Archive for August, 2009

Are You at a Blogging Crossroads?

This is a guest post from Nathan Hangen, a webrepreneur, social media consultant, and triathlete. He authors the Webrepreneur Blog. I remember some time ago when I was thinking about giving up blogging. I wasn’t getting many comments and my page views were inconsistent. It seemed like I was putting more work in than I [...]

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Beware of Free Speech Infringement [Soapbox Talk]

Do you think the U.S. government is beyond the desire to control free speech? Is it alarmist to say that there are people in our own government in the U.S. who would praise media control like we see in Venezuela, Iran and China? And why would a blogger like me, a guy who doesn’t talk [...]

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Headway Theme: Answering The Prayers of Bloggers Who Don’t Program

Headway is a new premium WordPress theme that seems poised to take on Thesis head-on. Thesis has been on the top of the mountain for some time now and many people swear by it. Does Headway have a chance at mounting a real challenge? The answer is YES. Headway is a powerful WordPress theme which [...]

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Important Skill in Life: Saying NO

Do you ever find yourself going in a million directions at once? Do you ever find yourself being tempted into some new opportunity when you’ve already got plenty of stuff going on? Do you ever find yourself being really busy, but ultimately not living the life that you want? Perhaps you need to learn this [...]

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Tony Robbins, John Reese, Frank Kern On The Power of You [Video]

I watched this video by Tony Robbins this morning (with John Reese and Frank Kern) and I thought it had a really powerful message. I wanted to pass it onto you. [flv]http://s3.amazonaws.com/trvideos/video1d_small.flv[/flv] View the original video on Tony Robbin’s site. I see so many people who act as their own worse enemy. They have all [...]

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Behold – New Blog Design

My regular readers probably arrived here and went – WHOAH. Yeah, the site looks different. The biggest thing that motivated me to make a change was that I was getting really tired of the dark background. It made the site look crunched and lacking space. I’ve also made another notable design decision: I’ve decided to [...]

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Sponsored Tweets: Polluting The Party?

The idea of sponsored tweets usually triggers a pretty emotional reaction. Most people when asked how they would react to a person tweeting an ad respond by saying they would immediately unfollow them. Then my friend Ted Murphy launched Sponsored Tweets, the latest venture from his company Izea. It got me thinking about it. After [...]

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Top 10 Signs You ARE Worth Following On Twitter

It was suggested by a few of my readers that I do a counterpart to my post on the Top 10 Signs You’re Not Worth Following on Twitter. It seems it is only fair. After all, I’ve done enough complaining. So, without further ado, why would I follow you on Twitter?

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Blogging Income Report: Last 3 Months

My blogging income reports were popular, and I was expressly asked to keep doing it. However, it looks like I’ve forgotten to do it since April. I’ve been so busy with other things (including creating content for my students in the Blog Masters Club) that it has slipped my mind. So, let’s play catch-up. How [...]

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Stupidest DMs From The Last Month on Twitter

As you can probably tell if you follow me on Twitter, I’m on a rampage about Twitter spam. Right now, I’m rather fed up with it. Today, I thought I would highlight some of the lamest DMs I have gotten in the last 30 days on Twitter. I have removed the links so as not [...]

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