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

It’s Only Too Late if You Don’t Start Now*

This is a guest post by Andrew Hall. It’s an unfortunate, occasionally infuriating truth, but almost everything worth doing requires practice to master, no matter what it is. And if you’ve decided to take up something new, and especially if you’ve decided to make that thing the center of a new career, this is even more true. Your success, especially as someone presently unestablished,... read more

When Old-Fashioned Marketing Trumps Sexy Social Media Marketing

This is a guest post by Brandon Leibowitz. Something wrong is happening out there in social media world, and it’s taking over common sense. Social media marketing is an excellent tool for entrepreneurs who want a quicker way to establish brand identity, build relationships and recruit employees and independent contractors. However, there’s something wrong when it takes over your entire... 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

Four Ways To Become An Authority Blogger

The following is a guest post by Roko Nastic. There is no shortage of conversation online. An internet that was once barren – completely devoid of conversation as little as five years ago – has become remarkably social, attracting people from different countries, social classes, and ethnicities to interact and share their opinions. With equal access to information, communications, and publicity... read more

Social Media Marketing – A Book Review

You know all those social media gurus you see everywhere? Round them all up and ask them to raise their hands if they’ve had a major publisher publish their 300+ page book on social media. I’d bet 99.99% of them don’t have a 2 page book published. Liana Evans does, though, and it’s a social media marketing book I’ve just finished reading, so I’m going to share my... 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