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Link Bait: Blogging for two audiences

Here is the paradox: you must reach your market with a message that will generate leads to feed your business.

You must also reach the geeks and journalists who may republish and link to your articles, creating traffic and search…

Manage your Google reputation free!

Have you typed your name into Google lately? What do people find when they do?

photo credit: Nils Geylen

Your reputation can be intentionally managed:

Plugin Free Wordpress Profile Gravatars - Enable them in your blog comments NOW!

As a web designer, I’ve long held the stance that it was better to have the visitors of your website upload the photo / picture of themselves to use for profiles and comments directly on your site ( local avatars).…

Should you use Wordpress to build your next website? Beginning Wordpress Basics

photo credit: Sicos

Wordpress is web software for online publishing.  Notice that I didn’t use the word blog, even though wordpress is blogging software.  It has been expanded to be A LOT more then that and shouldn’t considered in the same…

Create HTML Signatures in Microsoft Office 2007

Here is a tutorial I put together on making a custom HTML Signature for your Email Address in Outlook Using Microsoft Office 2007!

Multi-user Wordpress with BBPress Forums: Social Media Marketing

Our new version of MUWordpress combined with BBPress and a few tweaks turns wordpress into a social media community.  Imagine the value for a Real Estate brokerage with hundreds of agents launching a community site: see :

We will be…

Social Networking and Team Building

In this exclusive preview to the “Power to the People” speech to the regional owners of Exit Realty this year, Patty Plourde, a real estate veteran of many years will say:

“I started my Real Estate sales career in 1985 with…

Everything on the Internet is New, Dying, Dead or Golden

The frist time Google sees it, it is new, new is good…

What do New York, Las Vegas, Alabama, WashingtonDC, Maryland have in common?

They are now not available! The roll-out continues: Exit Realty is sponsoring the state of New York, Nevada…looks like perhaps half the nation for the local news area of Real Estate Magazine website (RISMedia.com): anybody non-competitive can submit news to…

Wrist pain relief medicine big seller online: over 5,000 contacts:

Hi John,

Sorry for the delay–I’ve been swamped. Thank you for this opportunity. Below is my testimonial. Please let me know if I can make any improvements:

 An amazing phenomenon happened to me last November. I was getting about ten…

Testimonial: Metaphor Travel Company

Article Writing Guidelines - Creating Quality Content

A frequent question from many of our clients is “what do I write” or “how do I write.” Here are some good ideas for creating quality content for your site. Keep in mind that the article and/or post will be…

Why does Internet Advertising not work for everyone?

We hear this often: these guys had results immediately, while I have been doing everything and got no results.  It is true: the same people continue to succeed, while others continue to fail: our beta testers in Denver  who got immediate results,…

Blogging Errors & PureText

Many of our readers use Wordpress, and frequently run into the common mistake of copying text from Word or some other program, pasting it into Wordpress and finding it has numerous formatting errors and rich text code errors they didn’t…

New testimonial from AWDAuto - Advertising dollars are never well spent if you don’t track…

Our Social Media System site launched in late September 2007 and almost immediately we noticed an increase in customers that had initially found us on the web.…

Video Blogging in Real Time from a Phone!

This is really great: I learned how to operate this Nokia n93i (which i had to buy overseas, it is not here yet) in only a couple of hours, and this is the first video I recorded: it is already…

Washington CEO Business Networking

There is a growing trend in social media to relate real life interactions to the web, and web interactions to real life. This is nowhere more apparent than in the CEO and executive space- where sites like Linkedin and Zoodango are trying…

15 New Years Resolutions for your 2008 Website:

• I will get connected so I know it when I get a lead
• I will syndicate an RSS feed that originates at my Domain
• I will become an authority for my area and/or niche topic
•  I will rank on the first page organic…

WordPress Plugins | turn blog into a social media community with forums features

I was able to create this robust setup using an off-the-shelf theme, the latest Wordpress, and a new forums plug-in in two hours flat: http://dobusinessinoregon.com/, and another where my rep has already started adding content: http://businessinthebayarea.com/:

Now the real work begins,…