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Crowdsourcing: An Interview With Connaxis

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I’ve set up a new category on this site for interviews.
I plan to do one (possibly more) each month with people who offer a service or have experience and knowledge that would be interesting and valuable if you’re running an online business.
These interviews are intended as a resource for you. There’s usually no financial [...]

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If You Want to Make Money Online Sell Something

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A statement of the obvious? Not necessarily.
When I first started researching the idea of working online I found a gazillion sites offering me ‘foolproof’ systems that would ‘guarantee’ to have me earning thousands a week by this time next month.
And none of them involved a product.
Many (if not most) of the MLM or Direct Sales [...]

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Money? Fame? Or Both?

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What do you really want for your blog?
If I’m to believe Johnny B Truant’s message it isn’t your first answer.
And I do believe him because, honestly, the answer I’ve given myself for a long time is not the real answer either.
I’ve spent months (years, actually) focused solely on building up traffic for my blog. So [...]

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Mistakes to Avoid When Launching a Website

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A couple of incidents recently reminded me of two important principles when it comes to launching websites:
Firstly: KISS
Secondly: GIOT
KISS stands for Keep It Short and Simple
GIOT stands for Get It Out There.
Despite my best efforts, the project I’m currently leading here in HK is in danger of failing because of KISS – or the lack [...]

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I Hate These People

by Martin

It’s such a shame that people like this can’t channel their skills into something worthwhile, instead of screwing up other people’s PC’s.
A friend called me on Saturday morning because his PC had caught a Virus. Could I help him sort it out, he wanted to know.
We met up just after lunch and I switched [...]

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Why Do You Blog?

by Martin

Interesting article on Nathan Hangen’s blog this week: There’s More to Life Than Blogging.
In it he asks why you blog and suggests you should know the answer before you start.
It reminded me of the number of times I’ve seen this question (or something like it) on Twitter:
“I just started a new blog – what do [...]

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Banned for Life

by Martin

You’ve been banned for life by Google. No recourse, no further discussion.
That was the opening message in an advertising pitch I saw recently for a book on Google Adwords.
And it annoyed the hell out of me.
It’s the kind of advertising that gives Internet Marketers a bad reputation, and yet it obviously works or people wouldn’t [...]

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Why Should Expertise Be Free Just Because It’s Online?

by Martin

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions.
I’m continually making resolutions to improve the way I do things, so what’s so different about January 1st?
But two articles recently caught my interest and, since it is January, they’ve provoked the closest thing I’ve come to a New Year’s resolution.
It’s about being paid for my expertise.
This article on Men [...]

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WordPress Security is Not Just About WordPress

by Martin

One of my customer’s WordPress installations was hacked and turned into an attack site over the weekend.
I got a plea for help on New Year’s Day because she couldn’t view her site or log in – she just got an error message whenever she tried to do either.
When I reviewed the file that was referred [...]

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What Can Go-Karting Teach You About Blogging?

by Martin

I had a plan to go Karting with a friend yesterday, but a couple of hours before we left we got a text message warning us that the weather wasn’t looking good and it may be called off.
I met up with Robert as planned (I’d agreed to help him with something else prior to leaving) [...]

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Wapple Architect – Mobilise Your WordPress Blog

by Martin

Here was I, working away on my removing-plugins-crusade and I’ve blown it.
I just added one.
Actually, not really added – replaced. But I removed the one I’ve replaced a while ago, so it feels like adding.
This blog is now mobile-friendly again, thanks to the Wapple Architect.

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How to Add Another Domain to Hostgator

by Martin

I was helping someone restore their blog the other day. They had tried to add a new domain to their Hostgator account and the result wasn’t pretty.
Their existing blog (the primary domain for their Hostgator account) was suddenly not available at all. In any guise.
We couldn’t navigate to it as a visitor and [...]

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