Archive for the 'General Tips' Category

Make Yourself a Resource

Do you have a Resources page on your blog?  I’m sure you have a collection of your favorite sites, and it probably took you a very long time to collect them all. If you take a look through your bookmarks you will probably have a few that are related to the topic of your blog. If [...]

We’re In the Home Stretch!

I really can’t believe its been almost 30 days since I started Connie Ragen Green’s 30-Day Blogging Challenge (#blog30 on Twitter). It’s really amazing how time passes right before your eyes. It feels like its still mid-April when the challenge started. The reason for writing so many posts wasn’t just to have a lot of [...]

How to Add Pics to Your Recent Comments in WordPress

As a special request, this is a quickie to show you how to add visitor photos (aka gravatars) in your comments like I have on my blog.  You will need to have the Recent Comments plugin installed and activated in WordPress. In you Recent Comments configuration screen, click on the Output link to be taken [...]

How To Find Current Chatter About Your Topic

Note: I’ve posted an update to this post to reflect Google’s new interface. Here’s a tip for you to get ideas for content for your blogs, articles and products.  It’s using Google to find the latest chatter about your topic. Let’s say my topic is “motivation”. I want to write a chapter or article with [...]

Are You Ready to Create 10 Products in 100 Days?

I just wanted to announce that EzineArticles.com is about to start their next #HAHD – that is their 100 Articles in 100 days challenge!  They are daring you to submit at least 100 articles in the next 100 days.  If you’re really ambitious they are upping the challenge – 200 articles in 100 days! So, [...]

My First Time Using YouTube Videos

Well I finally decided to try my hand at inserting a YouTube video in my blog.  This is a video by the one and only Kevin Riley of ProductCreationLabs.com.  In this video he’s giving a great tip about “stealing” other peoples ideas.  It’s not really stealing, just watch the video Do you want to insert [...]

The Work Isn’t Over Once Your Ebook is Written

Let’s say that you picked your topic, researched it and finally finished writing it. It’s PDF’d (this is a common format used to protect your ebook and make it compatible with virtually all computers) and you are ready to put it up for sale.  I’m sorry to say, you still aren’t finished writing just yet! [...]