Why Your Facebook Page Isn’t Going Anywhere

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Are you still searching for that magic bullet for your Facebook page so it would become very popular over night, have thousands of fans that will like your every post and click any link you post to your timeline? So am I. But based on my experience with everything I ever did in life, when [...]

Using Instagram to Spice Up Your Facebook Page

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Instagram probably wasn’t on the top of your list of social media to get involved in but if you know that the most shared content on Facebook are images and that Instagram is all about images, you may see some future in it. I’ve been using Instagram for awhile, mostly for personal stuff, like sharing [...]

4 WordPress Freedoms: How Many Have You Claimed?

4 WordPress Freedoms: How Many Have You Claimed?

It’s Independence Day here where I am, on American soil. Beer, potato salad, strawberry shortcake and sparkling fireworks. It’s about freedom, man. Used in the right way, WordPress is all about freedom, too. The beauty of it is the control you have over your own blog—not only in the content, but in the design and [...]

Is Your WordPress Blog Missing Some Text Widget Love?

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Do you like to play with widgets? You know, those little buggers that do so many things for your WordPress blog? If you are on WordPress.com, you get a certain number of widgets to work with. If you are self-hosted, the sky’s the limit—and be forewarned: there are thousands of them out there. In fact, [...]

What Super Mario Bros Taught Me About Blogging

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I love video games. I’ve been playing them for most of my life and it’s nearly impossible to talk about the pure awesomeness of video games without talking about the Italian grand-daddy of popular platform games. With dozens of official versions and probably hundreds of unofficial ones spanning almost three decades, it’s safe to say [...]

Using Social Media To Build Your Community

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Social Media is ripe with places that we can connect and further enhance community. Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and YouTube are a few of the big boys available for community building. The more places your readers see you and get to know you AND EACH OTHER, the better. Use the tools at your disposal. Here’s a [...]

A Blogging Snow Day

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I’m stuck in my house today. I’m writing this in my pajamas and it has nothing to do with my health and everything to do with the frozen water sticking to the streets around my neighborhood. I remember when I was a kid, snow days were one of the best things that I could imagine. [...]

7 Ways To Integrate Social Media Into Your Blogging

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So we talk a lot on here about blogging and rightly so, given the name and URL of the site. Today I’m going to give you a few ways to make sure that what you write actually reaches the people you’re aiming for. One thing you might not know about me is that I run [...]

5 Reasons Not to Give Up Your Blog Because of Twitter

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Have you been neglecting your blog? Are you spending time on social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter trying to “master” the way to make money and not spending time on your blog? Maybe someone told you that blogs are dead and it’s time to bury it? @Markwschaefer wrote a blog post regarding this [...]