Monthly Archives: September 2010
How to Fix 5 Common Theme Problems
Design & Coding, WordPress, WordPress Themes As I mentioned last week, as a blogger, you are going to make mistakes and, fortunately, most of them are very minor ones that you can fix and recover from quickly. That being said, one of the more common and embarrassing mistakes involves screwing up your theme. This can be especially frustrating if you aren’t somewhat experienced with HTML and CSS, but can still be a headache no matter how experienced you are. Though there are literally ...
Continue readingWin a Set of New Business Cards from Print Runner
Blogging After a conference or networking session, your business card is what you are represented as. What does your business card say about you? Everyone could use a new set of business card, or even a completely new business card design? BloggingTips.com has partnered with PrintRunner.com to run a promotion for someone to win a set of new business cards for their blog, web site, business or whatever they like. It’s amazingly simple to enter! All ...
Continue readingThe Umi Chicken Guide to Internet Marketing
Blogging Photo by quaziefoto I was in the mall the other day and was observing the people working at Umi Chicken. I’m sure that you have one of these or another in your mall where someone stands out front of the restaurant in the food court with a plate of free samples. As you walk by they hand you a piece of their chicken on a toothpick. And that one sample is really, really tasty. That single piece makes you start to crave what else Umi Chicken ...
Continue readingReport Says Blogs Still Vital
Blogging With all the talk about social media these days, you don’t hear a lot about blogs anymore and the blogosphere has taken a secondary place in some discussions to talk about Twitter and Facebook and other forms of social media. That doesn’t means that blogs have disappeared or will anytime soon. A new report from the Internet marketing firm eMarketer tells us at least half of all the people that get information on the Web still read blogs and ...
Continue readingIncrease Your Twitter Followers Dramatically with TweetBig
Reviews, Social Media TweetBig is a new “brilliant” Twitter management tool that helps you to drastically increase your followers and build your network. The beauty of TweetBig is that is can do most tasks automatically, which is a huge timesaver. The sneaky thing about TweetBig though is when signing up, you don’t realize that there is a fee for the service until the end. It runs you through the entire process of setting up your account, and then ...
Continue reading5 Simple Yet Useful Firefox Addons for Social Networking Users
Social Networking Firefox is one of the three browsers I use on a regular basis, and it’s the only one I use on both my Mac and PC. One of the main reasons I usually open it up is to use one of my favorite addons (aka extensions) that is not available on either Chrome or Safari; then there are other times when things just seem to work better in Firefox. In any case, if you’re a Firefox and a social networking user, then here are five simple yet useful ...
Continue reading5 Mistakes Every Blogger Will Make, Including You
Blogging, Writing There’s a simple truth to life that every human being will make mistakes. Since every blogger is human, at least the ones that aren’t spambots, then every blogger will screw up inevitably. On BloggingPro, I recently wrote an article about how to recover from the mistakes you make but the question becomes “What kind of mistakes can one expect to make?” With blogging, as with life, there are very few guarantees but there ...
Continue readingGuest Blogging is Like Helping a Friend Move
Blogging Bear with me on this one. I was helping my good friend move yesterday and in the tedium of moving box after box of their stuff into “the room” made my mind wander. While it was wandering I hit upon guest blogging as akin to helping a friend move. Let me illustrate. It is not your house No matter what you think of the house, remember that it is not your house. You do not have to live there but you do have to be a good guest. So, as ...
Continue readingBack Up Your Files Now
Writing You know you should back up your computer and your work, but you put it off until something goes seriously wrong and you’re stuck with no files to show for all your hard work, your pictures are wiped out, your music files are gone. This is the time you want to really kick yourself, and maybe you should because this could have been prevented. I know, I’ve been there. I used to put off backing up my files because it was a chore. It ...
Continue readingThree Reasons You Need Search Engine Optimization
Blogging More and more people are asking what search engine optimization is and what it’s all about. People who have websites either for Internet-based businesses or personal reasons all seem to understand that looking into search engine optimization as it’s called is a good idea, but not everyone seems to understand why. Simply put, people all know how a well-built home is a good investment although only very few know how to build one properly. ...
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