 element for…

• Destroy Websites for Fun and Profit! (SEO backlinking, of course)

  Dave Doolin

  3 Jan 2012 | 2:22 pm

  (Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes) It turns out I have a long time interest in structured content, dating back to graduate school and projects dealing with a lot of raw data. Describing data requires using metadata, and from there it’s not really a big jump to the semantic web and rich snippets. A current project involves describing projects using metadata. Sounds self-referential, no? It’s not, really, because context matters. One such metadata specification is Description of a Project, aka DOAP. While I’m not a big fan of the acronym, the concept is sound. Unfortunately,…

• Choosing Your WordPress Theme (4 questions to ask)

  Anca Mosoiu

  14 Dec 2011 | 2:41 am

  (Reading time: 6 – 9 minutes) Ask Anca is a column written by WordPress expert Anca Mosoiu. Anca is owner of  Tech Liminal (where you can come and ask these types of questions in person every Friday at the WordPress Support Group). This week, we’ll start covering one of the more fundamental questions involved in building a WordPress site: “Hi Anca, How do I pick a theme if I want to customize my site? A. Designer” This question has a complicated and lengthy answer that boils down to “it depends”1. Here are some things that you can ask yourself to help you get…

• DragonBlogger Contest – Kindle Fire Giveaway

  Dave Doolin

  9 Dec 2011 | 3:50 pm

  (Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes) I’ve known Justin Germino over 2 years. Which feels like forever in blog years. Justin is one of the good guys. He’s growing an active community around DragonBlogger Technology and Entertainment, a brutally competitive niche. And he’s doing quite well with it. At the moment, Justin is running the DragonBlogger Kindle Fire Giveaway, a contest for where two lucky winners will get one of the new Kindle Fires. The contest is enabled using Rafflecopter, which Justin has now used 4 times. The purpose of the contest is primarily to grow the…

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  How to Blog: ShoutMeLoud

• Benefits Of WordPress for Your Online Business Website

  TicketKick

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:16 pm

  WordPress has been evolved from a Blogging platform to a CMS and these days most of online business Websites prefer WordPress as their choice of platform. Many people, who are still not aware of change and benefits of using WordPress or similar CMS, they are still opting for static pages .html Websites. Here I will outline some of the benefits of WordPress. There are many different website management packages out on the market. From Joomla [...]Benefits Of WordPress for Your Online Business Website Is a post from How to Blog: ShoutMeLoud Join Shoutmloud on Facebook || Join ShoutMeLoud on…

• 5 Domain Name Suggestion Tools

  Harsh Agrawal

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:42 am

  When ever we start any new website, one of the most crucial  and important factor is selecting a domain name. There are many domain name suggestion tools are available in the market and here I have compiled a list of some recommended domain name suggestion tool, which will help you to find domain names based on your Keyword or name idea. One approach which I always suggest is to go for branded or keyword rich domain [...]5 Domain Name Suggestion Tools Is a post from How to Blog: ShoutMeLoud Join Shoutmloud on Facebook || Join ShoutMeLoud on Twitter

• Why Engineering Students Should Blog

  Tushar

  24 Jan 2012 | 10:52 am

  Blogging is getting great exposure in India and many other countries. It’s getting great exposure in print media and blogs like ShoutMeLoud shows the right path of monetizing it and shows the reality of money and Blogging. Though, one most common question which you will hear from people: What’s the right time to start a Blog? And honestly, there is no right or wrong time. Any 10 year old with good writing skills can start [...]Why Engineering Students Should Blog Is a post from How to Blog: ShoutMeLoud Join Shoutmloud on Facebook || Join ShoutMeLoud on Twitter

• 9 Steps To Secure WordPress Blog

  Gowtham

  23 Jan 2012 | 4:48 am

  In recent time, WordPress has been highly targeted by bloggers. Since WordPress uses MySQL and Php, it’s not tough to find a vulnerability in WordPress. Here I’m sharing some newbie tips to Secure WordPress blog. These are basic tips but some time missing these basic tips, may lead to losing your WordPress blog by some hacker. WordPress is probably the best CMS out there for blogging. I can quite confidently say that, being a user [...]9 Steps To Secure WordPress Blog Is a post from How to Blog: ShoutMeLoud Join Shoutmloud on Facebook || Join ShoutMeLoud on Twitter

• Chrome Adsense Extension for Adsense Publishers

  Harsh Agrawal

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:02 am

  There are many Chrome Adsense extension for Bloggers, which they can use to check Adsense earnings without logging into Adsense account. One such desktop app, which we covered in the past was NiftyStats and these time we will look into some of the Chrome options available. Google Adsense is one such program for publishers, which is being used by Majority of bloggers around the globe. When I started with Adsense, for first 1 year I [...]Chrome Adsense Extension for Adsense Publishers Is a post from How to Blog: ShoutMeLoud Join Shoutmloud on Facebook || Join ShoutMeLoud on Twitter

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• Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Yosemite HD

  Kristi Hines

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing How to Set Up Blog Comments as Goals in Google Analytics Using WordPress Hacks – Learn more about the visitors who leave comments on your blog with two methods of setting up blog comments as a goal in Google Analytics. 10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers…

• 6 Ways Personal Development Can Make You a Better Blogger

  Timo Kiander

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This is a guest post by Timo Kiander. Many people live their lives without understanding, that there is a giant potential inside them. In fact, if they would realize this, they would achieve so much more in their lives. This is where the personal development comes into play. Once you get involved with different self-improvement topics, your mind starts to change and you’ll start seeing everything differently (the people, the world, the events). What I love about personal development is that it can be applied to many areas in one’s life. When you improve yourself first, you can…

• How to Set Up Blog Comments as Goals in Google Analytics Using WordPress Hacks

  Kristi Hines

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  As many of you know, I love writing about Google Analytics. I’m a data junkie, and there’s nothing I enjoy more than learning more about the visitors coming to my blog. One of the best ways to get actionable data out of your Google Analytics is to set up goals. Setting up a goal in Google Analytics tells it that someone has completed something important on your website, such as buying product, signing up to your email list, or similar. For those who aren’t interested in selling products or capturing mailing list subscribers, is there anything else you can count as a goal on…

• Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Timescapes

  Kristi Hines

  20 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing 5 Things Every Blogger Needs to Teach Their Readers & Why it Matters – Want to grow a successful blog? You need to teach your readers a few things. 81 Topic Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters – Don’t know what topic to start a blog that matters about? Here…

• Using Google+ Hangouts to Get More Exposure for Your Google+ Business Page

  Kevin Lau

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This is a guest post by Kevin Lau. It’s still the early days for Google+ and plenty of people are getting to grips with the various tools this social platform has. This is even truer for business users, who have only recently been able to set up business pages to help promote their work. One of the main features Google+ has to offer is Google+ Hangouts. Google+ Hangouts enable you to initiate video chats with other Google+ users who are in your Circles who also have access to a video camera. So how can you use Google+ Hangouts to benefit your business? Let’s face it most business…

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• The Most Infamous Computer Hacks & Hackers in History

  myhosting.com

  10 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am

  The invention of the computer brought much good and innovation; however, there are always those that like to go against the grain – cue the computer hacker! Below is a list of some of the most notorious computer hacks and hackers in history; men that have used the power of the computer to wreak havoc in one way or another. #1 THE HACKER: Onel de Guzman THE HACK: The ILOVEYOU computer worm distributed through e-mail THE RESULT: More than 50 million reported infections across the world with billions of dollars in damage and overwritten files. On May 4, 2000 much of the world woke to an e-mail…

• Blog VPS: WordPress, MovableType and More!

  Tim Attwood

  4 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Power bloggers may find that shared hosting is not handling the requirements of their blog visitors or e-commerce customers. For these bloggers, consolidating all websites and blogs onto a blog VPS will provide improved performance and decreased downtime. VPS hosting offers several advantages over shared hosting. In many cases, WordPress VPS hosting offers the advantages of dedicated hosting without the expense. Power bloggers may want to consider VPS rather than shared hosting, even if they choose the smallest available package at first. With only a few posts, power bloggers may obtain more…

• myhosting.com Takes your VPS Security Seriously with Proactive Security Patching!

  Jeremy Adams

  21 Dec 2011 | 3:33 pm

  myhosting.com is dedicated to ensuring high quality of service and security and for this reason, we take a very proactive approach to maintaining the software we provide to our clients! In the past 24 hours, our team patched a high-severity WHMCS security issue for all myhosting.com VPS administrators with WHMCS! As soon as a fix was identified for the issue found on Dec 1st within WHMCS our team was ready and ensured all of our customers the security and peace of mind of a patched and secure VPS server. The security issue was found and originally posted on the WHMCS forums at the below link:…

• Optimizing your Online Store with eCommerce VPS

  Tim Attwood

  1 Dec 2011 | 8:00 am

  Powering an eCommerce store has now become par for the course for any company that wants to ensure they are at the top of their game and stay competitive in their market. Not only having a regularly updated website but a reliable portal for your customers to buy goods and services online is expected. This means many potential customers will be motivated to seek other options if they discover that your store is slow, ungainly, or simply not available. Setting up an eCommerce store solution or shopping now requires minimal investment of both time and funds, and the first question you to ask…

• Forum Hosting: Creating a community with phpBB or vBulletin

  Tim Attwood

  3 Nov 2011 | 8:00 am

  One of the most powerful ways to interact with an online community is through the use of moderated and standards-compliant forums, which allow a wide range of users to post messages, share thoughts, and collaborate on ideas. If your community is looking for a new place to call home, or if your current forum software is no longer able to deliver the kind of performance you need, you may want to consider an upgrade to a more powerful bulletin board application. In combination with a reliable hosting provider, the right forum hosting tools can ensure that no post goes unread and that every user…

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• Best PS3 Move Games 2011 – Top 5 List

  Harshit

  15 Jan 2012 | 3:50 am

  With Playstation 3 Move gaining immense popularity, especially with kids, we thought it’s a good time to check out the best PS3 Move games of 2011 that you can enjoy playing alone or with your whole family. As most people are quite confused about which games they should buy and which were the ones that hit the top of the charts last year, we have compiled a list that includes some of the top bestsellers of 2011. So here goes the list: 1. Dead Space 2 A sci-fi horror game that promises some thrilling action that makes users deal with aliens that have invaded the land. Fun and absorbing,…

• Games Like Age of Empires – Top 5 Strategy Games List

  Harshit

  13 Jan 2012 | 4:22 am

    Rise of Nations 2 One of my favorite games over the last decade or so has been Age of Empires, arguably the best strategy game of all time. Whether it be Age of Empires 1, 2 or 3, each one has continued to provide unmatched entertainment, especially for strategy games lovers like me. Although there are similar games like Age of Empires in the market, most of us are not aware of them. So in this article we are going to check out the best 5 strategy games which can serve as great alternatives to this classic game. 1. Rise of Nations A thrilling strategy game from the best in the…

• Best Android RPG’s (Role Playing Games)

  Harshit

  29 Dec 2011 | 6:10 am

  With Android OS gaining unprecedented popularity in the last year or so, the demand for quality Android apps and games has increased manifolds. In this article we are going to check out the best 5 Android RPGs (role playing games) that provide fun entertainment on the go. So here goes the list: 1. Parallel Kingdom (Age of Thrones) - A highly engrossing game (MMORPG) that uses live GPS to track your current ocation and changes the game location subsequently, allowing you to fight off mobsters in your own backyard (though a virtual one ). 2. Chrono Trigger – Another superb SNES (Super…

• Top 10 Tablet PCs – December 2011

  Harshit

  5 Dec 2011 | 10:08 pm

  Tablet computers have been selling like hot cakes ever since they were launched and as its Christmas time there can be no other better gift than a tablet computer to someone you love. So here go the top 10 tablet PC’s in the month of December 2011: 1. Kindle Fire, Full Color 7″ Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi 2. PanDigital 72-70FW 7-Inch Tablet Computer – White 3. Coby Kyros 7-Inch Android 2.3 4 GB Internet Touchscreen Tablet 4. MID 7 inch Android 2.2 VIA8650 ePad Tablet 5. Samsung Galaxy Tab (10.1-Inch, 16GB, Wi-Fi) 6. HP TouchPad Wi-Fi 32 GB 9.7-Inch Tablet Computer 7. Acer…

• 5 Best Paypal Alternatives in India

  Harshit

  26 Oct 2011 | 1:07 pm

  Paypal is undoubtedly the best online payment system, with millions of users successfully using it to send money over the internet. However due to the strict regulations imposed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Indian users registered with Paypal, looking for alternatives has become the need of the hour. Earlier this year, following a series of disputes between RBI and Paypal, the RBI finally took the decision to stop Indian users from making payments on the internet for goods & services using Paypal and limiting them to only receiving payments for their freelance works. So…

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  Famous Bloggers

• 7 Must-Follow Tips of Organizing Successful Blog Contest

  Helmi Asyraf

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm

  You must have encountered or probably joined a lot of blog contests and giveaways. But why people love to launch blog contests? For a newly set-up blog, the reason for organizing blog contest is probably because of the want increase the exposure and interactions that are happening around the blog. And that’s why I launched my iPad 2 giveaway over my site – Kissing Crust. While for an established blog like Famousbloggers.net, the reason may towards strengthening the branding of the blog. Let’s take the contest that Hesham has just announced the winners.  I am pretty…

• A Journal Log of My First $1000 Earnings

  Liane

  26 Jan 2012 | 7:06 pm

  Don’t raise that eyebrow yet! I’m no online marketer and I promise you that you won’t end up clicking (or even seeing) a link that will lead you to an opt-in newsletter or six levels of overhyped sales funnels. No seriously. This is just me telling  you how I got my first $1000. For real. On Hitting the $1000 Mark If you asked me years ago on my opinion about making $1000, I would’ve walked out of the conversation because I believe it’s just too good to be true. So if you feel that way right now, don’t worry. I get where you’re coming from because I’ve been there… and for a…

• Google’s Above the Fold Clarification : Size Matter!

  Hesham Zebida

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:22 am

  In a  Google+ hangout video chat session, Matt Cutts clarified how Google’s above the fold penalization will work as many people was wondering if the number of ads will cause an issue, but that’s not the case. The new algorithm inspects pages to see how much  space is used to display advertisements above the fold, so it’s all about the size of  ads, not actually the number of ads that are showing on the page. A very interesting thing is Google will penalize the entire site if there is too much space used to display ads, especially above the fold. Matt Cutts…

• Your Blog Sucks – The Ugly Truth about You and Your Precious Blog

  Mitz Pantic

  26 Jan 2012 | 1:57 am

  Do you want to hear the truth about your precious blog? I know this is hard to hear but I do not exactly want to tell you either. Your blogs sucks! There I have said it! Well not all blogs suck, but if you thought I was talking to you then maybe you really do think your blogs sucks? I have been in this position, thinking my blog sucked, miserable, feeling like I was never going to get anywhere. My precious blog didn’t suck, it was my attitude that was the problem. It’s time to about-face Before you decide that blogging is not right for you and go back to the 9 to 5 slog, give your…

• Future Of Engagement: Meet David Spark, founder of Spark Media Solutions

  Hesham Zebida

  25 Jan 2012 | 3:28 am

  In today’s episode of Future Of Engagement, we meet David Spark, founder of Spark Media Solutions and established branded journalist that has been working in the industry for over 15 years for over 40 media outlets. Our host Murray Newlands and David discuss the large demand for video content creation, as well as: How Works for Business Sharing Content Relationship Building Guest Blogging For more information about Future Of Engagement, go to adrants.com. To learn more about host Murray Newlands and his marketing agency, go to murraynewlands.com and influencepeople.com. To learn more…

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  Blogging Without A Blog

• Did You Pick It or Did It Pick You

  Barbara Swafford

  22 Jan 2012 | 5:36 pm

  Blogging is like partaking in an individual sport. What attracts one person to blogging often differs from that which attracts the next. Not only are we attracted to blogging for different reasons, we also differ in what we blog about (our niche). Today’s Lesson When I started blogging, I was not interested in having a blog about blogging. Instead, I saw myself blogging about that which I had learned over the years; sharing hints and tips and general life observations. With my Observation Mountain blog, I did that, however after writing close to 200 posts, I began to run out of things…

• Why Learning Blogging From Others May Not Be Our Best Choice

  Barbara Swafford

  16 Jan 2012 | 3:22 am

  “Pass it on” is the final assignment in the ebook I read over the weekend. The book, “The Flinch”,written by author and blogger, Julien Smith is a free download from Amazon. To complete the assignment, I am passing it onto YOU. Today’s Lesson My blogger friend Davina told me about this book and when she forwarded the link to me, I downloaded it immediately. Within the first few sentences, I was hooked. I knew “the flinch” played a major part in my life and wanted to learn more. The first words which resonated with me are in the introduction, This is a…

• Are They Fake?

  Barbara Swafford

  9 Jan 2012 | 3:41 am

  Have you ever noticed how much fake stuff there is? In the real world we see fake Rolex’s and other knock-offs. There are also fake breasts, fingernails, hair, eye lashes, tattoos, fake foods engineered to (sort of) taste like the real thing, fake weather conditions including snow and the list goes on. Online and in print media we see fake in the form of air brushing or Photoshopping. On social networking sites, pedophiles take on a fake identity to scam young children. Today’s Lesson On blogs we see fake, too. It may come in the form of plagiarized content or stolen photos. We…

• Everything Old is New

  Barbara Swafford

  3 Jan 2012 | 3:31 am

  With the onset of a new year many people decide to start fresh. Some will restart those goals which were never met in years past, whereas others vow to make the new year the best it can be. With blogging, making New Year’s resolutions isn’t a bad idea either. Today’s Lesson I feel the beginning of a new year is the perfect time to access where we are, blog wise, as well as where we’d like to go with our blogs and to review how we spend our time online. Some of the items we might consider changing are: Post more or less often Spend more or less time on social networks…

• Wishing You All A Happy Holiday

  Barbara Swafford

  13 Dec 2011 | 3:40 pm

  I’m wishing you all a very happy holiday season and a blessed and prosperous 2012! See you in the New Year! Until the, Cheers! Related Posts:Celebrate BloggingTake One Thing OffEverything Old is NewThe Eleven Word ChallengeBlogging Poetry – An AssignmentPowered by Contextual Related Posts

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  Fuel Your Blogging

• How can businesses use Twitter’s brand pages?

  Francis

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Advertise here via BSA twitter logo Facebook is not only the largest social network, it may also be the most influential. Just recently, we have seen both Google and StumbleUpon introduce business-friendly features that are obviously inspired by the social giant. The latest to follow the trend is Twitter, perhaps Facebook’s most serious rival in the social space. If you’re lost here, we’re talking about the new pages the microblogging service recently launched with its redesign. You heard it correctly. Twitter has taken a cue from Facebook and decided to launch its very own brand pages.

• 14 awesome drag-n-drop customization options with Backbone

  Christopher

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:53 pm

  Advertise here via BSA One of the most exciting new features ColorLabs is bringing bloggers with Backbone is drag and drop customization. As you may have noticed on Google+ and WordPress, drag and drop is becoming a much bigger player than before due to it’s the way it enhances the ease of use as well as the overall design of how you interact with something online. Let’s take a sneak peak behind the scenes and see what a blogger can do with a Backbone child theme. 1. Simplicity is the ultimate understanding of complexity The new drag and drop features bring bloggers both the…

• Where were you during the Internet Blackout?

  Christopher

  18 Jan 2012 | 12:41 am

  Advertise here via BSA On January 18th, 2012, there was a massive digital protest — the biggest of it’s kind in history. It was against two very dangerous bills, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). If you haven’t heard about it yet … watch this: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Check out SOPAStrike.com and AmericanCensorship.org for the essential links and find out how to take action. Where were you during the blackout? I’d be interested in hearing what you experienced during the blackout, so please…

• Six powerful page layouts from the Backbone Framework

  Christopher

  17 Jan 2012 | 6:47 pm

  Advertise here via BSA One of the most mint features from WordPress is the page feature. In addition to creating posts, bloggers have the capability to create pages, including the all important about page, the contact page, and even a welcome page if they prefer to move the index portion of their blog to another area of their overall design. With this capability came new challenges. Each page you create should be designed to enhance the visitor’s experience on your blog, while helping them discover what you have to offer. Whether you want people to discover your email sign up form, the…

• Does your blog have Backbone?

  Christopher

  16 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pm

  Advertise here via BSA I’m a big ColorLabs fan. I fell in love with the company when I discovered Arthemia … in my eyes, it struck the perfect balance between the minimalist style and magazine style theme. I use it for a few projects, including creativeblogger and my personal blog (far from ready to be seen, but I don’t mind sharing it with ya). A few days ago, ColorLabs asked if I’d be interested in testing the beta version of their new theme framework, Backbone … I think my response was something along the lines of…

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• 5 Tricks for Generating Traffic When Nobody's at Work

  Melissa Miller

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:30 pm

  Are you doing anything this weekend to generate traffic to your website? If you’re a B2B marketer, chances are you’ve probably asked yourself at some point: How do I keep marketing effectively when nobody is in the office? You want to continue to drive traffic and leads, but you don't know exactly how. The wrong thing to do is assume that nobody is listening on holidays or during weekends. Depending on your audience, this could actually be a good time for a new blog post, video release, or email. Data from a recent Xobni survey shows that people are still wired into work during…

• What a Top-Notch Lead Management Program Looks Like

  Meghan Keaney Anderson

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:45 pm

  Walk into any active sales room, and it’s easy to tell how time-intensive most sales operations are. To make the hours spent worthwhile, it’s important to ensure that your sales team is only talking to the most qualified leads. Lead management is a strategy and set of corresponding tools that help companies filter out unqualified leads and better understand the buying cycle of their good leads. When executed well, lead management makes your marketing team more effective, your sales team more precise, and your leads happier. Lead management programs vary from company…

• Facebook Timeline Likely Coming to Business Pages Near You

  Pamela Vaughan

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm

  Earlier this week, Facebook announced it will finally be rolling out Facebook Timeline to all users in the next few weeks, replacing the design of existing personal profile pages. While Timeline won't directly affect the look of your Facebook business page (yet), the rollout does have some powerful implications for marketers. You can read more about those implications here. Timeline Design Likely Coming to Facebook Business Pages But, notice how we said yet? That's right, while Facebook business pages aren't affected by the current Timeline rollout, we have good reason to believe that, in…

• 12 Critical Elements Every Homepage Must Have [Infographic]

  Jessica Meher

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:20 am

  If you’re considering a website redesign or are wondering how to generate more leads from your website, there are several critical elements you must never forget to include.  Let’s first take a look at the homepage. Ah yes, “thee page of all pages.” It’s undoubtedly one of the most important areas on a website. That’s understandable; it’s a company’s virtual front door, and, in most cases, it gets the majority of the traffic. While homepages generally get the most love, I find it surprising that so many do a poor job of generating leads or…

• The 7 Slides You Need for an Epic Monthly Marketing Report

  Rick Burnes

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Here's a challenge for all you marketers who are on top of your game: How do you make sure your marketing team is taken seriously within your own company? One important step you should take is publishing a thorough, thoughtful, quantitative monthly report on your marketing team's impact. For as long as there’s been marketing, marketers have struggled to show their impact. But today, there's no need to struggle. Today, it's simple to collect the data you need to show how your marketing investments are generating revenue for your business. You just have to pull together the right…

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• How To Apply the Dayparting Technique to Your Ads Campaign

  alexandra

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:59 pm

  Which part of the day is most profitable? (Photo: alancleaver_2000) Success in every walk of life is all about time management. The more you manage time efficiently, mold, and turn your activities according to the prevalent time, the more successful you become. This management of activities according to time applies to all the tasks you undertake, whether it is your personal life, your work, or your PPC campaign. If you own a business and avail the services of a web marketing company for online promotion, you will see that the service provider pays special attention to the time factor. A good…

• Write for Us: 27 Article Ideas To Get Published Today

  Gavin Simone

  25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Set aside some time to write for us (Photo: pedrosimoes7)   I set some pretty lofty goals for 2012.  One of them was to write more articles on different websites to attract new readers, refine my writing skills and increase backlinks.  If you’ve made a similar goal then I invite you to think about contributing to the technshare.com community to start paving new roads to your business.  Writing articles as a guest blogger is a great and quick way to build quality links and introduce yourself to a new community. After you’ve followed the process to write for us which is…

• How to use Facebook to Create Revenue for Your Online Business

  Kelly Jones

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Use facebook to boost revenue (Photo: Celeste) Facebook has over 800 million users and will reach the 1 billion mark soon.  It is a huge captive audience for an online business that cannot be ignored.  Companies and online businesses have realized the potential of Facebook marketing in generating revenue and boosting the income stream. Before deciding on the Facebook marketing strategy to be followed, you need to consider some very key points: 1.      What is your revenue model 2.      How the user will buy and what will be the steps 3.      How will you attract eyeballs in…

• Resolving ‘There was an error opening this…’ Error of PDF File

  sampatrik

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  having problems opening pdf files?  PDF or Portable Document Format is one of the widely used file format across the globe for sharing the information. The reasons behind the popularity of PDF file format are its portable nature, reduced size, and lesser tendencies towards damage and corruption. But, due to the robust nature of a PDF file, we cannot say that it never corrupts. A PDF file too at times gets corrupt due to reasons like improper download or upload, virus infection, incompatible tools to created or read PDF file, and many more. Most of the times when a PDF file get corrupt, fails…

• How-To Reverse Negative eBay Feedback

  Gavin Simone

  17 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Don't be blindsided by negative feedback (Photo: _Max-B) I’ve been selling on eBay since 2006.   I started selling my own belonging after picking up a book about eBay selling.  Although I loved watching people bid on my stuff, I hated the packaging and shipping part of it.  Later on I began drop shipping by finding some great companies though Thomasnet.com as well as Worldwide Brands.   The one thing you give up when you use a drop shipper is control over problems like lost packages and late shipments that occasionally occur.  Sometimes the problem is not with the product but…

