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In our last post about the power of email, we talked about the two different types of email communication – sending a regular email newsletter or sending a personal message. Remember, email marketing, if executed property, can provide explosive results when growing a business and online presence. Today we’re going to talk about how [...]

One of the things I love is something I like to call absorption.  My goal is to read around the ubiquitous web for 30 to 60 minutes a day and pick up as much knowledge as I can about the social media world.  For me, reading stimulates that squishy material in between my ears and [...]

Consistency is quite possibly the most important element of everything you do.  As a blogger and a marketer, your readers crave consistency.  They need it to relate to your brand and trust you.  That trust is essential to your growth and your success.
Think about 3 of the blogs that you read most.  How often do [...]

If you’ve been working with Wordpress for any length of time, I’m sure you’ve come across the menacing white screen of death.  Here’s how to fix it.
Recently I moved one of my blogs to a new server.  Everything went smoothly, the server environment was the same, the database imported correctly and when the name servers [...]

Who doesn’t love a bunch of mind-blowing stats that feed the imagination and drive motivation to get involved?  Jesse Thomas animated this video for a conference and within it’s confines lies some amazing stats.  Enjoy!

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

What the heck are you talking about, you may be saying right now.  Let me explain.
You know on Twitter, when you type the @ symbol succeeded by someone’s Twitter name, and the final text ends up making the name an active hyperlink back to their Twitter page?  That’s that I’m talking about.  Now, on Facebook [...]

The secret-but-not-so-secret buzz about Facebook’s conceptualization of releasing the capability of it being a full-blown communication platform has ignited conversation all over the Internets.  Speculation is being made from either side of the field on whether it will be a Gmail killer.  Can Facebook take on the 800 lbs gorilla?  Maybe Facebook is an 800 [...]

This is part 1 in a series of posts that will show you how to use email marketing to grow your traffic and therefore grow your business quickly and easily.
I get asked all the time, “Can email marketing help my business, is it worth my time and is it something I can even do?”  Yes, [...]

It’s no secret that Wordpress is the best blogging platform and most widely used self-hosted blogging system available.  With endless extendability options, you can pretty much make a standard Wordpress installation look anyway you want and use it for any kind of web site.  Even popular CMS systems like Joomla and Drupal are shrinking in [...]

So, you want to be a blogger, do you? You think you have what it takes? It sounds easy, but it isn’t, really. It takes hard work, dedication, patience and a bunch of other things, or nothing at all! Here are the 5 reasons bloggers fail at blogging and how to [...]