Category Archives: Blogging

Do You Need WordPress Hosting?

If you are just starting out, or you have run into difficulties with WordPress, you might wonder if what you need is on of the “WordPress Hosting” services you see advertised. My answer is, “Almost certainly not.” Although you will … Continue reading

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So Far, So Bad

I’ve added enough content to the site that it should be time for me to start seeing a little bit of organic search traffic. Or so I thought. According to StatPress Visitors, I’m getting about 100 hits per day, but … Continue reading

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Ringing Out The Old

I have deliberately avoided any public mention of commercial holidays (which is, roughly speaking, all of them) in this blog, although in several of my other businesses, I make a fairly big deal of them. In one of my businesses, … Continue reading

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Skype Video Recording

I have toyed around with doing interviews on Skype on some of the sites, and the results have been somewhat less than wonderful. The interviews themselves were great, and actually got some good traffic in return for the information presented. … Continue reading

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Traffic Mastermind

If you have done some affiliate marketing, and have an established site that is getting a bit of traffic, then this free video should definitely interest you (and you can probably skip the OTO). This free video (nearly two hours … Continue reading

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The “Get Rich Quick” Scam Formula

Over on The Verge, there is an interesting article entitled Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster. What made it really interesting is that the author of the article, Joseph L. Flatley, took on some of the biggest … Continue reading

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How to Spy on Your Competition

Spying on your competition is a time-honored method of obtaining an advantage when you are first starting out in any business. It’s fairly obvious that if you want to make a lot of money, you need to find somebody who is already making a lot of money in the type of business that you want to be in, and copy what that person is doing (as best you can). However, there are some interesting pitfalls in the process. Continue reading

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Free WordPress Backup Plugin?

EDIT: This is embarrassing… but when I got the renewal notice from iThemes, I just assumed it was for BackupBuddy.

It wasn’t.

It was for another suite of plugins. BackupBuddy is licensed through 2037. Which means that the time I spent evaluating other backup solutions, which I covered in some detail below, was completely wasted. I am leaving the article itself unedited, though. Note to self — try not to do something like this again… Continue reading

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A Tip for Getting Better Outsourcing Performance

I just love double entendres… you should catch the double meaning of the title shortly. Many years ago, I learned a valuable lesson from a former mayor of a city in which I was operating a computer store. This was … Continue reading

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Some W00t! Milestones

I had not checked the traffic stats in quite a while, since I really did not expect that kind of growth this early in the game, and frankly, I’ve been really busy with other things. However, 100 visitors/day is sort of a magic number. It’s a signal that it’s time to start a new phase. Stay tuned! Continue reading

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