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• How to Make Money With Blogger?

  satrap

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:47 pm

  How to make money with blogger? This is a popular question these days amongst people who are wondering about the possibility of making money with blogger blogs and indeed anyone how wants to learn... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• 3 Big Small Home Business Tips!

  satrap

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:20 pm

  Looking for some small home business tips that can help you choose the right home business?… You are in the right place. These days there are hunderds of small business ideas and opportunities... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Home Based Business Ideas- Start an Online Used Book Store for Less than $100

  satrap

  11 Jan 2012 | 9:05 pm

  Looking for small business ideas? How about an online used book store?… Used book stores are popping everywhere these days. Wherever you look, offline or online, there are new used book stores... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

• Making Money Through Building Diverse Link Profile Networks (Part 3)

  satrap

  25 Dec 2011 | 10:27 pm

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• Making Money Through Building Diverse Link Profile Networks (Part 2)

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• Hell Hath No Fury Like The Internet’s Scorn: The SOPA Soap Opera Continues

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  22 Jan 2012 | 2:06 pm

  This cartoon pretty much says it all don’t you think.I’ve been wanting to add my two cents to the SOPA soap opera but I was hesitant to get involved until now because I knew my opinion wouldn’t be popular given the rhetoric we’ve been reading all over the internet. But here goes. In a nutshell, all... Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

• Trust is a Two-Way Street

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  20 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm

  After my previous post about trust it got me thinking more about the "trust" relationship and how it is a two-way street. We see things through rose coloured glasses and limited paradigms that life's experience has shown us. It's called tunnel vision [...] Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

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  For an experiment I decided to follow some people with large followings on Twitter who promised to follow back. But most of them don’t. I’ve also seen a lot of twits who gathered huge followings, only to delete most of them once they attained a level of online celebrity […] Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

• Forget the Internet Filter Bubble: It’s called Censorship

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  19 Jan 2012 | 2:42 am

  The bottom line is we are not seeing all of the information that’s out there. We are only seeing what Google and Facebook decide what they think we should see. Back in the good old cold war days they used to call it censorship. Today we call it social media. Not all censorship is equal, nor... Read the full article at http://www.blogbloke.com/

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  17 Jan 2012 | 2:42 am

  Creating regular backups of your WordPress Blog/Website is very essential as disaster may strike anytime. These disaster includes Phishing attacks, malware, SQL Injections etc. Backups also comes very handy when you are moving your WordPress Blog/Website to some other Web Hosting Providing. Let’s check out in this post, how to Backup & Restore your whole WordPress Blog/Website using cPanel Full Backup feature? Note: Although, there are many other ways to backup your Blog/Website, we still recommend you to use the cPanel Full Backup feature as it backups EVERYTHING like your…

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  16 Jan 2012 | 11:29 pm

  cPanel is one of the widely used and offered Control Panel for Shared, VPS (Virtual Private Severs) and Dedicated Web hosting Servers. Logging in securely into cPanel (using HTTPS) will be an added advantage, as the transfers between the server and user computer will be fully encrypted. Let’s check out in this post How to Login Securely into cPanel using HTTPS (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol)? Note: Almost all Web Hosting Providers make use of Dedicated/Shared SSL Certificates on their servers, so that the user can Login securely into their Web Hosting Control Panels (WHM, cPanel…

• Best Android Digital Art Wallpaper Pack for Mobile/Tablet

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  If you are looking for some awesome Digital Art Wallpapers for your Android powered Mobile Phone/Tablet Device, than here’s a great Wallpaper pack for you. All these beautiful images are rendered using a Computer Software and none of them are photographs! The Wallpaper Pack consists of 30+ High Quality Digital Wallpapers for your Android powered Mobile/Tablet Device, each having a resolution of 960×800. Check out following samples before downloading (Click to enlarge): Download Android Digital Art Wallpaper Pack for your Mobile Phone/Tablet Device using THIS LINK * Make sure you…

• Watch & Download YouTube! Movies in Multiple Languages

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  18 Dec 2011 | 11:49 am

  YouTube! is one of the largest online video sharing and viewing website. Do you know you can watch Movies in different languages viz. English (Hollywood), Hindi (Bollywood), Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu etc. on YouTube! completely free of charge and in High Definition(HD)/High Quality Format? Let’s check out in this post How to watch and download (for strict personal use) YouTube! Movies in different languages? Watch YouTube! Movie in Multiple Languages In order to check out the Movies list and watch YouTube Movies in High Definition(HD)/High…

• Prevent Unwanted/Unnecessary Friend Requests on Facebook

  Mrinmay Bhattacharjee

  18 Dec 2011 | 9:11 am

  Facebook is one of the largest social networking websites in the world. Some people specifically joins Facebook for connecting with family members and close friends, instead of socializing with random strangers and so called friends! Let’s see in this post, How you can almost all Prevent Unwanted Friend Requests on Facebook? Once you have done the steps mentioned in this post properly, you will be getting Friendship Requests from very few, but specific people/person on Facebook! Preventing Unwanted Friend Requests on Facebook is quite easy! All you need is to follow these steps: 1.

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• How to “Think Out of the Box” to Succeed with Blogging

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  25 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am

  A blogger has to think out of the box. You may wonder about the necessity of thinking out of the box and more specifically in blogging sphere. Well! There are many reasons to substantiate this need. Blogging in general evolves over a period of time and there will be a number of new entrants into the sphere at any particular point of time. New technologies are part of the process and new marketing methods are new opportunities to promote your blog. All this brings-in new challenges in a blogger’s life. Hence, periodic overhauling is required by thinking out of the box. How to think out of…

• Join.me – The Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings Tool

  Rojish

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:39 pm

  As a professional blogger there may be many situations where you want a client or a tech support company to connect to your computer to show how to do something, or to make changes in order to fix a problem you’re having. Join.me, at its most basic level, is free, flash-enabled screen-sharing software.  It allows a Presenter to make a quick connection with a Viewer(s) to permit screen-sharing. Join.me makes collaboration a breeze The basic free app makes collaboration a breeze; setting up conference calls is incredibly quick, with no sign-up required. The presenter simply heads to the…

• 10 Surefire Ways to Boost Traffic from LinkedIn

  Guest Blogger

  6 Jan 2012 | 9:42 am

    Social media networking is a great way to build links that grow your business. LinkedIn is a fast growing social network that can be used as an amazing tool to popularize your blog. It is a powerful social networking site that helps you to generate leads and traffic. Here is list of steps to use LinkedIn to drive traffic to your blog. 1. Profile If you are serious enough to build links and relationship using LinkedIn, then your profile should be complete and search engine optimized one. No one is interested in weak profile. Make sure to make your profile a robust, search engine…

• How To Deal With The Sluggish Blogging Sense

  Guest Blogger

  3 Jan 2012 | 10:52 pm

  The possibility of a writer’s block is absolutely certain for every writer and the experience or quality of the writer or blogger does not have much effect on the inevitability of this situation. In short, every writer or blogger faces a dearth of creative ideas at certain points during their career. However, technology and the simple cultivation of methodical awareness, of your niche; can help you overcome your creative block. You can use these simple tips to enhance your blogging sense for creative ideas. This will directly affect your mental block towards regular flow of interesting…

• Blog Contests – The Benefits and the Challenges You’ll Have to Face

  Guest Blogger

  27 Dec 2011 | 11:43 pm

  Blogging contests are fun for everybody involved, be it the blogger, the participants, the judges, or the sponsors alike, but fun is not all what you’ll get by being part of a blogging competition. If you are the blog owner, you will get the buzz, free promotion and shares on social media, new readers, new writers, and lots of new content coming your way. If you are a participant, you will get instant recognition, quality feedback from the audience and judges, and of course, there’s a chance that you will go home with one of those prizes. If you are the sponsor, you will manage to get…

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• Great Tips for Web Photography

  kimathic

  26 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm

  Photos can cause your web pages to be vibrant and stand out. Even web pages with an excellently design web pages can be enhanced using well-placed, relevant and high quality images. A website can be personalized by including the photo of the business owner as well as the staff. You can also show photos of satisfied customers who are using your services and products. The benefits of using your products and services can clearly be illustrated through before and after images. Attractive images have played a major role in convincing prospects to buy istock photo discounts and jupiter images…

• Blogging in Right Niche Gives Guaranteed Success

  vikas

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm

  There are many types of blogs that can be found online nowadays. It is not surprising for people to set up a good blog in recent years. If you want to do it also, you should learn now.Start blogging by choosing right nicheIf you want to successfully establish a popular blog, it is always important for you to choose the right niche. The niche of your blog should refer to the expertise that you have or the target products that you want to promote. For individuals, successful blogs would usually contain information that you are good at explaining. If you are good at introducing cosmetic products…

• Top 5 laser printers that Support AirPrint

  linda

  22 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm

  If you own an iDevice then you will be well acquainted with the fact that the technology that you are using at present is miles ahead of what other technology houses have to offer. The AirPrint feature of Apple is proof enough for this fact. The AirPrint feature is so advanced that not all printers are able to support it and thus companies are now manufacturing printers that are compatible with this feature. Once you talk about printers you need to consider the amount that is spent on the ink, but this is not an issue anymore as there are coupons and discounts available on the internet that…

• 3 New Post Ideas to Spruce Up a Tired Blog

  Angelita

  20 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm

  Blogging has become one of the most popular and lucrative industries online today. Many businesses are using blogging as a part of their content marketing strategy and many people are trying out blogging as a second flexible career. Blogging can be an extremely rewarding endeavor. Not only are you able to share your thoughts and expertise on a topic of your interest, you can do your work on your own schedule and at your own pace.For these reasons, blogging has become an ever more popular pursuit for millions of people around the globe. But with more people trying it out, the harder it is…

• Tools to Track Your Keywords

  Isha Singh

  18 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm

  A few days ago, talking with a friend about SEO, he asked me how to measure our site’s ranking for each keyword that we choose to work. I think this is very important and can be a question for many people.In fact, there are many tools out there that we can use, but the tools that I use are:Rank CheckerIf you never entered on SEOBook page, I strongly recommend you to visit. There are great tools out there and one of them is the Rank CheckerPros:- Free Firefox add-on.- We can export results to CSV.Cons:- We need to manually enter all the keywords you want to follow.- Many people are…

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• Friday Photography Inspiration #43

  suraj

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:38 am

  This post is a part of our weekly photography inspiration series. Each Friday we showcase some of the best photographs captured by talented photographers form all around the world.Here are latest 30 most beautiful photographs for your inspiration. If you like this showcase feel free to share it on Twitter and Facebook.Photography Quote of the day:“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.” – Paul Caponigro

• 15 Best Premium WordPress Blog / Magazine Themes

  suraj

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:42 pm

  WordPress allows you to create your own blog without any coding knowledge. Premium WordPress themes are the great way to give brand new look to your blog. Benefits of using premium WordPress themes are:Attractive designsOptimized codingAdvanced control panelBeautiful fonts and colorsShortcodes and many moreAnd if you are searching for high quality WordPress theme for your blog, here we have collected 15 best premium WordPress blog and magazine themes.Do You know we provide WordPress Blog/Portfolio setup, Blogger to WordPress migration as well as Thesis/Genesis theme customization. Check out…

• The Foolproof Formula to Write Great Articles in 20 Minutes

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  23 Jan 2012 | 12:07 am

  It’s all about the planning. If there is a secret trick of trade that seasoned writers use to come up with great articles every single time, it’s called “adequate preparation”… and it’s something you’re bound to learn through experience.Once you learn how to use this technique effectively, you will never again feel the haunting pressure of a blank page, and you will feel as though your articles write themselves. And they will always look solid and thoughtful.This article will show you how to write a strong piece of content in under 20 minutes. It’s a simple formula in 5 simple…

• Boosting Your Small Business’ Facebook “Likes”

  suraj

  20 Jan 2012 | 11:37 pm

  In recent years, small businesses have increasingly turned to social media sites to help them achieve their marketing needs. It’s easy to see why: for a company that cannot afford a large marketing budget, social media offers the ability to reach a wide spectrum of consumers without paying a dime. The combination here of exposure and cost is a small business win-win.Towards this end, social media-savvy small businesses have built Facebook pages, created Twitter accounts, and worked to synthesize networking platforms with their overall marketing strategies. They have advertised…

• Friday Photography Inspiration #42

  suraj

  19 Jan 2012 | 10:32 pm

  This post is a part of our weekly photography inspiration series. Each Friday we showcase some of the best photographs captured by talented photographers from all around the world.Here are latest 27 most beautiful photographs for your inspiration, feel free to share this post on Twitter and Facebook.Photography Quote of the Day:“Photography is like making cheese. It takes a hell of a lot of milk to make a small amount of cheese just like it takes a hell of a lot of photos to get a good one.” – Robert Gillis

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• Some simple E-commerce web design tips to consider

  Admin

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:44 pm

  E-commerce web design – An introduction Many are turning to online shopping these days, due to the fact that they are convenient and take up less time as compared to the traditional shopping method, besides other exclusive benefits it exhibits. And this is exactly why there is a boom in the e-commerce industry and many businesses prefer to sell their products online. Nonetheless, selling over the web definitely opens up to new opportunities and markets across the world, however it is not all that simple as it may seem to be.   Points to take into account when designing an e-commerce…

• [How to] Optimize Images To Get More Visitors

  Admin

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:38 pm

  Optimizing images and photos happens to be an exceedingly imperative aspect while you are optimizing your blog or a website. If the images have been properly optimized, they can be useful in bringing a large amount of required traffic to your web portal. The concept of Image Optimization is extremely beneficial but most of the times it is underused especially when it is about optimizing different Internet sites to increase traffic as well as rankings. Depending on the images used as well as the niche you are opting for, you probably be able to attract a large amount of additional visitors…

• SpeedUpMyPc 2011 (Full Version) - Free Download

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• MegaUpload Shut Down by FBI! What's Next?

  Vinayak

  20 Jan 2012 | 12:15 pm

  Megaupload was an online file sharing company. The top one indeed. It allowed all users to upload files to the service and share them all around the world. Make them password protected, restrict them to yourself, etc. Everything you need about file sharing and uploading, you could have got it at MegaUpload. But while giving and providing satisfaction to the users, it was leading to an end. On 19th January 2012, FBI shut down megaupload during an investigation into alleged copyright infringement. Megaupload had many things that were not supposed to be there which caused FBI to shut it…

• [How to] Make Keyword Strategy for a new blog

  Admin

  19 Jan 2012 | 10:41 pm

  How to start your keyword strategy There are many ways in which you can start your keyword strategy. However, one key thing to take into consideration is that keywords you settle for should be the one mostly used by consumers. It is important to try and read the minds of your consumers. If you are able to tell the kind of word selections or choices that your potential consumers are most likely to use then you will have the upper end. Remember that consumers mostly concentrate on the products that are in the first page of the search engine. This is the reason why many companies or website…

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• Getting Started with Google AdWords and AdWords vs SEO

  James Chaitali

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:47 am

  TweetGoogle Adwords is one of the most well-known PPC marketing systems available today.  Google Adwords can be used by businesses of any size to increase their traffic and grow their customer base. How Does Adwords Work? Google Adwords allows you to effectively buy your way to the top of the page for certain search results.  You’ve probably seen the “Sponsored Result” links at the top of the list of search results.  Those results are placed there by webmasters that have purchased placement for the key word or phrase that you searched on.  If you click on the sponsored…

• Why a fireproof safe is a wise investment in 2012

  Daniel Snyder

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:54 pm

  TweetMany of my regular readers know that I advocate for computer security, home security, and privacy on a regular basis.  Attached to that is my aggressive passion to encourage everyone everywhere to have a fireproof safe in their homes.  Not only is a home safe a wise investment for protecting valuables, but also for key personal documents such as passports, mortgage papers, insurance policies, family photos etc. If you don’t yet have a fireproof safe in your home, then I want to encourage you to make 2012 the year you purchase and install a safe.  Whether your focus is…

• Three Basic Marketing Skills Mastered On Twitter

  Jacelyn

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:58 am

  TweetThe world of marketing and promotions is always changing and evolving. With the introduction of new technologies and new methods for communication, marketing is in a state of constant motion. No doubt, social media has played a huge role in the evolution of marketing in to what it has become today. Much of basic marketing has become the mastering of social media marketing. Interestingly, some of the basics of Tweeting are key aspects of successful and profitable marketing. Use these three lessons taught by Twitter to better market your product or company to its specific audience. Be…

• Beginner Tips for New Google Plus Users

  Rachel

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am

  TweetGoogle Plus has made quite a splash ever since it made its debut last year, however it was mostly and still is mostly adopted by the tech savvy crowd among us. Here’s one thing to keep in mind though about Google Plus, when Facebook first came out it was only available to college students and it wasn’t till quite some time after it had been around that it very slowly…became the phenomenon it is today. It was definitely not an overnight sensation or success. Yet look how powerful and omni-present it is now. We believe the exact same thing is going to take place with the Google…

• 5 Tips to Write a Highly Effective Blog Post

  PhilipD

  18 Jan 2012 | 9:37 am

  TweetBlogging has become a very popular activity; at one end blogging is a means of sharing personal opinions and ideas with people who might be interested in them and at another, it’s a means of marketing certain products and services; and it can also be a steady source of income. Whatever the purpose of the blog, it cannot be achieved if the blog post is not up to the mark. So, here are five tips that can help you write a blog post that is not only interesting but also effective in ensuring a loyal readership. Choose the Right Topic Every blog caters to a specific niche. The fact that you…

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  27 Jan 2012 | 10:12 am

  Kevin Frank is a real estate professional, studied in real estate field and he has been approved to be a Vancouver Realtor by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. He lives in Vancouver for several years and he is an expert in Vancouver Home and Vancouver CondosThis is a post from Wan Firdaus. For more reviews,visit MediaMacro,Reviews and Guide

• Facebook Timeline Officially Pushed to All User

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  24 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pm

  According to Mashable and TechCrunch see here and here , either you're ready or not yer, Facebook is pushing the Timeline features for all user starting next week.This is a post from Wan Firdaus. For more reviews,visit MediaMacro,Reviews and Guide

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  21 Jan 2012 | 12:03 pm

  Certified translation is a legal document accepted by goverment organization, universities, courts and financial institution. If you're applying for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) visa, citizenships and green cards, you will need a certified translation to translate your original legal documents, The Certified Translation can help you.This is a post from Wan Firdaus. For more reviews,visit MediaMacro,Reviews and Guide

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• Don’t make a hash of hashtag PR

  jason

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Twitter provides a tantalisingly effective channels with new approaches and strategies for PR campaigns. A whole new level of interaction and conversation opens up. But it can also open up Pandora’s Box. Even mighty and respected brands can unleash a world of woes. All that’s left is the hope it will all go away quickly. #McDStories – not ‘lovin it’ McDonald’s is one of the world’s super-brands. As such they spend a not-too-small fortune on advertising, marketing and PR every year. And have done for a long time. Surely too big and too experienced to PR fail? The buzzword right…

• Cyber world war blackouts

  jason

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  So, the Texan Congressman Lamar Smith who first introduced SOPA has derided the blackout protest as a “publicity stunt”. He’s absolutely right. The puzzling thing is how can a politician be so dismissive of something as powerful as publicity? After all, public opinion is how politics works isn’t it? Just a publicity stunt? Oh yes… Wikipedia, WordPress, Google and hundreds more high-profile sites have joined the blackout protest against Protect IP and SOPA. This video pretty much sums it up: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Millions have…

• Search + your world = ruffled feathers…

  jason

  12 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Google is rolling out new search features. And this time it’s personal. If you’re logged into Google and search then you’ll start to see Google+ information being integrated into the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Here’s a nice video from that other social Google platform – YouTube: What this boils down to… This is what Google say: With personal results, you’ll see relevant tips, photos, and posts from your friends right alongside results from the web […] You can even expand your world by discovering people related to your search. What they want is a search engine…

• 5 Twitter Criminals

  jason

  5 Jan 2012 | 5:23 am

  What is it about Twitter that gets it an astronomical valuation and social media gurus all in a flutter? As with all social media, the clue is the ‘social’ part. Twitter is a social channel that can, if managed well, build vital, more personal, relationships and strong brands. And that’s marketing gold. But what if it’s not managed well? What far-too-common Twitter crimes are businesses still committing? The usual suspects… 1. The invisible man (or woman) THE CHARGE – wilful neglect of a Twitter profile. It takes minutes to set up a Twitter profile and it’s easy. If you want…

• New Year marketing resolutions

  jason

  29 Dec 2011 | 6:32 am

  The New Year is a time for resolutions. A time for drawing-up a roadmap for the coming year. What are your New Year’s marketing resolutions? Your aims and ambitions that will shape the coming years’ campaigns. How will you use marketing to gain or maintain competitive advantage? And how do you do it when 2012 looks like a tough year indeed? Time to SWOT up… SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis is an effective tool and a great starting point for designing your marketing resolutions. Strengths – where does your competitive advantage lay? Whether it’s a cost…

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• Is Writing with Vulnerability a Sign of Low Self-Concept?

  Judy Dunn

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:46 am

  When I was a teacher, one of the worst things a kid could have, the thing that would hold her back throughout life and beyond, was low self-concept. It was whispered about children, as though they would never get any farther than flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s because they had, you know: a low self-concept Of course, as teachers, we did everything we could—praise, special recognition, a paper crown on their birthday, stapling their paintings front and center on the bulletin board—in a valiant effort to make them feel better about themselves. So they would have improved…

• How to Remove the OCD from Your Blogging

  Judy Dunn

  19 Jan 2012 | 9:57 am

  Please give a warm welcome to Krissy Brady, the first guest blogger on the Cat’s Eye blog in 2012. I met Krissy when she began reading and commenting here. I checked out her blog and was impressed by the resources she so freely offers to writers. I encourage you to visit her blog. And if you like what you see (I’m sure you will), sign up for email or RSS feed delivery. How to Remove the OCD from Your Blogging by Krissy Brady There are times when we get lucky: we set out to write a fantastic blog post, and it pours out of us like a waterfall. For me, it feels like an out-of-body…

• What Is Your Online Avatar Saying About You?

  Judy Dunn

  11 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am

  You have a blog, or comment on blogs, or hang around on Facebook and Twitter for a reason. Usually, it is because you want to get noticed. So you can sell your book, or get customers, or find business leads, or whatever your goal is for being on social media. I have written before about how important it is to have a platform and a believable author brand. But did you know that your online avatar is an important part of your brand and image? An avatar is merely a graphical representation of you. It can be a real photo or an illustration, such as a cartoon portrait of you, or your business…

• Is Twitter Making Us Crappy Writers?

  Judy Dunn

  4 Jan 2012 | 12:45 pm

  Whether you are a writer by profession or not, one thing is true. We are all authors now. Every time we get on Facebook or LinkedIn or Google+ or Twitter, we are publishing something. You might have heard the rumor that Twitter is dumbing us down, making us like teenagers who text on their cell phones. But good writers know how to have the same impact on their readers, with fewer words. And isn’t that the same thing we need to do on social media, where our audience is attention disordered, distracted and click-happy? It can be much harder to get our message out in less space. After all,…

• Write Better in 2012 by Reading More: What’s on Your Bookshelf?

  Judy Dunn

  27 Dec 2011 | 3:25 pm

  I hope you are finding time to refresh and rejuvenate this week between Christmas and New Year’s. I’ve been reading a lot, since Bob, Mr. WordPress, gave me the best Christmas present ever. It was better than the warm, fuzzy socks. Better even than the foaming bath oil and scented candle from L’Occitane. It was a Kindle! Now, when you live on a ferry-only island, getting just about anywhere on the mainland—a mega-grocery store, a library, a bookstore—can take at least half a day. If you happen to miss the ferry that runs hourly, it takes even longer. But if you have a…

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• Ways on How to Make Money with a Blog

  jruanes

  23 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am

  Okay, so finally you got to make your own blog. Nothing specific reason behind it or so special about it, you just thought you would create your own blog because you’ve had enough of reading others blog… You didn’t think I would guess it, did you? lol But do you know that you can actually [...]

• Setting up a Blog Site – What to Know About

  jruanes

  19 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am

  Another way of communicating is by running a blog because let’s face it; the Internet has really changed the way that many of us communicate on a daily basis (E-mail, chat, private message, etc…). Without a doubt, no other question has been asked countless times than, “how to set up a blog site?” Many people [...]

• WP Display Live Total Facebook and Twitter Followers

  blogoola

  1 Jun 2011 | 7:07 am

  With this PHP code you can get the live number of Facebook fans and Twitter followers you have to put on your website or blog. It connects to the Facebook and Twitter API’s and gets your live count then adds it together to get the total number of followers/fans. See Live Demo [code lang="php"] followers_count; [...]

• Top 10 WordPress Blog Security Tips

  blogoola

  15 Jan 2011 | 7:32 pm

  Trust me you need to know these things to keep your blog safe! At BLOGOOLA, we have has a lot of questions about how to make blogs more secure and how protect your precious blog content from hackers. We have done some investigation and this is the list of the top 10 WordPress security tips [...]

• Top 10 WordPress Blog Security Plugins

  blogoola

  15 Jan 2011 | 7:31 pm

  At BLOGOOLA, we have has a lot of questions about blog security measures. In relation to the Top 10 WordPress Blog Security Tips we have put together a list of the top WordPress security plugins to make it easier for you to protect your blog from hackers! Keep your blog safe, not sorry! Please note [...]

