Passions That Pay

I learned several tips from Linda Dessau during last week’s Passion Project BTR show. These are the particular standouts for me.
1. If you struggle with writing:-
a) consider if you really need to write. Although you may have had it drummed into you that blogs and article marketing are great (and they are!) they are not [...]

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I am pleased to be part of the blog tour of Linda Dessau’s new book which is a step by step guide to produce highly polished and grammatically correct writing. Although she focuses on coaches as her target market, this book is really for anyone who wants to improve their written skills.I wanted to know [...]

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Today on my BTR show, Charly Leetham and I were listing our favorite wordpress plugins. Here is our master list.
Anti spam (comments)

http://akismet.com/ comes installed
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
Installer
http://anirudhsanjeev.org/oneclick-plugin/ – both Charly and I LOVE this one – will install any plugin or theme directly from the zip folder – no more downloading, unzipping and then uploading!
Social Bookmarking
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/ (Charly’s pick)
http://www.milienzo.com/wordpress-plugins/i-love-social-bookmarking/ [...]

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On a Yahoo group recently, I was involved in a debate about whether 2 column Wordpress themes were a better choice than 3 column. One woman was arguing vehemently that 2 column was the only choice and there was evidence to back her up.
We hear this all the time. One person convinced that [...]

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Reasons to comment on blogs
It is another way to get your name out there
It is a great way to start building a relationship with the blog creator and his or her audience
If they have a dofollow plugin then you will receive a backlink for your site (Firefox has a plugin that tests for this that [...]

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I am going to be closely following Lynn Terry this next month as she follows a course on 31 days to make a better blog .
The first day’s task was to write a better “about me” page and this is something that has been bothering me for a while as I know my page [...]

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This weekend a friend of mine had her website hacked and inspired me to research into the security breaches in wordpress websites. I found out something very surprising.
Type into your browser http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-content/plugins/ – replacing the words YOURDOMAIN with your actual url.
If you see a list of all your plugins then so [...]

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There is constant buzz about Web 2.0 and social marketing and new terms fly thick and fast. It can be hard to keep up. I have been hearing the term social bookmarking over and over but didn’t feel I properly understood it so I have researched it and wanted to share my findings with my [...]

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1. Akismet
This plugin comes with the wordpress download. It does a wonderful job of catching spam – and believe me you want to catch all spam as much of it is the opposite of family friendly. It has to be activated from the plugins tab and you will need your Wordpress API key.
2. Statpress
The geeky [...]

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One of the reasons some people are put off building a blog is the idea that it is VERY time consuming. Certain bloggers are very prodigious, producing several posts a day or writing mini novels but there is evidence to suggest that short and sweet can be just [...]

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