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The WordPress community is full of free resources, just for the asking. And new stuff is popping up all the time. Today I leave you with just a few. Things you might not know about WordPress If you are logged into WordPress.org, you can now favorite your most helpful plugins. Share them on your profile [...]
Copywriting is the art of persuasive writing. Writing in such a gorgeous way that the words sells products, services, ideas and concepts. Depending on which copywriting flavour of the month you speak to, the main concern of a copywriter isn’t branding; it’s conversions. Conversions are the the percentage of people who “buy” after reading your [...]
Yes. No. Maybe. It depends. I know – crappy answer, right? But each one can be applied to the question of losing blog subscribers and whether you should care or not. After all, as bloggers, we’re more often than not told that “it’s all about the list”. This usually refers to an email list, and [...]
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Have you ever been told not to do something? Ever been told that something you really like is bad for you? Isn’t it always fun to break the rules and be rewarded for it? In a recent study, the University of Copenhagen has come out and said that drinking up to three beers per day [...]
When you first set up WordPress, you fill in your username and password, or, depending on how you installed it, it might assign a generated login for you. In either case, it ends up on your profile under > users. But did you ever complete that profile?Have you even thought about it? There are actually [...]
Last week we looked at 5 simple ways of marketing your business blog that you may not be using. I also shared the best headline ever if you read the post last week – and if not, why not?? – you’ll know that I promised to conclude this week with the second part, and share [...]
For many bloggers, comments are the currency on which they base their blog’s success. Sure, traffic is key, and selling products – premium or affiliate – may also be a factor they look to for their success. Comments, though? That’s a whole other ball game – just search for “how do I get more blog [...]
Nice Is Not a Word: What I Learned about Blog Commenting at Recess
If you have ever been on a school playground with a bunch of first graders, you noticed something right away. 6-year-olds are social creatures—highly verbal—but they have not yet learned to settle their differences without adult intervention. When I was a first grade teacher, in one of my many former lives, I saw a certain [...]