Category: General
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Edit your WordPress Theme with this plugin
One of the things that can take a new website owner a lot of time to learn is how to make changes to a theme they have purchased. You have to dig through the code and figure out what changes to make where. Now if you are needing to make big changes I’d advise you…
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What’s been going on with the WordPress for Business community?
Well things have been a bit quieter here lately. I’ve been working on some things behind the scenes but I’m also trying to figure out exactly where things are headed for this community. WordPress Business Themes – How To Posts I have been getting a disproportionate amount of search results on my articles about the…
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Permission Marketing
One important aspect to building a business online is marketing to your current and potential customers. Marketing can be done hundreds of ways but today I wanted to talk briefly about using email. One person I have great respect for is Seth Godin. As a business/marketing author he has had written many great books and…
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Be VERY Careful with Link Building
I have yet to talk much about Search Engine Optimization on this site. Building a good website with good content is the most important thing that you can do. Building content however, does not mean that people will come to your website and be able to find you on Google or other engines. SEO is…
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Too old to start a web business?
Photo Credit: Dietmar Temps via Compfight You’ve been working now for 25 or 30 years. Suddenly, you wake up one morning and a question starts to form in your mind. Maybe you start to feel bored, wondering if you really can do this for another 15 years day in and day out. Maybe you’re starting to feel scared. You see…
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No website? You’re out of business!
This really isn’t a joke. If you don’t have a website it won’t be long before you’ll be out of business. We use the Internet for everything these days. We make friends and talk about things, we buy things, and we research things before we buy them, all online. When someone asks you a question…
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And the winner is…
So the contest ended last night and the winner (Results powered by Random.org) is Camilla Jean! I know you all wanted a website, so I’ve decided to help you out a bit. You can follow my guides (pdf version) and do it yourself, but what I have decided to do is offer anyone who entered a discounted…
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Design your own WordPress theme
Just a reminder that the Free Website Contest ends tonight at midnight (EST). So I don’t have a long post here but I wanted to let you all know I didn’t disappear off the face of the earth. I’ve been working on some things on the side, my PayPal shopping cart plugin (which I was hoping…
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New Security Plugin
I thought that was interesting and thought I would share it with you. If you search the wordpress.org plugin directory for the word “security” you get 1000+ results. If you look through the first few plugins you see things like checking your file permissions, removing access to non-admin users to some pages, removal of identifiable information…
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Free WordPress Website Giveaway
Do you want to have a website but don’t know where to start? You don’t want to take the time to build the site and learn what it takes to get one setup? Well I’ve decided to offer a free website setup kit valued at $585. The contest will run for 10 days beginning now…