Saving Time and Money: Planning Your Effective Business Website

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Your business website needs to be an effective platform and successful marketing tool. It should provide you with an elevated setting for you to clearly get your message out there. It should engage and inspire your audience. It should not only be your online office space and store, but also an active part of your marketing team. Okay, there are a lot of "shoulds" in there. Whether you are … [Read more...]

How to Be a Super Blogger in 2011

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So you've been reading about the benefits you or your business can get from prolifically adding your message to the web through frequent blogging. You've been adding a post now and then to your blog, but this year you've vowed to really dig in and become a serious blogger. How You Can Help Yourself Blog More in 2011 What makes this year different than last year? Do you have a lot more … [Read more...]

Too Much Spam From Your Blog’s Comments? Here’s a Solution

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If you're running a blog and you've enabled the comments so that your readers can join in and contribute to the conversation, then you're doing it right and congratulations on that! However, if you've done this, you've probably also noticed that many of the "comments" that you get are not "real" comments. They are, yes, (sound effects here: dramatic soundtrack with clap of thunder and rain)… … [Read more...]

Why You Should Use WordPress as a Powerful Business Tool

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This is a followup video version of a recent post, Top Five Reasons Why Knowing WordPress Can Make You Better at Tennis. As a professional you've learned how to use software products like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Adobe products like Photoshop. I strongly suggest you add one more product to your Professional Toolkit: WordPress. WordPress is website creation software that is easy … [Read more...]

Top Five Reasons Why Knowing WordPress Can Make You Better at Tennis

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WordPress, once considered good blogging software has now developed into being my favorite and, in my opinion, the best way to set up a complete website. Okay, if you're Wells Fargo or Google your needs might exceed what this tool can offer. But for the rest of us it's a dynamite solution. The direction of business is becoming more and more about being able to get your message out there, … [Read more...]

How To Make Money Online – The Movie! :-)

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This is a bit of a video followup to a recent post: Making Money Online. This information answers one of my most frequently asked questions by people who are looking to start a business online or just looking to make some supplemental income. In this video I talk about the basic concepts of starting an online business, but obviously it's a complex topic, much more in depth than I can cover in a … [Read more...]

Creating A Great Website On A Low Budget – The Movie!

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This is just basically a video covering the topic of a previous blog post, How Can I Set Up A Website on a Small (or no) Budget? For more detailed information I would recommend taking a look at that. In this video I recommend 3 products for you to use. I am an affiliate of StudioPress and HostGator. These are both superior products and I highly recommend and endorse … [Read more...]

Passion – How to Build a Bigger Audience for Your Blog

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I spend a lot of time talking about blogging these days. I also hear a lot of others testifying on the value of blogging. This is simply because blogging is one of the best ways for you to interact with others, developing your own voice and being recognized for it, letting people know why they would be interested in interacting with you and doing business with you. But what about your … [Read more...]

How Can I Set Up A Website on a Small (or no) Budget?

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This is a very good question! So many great entrepreneurs are popping up these days with some fantastic ideas for new businesses. I'm not just talking about the Donald Trumps of the world, but more about people who are already working in other jobs, maybe not making that much money, but they've got passion for something else and want to make it into a business. are currently NOT working, … [Read more...]

Saving Money – SEO You Can Do Yourself – Title Tags

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Title tags are the string of words you see across the top of your browser when you go to a web page. While the keyword meta tag is pretty much useless these days, TITLE tags are still quite useful and one of the best things you can use to help your page's SEO (search engine optimization) Using WordPress If you are using WordPress it's very easy to edit the title tags of each of your pages … [Read more...]