Sunday, February 17, 2008
No one needs bad business
Quite often I will be approached by persons to set up an online store for them who know very little about what is involved and what they want or even need. These type of people must be treated with caution when entering into a contracting situation and for a number of reasons. All of which are the...
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Anyone need an online store?
A few months ago, I set out to apply what I have learned about constructing templates to the real world. I started with a Wordpress theme, have a working copy that is used by a few people but realized that there is very little potential for an ongoing revenue stream from this so more or less...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Free blogging software for serious bloggers
One of the things I have gotten from Blogit is a rudimentary understanding of the world of weblogs. From the word "weblog" we have derived the common vernacular to describe it as a "Blog" and subsequently those who would utilize a weblog for instantaneous internet publishing have come to be known as...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
This blog is moving on
After completing the small sale of my website along with the rights to my eBook, I am one blog in the public blogasphere short. Not that I can't live with one less blog but I have this thing about my blogs being organized into general topics. So... my long running blog Web Raisins, which was closed...
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
More developments for my public blog
One of the biggest things that using Wordpress as a blog publishing platform does for you is give you content management capability (CMS). Once it is understood that Wordpress is what it is, a great number of efficencies can be built into your online publishing efforts. The use of RSS feeds becomes...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Where does the blogging revenue come from?
I've had a number of people ask me this question pertaining to my new public sports blog LeafsRant.com Revenue is earned primarily through affiliate links leading site visitors to commercial sites selling everything from tickets to jerseys to collectibles. There are also a few other revenue streams...
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Monday, January 28, 2008
The finished product
A blog can make a real nice website once you become familiar with how to set it up properly. My 3 day old website was indexed by Google in less than a day, even before it was ready to go live which it is now... albeit just barely. I got caught up in cross browser testing, many people are still using...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Blogging for money
Whether many of you Blogit members appreciate it or not, as you idle time on this site chit chatting and generally goofing off, much knowledge is finding its way into your brain by osmosis. Many are learning to spell (count me in there, as I have had to learn how to speak and write American...
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Friday, January 25, 2008
The ultimate challenge - making money online
Unlike so many other people that we have all happened upon in our lives, I make no claims of knowing how to make serious money online. Simply because I have never done it. I have only made mediocre money and pocket change online, with a few small successes interspursed amongst a much larger number...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
What is the best freebie on the internet?
If I were to cast my vote for the best free software program on the internet, I would be stuck. There are about a dozen software programs I use regularly that were free but I have to admit that these things may not be useful to everyone. So the criteria for "What is the best freebie on the...
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