If you’ve ever considered starting your own online membership site, this may be for you. My friend from Australia, Yaro Starak, has created a 72-page, free report that’s loaded with information on how he uses membership sites to build a community and a six-figure income for himself.
As I read through the report, I was amazed [...]
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I cannot tell you the number of people I know who decide to have a blog in support their career, projects or something new, like writing a book or gaining celebrity status, only to discover that their own name as a domain main is not available. Happens all the time, especially to authors, journalists, politicians, [...]
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Solostream – a theme developer for Wordpress that I use – is introducing its latest, magazine-style theme for Wordpress – WP-CLEAR – with a limited-time special offer through BlogStrategies.net. Details below.
Let me just note that I do not benefit financially from this special offer but I do endorse Solostream themes for Wordpress.
Open and airy in its [...]
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eMarketer.com reports some dramatic statistics about the popularity of blogging among Internet users in the U.S. – There are an estimated 27.9 million bloggers online now, and the number is increasing steadily. By 2013, there may be 37.6 million bloggers:
If yesterday’s blogs were about personal expression, today’s are about two-way conversations that take place on [...]
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Alex Demming has written an interesting post on the blog, CatsWhoCode.com, that I wanted to excerpt and link to it here. You might find something of merit. He writes:
The problem: there are so many WordPress themes out there these days that it is hard to get noticed and stand out from the crowd.
The solution: create [...]
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The other day, a Wordpress theme developer send me a theme he had created, and asked that I review it here. I checked out his theme, and emailed him back with a few questions about how to change font sizes and customize the theme. I never heard back from him. To me, at least, that’s [...]
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Mike Durkin and his talented team at Solostream have released an exciting new theme for Wordpress blogs that brings visual appeal, easy customization and dynamic interactivity … all without a user needing to learn code or css. The new theme is called WP-Jazz 1.0.
Here are a few of the features:
A special, easy to use control [...]
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We had a time change just now in America, from standard time to daylight savings time. While most computers handle such time changes automatically, Wordpress software that drives blogs does not. It is a manual change but takes just a minute.
Sign-in, and go to Settings, General. Look for Time Zone. In America, it’s a minus [...]
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With the latest version – 1.4.2 – of the popular Thesis theme for Wordpress blogs is a very appealing option to create “Features and Highlights.” In addition to the standard blog look of postings listed on the page, Thesis permits one or several Feature stories, followed by Highlights.
You can see a good example of this [...]
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Steve Shanafelt dreamed of having his own newspaper. So, six months ago, he launched The Spartanburg Spark, using Wordpress. Here’s what he writes about the experience:
In a few days, SpartanburgSpark.com will be officially be six months old.
That’s an incredibly strange thing to find myself typing. It hardly feels like half a year has passed since [...]
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