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• Interview: Reel Talk’s Candice Frederick: Moving Beyond the Blog

  ProMovieBlogger

  21 Jan 2012 | 4:31 am

  Building a movie website or blog is not the end of a movie webmaster’s journey when it comes to expressing themselves about film and the film world. It can be only the first step if they want it to be. There are other avenues such as podcasts, newsletters, video reviews or film commentaries on YouTube, newspaper, radio, and television opportunities. Candice Frederick of Reel Talk has availed herself of some of these options. What sparked the idea for Reel Talk? I’ve always been really passionate about movies and, after several extended movieanalyses with people I know, I decided…

• How to Submit Single Reviews to IMDb’s External Reviews

  ProMovieBlogger

  15 Jan 2012 | 3:19 pm

  Now that you know how to apply to IMDb’s External Reviews and bulk upload reviews into their database, its time to learn how to submit single reviews there as well. The bulk upload method is the easiest way to submit reviews into IMDb’s External Reviews but depending upon the size of your website, you might not need such a large function. A smaller one might do. That smaller process is easy and straight forward. Here are the steps, from the beginning for the uninitiated: 1. Make sure you have oodles of film or TV show reviews published and easily found on your website (or…

• How to Create a YouTube Channel that Drives Traffic to Your Website: Conclusion

  ProMovieBlogger

  12 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am

  Creating a YouTube Channel that drives traffic to your website can only be beneficial to your sources of direct and referral traffic. YouTube is a visual and audio search engine that can bring traffic to your website if you treat it as such and employ the right methods. It is also a tremendous marketing tool for your website, a new way to build your brand, and a entreatment to a constantly expanding user base. Next Time Hopefully some of the strategies presented in this series will help you with driving traffic to your website. There are many out there, many. I only spoke about the ones that…

• How to Create a YouTube Channel that Drives Traffic to Your Website: Strategies

  ProMovieBlogger

  3 Jan 2012 | 6:12 pm

  With your YouTube Channel created and setup, there are strategies that you can employ that will drive traffic from your YouTube Channel and your uploads back to your website. These strategies apply to both the old YouTube Channel design and the new YouTube Channel design. And now, on with the Strategy or as George W. Bush would say, Strategery. Where to get the videos to upload to YouTube For videos on YouTube, this is your start point. If you have no videos to upload, you have no need for YouTube strategies to drive traffic back to your website. A few source suggestions: 1. Get them from…

• How to Create a YouTube Channel that Drives Traffic to Your Website: Set Up

  ProMovieBlogger

  29 Dec 2011 | 5:50 am

  Now that you’ve read the introduction of how to create a YouTube channel that drives traffic to your website, its time to create and set up the YouTube channel for use and viewing by your audience. YouTube recently rolled out a new design for its channels but the new design is optional as of now. This post will cover setting up and optimizing the old YouTube channel design as well as the new YouTube channel design to drive traffic to your movie site. The YouTube Channel Designs are not twins of the same Google mother, and… I wish more of the old YouTube Channel design was…

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  The Work at Home Wife

• New Smartphone Credit Card Processing & QuickBooks Online Discount

  Angie

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:05 am

  It’s been a big week over at Intuit. Wednesday, they announced their new GoPayment reader was ready to be shipped to GoPayment users. If you have a small business that makes face-to-face sales – crafters, direct sales reps, daycare providers, etc. – this reader will allow for smartphone credit card processing on the go. This device plugs into the audio jack of your Apple, Android or other compatible smartphone. Information is encrypted to ensure safety. The app is free and the reader is free. You can choose from two plans depending on your sales volume: Pay-As-You-Go has no…

• Freelance Online Jobs: January 26, 2012

  Angie

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:13 am

  Here are leads for freelance online jobs that I have rounded up over the past week. These are unresearched, and I am not affiliated with those hiring. Virtual Assistant Lead 1 In need of a VA; specifically, looking for assistance with the following: Appointments,Curriculum vitae/ Resume, Sales and marketing,Data base creation and management, Spread sheets and presentation,SEO and PPC and Personal Tasks. Read more. Virtual Assistant Lead 2  **Edited to Add: It is my understanding that this gig may pay for talk time only and may be lead generation with no leads provided. I cannot confirm this…

• StudioPress Discount Code and More

  Angie

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:20 am

  A couple of great business deals were in my inbox this morning. We have a StudioPress discount code and more. StudioPress The price of the StudioPress Pro Plus All-Theme Package will go up on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Until Monday, you can get all 44 StudioPress child themes, plus every child theme design they make in the future, for only $299.95. Starting today, you can get 10% off your Pro Plus purchase by using the discount code TEN.   Mavenlink Mavenlink brings complete end-to-end project management to the cloud, giving you a single source to manage your projects, collaborate with…

• A Better WordPress RSS Plugin

  Angie

  25 Jan 2012 | 7:40 am

  A RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a XML-based format for web content. Most blog platforms have this built-in and begin creating a RSS feed with each new post. Website visitors can then subscribe to this feed to keep up-to-date on your latest news. RSS feeds can be used in others ways as well. A webmaster can use the RSS feeds of others to provide up-to-the-minute news feeds for their readers. Many webmasters also use them to cross-promote personal properties in related niches. A WordPress RSS widget is pre-installed on every self-hosted site on this platform. There is not much…

• Best Blog Posts Round-Up: Blog Niche Ideas

  Angie

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:05 am

  I’m getting a late blog start this week already. But, that usually means I’m super busy with work. Work is always good! Let’s see what is in the goodie bag since the last round-up of best blog posts from around the web. Blog Topics 81 Topics Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters – Have you been following ThinkTraffic’s Million Dollar Blog Challenge? It’s a great little project focused around how most of us are building blogs these days – as authority sites vs. niche sites. The topic of their project site was chosen from among reader-submitted ideas.

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  WordPress Ninja

• Your Guide to A/B Testing For Email Marketing

  Guest

  25 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm

  Email marketing is a powerful tool that has the potential to drive much more traffic and ultimately, sales, to your business. It’s perhaps the easiest way to get people to your storefront, or engaged with your product. The good news is a/b testing can be used to increase conversions and sales through determining which elements need to be reworked. Whether you’re looking for a spike in sales, traffic, or sign-up conversions, this article will serve as a guide to get your email marketing efforts up to snuff. 

 Determining What to Test A good rule of thumb is to test all elements of…

• WordPress 3 Cookbook Review

  Nico Julius

  16 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am

  I still remember the first blogs I made with WordPress. I chose WordPress because it’s so easy to use. But I also remember I spent lots of hours to find out which plugins I wanted to install and how to configure them. A couple of weeks ago, Packt Publishing released WordPress 3 Cookbook, that solves that problem. I read the book and here’s my opinion! WordPress 3 Cookbook differs a lot from other WordPress books. Most books are written to read from the first page to the last page. This book offers answers to particular questions, called recipes. For example, if you want to include an…

• Changing the Header Tags In Artisteer 3.1

  Nico Julius

  6 Jan 2012 | 6:10 pm

  Artisteer 3.1 finally introduces a simple method to solve the problem of the Artisteer header tags. For those who are new to this, this is very important for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In previous versions you had to change the code a very little bit. But since Artisteer 3.1, there’s no need to change the code anymore. Let me show you how! Two readers contacted me with the message that there were some changes in the newest version of Artisteer (thank you for that Lee and Pete!). The “problem” is that my solution to resolve the Artisteer 3 header issue doesn’t…

• How to Translate Widgets Using qTranslate or Widget Logic

  Nico Julius

  4 Jan 2012 | 2:33 pm

  Today I received a question of one of my readers. His question was how to translate (the content of) a widget when you use qTranslate. Actually, this isn’t very difficult. In this short article I’ll show you 2 ways to handle this problem. Important note, you must have installed qTranslate first! 1. Translate Your Widget Using the qTranslate Tags The first option is by using the tags. For example: This is very simple, just add the tags for every language  you need and write the text between these tags. Translating the title won’t work this way, therefore you need the 2nd…

• Top 10 Articles of 2011

  Nico Julius

  1 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm

  Which were the most read articles on WordPressNinja.Com in 2011? 1. NextGen Gallery Tutorial for Beginners (February 2011 – 8,396 page views) 2. How To Add a jQuery Datepicker To Your Contact Form 7 (June 2011 – 7,349 page views) 3. The Ultimate Guide To Use WordPress As a CMS (February 2011 – 5,034 page views) 4. Contact Form 7 Step By Step Tutorial (May 2011 – 3,290 page views) 5. How to Turn WordPress into a CMS in 4 Simple Steps (January 2011 – 3,046 page views) 6. How to Configure WPML Multi Language Plugin (February 2011 – 2.748 page views) 7. 13…

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  Blogging Your Passion

• Introducing the BYPU 201 Course!

  Bob

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:30 pm

  I am writing this with a lot of excitement as the BYPU 201 course is now available! While the BYPU 101 course walks you through setting up your blog and teaching all about WordPress, the 201 course takes everything to the next level with 44 instructional videos and downloadable PDFs. It was designed to pick up right where BYPU 101 left off and help bloggers take their blogs to the next level. What is covered in BYPU 201? The 201 course is comprised of 6 main components each containing step-by-step instructional videos: 1. Getting Traffic To Your Blog This section provides you with actionable…

• 11 Ways to Repurpose Old Content into New Profits

  Jonathan

  24 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm

  Today I want to share with you a list from my own brainstorming session. After you have been blogging for awhile, you begin to realize that you have a massive amount of content, ideas, and advice in written form. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can somehow use your hard work of the past in a new and fresh way? You can. There are times in every blogger’s life when you sit down and stare at the blinking cursor. You know you need to add more content, but you just are not inspired to write. Learning how to repurpose old content can help you to: Overcome writer’s block Expand your…

• BYPU 101 on Sale and 201 Launching Soon!

  Bob

  19 Jan 2012 | 11:11 am

  I just wanted to take a quick minute and let you know that after a lot of hard work Jonathan and I are getting ready to Launch the BYPU 201 course. We are really excited about this course as it covers a whole lot of helpful material – most of which came from questions that you asked us! 201 Launching in Late January! The 201 course covers everything from how to start making money with adsense, to specific techniques to get more traffic, and even some simple design lessons like how to create a logo without paying a dime. 101 is On Sale! As you may know, the current price for BYPU 101 is…

• Selecting A Microphone for Computer Recording

  Bob

  10 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am

  Recently I was on the hunt for the best microphone for computer recording under $100 or so and I want to share a little of my experience with you. Since we are underway recording our Blogging Your Passion 201 Course, I wanted to do what I could to get the best audio possible. Since we are using Skype to record the audio portion of our course, I needed a mic that worked well with Skype, but I also want something that is going to sound good for future webinars as well as our Podcast (to be rolled out later this year). The big lesson learned Audio is VERY subjective! I figured that if I could…

• How to Get Thumbnail Pictures on Your Home Page

  Jonathan

  8 Jan 2012 | 9:25 pm

  Just a quick tip to share today that might be helpful to some of you. Here is a questions that we hear a lot: How can I get smaller thumbnail pictures to show up on my homepage for each blog post? Well, there is a simple way and a WordPress plugin way. The simple way is to have the Thesis WordPress Theme. We recommend this theme for many reasons, but it is really simple to add thumbnail pics. You can just scroll down on the “new post” page inside WordPress and place the link to your picture. See the image below for an example. Excerpts for Thumbnails WordPress Plugin If you do not…

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  Nina D'Angelo

• Writing Quote of the Day - John Jakes

  Nina D'Angelo

  28 Jan 2012 | 4:27 am

  “Be Yourself. Let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”     - John Jakes

• Dealing with an Unsupportive Support System

  Nina D'Angelo

  28 Jan 2012 | 3:45 am

  Every writer has the ideal dream of what their life should be like. They'd get published and an agent with their first submission and they'd have a group of people who support them unconditionally. It's a nice dream, but the reality is that it's just a dream. One of the toughest decision to make is for a writer to come out and tell the people around them they want to write a novel. Most of us

• Writing Quote of the Day - Jimi Hendrix

  Nina D'Angelo

  27 Jan 2012 | 4:10 am

  “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”    ― Jimi Hendrix

• Friday Fiver: Book Marked

  Nina D'Angelo

  27 Jan 2012 | 3:21 am

  1. One Web site you can't live without. I don't think there's one website I can't live without. I honestly don't roam the net for hours on end and really only go to a few handful of sites on a regular basis. I get bored pretty quickly.But, if there was a site I love to visit it would have to be livejournal. I've been on livejournal or LJ since 1999 and it's always been a great place to

• Writing Quote of the Day - Robert Frost

  Nina D'Angelo

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:35 am

  "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." - Robert Frost

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  Rob Greenberg

• Absurdly Decadent Business Cards

  Rob Greenberg

  12 Jan 2012 | 1:13 pm

  I know you have to spend money to make money, but I don’t think these cards, at about £1,000 ($1,534) each, are a smart investment.

• Mercenary Navy Coming Soon

  Rob Greenberg

  11 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  The Somali Pirate situation has gotten so out of hand that insurance companies are starting their own navy. They’re hoping it might go a little something like this.

• CDs and DVDs Not Worth Stealing

  Rob Greenberg

  10 Jan 2012 | 7:10 pm

  It seems that in Britain, burglars aren’t bothering to steal CDs and DVDs.  Why? The reason is the falling value of physical media products. The average price of a CD album in Britain fell from £10.77 to £7.32 between 2001 and 2010, according to the BPI, a trade group—almost a halving, in real terms. And the dishonest get their music and films free, via the internet. DVDs are under pressure not just from piracy but also from video-on-demand services. Instead they’re stealing computers, purses, jewelry, and anything else that has greater value.  Technology has disrupted…

• Save the Earth by Increasing Data Center Temperature a Few Degrees

  Rob Greenberg

  23 Dec 2011 | 3:39 pm

  How companies can save money and “go green(er)” by simply lowering the air conditioning in data centers.

• It’s Like Arraign on Your Wedding Day

  Rob Greenberg

  22 Dec 2011 | 9:00 am

  Headline shamelessly taken from Radley Balko, but this case of an innocent man turning himself in to police is disturbing. William Giraldo was threatened with deportation and thrown in the notorious Rikers Island prison in New York when he was mistaken for the ‘Brooklyn Groper’. He was picked out of a lineup, arraigned on his wedding day and spent a month in jail until DNA evidence cleared him. In Balko’s words, “Yep, they had the wrong guy. He now has a mountain of legal bills. Oh, and while he was in jail, the actual ‘serial groper’ struck again.” Yes, you need a…

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  How To Make Money Blogging | Blog Tips

• The Latest Greatest Tip On How To Make Money Blogging

  Dave Drew

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:07 pm

  If you have been following along here at all, you will notice that I have not posted in a while, but for good reason and your blogging business benefit. I have been working extra long hours creating many different digital [...]

• Another Good Reason To Pay Your Debts

  Dave Drew

  19 Dec 2011 | 9:48 am

  So, you’ve come here to find out how to make money blogging and you expect to see posts on how to make money blogging. Well, part of the lesson in making money blogging is to post a variety of information [...]

• The Ultimate WordPress Blog Theme Latest Cool Updates

  Dave Drew

  29 Nov 2011 | 3:54 pm

  If you are trying to make money blogging, you need a decent theme that’s easy to monetize. With the latest phase of cool upgrades, The Ultimate WordPress Blog Theme is without a doubt one of the top WordPress blog themes [...]

• External Links And Making Money Blogging

  Dave Drew

  20 Nov 2011 | 10:17 am

  Check out the risks and danger of linking to external sites. Be aware of these tips if you plan on adding external links anywhere in your blog. This is the perfect post for me at the perfect time, because I’ve [...]

• Using Keywords Properly To Make Money Blogging

  Dave Drew

  8 Nov 2011 | 1:26 pm

  There are only three posts left to come in this top SEO tips and tricks series, and this post about the importance of using keywords properly is one of them. If you have not read those other important posts in [...]

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  Mayura4Ever

• How to Embed a Tweet on Your Website

  26 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm

  How do you use Twitter to promote your content or interesting tweets? You can share your interesting stories online via Twitter. Further you can display all your tweets on your own website using Twitter widgets too. But there may be some occasions you may wanna embed a single tweet or @reply on your site or post, just to promote or help your readers to find it interesting. And also you might wanna build up stories with displaying relevant tweets. In such a situation, you may try copying and pasting tweet text on to your post. But rather than just showing off a tweet, would you like to embed a…

• How to Display Author Information in Google Search Results

  24 Jan 2012 | 3:13 pm

  Google has recently start customizing their search results and integrating social layer with Google+ to their search results to enhance search productivity and social connectivity. As a result of that, Google introduced an authorship markup for authors and it help users to discover useful content being published online by specific authors. This feature will greatly affect for authors and instead of content, it will helpful to promote and identify author of online published content. Impressed? If you are an author, would you like to display your information in Google search? You can easily…

• Add Pinterest Pin It Button for Your Blogger Posts

  21 Jan 2012 | 8:25 pm

  Have you ever heard about Pinterest? If you were alert in social media recently, you may already know about that. It is the new addition to social network list and becoming more popular on the social web. But if you are not a person in alert, I'd like to include briefing about Pinterest here. Pinterest is a place where you can share and manage online images found on the web. It allows you to create virtual pinboards to categorize images you found and uploaded. These images you uploaded or added to your pinboards will called as pins once after they added to your virtual pinboards and Pinterest…

• Import and Display Content from a External Feed in Blogger

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:30 am

  As a blogger, do you have any favorite websites or blogs in the same niche you are working on? You might have interested in different kind of sources which used to read and sometimes you may recommend some sort of useful sites to your readers too. So what if you can show recent posts from those sites on your blog? Also if you are managing multiple blogs, do you mind if you can show off recent content from another blog of yours that could have impress your readers and to gain more exposure to your content? Or do you like to list out most recent posts of your current blog? Or else what if I say…

• How to Post Tweets on a Facebook Fan Page

  19 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pm

  Do you manage Facebook fan pages and communicate with followers? But seems you addicted to Twitter? Hmmm... I hope you may love to tweet all day around. isn't it? Twitter is an effective media to grab more attention and to engage with your friends and followers, and yet it's simple and easy. When it comes to your brand, business, organization or even to your blog, you might wanna keep your followers up-to-date with the latest news happening around. So you may always prefer to update them with a tweet. But what about your Facebook fan page? Alright. Don't think about it. Let me ask you this.

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  Blog Tips

• How to define a social media strategy – Part 1:Put your social media strategy in context

  Peter

  15 Jan 2012 | 3:41 pm

  Every nonprofit organisation has its own goals. You might be fundraising for a shelter in your city, or advocating for companies to ban the use of Congo blood minerals in their products. Your social media strategy will logically depend on your “raison d’être”, on your organisation’s goals. This tutorial show how we built up a [...] Read more on www.blogtips.org

• How to define a social media strategy

  Peter

  15 Jan 2012 | 1:10 pm

  Long gone are the times where nonprofit organisations saw social media tools as a “nice add-on”. Time and again, social media has proven its potential in fundraising, advocacy, campaigning, live event reporting, knowledge sharing,.. Now comes the time where organisations’ media people are actively seeking to merge the “social” media into their more “traditional” media [...] Read more on www.blogtips.org

• I don’t like Google anymore

  Peter

  13 Jan 2012 | 6:31 am

  I have blogged before how I don’t like Google’s growing monopoly on the web, and how they increasingly block non-Chrome browsers when you use their own web applications. It looks like Google is now moving into more unsound web practices, using their web crawling power and abilities to unfair, unethical and illegal purposes. Google pays [...] Read more on www.blogtips.org

• Help us putting “Social” back into “Social Media”

  Peter

  7 Jan 2012 | 3:45 pm

  Don’t you hate it when organisations are using social media merely as a “broadcast medium”? You know the types…, those who only tweet links to their own websites, only publish their own publications on Facebook,… Those who never reply when you send them a message on Twitter, and hardly monitor their social media channels. No [...] Read more on www.blogtips.org

• Wanted: Drupal developer to implement a mobile theme

  Peter

  1 Jan 2012 | 9:05 am

  Update: Thanks to everyone who helped. I have now identified a developer! One of my websites, Humanitarian News, runs on Drupal 6. I’d like to implement a mobile theme on it, to make browsing from a mobile device easier and faster. I am looking for a Drupal developer who can implement a very simple and [...] Read more on www.blogtips.org

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  TechTricksWorld

• Features To Note In Web Hosting Services

  Guest Author

  27 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm

  Web hosting is the service that is in high demand these days. This is because more and more people are creating their sites on the World Wide Web. So, it can be said that there are several features of web hosting that attract a number of customers. Reliability and Uptime The first feature of web [...]

• 5 Challenges A Blogger Would Face Throughout His Blogging Journey

  Guest Author

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  We face many challenges in our life. Blogging comes with lot of challenges and there are 5 biggest challenges that a blogger would face throughout his Blogging Journey. These challenges are quite common but still they play a major role for a blogger. The fact is there thousands of blog in the blogosphere but very [...]

• Lucky Winners Of Audials Moviebox Giveaway

  Zainil

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:33 am

  Hi friends, 1st of all, a very Happy Republic Day to all Indians! On 26th January 1950, i.e. 63 years back, the Constitution of India, which is the supreme law of India, came into force. The Constitution of India is supposed to be the longest constitution o fall the sovereign countries! & now coming to [...]

• 5 Best Free VPN Service Providers

  Guest Author

  25 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am

  Before you start reading this post do you know what is VPN? Mostly the answer would be No.Don’t worry here is the answer “VPN{Virtual Private Network} is a network that uses internet to provide access to restricted sites in offices, schools, colleges etc. What this basically means is that you can access sites which are [...]

• Custom Template In WordPress Thesis: How To Customize It?

  Guest Author

  25 Jan 2012 | 10:31 am

  It’s not possible that you haven’t heard of Thesis Theme. It is among the most common premium wordpress theme. There are number of other themes available over the wordpress, but Thesis can be distinguished as a force unto itself. It is a framework which can give all together a new approach to wordpress customization. The [...]

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  Geek Blogger

• Digital Photography Tips for Beginners: Questions to ask yourself

  Piyush Dungrani

  17 Jan 2012 | 11:29 am

  Thanks to the digital revolution, taking good photographs is within reach of anyone with little more than the patience required to get good. Inexpensive digital cameras from high street stores like Curry’s have opened the door to amateurs to turn professional without breaking the bank. Here are some important questions to ask yourself if you’re [...]

• Sony Xperia S Android Phone

  Piyush Dungrani

  10 Jan 2012 | 11:38 am

  For the last ten years Sony and Ericsson have been joined together in the mobile phone industry, but this long industrious partnership has just come to an end after Sony purchased Ericsson’s 50% share of the partnership at the end of last year. This is the end of Sony Ericsson, and the new Xperia S, [...]

• Unlock Huawei e1732 Idea Net Setter + Unlock Software and Firmware Download

  Piyush Dungrani

  8 Jan 2012 | 12:53 pm

  If you are searching for how to unlock huawei e1732 data card of idea net setter then you are at correct place. Thousands of users are using huawei e1732 idea net setter for accessing internet and almost all of them have tried to unlock the net setter so that they can use any SIM card [...]

• Google Docs Thumbnail View | Google Docs Preview

  Piyush Dungrani

  30 Dec 2011 | 10:16 am

  Are you confused about how to see Google Docs thumbnails? A newer version of Google Docs is kinda minimal UI and lightweight pages but the have hide a very common feature of previewing more than one images at a single go. I was browsing through the Google docs help forum and found that there are [...]

• Zurker – A New Social Network

  Piyush Dungrani

  19 Dec 2011 | 8:35 pm

  Facebook continues to be the dominant social network globally. It is now a colossal corporation worth $82 billion (Rs. 410000 Cr, no less!), offices in 15 countries, and more than 2,000 employees. This year there have been two major challenges to Facebook, the first being Google+ introduced on June 28, 2011, and now Zurker. While [...]

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  Fuel Your Blogging

• How can businesses use Twitter’s brand pages?

  Francis

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  Advertise here via BSA twitter logo Facebook is not only the largest social network, it may also be the most influential. Just recently, we have seen both Google and StumbleUpon introduce business-friendly features that are obviously inspired by the social giant. The latest to follow the trend is Twitter, perhaps Facebook’s most serious rival in the social space. If you’re lost here, we’re talking about the new pages the microblogging service recently launched with its redesign. You heard it correctly. Twitter has taken a cue from Facebook and decided to launch its very own brand pages.

• 14 awesome drag-n-drop customization options with Backbone

  Christopher

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:53 pm

  Advertise here via BSA One of the most exciting new features ColorLabs is bringing bloggers with Backbone is drag and drop customization. As you may have noticed on Google+ and WordPress, drag and drop is becoming a much bigger player than before due to it’s the way it enhances the ease of use as well as the overall design of how you interact with something online. Let’s take a sneak peak behind the scenes and see what a blogger can do with a Backbone child theme. 1. Simplicity is the ultimate understanding of complexity The new drag and drop features bring bloggers both the…

• Where were you during the Internet Blackout?

  Christopher

  18 Jan 2012 | 12:41 am

  Advertise here via BSA On January 18th, 2012, there was a massive digital protest — the biggest of it’s kind in history. It was against two very dangerous bills, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). If you haven’t heard about it yet … watch this: PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Check out SOPAStrike.com and AmericanCensorship.org for the essential links and find out how to take action. Where were you during the blackout? I’d be interested in hearing what you experienced during the blackout, so please…

• Six powerful page layouts from the Backbone Framework

  Christopher

  17 Jan 2012 | 6:47 pm

  Advertise here via BSA One of the most mint features from WordPress is the page feature. In addition to creating posts, bloggers have the capability to create pages, including the all important about page, the contact page, and even a welcome page if they prefer to move the index portion of their blog to another area of their overall design. With this capability came new challenges. Each page you create should be designed to enhance the visitor’s experience on your blog, while helping them discover what you have to offer. Whether you want people to discover your email sign up form, the…

• Does your blog have Backbone?

