Mobile phone use is growing by leaps and bounds around the world, and every day more people access the web from their phones. I recently spent about an hour to create a mobile-friendly version of my blog. I am going to show you how I did it in the next few paragraphs.
What users […]

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Job titles and narrow job descriptions often stand in the way of being effective. It may sound counterintuitive, but by focusing excessively on what we are “supposed to do” we can lose touch with our customers and become irrelevant.
Let’s look at one example: “A” is a mortgage broker who defines his […]

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Have you ever wanted to pick the brain of some of the world’s top bloggers? How about having the opportunity to talk to 40 of them and ask them questions like these:

What’s the best way to make money from your blog?
How do you market your blog?
Which five blogs do you regularly read?
What would you do […]

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Blogs, wikis and social networks are being credited for a renewed interest in writing among college students. Having an audience and a medium for self expression are encouraging members of our younger generations to find their voice and share it with the world.
At the same time, the popularity of texting and micro-blogging […]

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Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett draw upon their wealth of experience with blogs and give us this comprehensive blogging primer.
While the book is mostly focused on making money from blogs, it starts from the beginning: by explaining what is a blog and how to set one up. This takes about three chapters (if you have […]

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I’ve always been impressed by brands and products that build their competitive advantage around the concept of “Easy”. That’s why I decided to check out Posterous.
Posterous is a new blogging platform launched a few months ago by two young entrepreneurs under this very simple premise: to make blogging as easy as sending an email.
Since […]

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If you are an independent professional who has embraced blogging for marketing, you’ve probably asked yourself these three questions:

Should I write long or short posts?
Should I write only original content or can I write about somebody else’s content?
Should I post daily? Weekly? Monthly?

Long vs. Short Copy
While some pundits argue in favor of writing […]

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Darren Rowse, publisher of the wildly successful Problogger blog, has recently written a book . Problogger is all about making money online, has 45,000+ subscribers and features more than 4,000 posts. Probably most of the content in the book can be found by reading and digging deep into the blog (a real treasure […]

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As social media grow in popularity, more small business owners are getting interested in blogging. Once they decide to have a blog the next question is: what tools to use, and how much do they cost?

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The cost of operating a blog is virtually negligible. Around $100/year will buy you […]

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Tumblr is a relatively new blogging platform that lets you post short blurbs of text, links, pictures, quotes, audio and video quickly and easily. Blogs that follow this format are called ‘tumblelogs’.
In essence, Tumblr and tumblelogs remind us of the early stages of blogging, when bloggers acted mostly as editors, pointing readers to interesting […]

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