Monthly Archives: March 2009
Finding Freelance Writing Jobs: Does Cold Calling Work?
Writing Yesterday, I talked to a fairly new freelance writer. She’d been freelancing for about a year-and-a half, I think she said. She cold called me – which rarely happens. I get tons of email from freelancers wanting to work with my firm; but I can count the number of times I’ve received cold calls on one hand. It practically never happens. So, Does It Work? Without a doubt. In my opinion, cold calling is one of the quickest and easiest ways to ...
Continue readingWP Greet Box: Say ‘Hi’ to Your Readers
WordPress, WordPress Plugins One of the most difficult problems bloggers face is turning visitors into long-time subscribers. With “bounce rates” for most blogs being traditionally much higher than other kinds of sites (by some estimates well over 70%) and visitor retention is a very tough challenge, especially for for new bloggers that have yet to really build their audience. To make matters more complicated, with social media, there is an almost unlimited ...
Continue readingMaking Money Online: How to Professionally Unplug to Get Things Done
Personal In yesterday’s post, Making Money Online: Unplugging to Get Things Done, I talked about how I’d basically shut myself off for about a week from email, social media and blogging to finish a book I was co-authoring. My co-author and I were finishing up the last few chapters of the book, which we’d been working on for about four weeks. I was just ready to be done with the thing and decided one day to just push everything else to the side and ...
Continue readingMaking Money Online: Unplugging to Get Things Done
Making Money I updated my Twitter account for the first time in nine days this morning. I didn’t realize it had been that long. I unplugged last week – as in – minimal email interaction, no social networking and no blogging (except for paid gigs). I did so to hunker down and finish an ebook me and a co-author have been working on. As I said in my post to my Twitter account this morning, at first, it felt strange to unplug like this, then it felt ...
Continue readingBuilding a Small Business Website with Blogger – Part 2
Blogging In the first installment of this mini-series, we examined why you may like to use Blogger to build a website for your small business as opposed to creating an HTML based site from scratch. Blogger is a free service, which offers a powerful yet easy to use interface: since there are no costs for hosting a blog with Blogger, expenses are greatly reduced. Furthermore, a blog is much easier to update than a regular website, which ensures you can ...
Continue readingCreate a Breadcrumb Trail II
WordPress Coding & Design Last week I wrote about creating a breadcrumb trail, explaining how to do this for your front page, static Page and single post page. This leaves us with the category page and archives (day, month and year). Category Page The category page is quite similar to the single post page code that we saw last week, except that we use the single_cat_title() function along with the get_cat_id function to get the category ID of the page we’re on ...
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