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Graphics, Themes & Colors: Fun Tools For You

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Do you want to… create your own WordPress theme? build the perfect color palette? create and edit images in your browser (without Photoshop)? do fun things with your photos? You’ll like these cool tools! Color Scheme Designer To create a beautiful color palette, play with this tool a bit.  Try the random button! http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Pixlr […]

Online Business Tool Roundup–What Are Your Favorites?

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Here’s a peek behind the scenes at what I’m using to setup and create my blogging class. Sales Page I created the sales page within WordPress using the Premise plugin from Copyblogger.  I love it because it’s a plugin and not a theme, so I can keep my “pretty” theme for my main site but […]

I Fell Head Over Heels *swoon*

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I’ll be honest.  It takes something pretty darn awesome to get me to spend money on a plugin.  I’m not against paid plugins, but there are just so many good free ones that I don’t usually find one I want to spend money on.  In fact, I can count on one hand how many I’ve […]

How to Show Off Your Popular Posts

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Last week I promised I’d share some of the “beyond the basics” plugins I’m running on my blog.  One of those is PostRank and I use it to show off the “hot” posts on my website. Why might you want to show off your popular posts? You want readers to find your best content fast […]

Keep Your Assets Safe!

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What’s Your Plan B for When Disaster Data Loss Strikes? Backups have been a hot topic lately in the blog-o-sphere and online with hackers attacking, sites like YouTube pulling content without warning, and other data loss disasters. So what’s the best way to protect yourself?  You need a backup plan. A good backup plan is […]

5 Ways to Add Visitor Interactivity to Your Website

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Is your website helping you to connect with customers? Or is it just talking for you? The internet is awesome.  It allows us a super cheap way to get the word out to the world about what we do, what we care about, and whatever we want to share. But it can help us do […]

When Good Siggys Go Bad & Get You Tagged as Spam

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Ever have your email go missing?  You write a friend, you don’t hear back, you find out they didn’t get it…  Or you send out an email to your list and get almost no clicks on a link you know they’d be interested in… It’s possible that your signature has gone bad and got you […]

Stop RSS Feed Theft and Score Marketing Points

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While we’re on the topic of content theft and encouraging others to share your content legally and ethically online, let’s chat about our RSS feeds. If you’re a blogger, your site most likely has an RSS feed (if I’ve lost you already, go to this post to find out what I’m typing about here). One […]

8 Things You’re Missing Without a Wrap Up Post

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Are you all tied up?  I couldn’t resist the fun photo for today’s post. You may have noticed the last few months I’ve done a monthly wrap up post.  Have you wondered why? In no particular order, here are 8 of my reasons… As you read them see if it might be something that would […]

Cool Tool: Have You Seen Hello Bar Yet?

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Yeah, you have.  It’s sitting at the very top of my website.  See it up there? It’s the light gray bar that slides down and right now is inviting you to learn my Twitter secrets.  Don’t click it yet.  Stay here and read this post, then you can go check out the Twitter link, k?