From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days [link]

January 30, 2008

From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 90 Days
Learn strategies on growing your blog subscribers that are also relevant to any website’s traffic.

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Carnival of the Capitalists

January 30, 2008

Side note: I didn’t get a chance to enter in this week’s CotC nor have I been writing much this week. I have a sick 2-year-old right now, and the world pretty much stops for her.

This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists for January 29, 2008 is up at Bizosphere. This week’s host is cehwiedel from One Man Band. Of note in this week’s CotC:

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Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series (Part 4)

January 30, 2008

The fourth podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here:
Marketing your Website #4 of 5: Create Press and Write Articles

If you would like to download the podcast directly, you can control-click (or right-click on a PC) this link and save it to your hard drive.

Stay tuned to Small Business Essentials (perhaps by using the convenient subscribe buttons to your right, if you are viewing this at the website!) and I will update you weekly as each one is released.

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How Five Years of Blogging Has Changed Me [link]

January 25, 2008

How Five Years of Blogging Has Changed Me
Rob May reflects on the experiences and lessons learned from blogging over the years.

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How to Use Twitter - Tips for Bloggers [link]

January 25, 2008

How to Use Twitter - Tips for Bloggers
This article can help any business with their Twitter strategy, not just bloggers.

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Less, Part 2: Noise

January 23, 2008

I dropped the ads from my site.

In the end, it had nothing to do with the aesthetics or the influence, but with clarity. I simply felt the ads were distracting me from my true, internal reasons for having this site, and I couldn’t let that happen. The ads were removed, my purpose for this site has been reaffirmed, and all order has been restored.

Which brings me back to my continued goal of Less for 2008: Less Noise. By taking the time to reflect on my true goals and eliminate outside influences in my decision, I came up with the right decision for me—and that is what "less noise" is all about.

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Carnival of the Capitalists

January 23, 2008

The all-new Carnival of the Capitalists for January 21st, 2008 is up at Bizosphere. This week’s host is Mike from PartnerUp. Of note in this week’s CotC:

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Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series (Part 3)

January 22, 2008

The third podcast in the 5 Steps to Marketing your Website series has been released, and you can listen to it here:
Marketing your Website #3 of 5: Build Your Word of Mouth and Viral Marketing

If you would like to download the podcast directly, you can control-click (or right-click on a PC) this link and save it to your hard drive.

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Is Money the Root of All Evil? (Writing with Purpose)

January 18, 2008

I have been writing in this blog for just about a year, and I have been through a number of changes:

The blog was once on a subdomain of my company, and now has its own domain.
I started at infrequent posts, then went to 2-3 posts a week, and now am at 5-6 posts per week.
The topics have changed as my voice has developed and my experience has grown.

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Can Anyone Comment?

January 18, 2008

I have been having a lot of problems commenting on other blogs lately, which is making it a little hard to participate on some of my favorite sites. Today, the problem occurred to me when I couldn’t submit something in my own WordPress admin. There seems to be some problem between Firefox and the WordPress submit functions. (Mac only? I don’t know.) Has anyone experienced this? How about on my site—anyone have a problem? If you can’t post a comment on this entry to tell me about a problem, just e-mail me. I’m hoping this post will draw some Google traffic for people having the same issues so that we can get to the bottom of it. In the meantime, I am using Safari to read my regular daily fare to see if that helps. Did I mention that I really kinda hate Safari?

Update

I’ve been contacted by the support department at Akismet, who say they have fixed this problem on their end. I am going to test that theory out today and see if it is true.

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