  Christopher

  16 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pm

  Advertise here via BSA I’m a big ColorLabs fan. I fell in love with the company when I discovered Arthemia … in my eyes, it struck the perfect balance between the minimalist style and magazine style theme. I use it for a few projects, including creativeblogger and my personal blog (far from ready to be seen, but I don’t mind sharing it with ya). A few days ago, ColorLabs asked if I’d be interested in testing the beta version of their new theme framework, Backbone … I think my response was something along the lines of…

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  Kikolani

• Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Yosemite HD

  Kristi Hines

  27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing How to Set Up Blog Comments as Goals in Google Analytics Using WordPress Hacks – Learn more about the visitors who leave comments on your blog with two methods of setting up blog comments as a goal in Google Analytics. 10 Inspiring Social Networks for Writers…

• 6 Ways Personal Development Can Make You a Better Blogger

  Timo Kiander

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This is a guest post by Timo Kiander. Many people live their lives without understanding, that there is a giant potential inside them. In fact, if they would realize this, they would achieve so much more in their lives. This is where the personal development comes into play. Once you get involved with different self-improvement topics, your mind starts to change and you’ll start seeing everything differently (the people, the world, the events). What I love about personal development is that it can be applied to many areas in one’s life. When you improve yourself first, you can…

• How to Set Up Blog Comments as Goals in Google Analytics Using WordPress Hacks

  Kristi Hines

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  As many of you know, I love writing about Google Analytics. I’m a data junkie, and there’s nothing I enjoy more than learning more about the visitors coming to my blog. One of the best ways to get actionable data out of your Google Analytics is to set up goals. Setting up a goal in Google Analytics tells it that someone has completed something important on your website, such as buying product, signing up to your email list, or similar. For those who aren’t interested in selling products or capturing mailing list subscribers, is there anything else you can count as a goal on…

• Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Timescapes

  Kristi Hines

  20 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing 5 Things Every Blogger Needs to Teach Their Readers & Why it Matters – Want to grow a successful blog? You need to teach your readers a few things. 81 Topic Ideas for Starting a Blog that Matters – Don’t know what topic to start a blog that matters about? Here…

• Using Google+ Hangouts to Get More Exposure for Your Google+ Business Page

  Kevin Lau

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  This is a guest post by Kevin Lau. It’s still the early days for Google+ and plenty of people are getting to grips with the various tools this social platform has. This is even truer for business users, who have only recently been able to set up business pages to help promote their work. One of the main features Google+ has to offer is Google+ Hangouts. Google+ Hangouts enable you to initiate video chats with other Google+ users who are in your Circles who also have access to a video camera. So how can you use Google+ Hangouts to benefit your business? Let’s face it most business…

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• 10 Valuable Optimization Tips For Efficient Landing Pages

  rajkumarjonnala

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:11 am

  When the word efficiency comes with landing page, it is nothing but the ability of page to convert the reader in to customer. Landing pages is one of the most important factors in measuring your ability in converting one-time visitors to prospective customers. If your article won in making the reader to click on the resource box, it shows that they trust you and the rest should be provided by the landing pages. But for bad luck if your landing page fails to meet the expectation of the reader, changes are lot to divert them to other or another resources. Hence here are some factors to keep in…

• How To Implement Google Authorship With Your Blog

  Praveen

  24 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am

  Google Authorship is a new feature introduced by Google. This helps you to claim your content and also display your authorship information in search results of Google Search. Want to see how it works? See this picture. Now, if you want to display your authorship information in Google search result like seen in the above picture, read through this quick tutorial. Step #1: Adding Work Email 1. First, of all go to your Google Profile and click on Edit Profile. 2. Scroll down until you see “Work”. Click on it, and add an Email address and make sure it is visible to “Anyone on…

• 5 Sure-Fire Ways To Build Social Media Influence With Catchy Logo Design

  mikeiloba

  23 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am

  How can a custom logo enhance your social media influence? Stick around as I walk you through the process of transforming your dormant social media accounts into a money generating loophole. Everyone is building, but only few are building the right systems. Few online entrepreneurs who are making great success are too busy to share their tips or even guest posts honestly. But it doesn’t take a lifetime to master social media marketing. In fact, the magic bullet you need to speed up your racing bike is right under your nose – a custom logo. All the social media giants you hear and read…

• Do’s And Don’ts To Keep Your Adsense Account Safe

  Praveen

  21 Jan 2012 | 5:10 am

  Getting an Adsense account was never an easy job. There are people who lose their account very soon after getting their Adsense account approved after a very long struggle. They don’t know what actually went wrong, and why they got banned from Adsense. May be, it’s because that they are new to Adsense that they didn’t know what should be done, and should should not be done. In Adsense, you have very less to do, but got so much that you must not do to keep your Adsense account safe! Though Adsense Policies clearly states the Do’s And Don’ts, In this post I thought…

• Blog Traffic Generation – Why Is It vital For An Entrepreneur?

  katesmithblogger

  21 Jan 2012 | 4:53 am

  If you are entrepreneur looking forward to enjoy traffic on your blog, it is best to know the secrets and importance of blog traffic generation. If you have a great idea in mind but doesn’t know how to use it, there is no benefit that you can reap with that idea. So, in the world of online blogging and business, you have to be crisp when it comes to getting visibility on the net is concerned. And this visibility can only be achieved when you get sufficient amounts of traffic on the blog that you have. So, there is huge importance and a number of benefits of blog traffic generation for…

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• Google’s New Privacy Policy

  skhaliq

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:29 pm

  Imagine Imagine a world in which androids reside in every other home, accompanying people wherever they go. In this world, robotic unmanned cars take panoramic pictures of every street and doorstep, automatically accessing and mapping open Wi-Fi networks. Meanwhile, satellites orbit Earth, taking pictures of every house and every back yard, with enough detail to make out lawn chairs. Every browser click and web search is recorded somewhere, and the information is used to create comprehensive profiles of well-trained and compliant masses. Talk of such a dystopian future may evoke nostalgic…

• 5 Worthy iPhone Apps For Alcohol Connoisseurs

  Mohammed Fouzan

  15 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pm

  If you’re quite the partier and wouldn’t mind some assistance with your alcohol hobby, here are a handful of iPhone apps that can tickle your fancy.  It’s a good mix of fun app selections along with those that try to keep you safe and off the road. BeerCloud BeerCloud allows you to save your favorite beers and brewers in list form.  My two favorite features are its barcode scanner and food pairing recommendations.  Use the barcode scanner to get a description and facts of any beer you want.  Use the food pairing recommendations to figure out what food and beer will…

• 5 Ways To Attract Local Customers To Your Small Business

  Mohammed Fouzan

  14 Jan 2012 | 1:20 pm

  Attracting local customers is the lifeblood of a small business. Being in close proximity allows you the opportunity to foster strong, personal relationships with your clients. Nevertheless, attracting local clients does not require a ground-based, grass roots advertising campaign. Many of the technological tools global conglomerates use to promote their businesses are now being adopted by small businesses. The reason for this is the expansion of social media, and specialized internet services that use this global mechanism to connect with the stranger next door. The following are 5 ways to…

• Top 10 free android apps of the year 2011

  rajkumarjonnala

  13 Jan 2012 | 10:13 pm

  It was internet which took around 10 years to acquire the market. Apple took around 4 years and the same thing is done by android in just 2 years. What made android so successful in very less time. It was its apps, android apps there are more than 1 lakh apps available in the android market that are available for each and every person according to their need which made android market so successful. So In this post we will discuss about some of the most famous free android apps in the android market. No 1 Angry Birds Yes you might have already guessed this app while reading the title of the…

• 5 Camera Accessories for iPhone 4

  alexis

  13 Jan 2012 | 7:49 am

  As a professional photographer, Chase Jarvis once said, “The best camera is the one that’s with you.” And, grateful to various smartphones such as the iPhone and Android devices, almost all of them have a camera in them. These cameras are continually getting improved, and gossip has it that the next generation’s iPhone camera (8 MP) will be even better. Right now, there is always chance for development, if you wish to take photos captured by your iPhone to the next generation. Check out this post containing 5 best must-have accessories, including flexible tripod,…

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• Easy Mashable Social Bar Plugin Re-coded And Cleaned

  Prasenjit

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:13 pm

  I had been long wondering how to implement/copy the social box of mashable.com and fortunately came across this post How to Add A Mashable Style Social Media Box to WordPress at WPKube.com by my friend Devesh. Devesh has always been a guy who is always updated about the latest plugins and themes across the blogosphere. [...]

• Appeal of Online Communities

  Anubhav

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:44 pm

  People have formed communities on the internet since it was formed, but what had been established in the mid nineties still applies to the communities formed today. Armstrong and Hagel in 1995 made an observation of how online communities are divided according to what type of experience the users involved are looking for and provide [...]

• Search Engine Optimization Tips for Your Google+ Page

  Avirup Chatterjee

  11 Jan 2012 | 1:43 pm

  In my last article I have discussed about how to create a badge for your Google+ business page, now here in this article I will point out few things which will help you to make your Google+ page search engine optimised. For people who are completely off-track, please read the article about how to create [...]

• A Peek Into Google Analytics

  Anubhav

  6 Jan 2012 | 4:25 pm

  Google, the best search engine ever built, has been famous for everything that it provides – free of course. It has even increased the size of the Email (G-mail) storage to 2.6 GB. Since then, it has started launching a huge variety of products & services, which contains 50 online services. It was in May [...]

• How to Create a Badge for your Google Plus Business Page

  Avirup Chatterjee

  5 Jan 2012 | 1:33 pm

  First thing first – to create a badge for your Google+ business page you must have a Google+ page. So if you don’t have any create a Google+ Business Page. I will try to create a badge for my Google+ business page in few steps explaining every step in such a way that you do [...]

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• Positive Thoughts Status Facebook Updates, Sayings and Attitude

  Yana

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:55 am

  Never allow negativity control Our life, but replace them with the positivity. Keep Our mind Positive, no matter what. You know that positive thoughts bring positive results. Thingking positive not only bring You a positive result, but a happy feelings, and a happy feelings brings You a better healthy. Anyway, here are the status updates ideas and sayings related with positivity, positive thinking, positive attitude, positive sayings, positive thought to post on Facebook wall and to share with Your friends. Because You are a positive person on Facebook among Your friends :) The way to…

• Add Cool Animated Clocks to Blogger Using Widget

  Yana

  27 Jan 2012 | 1:16 am

  Adding Animated Flash Clock to Your Blogger sidebar is very easy and fun, even if You are a newbie. Well, these below are a cool and beautiful clocks animated flash to add on Your Blogger. Just simply choose the one of clocks below that You like, and then copy and paste the HTML code to Your Gadget/Widget box. Suggestion: Add Digital Clock Widget on Blogger 1. Login to Your Blogger account 2. From Dashboard go to Design > Page Elements, then click "Add A Gadget" 3. Choose "HTML/Java Script" 4. Copy and paste the codes of animated flash clocks below Analog Flash Clock <embed…

• GTA San Andreas Facebook Cover Games FB Timeline Profile

  Yana

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:45 pm

  GTA San Andreas (Grand Thef Auto) is a very popular games, this games is fantastic, full of challanges, and very attractive. If You're the one of  GTA San Andreas lover, then I'm sure You'll gonna love these below Facebook Cover of GTA San Andreas to add on Your Timeline Profile, burning your spirit as a Grand Thief. However find out more cool collections of images to cover your Facebook Timeline by clicking here. Instructions: Step 1. Click on the image to view larger, then "Save image as" to your computer Step 2. Login to you Facebook profile and click "Add/Change a Cover" then you…

• Photofunia.com - Online Cool Photo Effects Editor

  Yana

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am

  Photofunia.com - You're not good in Photoshop?, but You want to edit Your own photo with a amazing effect? Don't be sad and stop Your worrying, it's because for those who think doesn't an expert about to use Photoshop, there's a cool tool an online photo editing named Photofunia. With Photofunia You can edit all Your own photos in a few seconds automatically with very attractive photo effects. Photofunia has over 150 collections photo effects based on various categories. Suggestion: Photomania effect Facebook app You can create any effect You want, and here are some effects based on…

• Zona Blackberry | Top 5 Free BBM Wallpaper Sites Gallery

  Yana

  25 Jan 2012 | 11:43 pm

  If You're bored with an old wallpaper image on Your Blackberry, as You know there's plenty of Blackberry wallpapers You can find for free easily. You can download from the official website of Blackberry, or You can find them in websites that providing a Wallpapers for Blackberry, especially for You who are active and often to change the wallpaper images. Anyway, in this post BloggerClick.com is not about going to provides You a Blackberry wallppaper collection, but instead will share with You 5 sites that You can get a Blackberry wallpapers for free, You can find a hundreds of Blackberry…

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• Children Can Soon Enjoy Learning with SeaWorld at Home and on the Go

  Greg Smith

  17 Jan 2012 | 10:29 am

  SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment and the global children's digital media company Ruckus Media Group today announced a multi-year licensing deal to create digital storybooks that will inspire kids and families to connect with animals and the natural world. The stories will be based on SeaWorld’s animals, attractions and education and conservation efforts. This is the first digital publishing venture for SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment.   Reflecting SeaWorld’s commitment to conservation, a portion of all the proceeds from the digital interactive books will be donated to…

• Special Occasion Packages Provide Ultimate Valentine's Day Experience at Discovery Cove

  16 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm

  External Image:  http://www.insideseaworld.com/sites/www.insideseaworld.com/files/imagecache/thumb_small/teaser_images/dc.jpg External Link:  http://www.insideseaworld.com/special-occasion-packages-provide-ultimate-valentines-day-experience-discovery-cove This Valentine’s Day, discover an all-inclusive day resort experience that’s one of a kind – at Discovery Cove in Orlando! Imagine a place where you and your loved one can touch and swim with dolphins, wade with mysterious rays, snorkel among thousands of exotic fish and rays, hand-feed tropical birds in a…

• Catch Julie Scardina This Morning on TODAY!

  John Walker

  16 Jan 2012 | 7:43 am

    SeaWorld and Busch Gardens animal ambassadors to go live on the TODAY Show! During the fourth hour on the TODAY Show, Julie Scardina will introduce Hoda and Kathie Lee to several rescued animals including a woodpecker, bobcat and a hognose snake. Julie will talk about how everyone can help our native wildlife during the winter months. TODAY airs nationally on NBC; check your local listings for air times. 

• New Year's Resolutions, Animal Style!

  3 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm

  External Image:  http://www.insideconservation.com/sites/www.insideconservation.com/files/imagecache/thumb_small/teaser_images/dolphin.png External Link:  http://www.insideconservation.com/new-years-resolutions-animal-style As you prepare to stick to your resolutions for the new year, we wanted to share a few that we learned from our animals at SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica, and

• Tune In Later This Week to See Your Favorite Winter Animals!

  John Walker

  21 Dec 2011 | 10:01 am

    SeaWorld and Busch Gardens animal ambassadors can be seen on two national shows on Friday, December 23. First on Despierta America, Pedro Ramos-Navarrete will introduce some fun winter animals, including a puffin, a couple of adorable chinchillas, a gyrfalcon, and a Lynx. Make sure you tune in to see Pedro and the animals for what is sure to be an entertaining and educational segment. Despierta America airs nationally on Univision; check your local listings for air times. ¡Feliz Navidad! Then during the fourth hour of the TODAY Show, Julie Scardina and a cockatoo named…

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• How to Use Google+ to Boost our Community

  Panah

  27 Jan 2012 | 9:40 am

  Just like Facebook and Twitter, Google+ can be a game changer for bloggers. It can not only drive a ton of traffic to blogs, it provides bloggers with the opportunity to interact with their audience in a deeper fashion. Google+ could be a great community-building tool if you dedicate enough time to being involved on it. Here are 6 quick ways you can use Google+ to build a more solid community:ask questions: I have seen many successful Google+ users take advantage of this approach to engage their fellow community members and get the discussions started. Some bloggers even use the feedback they…

• Acceleread: Learn Speed Reading on iPad

  Panah

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:25 am

  In order to stay on top of your game, you will have to keep up with the top blogs and news portals covering your industry. There are only 24 hours in each day. Most of us bloggers do not even have time to scratch our heads. So you can either work harder or learn how to read faster to keep up with more developments in your market. Applications such as Acceleread help you increase your reading speed without taking away from your reading comprehension.Acceleread aims to make its users more effective readers. It uses various techniques to improve your focus, eye speed and much more. If you play…

• 3 Cool iPhone Apps for Domainers

  Panah

  23 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am

  In the past few months, I have covered various reasons every online business owner should keep buying domain names. Not all the domains you buy end up being winners. But some will be if you do extensive research before registering your domains. There are many domain tools available online. But accessing them on mobile phones is not always convenient. Here are 3 iPhone apps that make doing research on domains on “the go” easy:Domainsbot: Domainsbot is one of my favorite domain research tools on my desktop computer. This app lets you access this tool on your iPhone. Use it to find…

• NewsBlur: RSS Feed Client for Feed Junkies

  Panah

  21 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am

  Most top bloggers know the importance of keeping up with other top blogs. There is so much one can learn from the work of others. Besides, if you are not keeping up with the latest developments in your market, you are going to get left behind. Most feed junkies assume that they have to settle for Google Reader to manage their RSS feeds. But there are other sophisticated RSS readers that are capable of tracking all your feeds. NewsBlur is quite a simple alternative to Google Reader. It helps you organize your feeds and get more reading done each and everyday.Just like Google Reader, NewsBlur…

• Fantastical: Fantastic Calendar for Mac

  Panah

  19 Jan 2012 | 9:41 am

  Many publishers blog on their Mac computers and laptops. Mac OS already has a decent calendar in iCal. But managing your events and tasks on it is not always easy. Fantastical is a killer Mac OS application that helps you manage your events on your computer more effectively. It has an elegant interface and supports natural language for event creation.Fantastical works with iCal but saves you time making sense of your schedule. Entering events into this app could not be any easier. It supports natural language for event creation. Just tell the app what you are planning to do, where, and when.

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• Free Automatic Link Submission To Directories

  Yusree

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:27 am

  Free Automatic Link Submission To Directories is a post from: How To Make Money With Blog Blogging TipsHere is a free automatic link submission service to submit your website or blog link to 100 directories. There are probably several other online website submitters you can use to submit link to directories, the different with one is that it is fully automatic. Once your fill up the details you can quickly click submit and the let the link submitter work by itself. You don’t even need to enter captcha. This free link submitter can get you get one way linking link from directories,…

• How To Get Free CDN To Speed Up Your Blog

  Yusree

  29 Jun 2011 | 12:54 pm

  How To Get Free CDN To Speed Up Your Blog is a post from: How To Make Money With Blog Blogging TipsHow to get free CDN service for your blog. Choices of totally free CDN service to use. What is CDN and why do you need it? CDN stand for Content Delivery Network. What CDN does is to deliver content (partial or all, depends on the service) of your website from their server instead of direct from your web hosting server. This will make your site loading faster because the content is deliver from a server closer to the visitor. If your blog is hosted in US then your blog will load faster for the…

• Get Tweetattack Twitter Marketing Software Free Edition

  Yusree

  31 May 2011 | 4:05 am

  Get Tweetattack Twitter Marketing Software Free Edition is a post from: How To Make Money With Blog Blogging TipsDownload Free edition of Tweek Attack for your Twitter marketing purpose. Tweetattack is a very popular Twitter marketing software among Internet Marketers.   This is the tool you need in your arsenal if you use Twitter as your major marketing platform. The features of Tweetattack is impressive. One of the best feature is the auto retweet feature which  can retweet link to thousand of accounts and authority and backlinks from tweet statistic websites (wow!). You can check it out…

• Submit Link To 25 Bookmarking Sites Per Day For Free.

  Yusree

  24 May 2011 | 9:13 pm

  Submit Link To 25 Bookmarking Sites Per Day For Free. is a post from: How To Make Money With Blog Blogging TipsFree automatic online submission service to 25 social bookmarking websites. Submitting your blog post link to various social bookmarking websites is  a tedious process. It is okay to submit to a few major social bookmarking site manually but to submit to a lot more, then you need to spend a lot of your precious time which probably better use to write articles. One of the  common method to submit your story link  is by using browser bookmarklet add-on such as provided by  Addthis…

• Speed Up Facebook Fan Like Box Widget Loading Plugin

  Yusree

  16 May 2011 | 10:03 am

  Speed Up Facebook Fan Like Box Widget Loading Plugin is a post from: How To Make Money With Blog Blogging TipsYour Facebook Fan Box (or like box) widget so slow to fully loaded? Been thinking yourself on how to speed Facebook Like Box widget loading? Do you have a facebook fan box widget on your blog? Does it seem very slow to fully loaded? Here a solution if you are using WordPress blogging CMS. Facebook Cache wordpress plugin use caching technique to speed up the widget loading. In fact from what I know of, this is the only wordpress plugin that can do that. You might say there is another…

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• BMP 018: How To Get The Most Out Of The Profitable Ebook Project With These 4 Productivity Tips

  Hector Cuevas

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:01 am

  In this episode of the brand new Blog Marketing Podcast (formerly known as the Business Blogging Podcast), I get into some quick and easy productivity tips to get the most out of the Profitable ebook project. If you have no idea what this project is about, go read this post and join the challenge. The goal of the project is to create an ebook you can sell by the end of 7 weeks. But that won’t happen unless you make the time and put forth some effort. This episode is about just that… We’ll discuss how to get more things done in less time and I’ll share some of the…

• Announcing The Profitable Ebook Project: Create A Profitable Ebook With Me In Just 7 Weeks

  Hector Cuevas

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am

  Did you know that if you want to get paid.. you sorta have to have something to sell. Yes, of course… you can monetize using AdSense and sell advertising space, but those models aren’t as profitable as selling your own digital information products; which is what I recommend. Now, it may seem obvious to you that in order to get paid, you have to have something to sell. But you’d be surprised how many bloggers actually “Know” this information, but have yet to create their own product. Do you fall into that category? If you do, I’d like to introduce to you the…

• If It’s Not Permission-Based Marketing, You’re Wasting Your Time

  Hector Cuevas

  11 Jan 2012 | 12:48 am

  It’s true… If you’re not asking for permission, you’re wasting your time. This is something I’m glad I was told when I first got started blogging. Don’t know where I’d be without it. I’d probably be designing banner ads that flash like crazy, in hopes of getting people to pay attention to me. Not a good way to do business :/ (especially not in 2012) What is Permission Marketing? Let me first cover what it is and then why you should use it. Permission-Based Marketing is the process in which a business obtains permission to communicate with (or…

• How To Add The Twitter “Follow Me” Button To Your Sidebar

  Hector Cuevas

  5 Jan 2012 | 12:22 pm

  This post will show you how to add the twitter “Follow” button to your sidebar. First, I ‘d like to talk about why I think this is so cool. I’m big on creating clutter-free, effective websites that help you convert visitors into subscribers and customers. I try to stay away from useless widgets and plugins that do nothing but send traffic away from your site. The reason I think this Twitter tool is so cool is because it allows your visitors to follow you with 1-click, without having to be on Twitter. Of course, they still need to have an account but, this button opens…

• 6 Ways To Dramatically Boost Your Landing Page Conversion Rate

  Hector Cuevas

  2 Jan 2012 | 6:03 pm

  Happy New Year! I’m excited for 2012 and I wanna share that excitement with you by giving you something I’ve been working on for past week or so. I thought I’d start off this year with a brand new report. It’s titled Landing Page Optimization and it talks about the 6 things you should keep in mind when building a landing page. You probably noticed that my homepage has changed a bit since I last posted. It’s no longer a blog layout. It now functions as a landing page and I’m happy to say that it has been very effective so far. The reason this report came…

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• Make Huge Money from Tiny (Small) Online Jobs

  Thomas De Vos

  22 Jan 2012 | 11:07 am

  Micro job sites have grown in popularity over the past few years and thanks to sites like Fiverr, Fourerr, and TTenner making big amounts of money from small tiny jobs has really taken off. The Process 1. Profile – Unlike larger freelancing websites where it can take a long time to set up a profile, a [...]

• Easiest Ways to Make Extra Money Online (Fast and Free)

  Vijayraj Reddy

  21 Jan 2012 | 4:42 am

  After the recent economic turmoil, almost all individuals are looking for some ways to earn extra money in order to meet their basic expenses. In the era of web technology, there are several ways to earn money online for which you do not need any special knowledge or specific skills. You only need to be [...]

• Mistakes to Avoid While Trying to Make Money Online

  Vijayraj Reddy

  18 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am

  Yes, it is true that there are various options through which you may be able to make money online. But, while trying out any of the options, even if you are aware of those, you will have to be aware of all of the possibilities, the advantages and disadvantages attached to these. You will also [...]

• Make Money Online by Leveraging Wide Array of Opportunities

  Vijayraj Reddy

  13 Jan 2012 | 1:05 am

  Are you bored with your corporate cubicles and your day job environment? If answered yes, then its time to make money online by finding an array of opportunities in you. You can try starting off with some home-based business that can help you generate online cash and also boost your monthly income level. As the [...]

• How to Increase Affiliate Sales (Conversion) with Right Approach

  Vijayraj Reddy

  5 Jan 2012 | 11:18 am

  Are you facing problem in managing your monthly expense? If yes, then you must look for certain ways that will help you boost your earning. You can try your hands in affiliate marketing that will help you earn a good amount of money. in order to start with it, you have to talk to different [...]

