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Yes, paypal really does suck. I, like so many others, have witnessed it first hand. read more »
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Learn how to effectively accomplish two goals. The first is fish and the second is to make money. I'm serious. read more »
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Don't trash old articles that you've written. Don't bury them in the past. Go through your blog every now and again and dust them off so you can show them off to the world read more »
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In any business endeavor the most important thing is name recognition. Do people know who you are and what your name is? If they don't how do you expect them to "spread the word"? Remember the only thing worse than good publicity is no publicity! read more »
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Google apps is a powerful web-based software suite developed by our "friends" at Google labs which allows you to use Google tools under your own domain name. It is easy to use, intuitive, and powerful. The learning curve, like all Google products is read more »
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Remember all the times you've come across one of those articles admonishing you to "back up all of your data"? Well, this is another one of those posts. You'll learn first hand why you should always, always, always take the time to backup. Beyond th read more »
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Think of all the ways you could spend an extra $100.00 especially after Christmas when you bills come due. Everyone knows money doesn't grow on trees, but it does seem to grow on blogs. Everyone "and their sister" are giving away money (and other pr read more »
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In this article we take a look at a particular social bookmarking site which caters to bloggers and we examine briefly a few reasons why it might be in potential trouble. Just to get things rolling I'll tell you it is exteremly easy to have a post g read more »
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The internet is one of those places where we say and do all kinds of things that we don't expect others to ever know about. Oh sure we "let it all hang out" online, but we think we hide behind a certain level of anonymity. Fact of the matter is that read more »
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This is the second in a three part series about building a community. In this article we take a look at how important participation is in your community. We look at how, when, where, and why to participate. If you are attempting to develop a communi read more »
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When you hold a contest you'll need to do more than simply choose a winner, announce it, and explain. You'll need to take into account the human factor. This was my first "big" contest and I have to say what I expected to learn I didn't, but I learn read more »
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Blogger/Google has once again out-done themselves. They have apparently taken away the ability of non-blogger users to comment on blogger users blogs and include a linkback url. Actually they haven't they've just made it a painful experience, but th read more »
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A blog is only as good as the content that we write for it. In this article we'll be taking a look at how we write. The tone we set with our writing and how the readers reaction is directed by that tone. read more »
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This is the first in a three part series of articles that will take the reader through three key aspects of planning, creating, and managing an online community. These principles are applicable to nearly any type of online community you wish to crea read more »
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Blogging is very much like bull riding! And I have taken the time to prove it just in case you don't believe me for some reason. Just read the article and you'll set that I have laid out 4 very distinct ways they are very much alike. To further illu read more »
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I stumble a lot. Nearly everyday and probably 30-50 stumbles per day. Ok, maybe it's not a huge amount of stumbles but it could easily be more. In this article you'll find ways to increase your stumbles. These methods can be used with any social boo read more »
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Abandoned blogs litter cyberspace and YOU are to blame. At least that's my theory in conjunction with a recently published theory regarding quantum mechanics which says the universe is decaying more rapidly due to our observations of dark matter. Re read more »
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It takes a lot of work to run a successful blog. There is time, skill, and dedication of course. Beyond that however is a "toolkit" which will make life much easier for you if you are faithful to keep it full and your tools sharp. In this article I read more »
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The first beta release of Firefox 3 has "hit the shelves" and is available for download and testing. This is an over view of some changes based upon the release notes. A more in depth review of functionality and user friendliness will be forthcoming read more »
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I'll make this simple. I am offering up a $50.00 reward to the winner of this contest. What is the contest? Glad you asked, and I will be more than happy to answer your questions via this article about it. In short it has to do with how you would ef read more »
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It's funny how we all covet the traffic that comes to our blogs. At least I find it funny. Especially when you consider how little we often do to get that traffic. Myself included. I'm as guilty as all the rest. This post isn't so much about getting read more »
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I'm not too proud to ask for what I need (or want). In this case I need/WANT you to join my community over at "My Blog Log". You see there's a little contest going on that while I'd love to win, after all who doesn't want an extra $100.00, I'm more read more »
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You've just spent the past 2 days researching and writing your best work to date. It's an engaging and informative read yet is quick paced enough that no one will get bored with it. To top it all off it is on a subject with universal appeal. In shor read more »
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This was one of my toughest articles I've ever written because there is so much content to be laid out in front of everyone. Choosing just 3 reasons out of so many was nearly an unbearable task. I trooped on through it however and choose just 3 reas read more »
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Today was trash day in a nearby neighboor hood. I couldn't help but notice how many people were tossing out perfectly good furniture and such except for some scrathes and gouges. It occured to me that a guy could make a business out of picking up th read more »
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