My Favorite WordPress Plugins

We all have a few favorite WordPress plugins that go beyond Akismet and All-in-One SEO.  (You HAVE to have both). Here are a few of my favorites: Evermore: Using this plugin you are able to put a short preview of your post on the home page with a link to the full post.  No more doing it manually. Tell-A-Friend: You want everyone and their Uncle to know about your site so why not give your readers an easy way of sharing your information? Spam Comments:... [Read More...]

Help Others and You Will Help Yourself

Recently I spoke with the owner of BurgBuzz.com, a community portal out of Virginia, USA.  Laura and I chatted on a recorded line about her inspiration to build a community portal, the challenges she faces and her plans for the future of this site. One of the comments she made about building this business was dead on – not just for this model but for ANY business model that we attempt. She said, and I paraphrase, that when she built the site... [Read More...]

Strategic Online Marketing Tip: Use Your Resources!

Each time I consider purchasing a new product I stop… think three times and consider how it will fit into my current business plan AND whether or not I will use it in the next week. We all have resources that are left unused on the desktop – or worse – physical products that we’ve purchased and are languishing on the bookshelves. And this is something that bogs down most new marketers.  I know it did me!  When I was new... [Read More...]

Are Your Affiliate Links Legal?

Well, the FTC is putting their finger in the pie once more.  In a perfect world there would be no scam artists.  In a more perfect world everyone would be honest and do business in a moral and ethical fashion. But… we don’t live in a perfect world. So, in an effort to “protect the citizens” the FTC is going to monitor the advertising, recommendations and reviews that bloggers are passing along to their readers. You can find... [Read More...]

Strategic Online Marketing Tip: Heads Up, Eyes Open

If you are anything like me most days you get up, put your head down and power through your “list of things to do”.  Sometimes I’m up until midnight to get the bare minimum done and struggle to accomplish those little extra bits that pad the Paypal account. But what most of us forget is that inspiration comes from those fleeting moments when we pay attention to what is going on around us. The radio, television, bookstore, parades,... [Read More...]

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