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• Google New Page Algo: Penalizes Traffic For Too Many Above Fold Ads

  Sahil Umatia

  25 Jan 2012 | 6:26 am

  Are you displaying too many ads above the fold on your website? Then its time, that you should take down those ads soon or your website may be penalized for traffic and your search rankings will be lower down. Google has recently added a new page algorithm layout that looks at the layout of a webpage and the amount of content on the page. And if it has too many ads above the fold or you have to scroll down to read the content, then you site will be surely penalized with reduced site traffic.The main motive behind this change was to provide better user experience when someone visits your…

• Google Chrome Extension for Adsense Publisher

  Sahil Umatia

  19 Jan 2012 | 12:44 pm

  Adsense Publishers can now check their account performance with Google Adsense toolbar. Google released a chrome extension for Adsense publishers. Adsense users can now quickly check their Adsense earnings with a single button click.The extension will give you an overview of your Adsense earnings for current/previous day & current/previous month. The extension will also show your custom channel earnings and lifetime earnings at the bottom.If you have multiple Gmail accounts you don’t need to sign out and sign in again to your adsense account. You just have to sign in and grant…

• #Hostgator 30% Discount Coupon – Limited Time

  Sahil Umatia

  17 Jan 2012 | 12:48 pm

  Here’s a good news for people who are looking to buy new hosting package to kick off their new project. Hostgator is offering a 30% discount on Baby and Business plans which will be limited for a week, until Jan 23rd.Hostgator is one of the top shared web hosting companies which offers unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited multiple add-on domain support and much more just for $9. iBlognet is too hosted on Hostgator and from my personal experience, Hostgator are best for their customer support and in terms of reliability. How to fetch this offer? Go to Hostgator.com…

• Stop SOPA/PIPA Plugins for Blogger and WordPress

  Sahil Umatia

  17 Jan 2012 | 10:44 am

  SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act. The Act itself allows copyright holders to challenge the use of their content in any form on the internet. But recently it has caused quite a stir in the Internet community with the web censorship bills.Thousands of people, including tech giants such as Facebook and Google, have opposed the web censorship bill, saying it would effectively censor the web and place unfair demands on content providers. A few infringing links would be enough to block a site completely.Sites like GoDaddy has already burnt their fingers by supporting SOPA. The internet community…

• Access Facebook Without Internet – Just Dial *325#

  Sahil Umatia

  16 Jan 2012 | 11:04 am

  Now Facebook users in India can access Facebook on any mobile without any internet connection, just by dialing *325#. You can even access Facebook on a mobile phone which has no browser or other form of data connectivity like EDGE / GPRS / 3G.Facebook India has partnered with Fonetwish to bring Facebook on every mobile phone without requiring any apps or even the Internet. Fonetwish is an USSD [Unstructured Supplementary Data] based interactive service which brings the power of internet to every mobile phone.Updating your status is completely free, but for other features, like posting on a…

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• 4 Proven and Free Ways to Make Money Online.

  blog

  21 Jan 2012 | 8:05 am

  The Internet is littered with offers that promise easy and free ways to make money online. Anyone who has actually attempted to make money online, will realize, that it is not as simple as signing up for a few offers or promises. I still have not found “that” offer that has made me a million. [...]

• Clickbank Cheque Received!

  blog

  21 Jan 2012 | 1:23 am

  I started this online money making experiment 222 days ago from scratch. I had never built a website, didn’t know anything about clickbank, internet marketing, wordpress etc etc. I had no knowledge whatsoever. I am proud to announce that I have received my first clickbank cheque in the mail for $58.89! It has been a [...]

• First Clickbank Cheque

  blog

  9 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm

  I wrote a post a while ago, summing up my ClickBank Experiment Progress. In it, I went over the initial requirements that needed to be met before you get your first ClickBank cheque and officially get “into” the system. Here they are briefly: “Now, before Clickbank actually sends you your first cheque, you need to [...]

• Sex Toy Affiliate Shop – Ways to Make Money Online

  blog

  5 Jan 2012 | 8:58 am

  Hi All Just a quick update. I wrote a post a little while ago about setting up my own online Sex Toy Affiliate Shop. Basically, my site has affiliate / referral links to Vibrators.com & Wicked Temptations. This was my way of taking the whole “online money making experiment” a level deeper. I am pleased [...]

• Reliable and Suitable Web Hosting

  blog

  30 Dec 2011 | 1:49 am

  It is very important when choosing a web hosting company that you choose a reliable one and that you choose a hosting package that suits your particular needs. There are lots of hosting companies out there (one source puts it at 25,000!). I have found a great site (webhostingrating.com) that compares, rates and ranks hosting [...]

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• 5 Effective Steps To Streamline Your Social Media Reputation And Profit

  Guest Blogger

  22 Jan 2012 | 9:34 pm

  Social media marketing when properly harnessed can yield great dividends. If you’re one of those people looking for ways to improve your social media activities and profit, I’m here to show you how. It begins with proper understanding of the intricacies surrounding social networking. I’ve been using Twitter since 3 years and within this periods, I’ve learned a few powerful tips to grow any business. Why Reputation Management Is Vital The way other people sees you is what counts. You may have positive outlook with a fashionable disposition, but it doesn’t count when you’re…

• How To Promote Your Business With A Blog

  Guest Blogger

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm

  If you’ve been reading a lot lately about blogs, social media and this new marketing world we now live in, then you probably have a few questions. And one of those questions might be “how can creating and updating a blog help my business? This is an excellent question and one we plan to address via this article. It doesn’t matter if you run a restaurant, an accounting firm or any other similar traditional brick and mortar establishment. Fact is that a blog can help you and in a variety of ways. The trick is to know what you want from your blog from the get go, so you can set that up…

• HostGator Discount Coupon with 30% Off Sale. Time Limited Offer!

  Tinh Tran

  17 Jan 2012 | 7:39 pm

  After the Black Friday and Cyber Monday event of every year, you will never get any discount offer higher than 25%. However, this year is an exception that you can enjoy higher discount value up to 30% of your initial purchase. Buy longer, get higher! Most of you have known that it is not hard to find a coupon of 25% with HostGator such as BLOGGERCOUPONS or penny hosting with BLACKFRIDAY code. Now, you will have 5 days left to get 30% off coupon redeemed for Baby and Business plan. To verify this offer, I have tested this myself and it worked perfectly as below: Note to you all that, this…

• Blog Monetization Case Study: How I Monetized My Wine Review Blog That Earns $1,500 Monthly

  Guest Blogger

  12 Jan 2012 | 9:00 pm

  Are you looking for profitable ways to make money online? I think this is the right time to reveal the exact strategies I used to monetize my blog where that talks about different kinds of wine. From the initial setup of this blog, I didn’t know it would turn out to become a money maker. I don’t know what level of success you’ve experienced so far with your blog, after reading this page, you would be able to increase your monthly earnings and grow your business. What Is Blog Monetization? I see people throw this word around often but do you really know what it entails? Monetizing a blog…

• Get 20% Off Sale for Hosting Review Scripts. Time Limited Offer!

  Tinh Tran

  10 Jan 2012 | 2:52 am

  This morning, Host Review Script team contacted me and discussed about their offer for my readers. This offer is time/quantity limited with great discount and you should be hurried to get it before it is run out of stock. Why Host Review Script would like to offer AZBlogTips’ readers, not other bloggers? It is not something secret, it is just because that I have promoted their services for a while and sent them a lot of clients since its launch and of course, I have generated some good affiliate commissions too. This has happened many times here with other vendors too.  This must be a…

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• Follow Friday Top 10 Week 29

  John Paul

  13 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am

  #FollowFriday Top 10Can you believe we are half way thru Jan?  2012 is rolling in fast.How you doing on your 2012 goals/changes?For me, sticking to goals/resolutions is like me trying to diet.  I’m good for 5, 10 even 20 days, then that one day BK shows me a yummy burger on TV and I’m at the drive thru in 10 min lol  Then the next couple days I’m half-assing (probably not a word,, but it works) the diet because I cheated one day.If this is your routine for your 2012 goals, then that’s cool. No one is perfect. Just get up and get back on point.As long as you are moving closer to…

• The Insider’s Guide to Facebook Advertising

  John Paul

  10 Jan 2012 | 6:50 am

  Facebook Advertising Insider TipsHey everyone! First, let me apologize for the delay in this part of our Facebook Marketing series. I was unfortunately hospitalized with pneumonia over the holidays, and have just recently returned to working order.Not to worry, though — the ol’ mind is still working just as well as it was before (that is to say, sputtering along at squirrel-power). My goal for this post is to not talk to you about the same old stuff you can read in a thousand other blog posts about Facebook advertising.You know, targeting, tracking, writing good content, blah blah…

• 2011 Follow Friday 25 Favorites

  John Paul

  23 Dec 2011 | 8:11 am

  Top 25 2011 FavoritesIs it me, or did 2011 fly by?Feels like yesterday when I was sitting here going over my steps to DOMINATE 2011…even though 2011 was a great year for me and Money Dummy blog, it missed a few goals.I did learn a few things over the past year that will help me mold my plans of DOMINATION in 2012  (insert evil laugh here ) Focusing more on the “business” side of blogging,Focus more on my blog and clients and projects.Find a better balance to my business and the time I spend on SM sites.Focus on doing things I dislike, but work.. ie: videos.Focus on strengthening the…

• 7 Free Tools For The Happy Bloggers Christmas List

  John Paul

  21 Dec 2011 | 7:47 am

  The Happy Bloggers Christmas ListThere is something about Christmas that just makes you want to share and give freely to the good people around you. Would be nice if it was like that all the time, but reality hits and you get busy and blah blah… right?But Christmas is when you make that little extra effort, to help out or give back. It’s that same reason you have watched the Christmas Story 100 times lol, “it’s ok, so have I”…can you say “Pink Bunny PJ’S”? I’m surrounded by happy bloggers everywhere that are giving back.ex: My man John at extremejohn.com is having…

• Running a Contest on Facebook Successfully and Legally

  John Paul

  19 Dec 2011 | 6:25 am

  Run A Contest On FacebookThis post is the second in a series of four posts designed to do two things:1. Get you acquainted with how to market your product or service on Facebook. 2. Get you saddled up and set out on the road to Facebook marketing success! Before We Begin Disclaimer: Sorry guys, but I have to say this, just so that we’re all clear. I’m not a lawyer. None of my employees are. To the best of my knowledge, John Paul isn’t either.  Neither my company (Garraty Group) nor our blog (SmBizBlog.com), nor this blog are in any way providing legal advice or service.

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• Top 5 reasons Why I Choose WordPress!

  latief

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:45 am

  WordPress..Even from the name you can realize that we talk about a professional, elegant and creative way to publishing content online, but in reality there’s much more in wordpress then you might think. I’ve been using wordpress for over 4 years now and I am about to share with you some of the reasons what made me love it and use it on the daily basis on most of my web projects

• The Non-SEO Side of Starting a Successful Online Business

  latief

  25 Jan 2012 | 1:34 am

  If there’s one thing that’s been hammered into your head as an aspiring Internet entrepreneur, it’s search engine optimization. In a world where anyone connected to the web is almost always conducting a web search, ensuring you are able to be found via Google and other search engines is essential. But do not make the [...]

• Making the Most As a Professional Blogger

  latief

  20 Jan 2012 | 11:44 am

  You might have joined the fast-paced world of blogging with the idea that you could be the ideal blogger that doesn’t care about money.

• Remote Access Will Help Your Business

  latief

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:07 am

  Remote Access is a technology to connect your computer with other device via internet connection. Connecting your computer with other devices remotely is now possible. You will work like working with your computer at home or at your office computer.

• How SEO Can Help You To Get Best Returns From Your Website

  latief

  12 Jan 2012 | 9:49 am

  What is an SEO? SEO is a short form for ‘Search Engine Optimization’ or ‘Search Engine Optimizer’. SEO is normally used to explain the procedure of optimizing the website in such a manner that it will come out higher in rank while exploring the search engines of the web world. The natural or organic results [...]

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• Active and Passive Side of Blogging

  Gautam

  5 Jan 2012 | 12:27 pm

  “Laid Back” – A phrase that seems like a nightmare to a blogger, is a truth that no one can prevent. As human beings, we have the tendency to slack. this does not imply that we are not capable of being excellent. It just shows that we have elements of both, each trying to win over the other (more or less like good and evil). I call these two sides as the “Active” and the “Passive”.The two faces of bloggingThe “Active” and the “Passive” has a lot of impact on the daily lives of bloggers. An “Active” blogger takes…

• 10 Things You Shouldn’t Do With Your New Blog

  kmoor

  2 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am

  This is a guest article by Kevin Moor. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelinesBlogging is a very popular activity; many folks that you know have a blog, and many of those folks will have more than one blog. Blogs are a great way to express yourself or share your knowledge and expertise, so it makes sense that you would want one too.As you get started, you probably have done a little bit of research on blogging. It is important to know what to do with your blog, but it is equally vital to know what you shouldn’t do. The…

• The Top 5 Facebook Apps to promote your blog

  linda

  28 Dec 2011 | 5:42 am

  This is a guest article by Linda. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelinesBlogging is the recent popular activity that all of us do regularly or in our free time. We share our thoughts and interests on a blog or give a comment on others blog or even become a blogger’s fan!Many people have taken up blogging for their livelihood. The concept of guest blogging allows people to post articles in somebody else’s blog as a guest blogger giving each of the parties an advantageof content, branding, traffic and good…

• Time Management Tips for Bloggers

  Jasmine

  27 Dec 2011 | 7:28 am

  This is a guest article by Jasmine of Best Web Host. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelinesBlogging is certainly not as easy as many people think it is. Blogging is actually a business and involves a lot more than just writing good content. Getting a nice design, moderating comments and promoting blogs are only just a bit of the whole blogging business. Running blogs as a professional does take up a lot of time especially if the blogger works a full-time job and can only attend to his/her blog at night or on the…

• Facebook-Nervosa: Are You Suffering this Illness?

  sachin

  26 Dec 2011 | 7:28 am

  A guest article by Sachin. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelines.Social media has become increasingly important for all of us. It can greatly affect our career. Have some silly photos of you and your friends acting stupid when you were drunk at Christmas, and the next thing you know, you are not getting that promotion, and you start getting the feeling that you are not really wanted in the office anymore, and you don’t know why. Some people are getting obsessed with social media, Facebook and Twitter marketing. They…

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• Freelance Writing Jobs for January 26, 2012

  Noemi Twigg

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  How’s everyone doing today? Thank you to all who joined the contest for the grammar book giveaway. We already have three winners, but don’t worry if you’re not one of them. We’ll be having more giveaways in the future. In the meantime, good luck with the jobs today! Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Tech/Business Writer (Anywhere) Marketing Content Writer (Houston/Austin/San Jose/Remote) Writer for Plastic Surgery Article (Downtown NY) Content/SEO Writer – Real Estate Marketing (NYC) Website Content Writer (Anywhere) Part-time Content Writer (Toronto/Remote)…

• Freelance Writing Jobs for January 25, 2012

  Noemi Twigg

  25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Good morning, everyone! I hope you all had a good night’s rest and are ready to take on Hump Day. Here’s something to inspire you if you feel a little lacking in the knowledge department today. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ~ Albert Einstein Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Article Writer – Teen Girl Audience (NY) Website Content Writer (San Jose West) Blogging Jobs Freelance Beauty & Style Blogger (Various Cities Worldwide) Ghost…

• Funny English Signs - Courtesy of Typos, "Honest" Mistakes, and Careless Usage

  Noemi Twigg

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am

  We all make mistakes. There really is nothing wrong with that as long as we can take constructive feedback. A little sense of humor and the ability to laugh at ourselves make everything better. Understandably, we might find it easier to chuckle when the mistake is not ours! Still, that does not mean that we should not make it a point to be open to admitting our mistakes and making sure they are corrected. All this talk about mistakes stems from the topic of today’s grammar post. I think it’s about time we have a little fun, and take a look at some funny English signs again. While…

• Freelance Writing Jobs for January 24, 2012

  Noemi Twigg

  24 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Good morning! Have you guys joined the contest for the grammar book giveaway? You can tweet and comment once a day till tomorrow, so go ahead and do it if you haven’t already! Here are your freelance writing jobs for today. Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Writer for Automotive Review Website (Chicago) Web Content Writers (Dallas/Telecommute) Professional Content Writer (Greater Toronto Area) Web Writer (Torrance/Work from Home) Freelance Content Writers (Telecommute) Content Writers for Vodka Website (Anywhere) Article Writers (Phoenix) Blogging Jobs Blogger/Copywriter (Orange…

• Win a Copy of “37 Things to Know About Grammar” - We're Giving Away Three Copies!

  Noemi Twigg

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am

  37 Things to Know About GrammarWe’ve got something special for you today! Do you remember the grammar book that we reviewed some time ago? It is titled “37 Things to Know About Grammar”, and it is a brilliant book in that it makes grammar fun. If you have memories of your grammar teacher acting like the a policeman without a sense of humor, you can forget about that. This book gives you some of the most important principles in English grammar without making you feel as if you were back in school. For writers who may need a quick reference, the book is a handy tool. For non-native…

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• SOPA Postponed (Not Cancelled) and Tumblr Reaches 120 Millions People

  Home Business

  23 Jan 2012 | 2:47 pm

  There has been overwhelmingly news reporting in SOPA issue so, I will keep it short. SOPA has been postponed for now, but notice it is NOT cancelled. I am  not sure it is victory or time to celebration yet. For time being SOPA and PIPA has been on hold for now. Here is the recap. All that said, neither PIPA nor SOPA are totally dead, with both houses of Congress postponing rather than cancelling outright votes on measures to help content owners to enforce their copyrights online. The music and movie industries will continue to lobby on the issue of web-blocking, though their political allies…

• SOPA Bill And How It Could Affects All Bloggers

  Home Business

  18 Jan 2012 | 5:19 am

  First time I heard of SOPA was a few months ago. At the first bill sounded good to untrained eye as it said to protecting copyright law for websites, writers and so on. But, it is much more complex than that. Rightnow, many bloggers and sites are protesting against SOPA bill, and rightly so. To understand much complex SOPA issue, here is an article I found which explains it well; Whar is SOPA and How does it work? How SOPA Can Affect You? I am against SOPA, as it is kills the free knowledge sharing internet as we know it.  Right now wikipedia in US is down to protest it, this is what I saw…

• 3 Common PPC Marketing Mistakes

  Home Business

  7 Jan 2012 | 10:04 pm

  I am not PPC expert by any means but before jumping in anything 100%, doing right research helps and these are a few things I have learned which I want to share with you all.  PPC, Pay per Click, marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools that are available on the internet today. But just like any other advertising campaign it needs to be done with careful planning and consideration in order to avoid certain pitfalls that may occur while you are creating your marketing campaign.  If you begin your PPC marketing plan without careful planning first you have set yourself up to lose…

• 29 Motivational Quotes for Business Success

  Home Business

  4 Jan 2012 | 5:58 am

  Some days a motivational quote can provide a quick pick-me-up for employees and even management. They can be a breath of fresh air when it comes to a drab afternoon. These are also a great way to jazz up a newsletter or a memo or even to simply print and attach to a bulletin board. Using quotes like these are perfect ways to create a motivational and successful work environment. As Mr. Rick Pitino says “The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they’re working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by…

• 9 Blogging Tips For Bloggers

  Home Business

  1 Jan 2012 | 9:53 pm

  Blogs are a great way for anyone to get their ideas across to others and a great way for businesses to do some free advertising. Creating a great blog is an excellent way to drive more traffic to your site. When building your site there certain tips a person should pay attention to when they are writing their blog. 1. Write When you are writing your blog write it with your reader in mind.  When a reader is looking for information that may pertain to your idea they want the information in a way that they can both read and understand easily. 2. Valuable and Worthwhile With everyone busy life…

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• Building Your Brand and Network Using Twitter Chats

  Jackie Lee

  24 Jan 2012 | 9:23 am

  We’ve been talking social media all month and I’ve managed to write every post about Facebook. I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day. I was saying to me Facebook is the more serious, business site and Twitter was the fun, cocktail party kind of site. When I say that I mean I feel uncomfortable posting something about watching the Bachelor, or Grey’s Anatomy on Facebook, and yet I can have an hour long conversation about it, back and forth with a bunch of people on Twitter. The interesting thing about this conversation was the person I was talking to…

• 6 Quick Tips to Drive Traffic From Facebook

  Jackie Lee

  17 Jan 2012 | 11:32 am

  Let’s start this off with this… it is a process, not a one time event. Facebook traffic will take some consistent effort on your part ~ but it can happen in just a few minutes a day. Here’s the steps to take if you’re going to consistently use Facebook to drive traffic back to your site. 1. Set up a fanpage. Yes, you’re going to want to set up a fanpage, because if you’re going to be talking “business” you don’t necessarily want it cluttering up your profile page. You also want to be able to connect with people who are looking for the…

• How to Make Socializing Pay Off

  Jackie Lee

  10 Jan 2012 | 12:40 pm

  So many internet marketers look at social media with some disdain or even as a complete waste of time. I’m here to disagree… although that wasn’t always the case. Here’s the deal… Times are CHANGING… social media is no longer about wasting time, and just making friends, it’s now one of the best ways to drive traffic, AND, a great way to get your blog coming up in the search engines. You don’t think Google created its own social media site for nothing right? Google searches are changing, they’re incorporating more “personalized”…

• What’s Really Important?

  Jackie Lee

  3 Jan 2012 | 9:04 am

  This was going to be a post about social media. That was the plan for today. However, sometimes life has a way of handing you things that get you thinking and doing social media the “right” way seems just a little less important (but I will write that post don’t worry). Anyway… yesterday a friend of our passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. She was quite young and it got me thinking. It’s so easy to get all wound up and wrapped up in the computer, in the online world, in how to build backlinks, and what you should write for your content, in how to get more…

• Creating an Editorial Calendar for Your Blog

  Jackie Lee

  27 Dec 2011 | 7:39 am

  Here it is almost a new year, and I’m sure you have big plans for your blog and your business. As we discussed last week having a strategic business plan going into the new year is always key. This week we’re going to take that plan and put it into practice! Because action is where your profits come from. If you’re creating an authority type site, whether it’s about a niche in general or even product reviews, your content is the foundation of your site. If you’re not creating new content, you’re not going to succeed. Content is KEY!! What are you going to…

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• The Importance of Choosing the Right Web Host

  Guest Author

  26 Jan 2012 | 1:07 am

  This is a guest post by Joe Pawlikowski. Should you wish to write for this blog, check out the guest post guidelines. For most beginning bloggers, it’s a set it and forget it kind of item. Yet in the long run it can be one of the most important decisions any upstart blogger makes. Unless you’re using a free service such as Blogger or WordPress.com — which is not at all recommended — you’ll need to buy a hosting package. Finding one is easy. Many blogs carry ads for them, and others even run coupon codes and other promotions. Finding the right host, however, can…

• Three Ways to Make Money From Your Blog’s Content

  Guest Author

  18 Jan 2012 | 9:49 pm

  I’ve worked in blogging and online marketing for years, and it’s never ceased to amaze me how many veteran bloggers are great writers but aren’t great at business. It seems like almost every time I read a blog, I find a few things that they could do better and make more money. Sometimes, I see basic mistakes like blogs not being optimized for search engines, or ads that are irrelevant to the blog’s audience. That’s why I’m sharing a few ways that you can make money off your blog: Pay per click banner ads Pay per click banner ads work well on blogs with lots…

• 8 Little Tweaks on Your Site to Increase Conversion

  Guest Author

  10 Jan 2012 | 6:49 am

  This is a guest post by Maitreyee Sinha. Should you wish to write for this blog, check out the guest post guidelines. To convert visitors into clients, paying attention to certain aspects of your website is critical. Convince people by offering samples of your product/services/work. Including client testimonials in your site can be a great idea as well. The main purpose of a website is to increase profit rates of the company. Sometimes, a site receives huge traffic. Unfortunately, this traffic does not convert into paying clients, thus affecting business goals of the company. The best way to…

• 7 Essential Tips on Email Marketing For Bloggers

  Guest Author

  5 Jan 2012 | 5:40 am

  This is a guest post by Keith Ong. Should you wish to write for this blog, check out the guest post guidelines. In whatever trade of business you are in, a good reputation is something that you should keep in mind in order to make sure that your business grows. Email marketing is one of the strategies you can use to keep in touch or share information with your readers or customers and the way you manage this strategy will help you in growing your blog/business if you do it the right way. Let us share with you some cool nice tips you can use to build a good reputation for your blog or…

• 6 Ways of Earning Trust in Your Landing Page

  Guest Author

  2 Jan 2012 | 8:50 am

  Your landing page is the front door of your store; the main thing that customers will use to decide whether or not to continue and buy something or whether they will head off to another site. Landing pages run a fine line between enticing people and giving enough information to be trustworthy. Although many people think of landing pages’ main theme being that of enticement, their hidden (and far more important) goal is to establish a sense of trust between the customer and the business. Customers who trust a business are far more likely to do regular and consistent shopping there than…

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  Bloggers Passion

• Google Adsense Sizes: Which Google Adsense Formats Gives Maximum Earnings?

