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This is a blog of me putting up ramblings and info on things that I have seen that may help someone out. Things like technology, blogging, internet and writing are the main areas I will focus my rants on.
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How to Capture Creative Ideas On the Go
How do you capture your creative ideas? Do you use a notebook or some other type of device? I own many notebooks and am always jotting down notes and ideas for my writing. The other day, I was out and didn’t have my notebook or voice recorder w...
Managing Time for Blogging
Time Management. We use it in our lives for business, daily life and other areas. What about blogging? To succeed in time management for blogging, you need to follow strategies to increase your management of time and increase your productivity. I jus...
5 Ways to Focus on Writing
How do you focus on writing? As we are those individuals that rely on the written word, we focus on being in the “zone”. This is where your focus is all about coming up with those ideas that will turn into that next blog post, article or ...
How to Share a Great Blog Post
You have a blog. You post updates to it on a regular basis. With all this content on your blog, what good is it if no one sees it? Blogging takes more then just writing good posts; to promote your blog posts, you have different options to help get th...
How to Undo In Gmail
We know there are a lot of people out there that use Gmail for their email. Without it, some of us would probably go through email withdrawals. With everything you can do with Gmail these days, wouldn’t it be cool to have a option to undo that ...
How to Save Time Writing Your Blog Posts
Time. We all need more of it in some fashion or another. This is true in blogging and writing as well. What if I could tell you a simple technique to get back more time in your blogging? There is a technique that I like to use and I know of others th...
Need Help With Ideas for a Headline?
From time to time, we all get a little off track and need assistance coming up with that next headline idea. I know I have been there and am sure I will be there again in the future. One of the great things I have found to combat this is to have a go...
Top 10 Social Sites For Finding Jobs
Today’s world is full of uncertainty. One major uncertainty now is being employed. For those that are unfortunately in this position, there are different avenues. I just ran across an article that shows some social sites to look at for jobs and...
Marketing For Bloggers
In blogging, there are many things that have to be considered when building your blog and online business. One of the things that most bloggers don’t have as much experience with is marketing. Internet Marketing is a very important factor in th...
Quick Tip - 5 Twitter Plugins for WordPress
Do you use WordPress for your blog? Do you use Twitter? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then you can integrate Twitter into your WordPress blog. Here are some plugins you can add to your blog for Twitter: 1. TwitMe This plugin will al...
Using Web Analytics: Bounce Rate
In a previous post, Quick Tip - Use Web Analytics to Your Advantage, I went over how to use web reporting to help in targeting and reporting on your blogging success. When you study your weblog reports, you will be able to harness information to targ...
Win a Flip Mino HD!
Ryan McLean from Smarter Wealth is giving away a brand new Flip Mino HD to one lucky reader. This is a great giveaway on a great device! The Flip Mino HD is the coolest gadget around. You can shoot one hour of video in HD (so you can play it on your ...
What Kind Of Brainer Are You?
Almost everyone is different in this world. Some people are creative, technical or analytical. How is it that when we look at someone that sees the big picture, we believe that they are a right brain thinker? It does fascinate me how certain thinking...
Are You Exercising Your Brain?
No matter what age you are, we can always improve how we learn new things. When you exercise your body with aerobics or other physical exercise, you improve your physical health and well being. Mental exercise is equally important as physical exercis...
Information for Beginning Bloggers
Are you starting to build your blog or thinking of making a new blog? There are many resources on the Internet for starting or even growing your blog. There is one issue that can sometimes come up when searching for blogging information. How do you f...
Effective Uses for All-In-One SEO Plugin
Do you have a blog and work with SEO for your blog? If you use the WordPress platform for your blogging, you know about plugins. There is a widely known plugin that is great for taking a lot of the work out of SEO for your blog; the plugin is called ...
Quick Tip – Use Web Analytics to Your Advantage
You have your blog all setup. You use great design, widgets and coding. You submit your blog to directories, post comments on other blogs and follow social networking fundamentals. Sounds like you are doing just about everything to make your blog a s...
Personal Branding and Your Pigeonhole
As more and more makes names for themselves in writing, blogging and social media, personal branding is an ingredient to their success. How you present yourself will brand you out to your readers and fans. As in any type of promotion of your services...
10 Cool Hacks for WordPress
In the blogging world, there are many platforms to use. One of the most popular is WordPress. WordPress is a full featured platform for hosting blogs. With every platform, there are always ways to improve and tweak them. Over on Smashing Magazine, Je...
Twitter – Some Ways to Use it To Grow Your Business
Twitter. While many people use it for communication with friends and social interaction, many others use it for business communications. Twitter is more then just random posts on how you can tell other people things like, “I am reading the pape...
Quick Tip – 5 Ways to Help Your Creativity
We have all been there at one time or another. You need to get some writing done. So, you sit down at the keyboard or grab your notepad with pen; the thing is, your mind draws a blank on what to write. Well, usually, sitting there thinking and thinki...
Twitter – A Few Things Not To Do
I am what you would call a newbie to Twitter. For a long time, I stayed away from the Twitter express. Well, I am now on Twitter train and loving it. Twitter is a excellent way to make new contacts and much more. There are, however, some basic rules ...
OIO Publisher Direct Give Away
Don’t we all like free stuff? Of course we do. Who wouldn’t? I was just reading through my feeds and saw that John Chow dot Com is giving away two copies of OIO Publisher Direct. This is a great piece of software for selling direct advert...
Quick Tip - 5 Helpful WordPress Plugins
If you use wordpress for your blogging platform, then you know about plugins. They are extra components that you “plugin” to extend the functionality of your blog. Here are some helpful plugins that I have come across that will assist you...
