Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Web Hosting with Great Customer Support

Over the past decade I’ve had my fair share of web hosting companies and I’ve bounced around from shared hosting to dedicated hosting and even to buying 20 of my own servers and having them in a storage center. The main reason for jumping around with so many hosts, was that my web sites and business was always changing and new sites were exploding while others stayed the same. Either way, no matter how my web sites were doing, it was always important...

You’ve Landed a Blogging Job – Now What?

Blogging for other people is a great way to make money online. If you run your own blog and have published regular content, then you are well placed to write for other people or companies. Each job will have its own set of requirements – i.e. expertise or experience required, specific topics to write about, number of posts required, length of post etc. Understanding your client’s requirements when you applied for the job doesn’t stop there. Here are some tips on writing after having landed...

How Not To Follow Up After a Conference

I’ve been attending blogging conferences since 2007. Through conferences I’ve been able to meet some amazing people. However, through my own ineptitude I’ve not done a great job of following up with everyone that I’ve met. The photo above is an actual box that I have filled with missed opportunity, missed connections and missed business opportunities. Some business cards are over 3 years old. Might be a little late to follow up with those folks....

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Keyword Winner – Targeted Keyword at Your Fingertips

We already know that blogs are a winning formula for any business, but you can’t simply expect to throw a blog up there and hope for success. Instead, you need to focus on producing quality content, then leveraging social media, seo and wordpress plugins to make that magic happen. A new wordpress plugin called Keyword Winner will soon be released from my friend and fellow blogger Daniel Lew. What Can Keyword Winner Do For You? The end goal of this...

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Announcing the Prose Theme for WordPress

You may have seen recently that we merged StudioPress, creator of the powerful Genesis theme framework, into Copyblogger Media. Why did we do it? I can sum it up for you in a single phrase: because we’re control freaks. With Genesis, we saw an opportunity to create WordPress themes that were tailored exactly to our customers’ needs and desires. We could incorporate the features that are most important for content-rich sites, the expert SEO you...

Keyword Winner – Awesome WordPress SEO Plugin

Keyword winner is a cool new SEO plugin by my friend Dan Lew that is about to open to the public in a few days. This thing is really interesting! I seriously cannot wait to get my hands on it! What is Keyword Winner? Keyword Winner helps you get better search engine rankings by assisting you to write your post title (and other things) in a way that will get you as much search engine traffic and have the least amount of competition. Basically,...

What’s the Best Way to Contact You?

Last week I was speaking at the Performance Marketing Expo and one of the questions for the panel was “What’s the best way to get in contact with you?” and another was “How do I get the attention of big affiliate marketers to promote my products?“. I thought both of these were good questions and wanted to expand on this subject through the blog post. Here’s my response and how I would answer the questions. “What’s the best way to get in contact...

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