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By Helaine Iris in Featured, Productivity, Small Business Life | comments(21)
Whether you consider yourself an occasional procrastinator or a terminal one, getting stuck in the mud - paralyzing your ability to act - sometimes happens. While it’s certainly useful to explore the reasons behind persistent procrastination patterns and resolve them, this article is intended to offer you 8 smart reminders to free you up and get you moving again. Here they are:
By Helaine Iris in Featured, Small Business Life | comments(5)
“It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing.” Mother Teresa
Business owners are trained to gauge the success of their business according to the health of their “bottom line” - that is - the last line on a profit and loss statement that tells you what remains (if anything) after all your costs of doing business. This makes perfect sense - if you don’t show a profit, you don’t stay in business. But, I’m interested in what - beyond the traditional bottom line - keeps you motivated and creates that deeper and more sustaining measure of success I believe we are all seeking?
By Michael Pollock in Featured, WordPress | comments(19)
Recently, two popular WordPress-related sites took a stand against ad-sponsored WordPress themes. Mark Ghosh, publisher of Weblog Tools Collection declared that he would no longer promote sponsored WordPress themes on his site. Shortly thereafter, WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg stated that all sponsored themes “should” be removed from the Wordpres Theme Viewer site. As for Matt’s comments, I’ve requested clarification from him, but I assume he means there’s currently a project underway to actually remove sponsored themes from the site.
By Michael Pollock in Featured, WordPress | comments(92)
1. Write keyword rich post titles - it almost goes without saying, but the post title is the most important part of the blog post for many reasons. From your reader’s perspective, a descriptive and compelling title helps them decide if your post is worth reading or not. From an SEO perspective, think about the keywords or phrases people might type into a search box to find your post 2 months from now, and use those words or phrases in your post title. For maximum benefit, try to avoid titles that are cute, clever or cryptic.
I get a lot of folks who want to add a header graphic to my Simplicity WordPress theme, so I figured it was time to just write a tutorial on it. It’s really pretty simple to do.
This tutorial provides step-by-step directions on how to install WordPress on your own server.
My tutorial on adding Flash video to your Worpdress site was pretty popular … this tutorial is designed to make it easy for you to add Quicktime video to your WordPress site.
So you want to create the next Rocketboom (video blog). Or perhaps you have some video you want to add to your WordPress blog or website. This tutorial shows you how to do it with WordPress.