  Anil Agarwal

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:49 am

  There are lots of Google Adsense Sizes or formats available. Some of Google Adsense Sizes will work for you and some other Google Adsense formats will not give you the kind of earnings you were expecting from them. So our intension should be replacing non-performing Google Adsense Sizes with best performing Google Adsense Ad formats. From my own experience of 5 years with Google Adsense, I have noticed some Google Adsense ad sizes were working perfectly for me and while others were just disappointing me as I send in hundreds or even thousands of impressions to those Google Adsense Ad slots…

• 20 Things That Should be Shared on Social Networks

  Asher ross

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:32 am

  It is certainly exciting and a little thinking, is an inexhaustible source of information and top level for marketing and advertising experts to analyze the “other metrics”.Beyond the statistics and percentages behaviors become established with this generic trend, though increasingly familiar with the customization, is the analysis of how civilization is recovering creativity and innovation as a differentiating element of irrational animals .Social networks have made us visible and public. Today, you do not just put the name of a person in your browser to throw you the results…

• 10 Internet Tools That Will Help Students in Their Group Work

  Asher ross

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am

  Studying is not easy, never has been. It is often said that technology greatly facilitates the academic life at present, but that is not always true, sometimes even more complicated. Find the right resources so we can focus on achieving the goals is an art. There are so many options that Proment increase the productivity of students who often miss fewer hours with the appropriate tools, and our work as educators, parents and bloggers to help make it easier that way. In Wikisaber get used to publish each week one or two articles related to tools that students can use to improve their…

• One Crucial Tip That Will Improve Your Writing

  Joe Pawlikowski

  27 Jan 2012 | 11:24 am

  Look at the shelves of your local bookstore, or on Amazon.com, and you’ll see dozens of books on the art of writing. Each contains specific and powerful advice from a range of successful authors. Any aspiring writer would do well to read at least one of them. But at some point they become too much. There’s just too much information to digest for anyone to absorb it all. Even after mastering the basics, writers need to focus only on two things: reading and writing. The reading aspect sometimes gets neglected. Yes, we all read blogs on the internet, but that’s simply not…

• List of Top 8 Controversial and Influential Brands Across the Globe

  Suzi

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:55 am

  A Quick Preview of the Top Brands around the World The survey asked this question to 3,625 participants coming from 100 nations: “What are the top 8 controversial brands all throughout the globe? In connection with this, these brands had the greatest influence in the lives of people in the year 2006. Apple could not beat Google and stays in the second place. The 2006 acquisition of Google, YouTube got the third place behind Apple. Google and Apple: Landed the Top of the Survey Results Google as well as Apple got the top of the results, however, that does not necessarily mean it was…

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• Spaceline WordPress Theme

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:58 am

  Theme Name  : Spaceline wordpress themeDescription :Spaceline is a free WordPress theme with 2 columns, right sidebar, Stylish Background, space for ads, unlimited colors and much more.. Download Spaceline for free in Wordpresstoblogger.infoRead more »

• Unreal Wordpress Theme

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:47 am

  Theme Name  : Unreal Magazine wordpress themeDescription :Unreal is a free WordPress magazine theme with 2 columns, right sidebar, Stylish Background, space for ads, Auto Summary with Thumbnails feature and much more.. Download Unreal for free in Wordpresstoblogger.infoRead more »

• KreonMag Wordpress Theme

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:35 am

  Theme Name  : KreonMag wordpress themeDescription :KreonMag is a free WordPress theme with 2 columns, right sidebar, Stylish Background, space for ads, Subscribe to RSS widget , Auto Thumbnail summary feature and much more.. Download KreonMag for free in Wordpresstoblogger.infoRead more »

• Essayer Magazine Wordpress Theme

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:22 am

  Theme Name  : Essayer Magazine wordpress themeDescription :Essayer Magazine is a free WordPress theme with 3 columns, right sidebar, Stylish Background, space for ads, Auto Thumbnail summary feature and much more.. Download Essayer Magazine for free in Wordpresstoblogger.infoRead more »

• Small Magazine wordpress theme

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:06 am

  Theme Name  : Small Magazine wordpress themeDescription :Small Magazine is a free WordPress theme with 3 columns, right sidebar, Stylish Background, space for ads, Subscribe to RSS widget and much more.. Download Small Magazine for free in Wordpresstoblogger.infoRead more »

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• How To Earn Income Without Working For It

  23 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am

  If you are looking to earn money but are limited on time then you need to learn the basics of passive income.  Passive income is income that you don’t have to continually work at to earn.  There may be some maintenance but basically you do the job once and then collect income well into the future. Books, CDs and applications are great examples of passive income.  You write the book and then collect royalties on it forever.  Record a CD and collect royalties on it forever.  Develop an exciting game or business application and collect royalties on it forever.   Just like your blog or…

• Offer the Solution

  16 Jan 2012 | 9:08 am

  A few posts back I suggested that people buy solutions not features.  They have seen all the fancy options that you offer at a dozen other places.  It is all information overload.  In the end, what your potential customer needs is the answer to ‘Why’ they should choose you. It is easy to get stuck in a rut when you are looking at all the pieces that you have to offer.  Think of a car.  As an automobile manufacturer you could look all day at every individual piece and share with everyone how wonderfully strong or lasting that particular piece is.  But, it is just one piece.  Without…

• Make This Year Great by Doing These 3 Things

  2 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am

  Update your website A fresh new look may be all you need to be inspired again.  Commit to posting at least one blog post per month At least once a month.  Once a week is better.  Three times a week is best.  Help someone in need You don’t have to go far to find someone in need.  You may find by helping someone else that you benefit most.

• How To Get Out Of Debt

  30 Dec 2011 | 7:52 am

  Over the last several years many things have had an impact on my life.  Four things that I have been blessed with are my kids.  They bring me a great deal of joy and I love them dearly.  They give me 4 reasons every day to work hard and give 100% in all that I do.   Part of my duties as a parent is to pass on any lessons I’ve learned along the way to them.  If you are like me, you have struggled financially in your life.  There have been ups and downs.  Because of this and since money is such an integral part of life I set out on a mission to develop a system that not only I could…

• Sell the Solution Not the Features

  28 Dec 2011 | 1:30 am

  It is easy to get caught up listing everything your company or website has to offer.  We all try to “out-feature” the next guy.  My background is in web hosting and we are the best in the world at comparison charts with hosting features.  Geeks with lists to the nth detail. So, why aren’t people buying? Truth be told is, especially in the web hosting world, that most companies are so similar that you can change a logo and you would never tell the difference.  Everyone has the features.  Unless you have a niche (which I hope you aim to have), you are just another convenience store…

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  Mayura4Ever

• How to Embed a Tweet on Your Website

  26 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm

  How do you use Twitter to promote your content or interesting tweets? You can share your interesting stories online via Twitter. Further you can display all your tweets on your own website using Twitter widgets too. But there may be some occasions you may wanna embed a single tweet or @reply on your site or post, just to promote or help your readers to find it interesting. And also you might wanna build up stories with displaying relevant tweets. In such a situation, you may try copying and pasting tweet text on to your post. But rather than just showing off a tweet, would you like to embed a…

• How to Display Author Information in Google Search Results

  24 Jan 2012 | 3:13 pm

  Google has recently start customizing their search results and integrating social layer with Google+ to their search results to enhance search productivity and social connectivity. As a result of that, Google introduced an authorship markup for authors and it help users to discover useful content being published online by specific authors. This feature will greatly affect for authors and instead of content, it will helpful to promote and identify author of online published content. Impressed? If you are an author, would you like to display your information in Google search? You can easily…

• Add Pinterest Pin It Button for Your Blogger Posts

  21 Jan 2012 | 8:25 pm

  Have you ever heard about Pinterest? If you were alert in social media recently, you may already know about that. It is the new addition to social network list and becoming more popular on the social web. But if you are not a person in alert, I'd like to include briefing about Pinterest here. Pinterest is a place where you can share and manage online images found on the web. It allows you to create virtual pinboards to categorize images you found and uploaded. These images you uploaded or added to your pinboards will called as pins once after they added to your virtual pinboards and Pinterest…

• Import and Display Content from a External Feed in Blogger

  20 Jan 2012 | 9:30 am

  As a blogger, do you have any favorite websites or blogs in the same niche you are working on? You might have interested in different kind of sources which used to read and sometimes you may recommend some sort of useful sites to your readers too. So what if you can show recent posts from those sites on your blog? Also if you are managing multiple blogs, do you mind if you can show off recent content from another blog of yours that could have impress your readers and to gain more exposure to your content? Or do you like to list out most recent posts of your current blog? Or else what if I say…

• How to Post Tweets on a Facebook Fan Page

  19 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pm

  Do you manage Facebook fan pages and communicate with followers? But seems you addicted to Twitter? Hmmm... I hope you may love to tweet all day around. isn't it? Twitter is an effective media to grab more attention and to engage with your friends and followers, and yet it's simple and easy. When it comes to your brand, business, organization or even to your blog, you might wanna keep your followers up-to-date with the latest news happening around. So you may always prefer to update them with a tweet. But what about your Facebook fan page? Alright. Don't think about it. Let me ask you this.

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• Getting Started with Facebook Timeline

  LauraBackes

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:59 am

  Facebook is constantly changing ever since its initial launch in 2004 and it continues to go through facelifts. The newest update is probably the biggest and it is called Timeline. Your profile page layout completely changes, with one large picture at the top acting as a banner and the rest of your information (posts, pictures and statuses, etc.) reading like a cool website for yourself. You can go as far back as when you first logged on or to when you were born. Timeline acts almost as your life scrap book and is great for those who love to reminisce.Initially Facebook Timeline was only made…

• Google Releases “Currents” – A Flipboard Like App for iOS and Android

  Amandeep Singh

  8 Dec 2011 | 6:52 pm

  This is a cross-post from iTechApple, our blog dedicated to Apple related stuff.Yesterday, Flipboard was released for the iPhone. Flipboard which is a famous iPad social magazine app, comes with some iPhone exclusive features like “Cover Story” and Speed. These features will make their way to the iPad in near future. You can read more about the Flipboard App for the iPhone.Google released a brand new app called “Currents” in the US App store today. Like Flipboard, Google Currents is also a social app which offers a magazine-like interface for your favourite websites and Google…

• Reasons Behind Facebook Porn Attack Explained

  Amal Murali

  4 Dec 2011 | 12:38 pm

  You should know about the P0rn attack that spread through your Facebook newsfeed. P0rnographic images and videos were spreading through newsfeed. It appeared as your friend posted it, but the interesting part is that, your friend didn’t even know what happened when you ask him.There is no details on who was behind this attack. Anyway many people think the hacking activists group Anonymous did it. Now Facebook identifies that this spam attack was the result of a browser vulnerability. It was not done by Anonymous. The people behind this attack worked out a self XSS attack through a…

• Mark Twain’s 176th Birthday Celebrated with Panoramic ‘Tom Sawyer’ Google Doodle

  Amandeep Singh

  30 Nov 2011 | 6:46 am

  Today is Mark Twain’s 176th birthday and Google has given a great tribute in the form of a colourful panoramic Google Doodle. Mark Twain was a famous American author and humorist. Read more about Mark Twain here.The latest Doodle is a successful attempt at rendering the world of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, who famously cajoled friends to whitewash a fence for him. Today’s version sees the lads painting the wall with the letters G,o,o and l of the Google’s logo, then celebrating having completed the job.The Doodle is a panoramic logo featuring the boyhood Missouri pals…

• How to Add Your Blog to Windows LiveWriter

  Amandeep Singh

  29 Nov 2011 | 11:30 am

  If you are a serious blogger, you would already know about this great blog publishing tool called Windows Live Writer. It is a very easy to useful tool which makes your life easy as a blogger. Well, it makes mine at least! Check out more WLW features at the Windows Live Writer Official page.In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to add your existing or a brand new blog to WLW which would ease the publishing process for your. I love wordpress and I use it for all my blogs and in this post as well, I am going to show you the process to configure a wordpress blog. I am using the WLW…

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• 6 Ways to Show Appreciation to Your Community Manager on Community Manager Appreciation Day

  Deb Ng

  23 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am

  Did you know Community Manager Appreciation Day falls on the fourth Monday in January, and that we’re celebrating our third annual day of appreciation?  CMAD was founded in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang as a way to say “thanks” to the people who enrich our online experiences by making sure our favorite online communities are positive, productive places of discussion. I was thinking about Community Management Appreciation Day yesterday and wondering how to best thank my favorite CM’s. Most of us only know community managers as an online presence only, and might think…

• Top 5 Pros and Cons of Being a Web Based Worker

  Deb Ng

  20 Jan 2012 | 7:36 am

  I consider myself very fortunate in that I work from home for a company in California. As you can imagine, working remotely has many perks which I list here from time to time. However, over the past couple of weeks I developed the Web Worker Blues as I dealt with spotty Internet connections at home and sporadic hotel and conference WiFi as I traveled. As I waited for the cable repairman to come by and fix my connection yesterday, I listed some pros and cons of being a web based worker. 1. Connectivity Pro: You can work anywhere Being web based means I can work from home or the local coffee…

• 5 Ways to Use Pinterest as a Community Building Tool

  Deb Ng

  10 Jan 2012 | 9:45 am

  Everyone is talking about Pinterest, the social “pinning” site used to share, well, anything.  It’s a little early to say, but judging by the buzz (and the amount of people posting about Pinterest on their blogs), it has a good chance of becoming the top social site for 2012 and perhaps the next big thing. Pinterest is different from your Facebook, Twitter or Google plus because it’s not about posting a sentence or paragraph in hopes of starting a conversation. Instead, folks post images of things that interest them and that’s what gets the conversation started.

• Three Words for 2012: Focus, Heath, Celebrate

  Deb Ng

  2 Jan 2012 | 6:24 am

  Every year Chris Brogan posts his three words to live by for the upcoming new year, and every year for the past three or four years I, and many others, have followed his lead. (And for the second year, the BlogWorld team is doing the same, so stay tuned for that.) I don’t take my three words lightly. I find they give me a plan and I need to hold myself accountable for stuff. Last year, my three words were “passion,” “focus,” and “delegate” and though I think I still need a little help with word #3, I’ve done pretty good staying true to those…

• Self Serving Reflections: Looking Back at 2011 and Onward to 2012

  Deb Ng

  29 Dec 2011 | 7:32 am

  It’s hard to reflect on 2011 without seeming self serving. The truth is, I’m almost sad to see this year end. It’s been an amazing ride, and I achieved goals I worked for my entire career. So while I’d like to give a fond look back, and discuss what’s coming up,  I’ll also do my best to keep the self serving part in check. The Year That Was 2011 2011 was my first full year with BlogWorld & New Media Expo. In addition to being part of an incredible team of people, I also played a major role in shaping the educational content for two conferences. I…

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• Save Money with Coupons

  Guest Author

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:14 am

  Sometimes the old fashioned ways of saving money are best.  In days past, we used to get a newspaper subscription that would be filled with money saving coupons.  Clipping coupons for some may have even been a regular Sunday routine.  These days newspapers no longer have as many coupons and many have forgone the ritual of clipping coupons regularly.  However, coupons still remain as a good way to save money.  It’s just be transformed b technology and the internet into a different medium. I recall back in college, I had a friend that would find tons of thrown away coupons in the Sunday…

• 5 Ways the Internet Can Help You Make Money

  Richard

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am

  Remember the days before the internet, where your options of making money were down to getting a job or opening a brick and mortar business.  These days your options are not so limited.  There are now countless opportunities for the internet to help you make money. The flow of information is virtually unlimited.  You can connect with thousands of people on a more personal level.  You’re not limited by geography.  And the overhead costs of it all are minimal.  The opportunities are endless for the enterprising. With the help of the internet, you can make money…

• Best Practices for SEO Website Redesign

  Guest Author

  24 Jan 2012 | 11:29 pm

  It’s always important to keep a mind on search engine optimization when considering a seo website redesign.  It’s fairly common to update the look and feel of your website on occasion.  Often this involves also optimizing the website for the search engines at the same time. Here are a few bits of advice that you can pick up from any internet marketing services or white label cms company when trying to optimize your website for the search engines. Speed Up Your Website One of the key factors that Google evaluates is the loading speed of your website.  The page speed of your…

• What to Look for in an Online Advertising Agency

  Guest Author

  24 Jan 2012 | 5:46 pm

  One way to give your company a boost in reputation and growth is by getting some professional advertising help.  A good advertising agency can manage your online and offline media to help your new business grow. As in all things, some advertising agencies are better than others.  Choosing the right advertising agency is a personal choice.  What’s right for you may not be right for others.  However, there are still a few factors that you might look into that will make an advertising agency stand out. Search Engine Optimization Take a look at their services and see if they offer search…

• 3 Reasons Why Your Blog Needs A Custom Logo Design

  miketubers

  24 Jan 2012 | 8:09 am

  Do you need a logo for your blog? If a 2-year approached and asked you this simple question, what would your response be? Before you answer Yes or No, you’ve to understand the intricacies surrounding it. I’ve been in the logo design business since 2009 and the demand for logos from corporate organizations and small business owners is huge. What is a Logo For? It’s for identity. It shows the real essence of doing business online. When you want to solve problems in your niche, you’ve to plan your strategies efficiently. It doesn’t matter if this people are desperate for solutions,…

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  How to make a blog and a blog income

• How To Make A Blog Part Four: Monetizing with Digital Products

  Andrew Rondeau

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:02 pm

  How to make a blog and a blog income | How to make a blog : The crucial blogging guide to build a blog income via bloggingThe next step in the ‘how to make a blog” series is monetization with Digital Products. Many blog owners, by now, would be making the mistake of building their site and publishing blog posts…all without any plan or idea of how they are going to monetize their site! The successful blogger doesn’t do that. The...Join 6000+ others and get the FREE Blogging Guide "How to make a successful blog and build a blog income"Post from: How to make a blogHow To Make A Blog…

• How To Make A Blog Part Three: Monetizing with Affiliate Products

  Andrew Rondeau

  23 Jan 2012 | 6:38 pm

  How to make a blog and a blog income | How to make a blog : The critical blogging guide to create a blog income via bloggingThe next step in the ‘how to make a blog” series is monetization via Affiliate Marketing. The reason you should check affiliate products and services to sell in your chosen niche BEFORE you start to build your blog is to ensure there are such products and services available. If there are not, it could mean...Join 6000+ others and get the FREE Blogging Guide "How to build a successful blog and build a blog income"Post from: How to make a blogHow To Make A Blog…

• How To Make A Blog Part Two: Finding The Best Keywords For Your Chosen Niche

  Andrew Rondeau

  19 Jan 2012 | 4:16 pm

  How to make a blog and a blog income | How to make a blog : The crucial blogging guide to build a blog income via bloggingIn the last post in the ‘how to make a blog‘ series we covered the subject of finding your niche. That is a crucial step and so is this one…keyword research. The vast majority of people who go onto the internet, go for one reason. To find information. They perform a Google or MSN or...Join 6000+ others and get the FREE Blogging Guide "How to create a successful blog and create a blog income"Post from: How to make a blogHow To Make A Blog Part Two:…

• No Hype Here: How I Achieved an Hourly Rate of 900 Dollars By Working From Home

  Andrew Rondeau

  16 Jan 2012 | 1:35 pm

  How to make a blog and a blog income | How to make a blog : The ultimate blogging guide to create a blog income via bloggingThe following is a guest post by Patrick Meninga of Make Money With No Work. He recently sold his website for $200,000 dollars. It is easy to become cynical when considering most work from home jobs. Nearly all of them promise a huge return on your time investment which is almost always a gross exaggeration...Join 6000+ others and get the FREE Blogging Guide "How to build a successful blog and build a blog income"Post from: How to make a blogNo Hype Here: How I…

• How To Make A Blog Part One: Getting Your Niche Right Is Crucial

  Andrew Rondeau

  12 Jan 2012 | 2:42 pm

  How to make a blog and a blog income | How to make a blog : The ultimate blogging guide to create a blog income via bloggingWhat is a niche? The definition of a niche is “A special area of demand for a product or service”. For instance, if you were to search for “time management” on Google, you would receive over 137 million results. Albeit, “time management” is a niche, it is rather large and generic. If you performed a...Join 6000+ others and get the FREE Blogging Guide "How to build a successful blog and make a blog income"Post from: How to make a blogHow To Make A Blog…

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  Writing Happiness

• Are You Addicted to Information?

  marya

  22 Jan 2012 | 7:59 pm

  I subscribe to about 85 or so blog feeds. I keep an eye on trends, social media and generally whats happening with the top websites in my field. I read for at least one hour before I go to bed. All under the guise of research. But to be honest its not, this it is to satisfy my need: to know what’s happening in my industry to keep in touch with people to establish myself as an authority for business purposes It is not the case of information overload, this is information over-consumption. It is all for selfish purposes. I am addicted to information. I get high on it and I thrive. I…

• 5 Reasons to Unsubscribe from Writing Happiness (Please don’t!)

  marya

  10 Jan 2012 | 11:55 pm

  Gary Bencivenga, the legendary copywriter, offers some excellent advice: when people first sign up to your blog, send them a welcome message telling them about what you stand for. In your copy, especially your Welcome Letter, never be afraid to say with clarity and boldness precisely what you believe and specialize in. Stand for something and you will never stand alone. What a powerful message. Take a moment to grasp it fully. Done? I have taken his advice to heart. Today I am going to talk about bit about my core values – beliefs that are central to Writing Happiness. If we are not on…

• Why these 34 Bloggers Inspired Me in 2011

  marya

  29 Dec 2011 | 8:49 pm

  2011 is almost gone, and it is time to make a list of bloggers that I couldn’t be without. I have been following some of you since I started blogging, some of you I had the good fortune of finding recently. Few are mentors, many are friends, quite a few are friends in the making. YAY. (You know who you are!). You have inspired me, you have taught me much more than I cared to know about; you have shown me how to blog with my heart but not leave my smarts behind. Blogging Blogs All of us are bloggers here, so can anyone resist a good blogging blog? I know I can’t. Unless I get…

• 4 Mental Blocks that Keep You from Writing & their Fixes

  marya

  12 Dec 2011 | 5:56 pm

  Forgive me, as I have been behind on my blogging schedule. And I am not just saying that either – I do feel bad about this. I will tell you though (even if you don’t particularly wanna know) what has been keeping me busy these last two weeks. I have been sick. I have been organizing my son’s 8th birthday party. That includes shopping, the venue, the invites, the guest list, the food etc. Seemed more like the 18th to be honest. My kids have been sick. I was putting the finishing touches on my shiny new ebook. I have been writing guest posts. I have been trying my best to…

• Writing Happiness Giveaway: Win a Free Blog Critique in 2 Easy Steps

  marya

  21 Nov 2011 | 11:36 pm

  It’s time to say thank you to my loyal readers who have been following me for a while, I couldn’t be here without your support and kindness. It’s also time to welcome my new subscribers. That includes you, looking at my blog for the first time today. This is a Writing Happiness giveaway: a chance for TWO lucky people to win a highly personalized, free critique for their blogs. The prize - Free Full Length Blog Critiques for TWO What each will contain. An Analysis of the First impressions  Did you know that every first time visitor makes a…

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• Nokia India Launches Online Shopping Store with IndiaTimes

  Vijay

  5 Jan 2012 | 10:37 am

  The Nokia India is finally started online shopping store with Indiatimes to make easier to buy your lovable mobilephones. Though, the prices of the mobile phones are same as the Nokia’s best buy prices. When comparing to other online stores this is bit sneaky,  since other Indian online stores offering with some cheap prices. If you need to get comfortable and believable, then visit here nokia.indiatimes.com to get your mobile phones. Nokia India stats that, Your next new Nokia is now just a click away. Presenting our e-shop portal http://bit.ly/wt0Cxu. Get the best of deals on…

• WordPress for Android 2.0 Update

  Vijay

  21 Dec 2011 | 9:23 am

  WordPress for Android updated to version 2.0 which helps to re-imagine the blogging. The major update includes the tap access dashboard, better editor and the main thing it is ready for tablet. The new UI action-bar and dashboard looks cool and the post editor with toolbar access in the android mobile phone is great star and this makes android less navigation. The WordPress Android 2.0 update includes, Use the Dashboard and Quick Action Bar to get one-tap access to everything you want to do with your blog. All new post editor including a rich text formatting bar and enhanced media features.

