Collis from FreelanceSwitch introduced me to this fantastic little plugin. I first noticed it when he let me know my new post had been made live and I saw these really cool pull quotes.

After I got a little over-excited I investigated to find the plugin he had used and installed it on my own blog.

How the plugin works, and the clever thing that makes this so special, is rather than just being a CSS trick it uses Javascript to style your text allowing you to have the quote pulled from the…

Seems like the “Blog for sale” phenomenon has ended and everyone is getting back to serious blogging.

The most interesting post in the week past was one from Aaron Wall at Compete.com (guest post). in this post Aaron explains why bloggers have to do a day job to even buy a cup of tea! A little exaggerated that is but it makes sense. He says many bloggers get tons of traffic but they are not “smart” enough to market their blogs commercially. He has some tips too. Must read.

The AdSense team…

Blog directories will never bring you a huge burst of traffic however it’s still worth submitting your blog to a few sites, particularly if you are promoting a new blog. This post lists 75 websites which bloggers can submit their blog to.

Whilst researching links for this article I came across a lot of poor and low quality blog directories and decided that submitting your blog to many of these would be a waste of time therefore I have no included them in the list.

• Where possible, I have linked to the…

I’ve written before about what to do when you have a client who doesn’t pay you. The situation I’m in now is a little different: I have a client who does pay me, but it’s invariably late and I always have to send several emails before I get a response. (For the record, it’s not Kevin!)

In some ways, constantly late payments are worse than a one-time default on a payment. Every month I get angry and depressed, feeling that my work is undervalued because my payments aren’t made on time. I…

Are you a very organized person? Do you think a blogger should be organized? Or should he be an impulsive one?

I was wondering how a typical day in blogging would look like for you? Would it be the same as other bloggers or would it be all over the place? Let’s take a deeper look.

This is how a typical day in blogging look like for me.

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Morning 6.30 am - Email Check

7.00-7.30 am - Publishing article/Blogging

8.00 am  - Rush to office

9.00 am - Email checks

9.15 am - Check Google Reader subscriptions

9.30…