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Jan 25

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How Five Years of Blogging Has Changed Me [link]

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

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Jan 25

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How to Use Twitter – Tips for Bloggers [link]

How to Use Twitter – Tips for BloggersThis article can help any business with their Twitter strategy, not just bloggers.

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Jan 23

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Less, Part 2: Noise

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 [...]

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Jan 23

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Carnival of the Capitalists

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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Jan 22

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Marketing your Website, A Podcast Series (Part 3)

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 [...]

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Jan 18

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

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 [...]

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Jan 18

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Can Anyone Comment?

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 [...]

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Jan 18

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Bad, Bad Business Blogging Practices [link]

Bad, Bad Business Blogging Practices – The Short ListWhat not to do with your business blog.

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Jan 17

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Carnival of the Capitalists

The transitional edition of Carnival of the Capitalists for the week of January 14, 2007 is up at Bizosphere. Of note:

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Jan 17

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Death to procrastination [link]

Death to Procrastination: Use the 4-day win to get your goals movingMartha Beck thinks you can get anything done if you can break it down into a 4-day action plan.

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Jan 17

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Ten Laws for Better E-mail [link]

Ten Laws for Better E-mailE-mail netiquette is often forgotten in the business world, and it can lead to a lot of trouble. Here’s a reminder on the dos and don’ts.

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Jan 17

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How to Get 1,100 Subscribers in Five Days [link]

How to Get 1,100 Subscribers in Five DaysUsing one established product is a technique you can use in any business, blogging or otherwise.

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