• TweetDeck a Glance of a Native App For Windows And Mac

  Vijay

  17 Dec 2011 | 9:54 am

  The desktop clients for Twitter has mostly worked out with the Adobe Air because of it reduces the memory hog issues. Along with that most popular Twitter Desktop App is TweetDeck and this is now available as a native app for Windows and Mac. This update released along with the new twitter interface which is rolled out for twitter web, iPhone, and Android users. Though the new interface for twitter web is not yet rolled out for all users. It is randomly activating now and soon it will be available to all. TweetDeck has some cool update with good UI and it designed to receive all updates in…

• Google Majel A Competitor of Apple Siri

  Vijay

  15 Dec 2011 | 11:31 am

  The Apple iPhone App named Siri the most popular own voice control responsive app is now popular and highly recommended by the users which is flowing all over the world now. To beat that Google Android started working on the Codenamed “Majel” as the iOS Siri competitor. The news about Majel started flowing out and the android users may be happy now. The Majel is named after the voice of the computer in Star Trek, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, which is going to help for Google through the already embedded android voice control system. The Director of Android OS User Experience…

• Easy Way To Check Your Airtel Broadband Data Usage Online

  Vijay

  13 Dec 2011 | 9:16 am

  If you are an Airtel Broadband customer and looking for check your broadband data usage online, then this article helps you. You can check your Airtel Broadband usage online with quick and ease way in online. I hope you remember the word SmartBytes, it is a recently launched service which gives you same speed after crossing your FUP limit with some extra charges. To check your Airtel internet data usage online goto http://www.airtel.in/smartbyte-s/page.html from your airtel broadband connection. The site page will show you the internet broadband usage of your current month details without…

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  A-List Blog Marketing

• 5 Can’t Miss Ideas for Creating Great Content

  Stephanie Wetzel

  25 Jan 2012 | 10:14 am

  By Stephanie Wetzel Reach New Heights of Reader Engagement At the end of the day, our role as bloggers is to create great, compelling content for our readers. It’s the reason we are here, the reason people sign up for our list, and the unspoken expectation that has been set in our reader’s mind. But what constitutes “great” anyway? How does one define this undefinable term? Here are 5 must-read articles on the intricacies of content marketing that can help take your “great” content to new (and higher) levels of return. # 5 :: Never forget to study what the “big” brands are…

• Beyond the Guest Post: 7 Subscriber-Building Alternatives

  Barrie Davenport

  23 Jan 2012 | 2:31 pm

  Build Subscribers with 7 New Ideas By Barrie Davenport Do you ever find yourself exhausted with guest posting to build traffic on your blog? It’s hard enough to keep cranking out useful content for your own blog, but then you have to come up with more unique ideas and articles to pitch to other blogs. I often have trouble letting go of a good guest post I’ve written. I want to share it with my own readers rather than giving it away! And even when I do offer up a post to another blogger, there’s no guarantee that it will get accepted. (Although I do try to pitch a concept to…

• Technical Breakdown: Launching the Empowerment Pack

  Stephanie Wetzel

  18 Jan 2012 | 10:42 am

  The Technical Side of Launching Your Product By Stephanie Wetzel One of the hardest things we can face during a new launch doesn’t come from the product, but everything it takes to bring that product to the market. Barrie filled you in on how we brought together 25 top bloggers to create The Empowerment Pack. And how she worked diligently to recruit additional affiliates to help us spread the word about its release. The first priority for me was organizing this package of over 30 courses, eBooks, guides and videos from some of the top personal development and self-improvement bloggers on…

• Anatomy of a Launch: The Empowerment Pack

  Barrie Davenport

  16 Jan 2012 | 7:23 am

  Anatomy of a Product Launch Today Stephanie and I are launching a big product related to our personal development blogs. The product is called The Empowerment Pack.  It’s a package of over 30 courses, eBooks, guides and videos from some of the top personal development and self-improvement bloggers on the Internet. The cool thing about this product is that it costs less than 1/10 the cumulative cost of all of the products if they were purchased individually. All of these products together are worth over $1000. We are selling them for $97.  That’s quite a deal for anyone who loves…

• How to Improve Your Alexa Rank in 10 Easy Steps

  Barrie Davenport

  12 Jan 2012 | 9:54 am

  Improve Your Alexa Rank By Barrie Davenport Do you know or care about your Alexa Rank? As a blogger looking to market and monetize your blog, it’s something you need to pay attention to. It’s not complicated, and there are a few easy things you can do to improve your rank. Alexa.com is a service from Amazon that collects information about websites and ranks them based on traffic. Alexa accumulates data from all over the Internet via their Alexa toolbar which is installed in millions of computers in the world. They use various metrics to rank these websites based on the behavior of…

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• Take A Quantum Leap in 2012

  Paul

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:18 pm

  How would you like to Take a Quantum Leap in 2012? Sounds good, huh? Well, I want to let you know about a Fantastic Expert Series that is starting on Thursday, January 26th! It is appropriately titled, Take a Quantum Leap in 2012 and is organized by my good friend, Yvonne A. Jones. We met down in Orlando last year and I think she is amazing. One of the great things that she has put together is this FREE tele-summit. She has 10 Experts (including me!) to help you make this your best year yet! I personally know many of the other experts and I have to say, they are fantastic folks and super…

• Blogger vs. Your Own Site

  Paul

  23 Jan 2012 | 8:58 am

  by Search Engine People Blog under CC BY I was chatting with someone on Facebook over the weekend talking about the benefits of having your own self-hosted blog vs. using something like Blogger or even WordPress.com. And while I have discussed this before, I think it is important to bring up the topic once again. Blogger is one of a bunch of sites that allow you to start instantly blogging. Be warned, however, that it is not the most ideal way to go for most blogging purposes. While there are benefits to using blogger when you are just starting out, using one of these sites can quickly…

• Free Graphic Resource

  Paul

  21 Jan 2012 | 9:04 am

  I received an email about a graphic design offer from a new site called, ZeroBundle. The site offers time-sensitive downloads of design resources, and includes PSDs, vectors, brushes, icons, textures, UI elements and more. The time-restricted offer brings a touch of exclusivity to the bundle, making it even harder to resist. Once you see what’s included though, it’s pretty obvious how useful a lot of the resources are. Every item in the pack looks like it would cost a pretty penny elsewhere, but for now, it’s free. The warning for you here is that you need to opt-in to their list so…

• DreamHost Was Hacked!

  Paul

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:10 pm

  Earlier this morning, the webhosting company, DreamHost, issued a very serious warning to all of their customers that have hosting with them: “Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don’t have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we’re forcing a change out of caution. Please login to our web panel and change any passwords you may have with us. We’ll keep this post updated as we get more information.” As a result of this all FTP passwords need to be reset. This has become a mandatory action to be performed.

• A Big Blogger Mistake: Make Sure You Have This

  Paul

  16 Jan 2012 | 10:03 am

  One of the biggest mistakes that I see that Bloggers make is hurting their online credibility. Correcting this issue is easy enough and can be done quickly. Why do people make this mistake? I think it is just becuase they are not aware that it is a problem! You might be asking yourself, “What is he talking about?” Ever blogger needs to have an Avatar! An avatar is an image that gets placed whenever you leave a comment on someone else’s website and is also visible when you reply back to a comment left on your website. Simply put, it is your picture that gets plastered all…

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  Vast9

• Turn Your Part Time Internet Business Full Time – Easily!

  James Martell

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:43 am

  This is a Guest Post by James Martell.So many people have been dabbling in an Internet business, whether it is blogging, sales of some sort, or service oriented. Some have started it out as a side job for some extra money, or just weren’t ready to cut the ties of their brick and mortar position quite yet.The good news is that if you are serious about making your business full time, there are some steps you can take to help boost yourself into a decent 5 figure income. The key is that you need to be sure you are ready to do this, and dedicate the necessary time in getting the necessary work…

• How to Make Money Blogging [Complete Newbie's Guide]

  Garish wasil

  15 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am

  How to Make Money Blogging ?Now this is a widespread question among all the newbies out there and I get dozens of emails every day from people asking me how I make money blogging and how can they too.Well, Making Money Blogging is not a difficult thing. Yes, that’s right and there’s a lot (thousands) of people who are earning a full time income through BloggingI post a lot of tips and strategies here at Vast9 to help you with blogging but I was missing a complete guide that can help out anyone, new to blogging, to know how a blog can help them make money and how they can too start…

• What You Should Think About Before You Start Blogging ?

  elisebrown

  31 Dec 2011 | 12:27 pm

  This is a Guest Post by Elise Brown.When you decide to start a blog, it is important you realize that, like with most other things in life, you will have to crawl before you can run. There are a lot of things to consider before you make your first post. First and foremost, you should know that not all blogs act as online diaries, or places to tell your life story. Most blogs now are more like magazines, and their followers are people who want to read about the topic of the blog because they find it interesting.Why do you want to blog?Before anything else, you should know exactly why you want…

• Top 5 Killer Tips to get Indexed on First Page of Search Engines

  Surajkv007

  15 Dec 2011 | 9:29 am

  This is a Guest Post by Suraj.What’s the purpose of writing high quality article, when you don’t get any traffic to it? So, I started doing research for my coupon site on how to get indexed on first page of search engines where I offer Oakley Signs coupon code and havahart wireless fence coupon. Here in this post I will briefly tell you some of the fire points that I feel you can really make your post indexed on first page of any search engine for that matter.This Goes as Follows :Great and Unique ContentQuality backlinksSEO – EnhancementsKeyword researchTimeLet get started by…

• 7 Things You Need to Keep in Mind before Creating Product Sales Page

  Mandy Colley

  9 Dec 2011 | 7:10 am

  This is a Guest Post by Mandy Colley.You already have your product and now you want to sell it to your audience. The next step is to create a sales page for your product. Wait a minute. Before creating your product sales page, here are 7 things that you need to keep in mind in order to create a winning sales page:1. Set the right price for your productBe sure to know your product value. The first rule before creating a sales page for your product is to set the right price for it. Price is one of the determining factors that will make your product a winner or not. Think about it. If you have…

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  Blog Godown

• Active and Passive Side of Blogging

  Gautam

  5 Jan 2012 | 12:27 pm

  “Laid Back” – A phrase that seems like a nightmare to a blogger, is a truth that no one can prevent. As human beings, we have the tendency to slack. this does not imply that we are not capable of being excellent. It just shows that we have elements of both, each trying to win over the other (more or less like good and evil). I call these two sides as the “Active” and the “Passive”.The two faces of bloggingThe “Active” and the “Passive” has a lot of impact on the daily lives of bloggers. An “Active” blogger takes…

• 10 Things You Shouldn’t Do With Your New Blog

  kmoor

  2 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am

  This is a guest article by Kevin Moor. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelinesBlogging is a very popular activity; many folks that you know have a blog, and many of those folks will have more than one blog. Blogs are a great way to express yourself or share your knowledge and expertise, so it makes sense that you would want one too.As you get started, you probably have done a little bit of research on blogging. It is important to know what to do with your blog, but it is equally vital to know what you shouldn’t do. The…

• The Top 5 Facebook Apps to promote your blog

  linda

  28 Dec 2011 | 5:42 am

  This is a guest article by Linda. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelinesBlogging is the recent popular activity that all of us do regularly or in our free time. We share our thoughts and interests on a blog or give a comment on others blog or even become a blogger’s fan!Many people have taken up blogging for their livelihood. The concept of guest blogging allows people to post articles in somebody else’s blog as a guest blogger giving each of the parties an advantageof content, branding, traffic and good…

• Time Management Tips for Bloggers

  Jasmine

  27 Dec 2011 | 7:28 am

  This is a guest article by Jasmine of Best Web Host. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelinesBlogging is certainly not as easy as many people think it is. Blogging is actually a business and involves a lot more than just writing good content. Getting a nice design, moderating comments and promoting blogs are only just a bit of the whole blogging business. Running blogs as a professional does take up a lot of time especially if the blogger works a full-time job and can only attend to his/her blog at night or on the…

• Facebook-Nervosa: Are You Suffering this Illness?

  sachin

  26 Dec 2011 | 7:28 am

  A guest article by Sachin. You too can be part of this great knowledge sharing community. Take a look at our guest blogging guidelines.Social media has become increasingly important for all of us. It can greatly affect our career. Have some silly photos of you and your friends acting stupid when you were drunk at Christmas, and the next thing you know, you are not getting that promotion, and you start getting the feeling that you are not really wanted in the office anymore, and you don’t know why. Some people are getting obsessed with social media, Facebook and Twitter marketing. They…

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  Technogati

• What we can learn from Gowalla’s failure to click as a location based social network?

  editor@technogati.com (Surender Sharma)

  15 Jan 2012 | 5:28 am

  A location based social network is all about the check-ins and it looks like Gowalla failed to comprehend this essential fact. The result is that that this geo-social app is shutting down and while its founders and team will be joining Facebook, there is no doubt that the app failed and failed big time. On the other hand, its rival Foursquare went ahead of Gowalla a very little time ago. It was so far ahead in its check-ins as compared to Gowalla, that there basically was very little rivalry to speak of. So, what went wrong with the geo-social app and that too, so quickly; after all it was…

• How to Choose a Good Domain Name

  editor@technogati.com (Surender Sharma)

  2 Jan 2012 | 5:27 am

  Choosing a good domain name is very important especially for businesses as it is basically your calling card in the digital world. Sometimes, it will also make or break your business. Not only should the chosen domain name be recognizable but that name should also coincide with your business, the brand that you are carrying and the image that you want to portray. Here are some useful tips to choose a good domain name: Short domain name When you are choosing a domain name for your company, one thing that you need to remember is that it should be short, easy to spell and easy to remember. At…

• Tabs of iPhone Greetingz application

  editor@technogati.com (Surender Sharma)

  21 Dec 2011 | 8:10 am

  IPhone Greetingz application is regarded as an application that helps you to send out cards in the most effective manner. One can find e-cards for almost every occasion that you can ever think of in iPhone e-card applications. This thing surely allows you to get a number of personalization options so that you can edit or customize your e-cards accordingly. One can find four different tabs in iPhone Greetings application, and each and every tab has different information to give out, these tabs include: Home Tab. Greetingz Tab (Settings). Help Tab. Info Tab Home Tab: This is the tab which gives…

• Ten Ways on How to Build your Email List

  editor@technogati.com (Surender Sharma)

  9 Dec 2011 | 2:04 am

  Email lists are important especially for Internet marketers. Through email lists, Internet marketers can entice and motivate people to buy their products, services or even their ideas. The importance of having a targeted email list has been reiterated over and over again. However, many Internet marketers are still clueless when it comes to the right way of marketing their email newsletters. The following are several ways on how you can increase the number of people signing up with your website’s email newsletter. Promote your newsletter aggressively Aggressive promotion is just appropriate…

• How to do Channel and movie Search Optimization on Youtube?

  editor@technogati.com (Surender Sharma)

  10 Nov 2011 | 7:07 am

            Quite often I recive questions about channel optimization for the search results in area of Youtube’s browser. What can I do to put my movies up in Youtube’s organic results? How to promote my channel? This topic is important because: Youtube is the second biggest browser in the world after Google rate of growth of queries on Youtube is very high, higher than in regional versions of Google Polish pepole are very active in serching data on Youtube, in some categories the amount of searches in Poland on Youtube is even 40% of queries related…

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• Podcasting 101: How to Create a Successful Podcast in 5 Easy Steps

  Keith Bloemendaal

  26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  How To Podcast – Podcasting For Beginners I’m sure you remember the times when you weren’t “that into Facebook,” or you didn’t “see the appeal of Twitter.” For many individuals and companies it takes a few hundred thousand people to convince them that they should jump on the bandwagon and figure out an emerging trend. [...]

• Cook Up a Delicious Guest Post With These 5 Essential Ingredients

  Keith Bloemendaal

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:25 am

  Five Simple Yet Effective Guest Blogging Tips Guest posting is an excellent way to contribute to other blogs in your niche and get your name out there. But it won’t make any impact unless you ensure you’ve included these five essential ingredients. 1. Know Your Audience Who are you catering for? If you don’t know [...]

• How To Use Social Media Monitoring To Grow Your Blog

  Keith Bloemendaal

  20 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Social Media Analytics and Engagement For Bloggers Recently, I wrote an article about how bloggers can use personal branding to make more money blogging. The crux of the article was that bloggers are great writers but we aren’t often very good businesspeople. I think the same is true for public relations. Bloggers focus so much [...]

• Your YouTube Subscriber Count May Drop

  Keith Bloemendaal

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  YouTube Cleans House That’s right you may notice that your Youtube Subscribers count has suddenly dropped. If it has dropped yet, it may do so in the very near future. Now before you start crying foul let’s look at the reasoning. Youtube recently announced (Upcoming improvements to accuracy of subscriber counts) that they were working [...]

• Relationship Marketing Is Vital When Building A List

  Keith Bloemendaal

  17 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am

  Building A List Starts With Subscriber Relationships If someone where to offer me two choices for a list: 1) a list with 5000 credits or 2) a list with 500 trusted subscribers, I would choose the second one. Why? If I were to recommend something, I would get better results with the 500 trusted subscribers. [...]

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• Building The Brand: LinkedIn

  Mandy

  6 Jan 2012 | 6:26 am

  With tons of apps to be added to your profile, searchable skill sets, a resume-like setup, and the option for people to recommend you with testimonials, LinkedIn is a job searcher and networker's best friend. This is where professionals find each other.

• My Favorite Ads of 2011

  Mandy

  30 Dec 2011 | 2:12 pm

  After deciding on my favorite ad of the year, I started thinking about some of the others I've enjoyed over the past 12 months. BAM! There was my post idea. Here are my favorite ads of 2011 as well as a few thoughts on each.

• Doors Open with Blue Keys

  Mandy

  6 Dec 2011 | 8:05 pm

  USA for UNHCR launched the Blue Key campaign as a way to raise awareness and funds in the U.S. for the plight of refugees worldwide. I'm doing a little bit in Scranton to help.

• Building My Brand: Twitter

  Mandy

  9 Oct 2011 | 2:57 pm

  I have two Twitter accounts. @mandyboyle is my personal/professional account. @Cactus_Mandy is my Solid Cactus Twitter account. On @mandyboyle, I’ll post personal updates, conversational tweets, photos, blog post links, and references to material that I find interesting. Subject covered can rage from recipes and comics to public relations and marketing. It’s a lot like my [...]

• Building My Brand: Facebook

  Mandy

  27 Sep 2011 | 9:30 pm

  I have your basic Facebook personal profile, like most people. On here, you’ll find my interests, favorite quotes, connections, links to my website, a short bio…basically the essentials for a social media page. Facebook wasn’t my first social network. Before I went to college, I had a Myspace page and a LiveJournal account. At the [...]

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  Michelle Shaeffer

• Why I’ll Never “Graduate” Unless I Want to Kill My Business

  Michelle Shaeffer

  27 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am

  This weekend I’m in “school.”  Yeah, I graduated more than a few years ago and got a diploma that’s buried somewhere in my garage.  But I’m in school to keep my business alive and growing. There’s no single secret to success, but constantly learning more is one of the keys. Identify what’s stopping you from moving forward faster and then learn whatever you need to learn to fix it. A year ago my business model was a mess and I was frustrated.  I attended Nancy Marmolejo’s I Heart My Biz conference.  Perfect fit. Got me inspired again and…

• Got a Logo? Or a Brand? Or… Wait… What’s the Difference?

  Michelle Shaeffer

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:28 am

  One question that can trip up a lot of new business owners is trying to figure out just what the difference is between their “brand” and their “logo” and how those two things work together. As you might notice… I’m technically logo-less.  It’s on my list for this year to take the time to properly brand myself and get a snazzy logo for this blog.  Which is one reason I connected with Dennis via Twitter quite a while back.  I’ve been doing my homework and studying up so I can clearly define what I want (always important to know what you want).

• 10 Opportunities to Take a Quantum Leap in Your Business

  Michelle Shaeffer

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:07 am

  Ready to kick off 2012 with a BIG leap in your business? Check out the new training series Yvonne Jones is hosting at http://takeaquantumleapin2012.com/ It starts today! Here’s the schedule, with 10 great opportunities to listen in and learn ways to leap forward in your business: Martha Giffen: Blogging Your Way To Online Success and Beyond – January 26 Paul Taubman: Wordpress and You – February 2 Connie Ragen Green: – Increase Your Success Online Through Article Marketing -February 16 Helen Raptoplous: Taking Consistent Action in 2012 – 10 Ideas to Move You…

• Have You Seen “The Rise to the Top” Yet?

  Michelle Shaeffer

  24 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pm

  It’s my new favorite Roku channel.  You can watch it online.  Or catch it on iTunes (video or audio).  But watch it.  You’ll love it. Their tag line is “The #1 Non-Boring Business Show” and they live up to it. It’s insightful, inspiring, and fun to watch. Some interviewers have the talent of asking the right questions–the ones that get right to the heart of things and bring out the passion and brilliance in the person they’re interviewing.  David is one of those people. You’ll want to have paper and pen handy to take notes as you watch…

• 5 Super Ninja Plugins for Cool WordPress Tricks

  Michelle Shaeffer

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:28 pm

  Ready for some super cool “ninja” tricks for your WordPress blog? Try these plugins… Widget Logic Want different widgets (those things in your sidebar) to show up on different pages or areas of your site? Use Widget Logic to tell your blog which widget should show up where. Get it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/ TentBlogger’s Add RSS Footer Add your own copyright notice, free bonus, or whatever you want to your blog’s RSS feed. You can see it in action on my RSS feed.  I use it to add a copyright notice to my content here.  And on…

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  Goins, Writer

• How to Stay Focused Writing

  Jeff Goins

  28 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am

  In case you haven’t noticed, I write about all the stuff I suck at. And here’s my worst struggle yet: staying focused. But this discipline is a non-negotiable for a writer. It’s essential for anyone who is serious about doing great work. I don’t care if you have to trick yourself into it. If you’re going to do stuff that matters, you will need to find a way to stop chasing shiny objects, sit down, and get something done. That’s all there is to it. Half-finished paintings don’t make it into museums. Half-drawn blueprints don’t make for well-built…

• Quit Screwing Around — It’s Time to Write for Real

  Jeff Goins

  27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am

  There’s a difference between practice and performing. Between a dress rehearsal and opening night. Between a hobby and a profession. And there’s a huge difference between writing when you feel like it and writing because it’s your job. For years, I practiced. I wrote when I felt inspired, but never shared anything. I was afraid to call myself a writer and would often sabotage my work. All the while, I was avoiding one painful truth: I was kidding myself. I wasn’t really writing. I was just practicing. Photo credit: woodleywonderworks (Creative Commons) The…

• Get Over It

  Jeff Goins

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:20 am

  Photo credit: Photos.com In life, there are always excuses: “The dog ate my homework…” “I was dropped when I was a baby…” “I don’t have enough time…” “The boss won’t let me…” “Nobody understands…” “I’m scared…” “It costs too much…” “How will I pay the bills?” “That’s just a good idea…” “I could never…” All of the above are fine reasons to not act. That is, unless you’re talking about your…

• The Most Obvious (but Overlooked) Secret to Getting Published in a Magazine

  Jeff Goins

  24 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  Photo credit: Henry Bush (Creative Commons) Before you write your first book, you should publish at least a dozen magazine articles. Maybe more. Until you cut your teeth on a few shorter pieces, you’re probably not ready for the challenge of writing an entire book. So how do you get started? Well, believe it or not, the hardest part of getting published in a magazine isn’t the writing. The hardest part is getting noticed. The problem A lot of freelance writers make a big mistake. They come up with a writing topic that would make for a good article for a magazine or website. And…

• Are You Satisfied? (That May Not Be Enough)

  Jeff Goins

  23 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am

  Jason Fried Jason Fried of the software company 37 Signals once posted a tweet, saying how sad it is when business surveys set “satisfied” as their highest metric for success on a customer survey. What a  “low bar,” he lamented. I’m inclined to agree. But not just for business. For life and everything we do. What an indictment this is. Against our malaise, our work, and our lives. How often do we give up when we should persevere? How often to we opt out and say “no” when life gets a little tough? How often do we settle for mere satisfaction when…

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• Behind the Brand

  Jim Armstrong

  25 Jan 2012 | 11:24 pm

  Many of you are avid Mashable enthusiasts. I mean who isn’t. Mashable is the gravy if you’re into social media and new media. In the last few months I have noticed an incredibly informative and well produced video series populate Mashable, called Behind the Brand. In these videos, host Bryan Elliott examines brands, innovators, authors and small businesses by engaging them in conversation about their passions, their challenges and how it is these personalities have achieved such a high level of success. Three of the most compelling video interviews I have recently watched from Behind the…

• Understanding Google Search Engine Penalties

  Amanda DiSilvestro

  25 Jan 2012 | 1:30 pm

  Just when you thought you had a great idea, there is always something that brings you back down to reality. I like to think of these hiccups as a challenge as opposed to a disappointment, but nonetheless they almost always pop up when you least expect it. In the marketing world, these surprises come in the form of search engine penalties. It never goes well when a company gets in trouble for something they didn’t realize was wrong. Unfortunately, this happens more often than most recognize. Major search engines such as Google can be quite confusing and overwhelming to someone new to the…

• Why everyone should know Chris Brogan

  Jim Armstrong

  23 Jan 2012 | 11:44 pm

  Do you know someone in your life who always seems to have the answer? No matter what the subject matter, context or timing, he/she has an articulate response seemingly always on the ready. How about those friends of yours who have an endless motor and never seem to run out of fuel? Take both of these qualities, multiply by 10, then add in humility and approachability, and you get Chris Brogan. Chris Brogan knows his stuff, but it’s how he articulates his thoughts and relates to others that truly separates him from other experts. Chris Brogan is an internet marketer, author, speaker and…

• SOPA, PIPA and the Future of our Internet: Beneficial or Harmful?

  Eric Lyons

  20 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am

  Chances are you’re reading this right now because it is literally the only website in the entire Internet universe that has not been blocked by the United States government. No, that’s not true at all. However, many of our favorite websites may soon fall prey to government censorship if Congress passes two anti-piracy bills known as “SOPA” and “PIPA.” If this is first time you’ve laid eyes on these acronyms, then welcome to the Internet. What are SOPA and PIPA, you ask? Unfortunately, they are not Spanish soap opera characters, but rather the “Stop Online Piracy Act” and…

• Leveraging #FF to Increase Engagement

  Brittany Elizabeth

  19 Jan 2012 | 8:53 am

  photo credit: technorati.com If you’ve ever browsed Twitter on a Friday, it’s likely you’ve seen #FF in the beginning of a tweet followed by a list of Twitter handles. The “FF” stands for Follow Friday and many Twitter users faithfully tweet it out every week. The founder of #FF isn’t confirmed, but seems to be credited most often to the twitter handle @micah who tweeted about it in January of 2009. Tweeting the hashtag #FF followed by a list of twitter handles means that you want your followers to know that you believe that this list of accounts is worth…

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  Techblaster.NET

• Powerful high quality Do-Follow backlinks by Guest Posting

  Techmaker

  27 Jan 2012 | 5:05 am

  Guest posting is one of the most effective SEO strategy to build backlink rich website/blog. Amount of backlinks to your site will decide the place of your website/blog on SERP (Search engine result page) Page Rank is an important fact to decide the place of your site on SERP. Actually it measures the value of your site content to Google. One of my previous posts addressed on Reasons to

• List of Top 10 Article Directories to Submit Articles

  Techmaker

  26 Jan 2012 | 3:54 am

  Submission of articles to a top level article directory is a well-known method to get high quality backlinks which in turn helps to build a strong website. These backlinks are very helpful in Google PR. I discussed this topic under “Articlesubmission and blog traffic”. So here I decided to give you the top 10 article directories I am using to get backlinks to my blog by posting articles.

• Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon

  Techmaker

  25 Jan 2012 | 5:47 am

  StumbleUpon is not just another social bookmarking site, because it will drive tons (thousands) of traffic to a blog/website within minutes. But you must know how to use it effectively and how it works. This will be a comprehensive and complete guide on StumbleUpon and its features. Basics of Stumble Upon; The system of StumbleUpon allows you to search latest and interesting articles

• Link building tool: Buy relevant traffic with a pay per click

  Techmaker

  21 Jan 2012 | 11:16 pm

  PPC campaigners often claim poor ROI from their ad-campaigns. They spend a lot of money on high cost per click text and impression ads to bring in traffic to their sites. But traffic hardly turns into transactions. So, direct and indirect monetary gain from earned traffic remains very low. The allegation is well known but the fault lies somewhere else. Let’s check what you need to make

• Scalability of the blog: How to implement social media strategies?

  Techmaker

  18 Jan 2012 | 3:48 am

  Social media is an all new form of media of communication and of businesses. It has recently emerged as a burgeoning empire of mass communication. In our work culture which is largely responsive in nature we need to consider all the answers to the question "why?" Social media is a prime example of this reactive work culture. It requires a lot of commitment in the form of time. Social

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  E-Wali

• Why Social Media is Not the Right Choice for You?

  Wali

  26 Jan 2012 | 8:36 am

  You might hear a lot of time many expert bloggers forcing you to join social media and create your strategy on Facebook, twitter, Google Plus and many more. Is it a right choice for you to go social? No, It is not a right choice if you are a start-up and newbie blogger. Why? Simple answer is in my question that how you will bring Facebook page likes and twitter followers without having anything? First, you have to create a brand for your blog and bring subscribers to your blog. When there are no readers of your blog who will like your Facebook page and who will follow you on Twitter? On the…

• Top 7 Effective Marketing Tips For Entrepreneurs in 2012

  Wali

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:38 am

  In 2012, the success of your online business depends on interactive marketing tactics. I have gathered 5 effective tips to illustrate how you can win customers. SMS Text Marketing More and more people are now accessing web and using smart-phones to purchase products. In holiday season (end of 2011), sales, sky rocketed with more purchases were made from cell phones. Local businesses, online entrepreneurs and local shops can reach customers by text marketing and offering them special discounts. People often look for discounts and FREE offers. You can make your SMS marketing successful by…

• Art of Blogging – Creating an Elevator Pitch for Blog Part 1

  Wali

  17 Jan 2012 | 8:29 am

  Are you facing problem writing creative content that brings quality readers? Blogging can be very frustrating when you see no results. Not everyone is God gifted with charismatic writing to engage readers, but there are chances of improvement. I recently posted tips on how to make your visitors fall in love with your blog? It was related to making your blog look attractive, but how to learn the art of blogging? Here’s how. Elevator Pitch Don’t know about elevator pitch? It is very important for every person to write an elevator pitch for their blog. Elevator Pitch is actually short and…

• How To Make Your Visitors Fall in Love With Your Blog?

  Wali

  14 Jan 2012 | 1:16 pm

  First impression is the last impression! How do you apply this to your blog? Each month, we visit thousand of websites, but we remember only few. Why? It is same like you are watching TV switching channels and you find advertisement or a TV show that strikes your mind. On the other hand, if you are walking down the subway station, you find a beautiful girl. Click to Enlarge The same principle applies to your blog. If a new visitor visits your blog, he has only few seconds to decide whether to stay or leave. The design, look and content should appeal to the visitor otherwise you will notice…

• 10 Social Media Tips for Twitter

  jeffkgross

  6 Jan 2012 | 4:25 am

  Getting twitter followers and keeping them subscribed as well as engaged in what you have to say can result in massive amounts of traffic. This traffic can be converted into new customers or evangelists that will further your marketing message. The following 10 tips will give you some ideas on how you can leverage this powerful tool. 1. Be Consistent and update regularly with valuable info Tweet on a regular basis and be consistent about tweeting valuable content from other bloggers or content providers within your chosen niche. This helps you become a trustworthy source of information.

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  Why You Must Blog

• Master barter and become a key person of influence

  SandyMc

  22 Jan 2012 | 5:29 pm

  Are you familiar with the Trough Cycle*? Opportunity abounds. You’re awash with ideas. Each one promises greater success and more money. You embrace each with enthusiasm. If the expected return is not immediate, passion diminishes and energy drops. You emerge as the endorphins of the next opportunity light up your brain with its potential. The trough cycle starts over. While some of this effort passes for learning and experience, much can be wasted over time and distance. How much time have you left to squander? What would you barter your time for if you had a chance? How about working…

• One jumbo site or a host of mini sites? An answer, while the seed of a big idea germinates.

  SandyMc

  18 Jan 2012 | 1:14 am

  For all my advice about maintaining a regular flow of content, I’ve stalled since the start of the New Year. Why? There was the big idea over Christmas – a humungous idea, in fact – and like all big ideas, they need to take seed and grow just a little, to reap the fruit – just to start 2012 on a well worn cliche for the fun of it! Thinking I might be able to start sharing the idea with you in an instance, I put off posting all the other information that has come my way since. Consider myself reprimanded. In the meantime, I’ve been engaged in a number of really…

• Making goals manageable

  SandyMc

  22 Dec 2011 | 11:41 pm

  Whoa. New Year is almost upon us. Again! For most in business, that signals a flurry of planning and goal setting. What looked so simple through the lens of those new year endorphins, (yeah, rebuild website, reposition brand, build business to x thousand dollars, get xx number of new clients, become social media guru, build a suite of products, write a book or several, etc.) can quickly morph into impossibility, once you’re back in the thick of things. The trick, on review, is realising that some goals will be readily achieved. Some may take longer and some may not be warranted at all…

• Content curation is cool!

  SandyMc

  18 Dec 2011 | 12:21 am

  Content curation has been around for a while, as this extract from a post by Tom Treanor identifies: “My first experience with content curation was the creation of an “ultimate mixed tape,” that I created to play for my friends. In the late 70′s and early 80′s, creating the best combination of great songs from my older brother’s albums (or from the radio in some cases was one way to stand out in the always competitive, but otherwise carefree world of a teenager.” Tom goes onto discuss how to curate content well, and mentions 6 tools which will assist the process. To…

• Why! Curating content is just like collecting pearls . . .

  SandyMc

  11 Dec 2011 | 8:11 pm

  Who doesn’t like a good collection? Surely everyone has just a little bit of the compulsive collector within them? For my husband it’s hardback books, preferably folio editions. My first passion is pebbles. Yes, I know it’s odd. It started several decades ago in Greece on a back packing holiday. We found ourselves, one idyllic Hellenic afternoon, on an island beach littered with miniature works of art. These silken-to-the touch pebbles, polished by the millennia, revealed their inner makings, small fossilised creatures, seaweed and sand. They were exquisite and I was in…

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• SOPA Strike Update: Internet Blackout Results

  Jym

  22 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm

  SOPA Strike Update If you were online last week, chances are you saw something about the Internet Blackout Protest. With the participation of major sites like Wikipedia, Reddit and Google, It even made prime time TV news across the world. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) are the bills being considered by Congress in the US this month, and for the first time ever, internet users stood up with a singular voice and made themselves heard. For an overview of what these bills would mean for the internet and why it’s so important to stop them, read the SOPA Internet…

• BlogEngage – Free Blog Blasting, Link Building, Community Giveaway!

  Jym

  20 Jan 2012 | 5:17 pm

  BlogEngage is a blogging community which has been mentioned multiple times here on Bloggers Alchemy, and with good reason. Successful blogging rests upon quality content, strong foundations and design, networking, and effective blog post promotion. BlogEngage has a role to play in at least two of those. BlogEngage: Background Established in 2007 by Brian Belfitt, BlogEngage was intended to provide a forum for bloggers to submit their own content without being labelled as a spammer, or some kind of ‘bad blogger’. Around 7000 members have signed up over the years, about 1500-2000 of…

• Jan 18th Internet Blackout – Stop SOPA’s Internet Censorship

  Jym

  17 Jan 2012 | 9:13 pm

  I’m not usually one to get political here at Blogger’s Alchemy – in fact, I deliberately keep political opinion off my blog. But this is an exception… The Internet is Under Attack   If you’re a blogger, webmaster, or free user of the internet, turn off all distraction right now and focus on the information I’m going to share here. The SOPA or ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ is worming it’s way through the American political web, and if it is passed, significant online freedoms will be taken away, jeopardising freedom of speech, the ability to…

• Where to Find Fantastic Free Pictures for Your Blog

  Jym

  16 Jan 2012 | 5:53 pm

  Finding Free Pictures for Your Blog Some bloggers wonder why there is even a question about where to find free pictures for blogs. Thins is, images add so much to a blog post, a picture really does say a thousand words – and it can bring in traffic too. Pictures can break text to make posts more readable, grab attention from ‘passing traffic’, and give an opportunity to add both humor and color to a page. Heck, you can even influence the emotional state of your reader and develop rapport if you want to get really smart about it! There’s numerous paid stock image, photo and…

• 3 Quick SEO Tips – Boost Rankings, Increase Blog Traffic

  Vineet Saxena

  12 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am

  This Blog SEO Tips post is a guest post from Vineet Saxena, and marks the end of a holiday here at Blogger’s Alchemy. Part of this time away has gone into changing url’s from jymtarrant.com to bloggersalchemy.com – not an easy task! 3 Quick Blog SEO Tips Your blogging future depends on the amount of traffic you receive, which may well depend upon your search engine rankings.  If your blog is properly Search Engine Optimized (SEO’d), then you’ll rank higher in the search engines and ultimately the increase your blog traffic significantly… SEO is not…

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• Why you don’t get enough YouTube views on your videos and how to fix it

  Angel

  19 Jan 2012 | 10:54 am

  Posted in Internet MarketingSo you’ve created your channel, you’ve created lots of videos and still you don’t have any traffic at all. Sure you’ve told everyone you know (even that girl you had a crush on in high school) but still you’re just working more on promotion and bringing in one visitor at a time, rather than spending your time creating your next video. Why am I not getting any views on YouTube? Let’s analyze all the ways you can go wrong and what you can do about it. Being involved with video is not an easy task. Many people are even afraid to…

• Why YouTube is changing and why you should care

  Angel

  10 Jan 2012 | 9:09 am

  Posted in Internet Marketing YouTube is a powerhouse when it comes to video. Everyone who’s spending more than five minutes per day surfing the internet, is going to visit YouTube. Why? It’s simple! Thousands of people upload videos to YouTube every day! And supply eventually creates demand. Looking at the infographic below (found on Techcrunch) you will be amazed with the the 48 Hours of Video uploaded / Minute figure but what’s more important is that there are 3 Billion views per day! If we assume that the average video is 4 minutes long, everyday there are One Million…

• Create your own online survey with WordPress and Gravity Forms

  Angel

  27 Dec 2011 | 11:22 am

  Posted in Internet MarketingIn the previous post we saw how fast and easy we can create a free online survey with Google Docs for our market research purposes. However, there’s one thing I didn’t tell you. Even the paid ways to create surveys lack one big important thing: the ability to automatically register the people who finish the survey to a newsletter management service. Many support the manual import of email addresses, but I am not sure that the deliverability of those services is reliable; since if you can import emails manually, what’s stopping you from adding…

• Create your own free online survey with Google Docs

  Angel

  17 Dec 2011 | 8:09 am

  Posted in GeneralWe all know that surveys play an important role in everything from product creation to customer satisfaction to market segmentation, and the list goes on and on… It’s one of the most valuable tools that we have in our hands and we NEED to use it in order to know what our prospective customers and visitors want to see from us and our products in the future. There are many services that will let you create an online form and promote it to your fans and friends, but most of them have limitations when it comes to their Free tier. I know, I know; if you value something…

• Buffer: The Social Media Management Service to Rule Them All

  Angel

  7 Dec 2011 | 7:13 am

  Posted in Internet MarketingSharing on social media is not a simple thing to do. First of all, you have to have something meaningful to share; something that your audience will love to check out and will benefit from it. Getting valuable content and pushing it to your social media account is not easy, at least if you want to do it consistently. My own problem is that I can’t schedule my posts, because every morning I read my RSS feeds I can find more than 10 posts worth mentioning, but I can’t share them all at once, because everyone will hate me! At the same time, I can’t…

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• Is Your Blog Post An Essay or A Novel?

  Jeevanjacobjohn

  27 Jan 2012 | 2:36 am

  What is your blog post? I will give you two options: An essay or a novel. Which one do you want your blog post to be compared to? To make things easier for you, I will describe it a little more: An Informative Essay and an Interesting Novel. Key: Take a close look at the words: Informative and Interesting. Would you want your blog post to be informative like an essay or interesting like a novel? You know, I have written many blog posts. Some of them got more success than I expected. Some of them didn’t. Some of them – I spent a little time writing it – but still brought me…

• Simple Ways to Get Free Website Traffic

  Herbert

  26 Jan 2012 | 4:53 am

  For any webmaster, getting free website traffic is such an important thing to do. You can’t obtain traffic and reap its benefits overnight. Getting traffic for website is an enduring task and you need to sure you’re doing it the right and proper way. There are systems and ad networks to jump-start traffic streams to websites, but a lot of sites don’t have the resources that others have in place in order to create additional traffic. The good thing is, you don’t need to spend a single cent; all you need to have is the appropriate state of mind and enough enthusiasm. You also need…

• Podcasting Gear and Ms. Ileane Speaks on iTunes

  Ileane

  25 Jan 2012 | 4:43 am

  Podcasting is one of the many vehicles we can use to get our message across to our audience of readers, listeners, clients and customers. If you’re a regular visitor here you probably know about my YouTube channel, but it might come as a surprise to you that I’ve been podcasting for almost two years. Earlier this week, I made the podcast available to a wider audience and you’ll be happy to know that you can download the Ms. Ileane Speaks podcast on iTunes. Yay! As interest in the format continues to gain popularity, now is an excellent time for you to educate yourself about…

• Best Small Business Book Awards Presented By SmallBizTrends

  Ileane

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:37 am

  I’m sure many of you have read a really good book in the past year that helped you get your small business off the ground. I’ve got good news, if the book was written between November 2010 and December 2011 you can head over to the Small Business Book Awards website and show your support for the author by nominating the book for the 4th Annual Best Small Business Book Awards today! For example, here is an excerpt from the website describing the types of books that are eligible to be nominated. “Books must be business books relevant to small businesses and/or…

• 5 Tips to Keeping Your Blog Visitors Hostage

  Mitz

  22 Jan 2012 | 2:17 am

  We all know how easy it is to build a WordPress website from scratch but what can you do when you start getting real blog visitors but they do not seem to stick around. Wouldn’t you love to grab these visitors and stop them from leaving your blog? Of course you would. Here are a few basic tips: Captivating Content This is not going to be the good old clique “content is king” but I will say that it is important! In fact, if you do not understand what great content is then this is the first thing that you should learn. How to fulfill your visitors needs. How to give them exactly what…

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  27 Jan 2012 | 11:17 am

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  27 Jan 2012 | 11:13 am

  Welcome To Bloggerdreams I will like to welcome you to my blog and to express my gratitude for taking the time to visit. First, I have decided to put my experience on this blog. Sometimes those experienced are bad and of course I have experience some wonderful things online which will be presented here as [...]

• Can You Do With 15 Free Back Links Daily?

  admin

  25 Jan 2012 | 9:33 am

  I told you in almost all my previous posts as well as on my About Me Page that I will not bring you anything that I have not tested my self and found that it works. Well here is one of them. It is about using article marketing to promote your sites. This tool is a membership only site but you can register and enjoy the free version of 15 back links from unique class C IP addresses on a daily basis.

• Voice Of The Helpless – Is This Right?

  admin

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:05 pm

  How is it possible that people on whose land oil is being exploited to live like this? Does it make any sense? Where is justice?

• The SOPA Thing And Its Impact

  admin

  19 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pm

  Yesterday I got an ample traffic to my blog through Google searches and a few from other major search engines. After checking the exit links, I discovered that the targeted sites were down. OK, not really, the pages were splashed with protests against the what I will call “The American Coined Internet Control.” I have [...]

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• 4 Proven and Free Ways to Make Money Online.

  blog

  21 Jan 2012 | 8:05 am

  The Internet is littered with offers that promise easy and free ways to make money online. Anyone who has actually attempted to make money online, will realize, that it is not as simple as signing up for a few offers or promises. I still have not found “that” offer that has made me a million. [...]

• Clickbank Cheque Received!

  blog

  21 Jan 2012 | 1:23 am

  I started this online money making experiment 222 days ago from scratch. I had never built a website, didn’t know anything about clickbank, internet marketing, wordpress etc etc. I had no knowledge whatsoever. I am proud to announce that I have received my first clickbank cheque in the mail for $58.89! It has been a [...]

• First Clickbank Cheque

  blog

  9 Jan 2012 | 12:31 pm

  I wrote a post a while ago, summing up my ClickBank Experiment Progress. In it, I went over the initial requirements that needed to be met before you get your first ClickBank cheque and officially get “into” the system. Here they are briefly: “Now, before Clickbank actually sends you your first cheque, you need to [...]

• Sex Toy Affiliate Shop – Ways to Make Money Online

  blog

  5 Jan 2012 | 8:58 am

  Hi All Just a quick update. I wrote a post a little while ago about setting up my own online Sex Toy Affiliate Shop. Basically, my site has affiliate / referral links to Vibrators.com & Wicked Temptations. This was my way of taking the whole “online money making experiment” a level deeper. I am pleased [...]

• Reliable and Suitable Web Hosting

  blog

  30 Dec 2011 | 1:49 am

  It is very important when choosing a web hosting company that you choose a reliable one and that you choose a hosting package that suits your particular needs. There are lots of hosting companies out there (one source puts it at 25,000!). I have found a great site (webhostingrating.com) that compares, rates and ranks hosting [...]

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• Keyword Research : Its Importance and Use

  Shiva Chettri

  26 Jan 2012 | 1:41 pm

  When it comes to online marketing,keyword research is one of the important aspect that every one has to consider. By undertaking this very important detective work,you will not only get to learn which terms amd phrases to target with SEO but you will also get to know more about your customers in total.The usefulness of keyword research therefore cannot be ignored. By doing an acurate keyword research on your industry,you can know and predict and shift in demand,you can also respond to changes in market trend.This very information can allow you to produce products,services and the content that…

• Social Networking as a Tool for Progress of a Business

  GuestBlogger

  25 Jan 2012 | 2:46 pm

  Social networking and business can be closely related to each other and the type of relationship they have is one of its own kind. A person interested in making money through business might as well want to propagate the services of his business by all means. A big platform is provided by our very own social networking sites. The type of space and popularity social networking provides cannot be matched even to the other media devices like televisions or radios. So these sites have actually eradicated all other forms of advertisement and have become one of the most dominant publicizing…

• 5 Quick Steps to Optimize Your Google+ Business Page

  Shiva Chettri

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:38 pm

  Have you created your own Google+ profile and Google+ business page? If not, then you’re missing out on a lot of searches and leads towards your business or website. As Google is now a dominating and key player in the rapidly evolving landscape of Internet marketing, it’s a great move to create your own Google+ business page and optimize it for your target market.   Since the rollout of Google+ business profile pages in November 2011, small companies to large corporations can have more advantages in utilizing this Google tool to establish their brand and promote them through their…

• 4 Out Of The Box Ideas To Get Traffic For Your Blogs

  Shiva Chettri

  24 Jan 2012 | 1:24 pm

  In blogosphere every blogger is craving for traffic.  They are always in search of some new ways or tactics that they can use to boost their blog traffic. And why not they search for new ways to build traffic, because they know that traffic is directly proportional to money the more you have the more money you will make. In blogosphere you able to find hundreds of tactics and places that you can use to build huge audience for your blog and today I’m going to increase the figures by adding my 4 out of the box way to build traffic for your blog. People Reads T-shirts More Then Books: Now a…

• Why Link Building is Becoming More of Content Marketing

  Shiva Chettri

  23 Jan 2012 | 5:03 pm

  Has link building turned into content marketing? That’s the buzz on the webinars at the moment. So – what is content marketing and how do you do it?  Baiting Your Hook Content marketing is just another term for link baiting when all is said and done. You create outstanding content and people start to link to you because your content is so compelling. Remember, this is not just articles we are talking about here. In fact, the market for articles – which are stuffy and pretty obviously invalid even if they are interesting – ought to be slipping away as social media really takes hold.

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• Building business though the art of email

  Sandy Metcalf

  27 Jan 2012 | 4:54 pm

    Like I did with Attraction Marketing I want to do with Direct Response Marketing- break it down to parts. My favorite is email as you can reach a host of subscribers with your message all at once. This is not spamming or blind emails sent out to a “hot” lead list, but a carefully crafted correspondence targeted to your list of customers and potential customers who opt in to receive them and can help you generate extra revenue and share your values ideas and game plan for those that wish to sign on to your opportunity. This is not a new way of marketing but it is a new way in which…

• Direct Response Marketing HUH????

  Sandy Metcalf

  26 Jan 2012 | 2:52 pm

  So what is Direct Response Marketing? Wikipedia says it is a form of marketing designed to solicit a direct response which is specific and quantifiable.   In less fancy words Direct Response Marketing is one more tool to use in getting the best people to go with you, by further strengthening your brand and providing targeted information allowing you to measure the effectiveness of your marketing campaign. Direct Response fine-tunes the leads into sales and customers, who want to use your products, purchase your services and join your opportunity. People love this type of interaction…

• More than having a Dream

  Sandy Metcalf

  25 Jan 2012 | 8:17 pm

      It will take more than sharing your vision or laying out your dreams to reach your goals. Yesterday I laid out those two feel good motivators, but while I stand by the need for both. Neither will get you there alone. They are just concepts to put into motion and give you direction. Most Network Marketers are told by their up line make a list of EVERYONE you know, call them up, and keep pushing through the no’s until you get your yes’s and just kept on doing rinse and repeat and WISHING that it would work. Then being told it is you, not the system-just try and a little harder…

• Your VISION your DREAM

  Sandy Metcalf

  24 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pm

    Now that we have talked about what is Attraction, in the last blog post. We are now going to go into knowing what you are attracting, people to. You not only need to be a sought out expert, you have to have a vision about where you want to go. What is it you are hoping for? Why are you here? If you want others to follow they need to see where you are headed. Do you have big dreams? Do you want to change the world? Or maybe just your little corner of it. The best businesses have a mission statement that outlines their goals and what they believe in. i.e. not tested on animals, we are…

• What the Heck IS Attraction Marketing?

  Sandy Metcalf

  23 Jan 2012 | 3:25 pm

                        I have used this term throughout my blog and even my page heading but I got asked what is it, really? Well Attraction marketing in a nutshell bringing people to you by your actions, versus you seeking them out. What Attraction Marketing is NOT: It is not chasing after leads, cold calling or using false triggers to coax someone to purchase, join or follow your opportunity REGARDLESS of it is a fit for them or not. Or is it trying to convince people online or off to get involved with your business or try your products…

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• How To Add Top Commentators Widget To Blogger Blogs

  19 Jan 2012 | 3:01 am

  This tutorial will tell you How To Add Top Commentators Widget To Blogger Blogs.Blog comments are what make a blog interactive and social. The most popular blogs have a very interactive community who voice their opinions on posts frequently. It's that social aspect that makes blogs such a powerful component of the social web. People like to feel involved. Leaving blog comments allows readers to join in on the conversation about a posts that interests them.All Wordpress blogs almost have Top Commentators widget in Sidebar.You can also add this widget to your blogger blog sidebar very easily…

• SEO Tips and Tricks - Popular SEO Tools

  17 Jan 2012 | 11:07 am

  Search Engine Optimization is the best way to promote your website or blog. Every SEO executive will advise you about the useful SEO tools to make your optimization simple. You can find a lot of SEO tools that will solve your problems in few minutes. We are discussing SEO tools which are commonly used and most visited by webmaster/bloggers .Google Webmaster - Google webmaster tool is a free service by Google for webmasters. It allows webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites.It has tools that let the webmasters:Submit your blog/website and check a…

• How To Add A Reply Button To Blogger Comments - Tips & Tricks

  15 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am

  This tutorial will tell you How To Add A Reply Button To Blogger Comments - Tips & Tricks. All wordpress blogs have reply button to each particular comments. But on another side in blogger there is no such type of feature. But here is a simple tutorial that allows you to create a reply Button that makes the Blogger comment system look better and more interactive than before.So, come to the point, I am telling you the steps.These are the Steps to Add a Reply Button to Blogger Comments :Note :- First Of All Download Template BackupFirst Step :- First Of All You Need To Know Your BLOG IDTo…

• How To Add Stylish Facebook Like Box Below Blogger Posts?

  14 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am

  This Tutorial will tell you "How To Add Stylish Facebook Like Box Below Blogger Posts" .Facebook is a number one social networking site in the world. Through the Facebook you can get a lot of traffic for your blog or website. Facebook has a lot of social plugins:- Like, Fan Box, Share This, Comments etc. We are talking about the Stylish Facebook Like Box. This Fan box allow your your visitors to like the page & share the post on Facebook profile.This will help you to increase the likes for your blog. Add this awesome Facebook Fan Box to your blog and see the amazing…

• 5 Steps To Make Money On YouTube

  13 Jan 2012 | 11:22 am

  Millions of people post videos on YouTube in hopes of becoming rich and famous. If you’re one of those people, you may be wondering how exactly people make money on YouTube. It’s not an exact science. However, there are some crucial things that pretty much every viral video maker does. Here are five of those things:1. Post engaging content. Your YouTube videos have no chance of going viral unless they’re interesting, innovative, or funny. Look at other popular YouTube videos and analyze what the creators of them are doing. For instance, if you want to post funny videos about…