Happy Halloween and The Upcoming Season

Happy Halloween, Y’all! I hope today and tonight is filled with fun and laughter as you watch the little kiddies, all decked out in their cutest little fright costumes, scamper through your neighborhoods. Enjoy!
But what else does this day mean? For me, it means the start of the holiday season. None [...]

New Way To Monetize Your Site Or Blog That I Really Like

Jim Kukral has just opened up his new Scratchback system to beta users. You may remember that I wondered what it was going to be all about a couple of months ago. Now we know, and I gotta say that this looks extremely cool from every perspective.
Look to the right. See the [...]

Working Through The Tedium

We all have our likes and dislikes; our strengths and weaknesses. No matter how much each of us might love the work we do, there will always be some aspects that will be less enjoyable than others. The parts of my job that I hate the most are the ones that I consider [...]

Let Your Readers Follow Your Progress

This may not work for everyone in every situation, but it could work well for some of you. Once you’ve established a loyal following of readers, and you have some kind of relationship with them, you could successfully pull off an extended “watch while I do something” exercise. What does that mean? [...]

Tool Every Blogger Needs

I was going to post something a little more serious today, but changed my mind when I saw this blogger’s “motivation tool”. I’ll save the serious stuff for tomorrow, but today, especially since it’s Friday, I wanted you to lighten up a bit. Click on the thumbnail pic or click here to check [...]

Learning More About Personal Branding

Although I’ll be commenting here about personal branding from time to time, there’s a place you can get lots of information about that subject from a whole host of experts. Personal Branding Magazine publishes quarterly, and puts out some really great articles from some very fine authors. (Disclosure note: I’m one of [...]

How To Accept Payments For Downloadable Digital Goods

You’ve decided to sell something. Maybe it’s an ebook or a script or some other downloadable product. Maybe you wrote or programmed the product yourself. Maybe you paid for the rights to sell something someone else programmed or wrote. In any case, you have a product to sell. Now how [...]

Finding Relevant Conversations

As I’ve previously mentioned, networking with others in your topic area is extremely important for building your base of site visitors. If you haven’t already established yourself as a regular within the communities that serve your niche, you may be wondering how to find them. Here are just a few examples of searches [...]

Three Cool WordPress Video Plugins

Video is hot. Never turn your back on hot. If you can utilize video on your site or in your blog posts, you give your users the new media they crave. You don’t have to use it often, but occasionally dropping a Youtube or similar video into a blog post can really [...]

2 Dozen Blog Networks Actively Seeking Bloggers

Below is a list of two dozen blog networks that have contact information specifically for bloggers wishing to apply to write for the network. Some of these are paid positions, while others are not. If you are looking to make money from home, getting paid by blog networks to blog for them can [...]