Donna Fontenot | Making A Living Online

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...

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...

Great Example: Using An Interesting Story To Lead Into Your Point

I occasionally like to point out the usefulness of telling a story to create interest, engage emotions, and make your point in a way that connects with your readers. I noticed a tweet today that led me...

Totally Rockin Make Your Own Newspaper Thing

Sure, that title isn’t the greatest, but it’s how I describe a site I just discovered because Gabriella (@seocopy) mentioned it on Twitter. Paper.li a site in which you simply give it a...

Conference: The Integration of Social Media and Email Marketing

Want to go to a social media conference in San Francisco in September 2010? I’ve been given a discount code to the Social Email Marketing event that I can pass along to all of you. This conference...

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...

Oh Stop Being Such A FussyPants

Stop Being Such a FussyPants I don’t really know what a fussypants might be, but in my mind, you could substitute “stick in the mud”, “fuddy duddy”, or just “all work...

Don’t Forget These 5 Things On A New Site

I recently acquired the excellent Web Design Checklist, which does a great job of listing all the little things one should remember to include in a new site. I love it. But guess what? I forgot to look at...

Use Coupon Codes For New Site Ideas

I’m not sure how many times a month I have a “brilliant” idea for a new website, but it’s a lot more than I can actually pursue. When the “brilliance” of the idea...

A FamousBloggers ComLuv Contest Sponsor That I’m Already Familiar With

I was happy to see that a familiar face is a sponsor of the FamousBloggers ComLuv Contest. Since this guy is a long-time industry acquaintance of mine, I thought it would be a good idea to let you know a...