Posts Tagged with "Blogging"

How I Turned A Passion Into A $1,100/Month Revenue Stream

Monday, March 16, 2009

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A little over 2 years ago, I started a website called iPod Media Selection on which I wanted to sell iPod softwares through affiliate programs. It did pretty well for a while because I was marketing the hell out of it, mostly by spamming forums and blogs. I soon got tired of playing the cat [...]

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Blog Monetization Webinar With ShoeMoney Video

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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Yesterday night I sat down in front of my computer for nearly 2 hours to attend a webinar put together by Big Jason Henderson with Jeremy Schoemaker, aka Shoemoney as a speaker. This was from far the most interesting webinar I had attended about blog monetization. It was so good, that even my girlfriend sat [...]

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25 WordPress Plugins I Use On A Daily Basis

Friday, January 23, 2009

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WordPress is my favorite blogging platform for one simple reason: it is flexible! I am still amazed that Blogger and TypePad are still in business… What I really like about WordPress is the level of customization you can get to. From custom themes to plugins, WordPress has made it easy for noobies to set up, [...]

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New Blog Design

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Every 6 months or so, I like to get a new blog theme for my blogs. I was way overdue with this one as I hadn’t updated it since May 2008. As usual when looking for an original WordPress theme, I went directly to Smashing Magazine as they always have the best looking designs for [...]

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How To Snatch The Twitter Username You’ve Always Wanted

Sunday, January 11, 2009

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I have several Twitter accounts and even though I mostly use my personal one, I do have a few niche websites for which I set up independent accounts. For my franchise website www.FranchiseBrief.com, I really thought I would be able to get the @franchise username because I assumed no one in the franchise industry knew [...]

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How To Improve The Search Feature Of Your WordPress Blog

Monday, December 22, 2008

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I do think both solutions I will talk about in this post are much better at delivering very good search results for your WordPress blog. By "good search results", I mean results that are relevant to your search query and sorted by relevance.

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Can’t login to WordPress after upgrading

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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Today I upgraded my personal franchise blog from WordPress 2.1 to WordPress 2.6.2. I know, what a big upgrade… To do so, I simply went to my webhost admin panel and used their one-click upgrade service. Within 2 minutes I received an email from my host telling me that everything went fine. So I tried [...]

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Helping the iPhone community, one step at a time

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

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For those of you who don’t know yet, I operate an iPhone blog that’s getting quite some attention lately. We average between 8,000 and 10,000 visits per day and I had to hire 2 co-bloggers (Alicia and Cody) to help me satisfy our readers’ hunger for iPhone news, tips, hacks and cracks. I got in [...]

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Working on our new franchise blog

Friday, October 3, 2008

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It’s official, my company is finally stepping into the 21st century by having its own franchise blog. I had been waiting for this since I joined the company earlier this year. After agreeing on the development of a brand new website (to be coming soon), my boss understood the importance of setting up a blog, [...]

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When commenting on blogs goes wrong

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

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As a marketing guy working in the franchise industry, I keep myself informed by reading the news, and subscribing to blogs. The problem is there is not many good franchise-related blogs. Most of them are created by franchise directories with the sole purpose of writing articles stuffed with links to various pages on their site. [...]

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