January 17, 2012
WordPress is one of the best ways to edit and maintain a blog. It allows users to easily customize and manage their blog. Beginner and advanced bloggers alike love WordPress, making it perhaps the most popular blogging software. Best of all – it’s free. There are also thousands of different widgets you can add to [...]
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January 12, 2012
Introduction Hey Folks! Blogs are not just a way to express your feelings but also a way to make money while you are online. Today blogging is multi billion dollar industry with daily new online companies joining in. According to a rough estimate about 200,000 bloggers are daily added to the World Wide Web. So [...]
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January 3, 2012
If you’re thinking of launching a new blog in 2012 then as you’ll no doubt be aware there’s a fair bit of competition out there! Whatever the topic you’re planning on blogging about you can be sure that there is someone already out there doing the same thing, who has already written a load of [...]
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September 16, 2011
Sometimes ideas for your blog will just hit you and you will want to talk about it right away. If you wait until you get home then not only will the idea be gone, but so will the mental rush that made you want to write the post in the first place. And whether it’s [...]
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June 21, 2011
When WordPress was first developed by Matt Mullenweg in 2003 is was just a simple blogging tool. The WordPress CMS was designed to provide people to run a “blog” on their website. People used to install WordPress as a sub-directory on their site, usually simply called ‘blog’. However, today all that has changed. WordPress is [...]
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May 30, 2011
Online Retailers seek to find more sales channel opportunities to grow retailing online. Seeking to find more outlets for their products and although the study quoted here is about large and medium retailers, expanding to more sources of income definitely applies to smaller retail businesses. Many local businesses expand to sell online using basic open [...]
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March 6, 2011
Here’s a great presentation on Effective Business blogging for Conversion: Data for ROI in Business blogging – 101 Charts & Graphs presentation with a tip of the hat to CB for sharing this on FaceBook. What works, what doesn’t and how to know the difference. 101 Marketing Charts and Graphs View more presentations from HubSpot [...]
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January 3, 2011
It seems that blogs are remaining important to business and more bloggers are taking to blogging part time, either to increase their website traffic or increase leads to their retail businesses. Here’s a great infographic that was created by the Grasshopper Group that illustrates the number of self employed and part time blogging being done [...]
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November 8, 2010
There’s been an interesting discussion going on in a class I’m co-facilitating about the best way to reach customers and prospective customers: Should you post your articles on a blog? Should you email those articles to people who have subscribed to your list? Or something else? The Death of Opt-in Email? Up until fairly recently, [...]
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September 7, 2010
While using single marketing tools can be revolutionary and powerful, combining multiple tools really brings out the best in each tool. Wheels are tremendous things, air conditioning is wonderful and everyone loves a comfortable seat, but simply having all three isn’t the same as having an automobile. The same holds true of an online branding [...]
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