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Everything’s relative… setting your life thermostat

January 16, 2009

Today in my little corner of south eastern Florida – it’s 60 degrees today.
BRRR!!!
I don’t expect you to cry me a river – especially if you’re living in the path of the bitter cold that is blanketing much of the northern United States. However let me assure  you that temperatures in the 60’s feel positively [...]

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Sneak Peak at Wordpress 2.7 Dashboard

November 3, 2008

If you’re using an updated version of Wordpress, you’ve been seeing what is known in the trade as a “beg” screen asking you to update to Wordpress 2.6.3 for the past few weeks.  (If you’ve been ignoring the previous beg screens, you should have noticed the message changed recently.)

It’s really important to keep your Wordpress [...]

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Fast Track to Blog Success – 100% Discount Ends Friday

October 5, 2008

Want to get bloggers “buzzing”?  Sell your blog for big bucks. That’s what happened when John Wu sold his Bankaholic blog to Bankrate for a cool $15 Million.
Cath Lawson did the math and the 26 month old blog netted that blogger a cool $3348 per hour.
If you’ve been blogging for more than a few months, [...]

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What is YOUR blog worth?

October 2, 2008

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger is getting inundated with the news of the 1 Man Blog Sells for $15 Million Dollars
The question at the back of EVERY blogger’s mind when they hear news of a blog sale is, “I wonder how much MY blog would bring?”
For John Wu, the sole author of Bankaholic the answer is [...]

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Working in a No Trust Zone

August 18, 2008

We’re living in an age that is quickly becoming a “No Trust” zone. If you do business on the web, you should be especially concerned by antics occurring on the national stage which are serving to erode trust.
My family, like many others, has Olympic fever. However, you don’t have to be following the [...]

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Blog Diagnostic Tool – Wordle: Graphic Illustration of Your Blog’s Content

July 7, 2008

One of the basics of internet marketing is to recognize that keywords play a huge role in internet branding. Use the right keywords, and your blog will find it’s target audience quite easily. Use the wrong keywords and you’ll be left wondering why more people aren’t reading your great blog posts.
With [...]

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Spotting Marketing Crooks and Liars

June 9, 2008

My clients are the best people on the planet! They are honest, trustworthy and loyal which are traits which make spotting marketing crooks and liars difficult.
See, people who are honest tend to view the world through that lens… the lens of honesty and integrity. Even the most “web savvy” are not immune [...]

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Wordpress 2.5: Fix for the “unable to upload files” blues

May 2, 2008

I love Wordpress… really I do. Wordpress blogs are great for so many reasons which I’ve covered before here. I’ve got clients who can barely use email who are creating posts on Wordpress blogs that are getting GREAT SERPS.
Wordpress is DEFINITELY the technically challenged person’s dream application.
Installing Wordpress is easy.   Using Fantastico, [...]

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Wordpress rocks for SEO

April 26, 2008

This is one for the “more proof” files. As you know, I’m a real fan of Wordpress blogs.  I’ve found that for my clients, who are not tech savvy, a Wordpress blog allows them to compete successfully with “web experts” in getting their website found on the internet.
Mark Gosh on the Weblog Tools Collection did [...]

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Easy Transition to Wordpress 2.5

March 29, 2008

So far so good…. I must admit, I was REALLY worried about the upgrade to WP 2.5
The upgrade to 2.3 was a real bear for me. It took a bit for me to sort out which plug ins could co-exist peacefully within the new framework.
However, I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and the only [...]

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