I saw a thread today on the Warrior Forum from someone having trouble inserting an image into a WordPress post. From what he said on the thread I think the cause was more than just finger trouble – but I figured I’d put up a process for it anyway. So here it is – how [...]
Just lately the term ‘blogging voice’ seems to be popping up everywhere. What on earth does it mean? A new technology? Audio blogging? Actually no. It’s much simpler than that in concept, but quite tough to get in practice. But you do need to get it, because it forms part of your branding.
I’ve just read Brian Clark’s latest freebie, Authority Rules. Releasing a publication as good as this for free is, itself, a master-class in marketing on-line. Seth Godin talks about doing things that are remarkable in order to create authority and get people to notice you. Authority Rules expands the boundaries of remarkable. By a long [...]
Thanks to my time and salary being cut by 30% at my day job, I’ve been able to work at home and focus more time on my Internet work. So what have been the benefits? Well it’s nice not to have to work until 1 in the morning because I’m doing 2 jobs, and it’s [...]
“Please post your answer on my blog”. That was the request at the end of a question I read on one of my social sites last week. I see similar requests on other sites. Things like ‘please visit my blog and leave a comment’. If there’s one thing that guarantees I won’t visit their blog, [...]
A while ago I published a step-by-step process for moving the content (posts, comments and labels) from your Blogger blog to a WordPress blog. You can find it here. What I didn’t cover in that post, and what I’ve seen a lot of questions on since, is how to ensure you don’t lose your followers [...]
I’ve been following the questions that people who are using WordPress have been asking on Twitter. As a result, I’ve put together a complete WordPress Tutorial that is designed for people using self-hosted WordPress (from WordPress.org) on their own domains. It takes them from deciding on a domain name, through finding a hosting provider to [...]
I saw a question recently asking how to attach a Word or .PDF file to a WordPress blog post. Here’s the response I offered: There are 3 ways you can do this… Firstly: