Have you tested and calculated the time required to load up your website on various internet connection speeds?
If yes, you are a superstar. If not, you’re still a superstar. Why? Read further..

It is a fact that on various speeds of internet, your blog loads at various speeds. On slower connections, it takes more time to load and on faster broadband connections, it takes less time. So how should you maintain the loading speed for your blog? Can you maintain a universal speed at which the blog will load? Yes. Indeed.

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We all know the sayings. “standing on the shoulders of giants” or the more direct “Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.”

In blogging is it possible to be successful just by looking at what others have done? It seems from looking around there are quite a lot of bloggers who think so!

I do think a great way to learn many things is to model success, but modeling doesn’t necessarily imply copying. If you took every post on ProBlogger.net you would not make the income Darren does. Copying and pasting Copyblogger.com will…

The shaky cam is now seem as the most trusted form of media.
– John Kerr (Director, Edelman Asia)

Despite what so many people think, the barriers to entering the world of video blogging is nearly non-existent. In fact, there are fewer barriers to video blogging than there are to podcasting, if only because you don’t have to worry about bandwidth.

The barriers that video blogging does share in common with podcasting, however, pertain to (1) hardware, and (2) editing software. You see, at the end of the day, you still have to capture the…

Probably most of you don’t use MySpace as your primary blog, but any blogger can learn from the MySpace don’ts.

Don’t set up sounds that play whenever someone visits your site. This includes funny noises, YouTube clips and that song “Wonderland,” no matter how much you might love it. A lot of people surf the web when they’re supposed to be doing something else: at office jobs, in class, etc. When we’re pretending to create a spreadsheet, having Jack Johnson suddenly blare out of the speakers blows our cover. This also goes…

Have you ever done any door to door sales? If you have, you know it’s a tough racket unless you have a knack for selling and develop the skills needed to be successful at selling door to door. I did some door to door sales when I was in college several years ago and after about a month I realized that I had about 15 to 30 seconds to captivate whomever it was that opened the door in order to get my message across and make a sale. It’s pretty…