Monthly Archives: May 2010
How to Find the Right Topic for Your New Blog
Blogging One of the first things every blogger needs to do is decide what topic their blog is going to focus on. For some people this is a no brainer because they are so passionate about one particular subject but there are many people (like me) who have a wide range of interests, so the decision becomes a little more difficult. I’m thinking of starting a new blog and have been doing some research into several topics so I’d like to share with ...
Continue readingDPD: All-in-One E-Commerce Solution
Making Money, Reviews, Software & Programs You could go through the trouble of manufacturing and marketing a physical product, but there are so many additional logistics that you’ll need to handle as a result. That’s why so many Internet entrepreneurs have turned to the digital marketplace for selling their digital products. The great thing is that you don’t need to be a coding wizard to set up an online storefront for your various products. Instead, you can turn to a ...
Continue readingConstructing A Good Article
Blogging Of course blogs aren’t the only type of content on the Internet these days and more and more companies and individual business owners are asking for articles. These generally get distributed to websites that scatter them across ezines and other locations, so if you can adopt some kind of formula to write these you’ll produce professional results when you need them. Most good articles present the facts in descending order of importance. This ...
Continue readingClip Content from Around the Web with gotProject
Social Media Since I’m constantly searching the Web, I’m always looking for tools to help me keep track of things I find along the way. I currently use Read It Later and Speedtile for saving web pages and Amplify for sharing parts of web pages on my social networks. Well, gotProject is a new tool that also comes in handy for clipping parts of web pages, and definitely worth a look. By simply adding a bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks bar, you ...
Continue readingDoYouBuzz – A Professional Online Resume in Minutes
Personal, Social Media DoYouBuzz is a quick way to create a social media friendly online resume. It offers a lot of tools that can be used to create that perfect resume while helping you build your own personal brand and buzz on the Web. DoYouBuzz is stylish, very easy to use and a great way to WOW future employers. When you sign up you’ll be asked to enter your name. The name that you enter will also be used for your personal URL. So, your URL will look like ...
Continue reading5 Steps to Write a Link Bait Post
Writing The term “link bait” or “Digg bait” is sometimes used in a negative light, meant to indicate a type of post that is meant to pander to a lower element than most blog posts. But while this can be true and often times is, it is also not always the case. What the term “link bait” actually means is that the post is the type of work others will want to link to. The types of content people want to link to is as ...
Continue readingHow Much Time Do You Really Spend On Blogging? Find Out With Chrometa
Productivity A couple of weeks ago, someone introduced me to Chrometa. It’s a time tracking application that aims to let you ‘set it and forget it’ so you can see where you are spending your time. With Chrometa you can be sure that no action will go unrecorded as it tracks actions by the second. Unlike other similar apps, Chrometa includes the names of documents you have open plus the titles of your open browser tabs and, important for ...
Continue readingControl Membership Sites with Magic Members for WordPress
Reviews, WordPress Plugins One way that you can make money from a blog is to sell advertising. You can insert AdSense ad units and promote affiliate programs, for example. Another way that you can make money blogging is to offer premium content at a price. This is what is known as a membership site. You could go through the trouble of coding such a site yourself, but it is probably much easier to use a WordPress-based blog and install the Magic Members premium WordPress ...
Continue readingShould you Attend a Social Media Conference?
Around The Blogosphere, Blogging, Personal, Promote your blog, Social Networking I’d like to take a small poll here. How many people reading this blog have attended Social Media, Affiliate or Blogging conferences? The first social media conference I ever attended was Blog World Expo in 2007. I was there primarily for PostieCon, an IZEA event. However, attending Blog World Expo really changed things for me and made me even more excited to attend these kinds of events. The experience of being with a group of people who ...
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Writing We all get them. It doesn’t matter how well written an article is, how much you’ve researched and gotten the facts down, there’s always someone out there just looking for a someone to attack. I get my fair share. I’m almost sure I will get nasty comments on this post. Why? I’ve come to several conclusions. 1. They’re just looking for a back link and traffic any way they can get it; even at the expense of a ...
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