B90X: Extreme Blog Fitness

p90x

  Yesterday I started the P90X Extreme Home Fitness program. I just made it through the Fit Test and am happy to announce that I passed with flying colors, although now I’m typing this with sore muscles and not looking forward to when Tony Horton is actually trying to hurt me. The focus of the [...]

Are You Still Using “Admin” as Your WordPress Username?

Deleting a user in WordPress

I just got back from a WordPress conference in Chicago, called WordCamp. It’s where WordPress users, designers and developers get together and share their WordPress love. It’s always fun, with great conversations and connections. I was fortunate enough to be there as a speaker. But as I sat in a session about security and the [...]

Give Your Blog the Ring of Truth

Ring of truth

Even when you work as a freelance copywriter there is a part of you which makes you want to believe that the blogs you find online were written by someone with a genuine interest in the subject. Sadly this isn’t usually the case, is it? We all know that there are loads of people all [...]

12 Most Common Mistakes New Bloggers Make

12 common blogging mistakes

Blogging’s a great way to grow awareness of you and/or your brand and, with bloggers now getting book deals and media contracts, it can also be a lucrative one. Unfortunately, many bloggers shoot themselves in the foot by making some basic errors that holds their blog back from its true potential. Knowing how to avoid [...]

The Nike Method of Launching a Blog

Launch a blog the Nike way

There are a lot of guides out there about how to successfully launch a blog, and I’ll admit there are some great tips in those guides. They usually have good advice about keywords, starting with several posts, having a specific vision, being focused and several other topics. This is great for some people, but it’s [...]

Michael Scott: Somehow My Blog Manages

Michael Scott The Office

Celebrities are famous for a reason…and that reason is because they are smarter than us and we should care about everything they do and listen to everything they say. We’ve already heard the immutable wisdom of Ron Burgundy and the timeless thoughts of Yoda, but today a newer celebrity called in to share his knowledgeness [...]

5 Ways to Customize Your WordPress Dashboard

Customizing your WordPress dashboard

Ever sat in your car and looked at the big dial that shows you the RPM’s, wondering why you would even want to know this? Wishing you could put something else there—maybe a large clock, your iPhone, or a picture of the family? When you first opened up your dashboard in WordPress, you might have [...]

The 7 Laws That Make Your Multi Author Blog a Success

Seven

Ever thought about collaborative blogging? Sometimes it is tough blogging on your own, waiting for comments,  chasing traffic,sending your posts to Twitter, manually adding to Facebook so you get better Edge. Sometimes you just want a break from writing. In fact it’s quite lonely writing and posting at times.  Have you thought about how blogging together, as [...]

How to Use Your Blog to Market Your Service or Business

Business blogging

There are currently over 300 million blogs on the internet. You might be saying to yourself with so much competition for attention – Why would I want to use a blog to market my products and services ? The simple answer is, using a blog to provide authoritative, relevant, content can be one of the [...]