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Tip For Great Photos For Bloggers

Tip For Great Photos For Bloggers

Photos add a nice, professional touch to your blog posts. By combining a great headline with eye-catching imagery, your post will have that extra wow factor not seen on many other blogs. Many of us have used Google Image Search to find images of certain things. It works, but it is also pot luck and [...]

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Is Adsense Still Good For Bloggers?

Is Adsense Still Good For Bloggers?

This video tip is a response to a reader comment here on this blog. The comment was by Matty Byloos. What is your take on adsense? Are readers blind to these ads at this point? That was where I started, and then I have gone back to building design and content, waiting until later for [...]

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Going Viral on Twitter – Cool New Tool

Going Viral on Twitter – Cool New Tool

A couple of good buddies of mine are just today launching a brand new piece of software. It is called Viral Tweets. Here’s what it does… You put a form on your website. You want people to retweet a message of your choosing in order to opt-in to something else. The form has the tweet [...]

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Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer

If you are a blogger, I HIGHLY recommend you check out Windows Live Writer. It is free and it is from Microsoft. And, as I show in the video, I am using it even though I am a Mac user. Even though there are native OS X blogging clients available, I still use Live Writer [...]

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Blog Evaluation: Jim On Light

Blog Evaluation: Jim On Light

Today’s video is a response to Jim from Jim On Light. His email was a little long for me to re-post here, however essentially he was asking the following: How does he get more growth to his blog? How does he make some money with it? Jim’s site is already doing fairly well (200 visits [...]

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The Curse Of The Freebie?

The Curse Of The Freebie?

Today’s reader question comes from Melissa Petrey at WVReviews.com. She asks: I actually found you on a site called howcast.com.  I would love to learn how to make money online without getting ripped off.  Is there any real way to make money without having to spend money and be able to do it all online? [...]

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A Marketing Lesson In a Gift I Received

A Marketing Lesson In a Gift I Received

I got  a nice gift from the kind people over at Systweak. They are a PC optimization software company based in India and they sent me this gift because I run a large tech site. Namely, PCMECH. It is quite a nice book with my name printed on it. It is decorated in a Hindu [...]

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Using a Chatroom As a Sales Tactic

Using a Chatroom As a Sales Tactic

Today, I killed a lot of time in a chatroom that Jim Kukral had set up on Campfirenow.com. Jim was doing a membership drive to his coaching program and was using the chat room as an attention builder. While I was helping out in the chatroom, there are some good marketing lessons here: He is [...]

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Quick And Easy Blogging Riches, The Golden Turd

Quick And Easy Blogging Riches, The Golden Turd

This question comes in from Kay Rennie, from Ozlantis.com. The question is: You’ve probably been asked this question before, or at least addressed it, but after reading your latest post on what it takes to get traffic – hard work – do you believe there is such a thing as ‘Set It And Forget It’? [...]

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Twitter Tips For Bloggers

Twitter Tips For Bloggers

In this video, I lay out some tips for bloggers using Twitter. Actually, 3 of these tips apply to anybody, whether you are a blogger or not. First, I recommend that you put your Twitter handle in a visible place on your blog. Secondly, I think you should install the Twitter Tools WordPress plug-in, by [...]

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