Launch With Just One Killer Feature

Just One! Whether you are planning to launch a new product or a new website, keep this in mind. Launch with just one KILLER feature. If you happen to have a site that’s ready to go with tons of top-quality content, and lots of killer features, fine. But that’s not usually the case. Here’s a little story of what usually happens instead. Bob’s Big Idea Some guy, we’ll call him... read more

6 Great Lesser-Known WordPress Theme Packages or Clubs

I love premium WordPress themes. Generally, they are well-designed and come with lots of great options. The drawback, of course, is that they cost money, and if you tend to create blogs often, that adds up pretty quickly. For those people who love to create new blogs, or are simply theme junkies, theme clubs/memberships or theme packages are great deals. With theme packages, you pay one price to download... read more

6 Powerful WordPress Plugins For Extreme Content Control

If you’ve longed for really powerful plugins to help you manipulate your blog content in ways that WordPress doesn’t normally allow, you’ll probably wish you’d known about these 6 free plugins long ago. Show Content Based On Certain Conditions Below are 3 plugins that allow you to show or hide content based upon certain conditions. Each is useful in different... read more

How Many Angles Can You Come Up With For One Topic?

Remember that old word game where you write down as many smaller words as possible from one larger word? Whoever comes up with the most words from the one larger word wins the round. Take that same concept, twist it around a bit, and you’ve got a great content strategy. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you have a site about cupcakes. We’ll pretend you are writing blog content about... read more

5 Sites To Get Awesome Designs At Affordable Prices

The following is a guest post by Lior. For those of you new to crowdsourcing, it’s something that you may want to look into if you need work done and want to save some money. It simply means the job you need doing is farmed out to a community of workers rather than one particular company. A good example would be if you needed a designer. Instead of putting your “eggs in one basket” so to... read more

Online Product Ideas – Infographic

Everyone wants to know how to make money online. The simple answer is to create a product that people want to pay for. Of course, the next question usually involves something along the lines of, “What kind of product should I create? Got any ideas?” Yes, I do have ideas for products that you can create online. I’ve created the following infographic to help kickstart your idea phase. ... read more

Hacked Blogs: Who Ya Gonna Call?

How many times have you seen the panicked tweets of people who’ve had their blogs hacked? Ever wondered what you should do if it happened to you? Today, I’m talking to an expert in dealing with hacked WordPress blogs, Michael VanDeMar. Listen, learn, and then be careful out there! How He Knows Donna: I know you have a popular blog post that describes how to completely clean your hacked... read more

How To Transition From a Personal Blog To A Business Blog Without Losing All Your Regular Visitors

This blog started out, over 4 years ago, as my personal blog. At the time, my business blog was SEO Scoop, and I needed someplace to talk about the weird things that happened in my regular life, so I created this blog to cover that. Deciding To Change Over time, my interests changed, and I subsequently sold SEO Scoop. I’d decided that I wanted to center my work days around the more general topic of... read more

A Quick Site Audit

Two things converged today for me today. First, I found out that there is finally a pizza place that will deliver food to my area. Hooray! That’s a big deal, since no restaurants of any sort has done that in my small town before now. Second, I was looking at the websites of some of the sponsors of the FamousBloggers Comluv contest, and noticed that one was a Chinese takeout place that also delivers.... read more

Challenge Yourself To Create An Exciting Piece of Content

When was the last time you placed a really exciting piece of content on your site? If the answer is “It’s been a while” or “Never”, you’re missing out on opportunities to expand your reach, attract new audiences, and potentially bring in massive amounts of traffic. Why not challenge yourself to create (or start creating) a new, exciting piece of content... read more