The Right Mindset Makes It Easy To Make Blogs Work For Your Business
Blogging has been growing in leaps and bounds! We are blogging about just about anything you can think of. From the daily routine of their cat, to technology
reviews, to politics.
Until the blogosphere sorts itself out and matures a bit more, it may be difficult to tell exactly how this new frontier of instant publishing can help you and your business grow. But don’t worry – you’ll start getting a flood of new ideas in the coming months.
21st Century Blogging: Online Journaling Introduction
Blogging and social networking are inextricably linked in the sense that both contain certain features and certain properties of one another. Both are aimed at creating a wide movement as far as multimedia interaction is concerned. Though it is true that blogs can be regulated and kept very private, the main purpose of them is to reach out to large numbers of people, to have a medium to voice your opinion.
Another similarity is that both these concepts have existed in cyber space for almost a decade now, but in the initial stages both were rather exclusive of one another. Only in the recent times have they been merged, and their similarity in motives truly recognized.
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Are You Using A Free WordPress Theme?
There is a plethora of ‘Free WordPress Themes‘
out there, with most coming from authors who
truly want to help you be successfull at what
ever you are doing.
Here is a link to TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker)
which can help you keep your theme on the straight
and narrow, by finding code that may not always
follow WordPress rules.
Finding such code you can then check with the
theme author as to what it’s use is and determine
if you want to continue using the theme.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tac/
Hope this helps.
Are You Using Private Label Rights?
One of the easiest ways to get started with content is to use “PLR” (which stands for Private Label Rights).This is content you acquire from someone else and use as is or by updating the material. There is good “PLR” and bad “PLR” but with a little work even bad material can be turned to your advantage.
For me, I sometimes find it hard to start an article. So I take a piece of PLR – good or bad – and begin rewriting it, though it is nice to be able to grab PLR that is good right from the start.
Father’s Day
Taking dad out to breakfast or dinner? Or presenting him with that tie he won’t wear after today but will cherish when ever he looks at it? After all, it came from you. While most of us may not chose the most appropriate gift for dad, today we do honor him for what he gives us on a daily basis.
My dad passed very early in my life so I did not get to know him as I would have liked. I know he cared for his family. That he was hard worker, trying to provide.
As a child I do have memory of him taking my brother and I up the street to the creamery (we lived in a small town in Pennsylvania) and enjoying some ice cream with him – he loved ice cream. But it wasn’t until our teenage and later years when we would have really come to know and enjoy him. Unfortunately that was not to be. Enjoy your dad on this Father’s Day.
When dad died, we had an uncle who tried to become a substitute dad for us. But that was not to be either as he passed sooner than he should have. For Larry and I this was a sort of double whammy. Yes we had other family as mom became the bread winner and did her best to provide for us. And Aunts and cousins and a grandfather, etc. But it was never to be the same as having a father.
So spend some time with your dad, get to know and enjoy him – as well as mom – on this his day but on all other days as well.
Happy Father’s Day To All,
Bob
My Mom
I have not become what you might have wished for me. I have not used all that you have given me to become all I might be. And may never.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its
mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
Be that as it may, I take some small pride in saying, “those who know me do so because they wish to, not because they have to”! And that is because of what you gave to me.
On Mother’s Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings
and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You’re my mother,
I would have no other! ~Forest Houtenschil
I miss your smile!
Your son,
Bob
Savage Banned
I only have this to say:
Fighting for the right of every child, woman and man to speak what is on
our minds and in our hearts is worth the price we sometimes have to pay!
Bob Marconi
Make Summer Your Hottest Months
Do you view the summer months as a time to kick
back, relax, and do just enough to get you by? Or do you
consider it one of your hottest months (no pun intended)?
I ask because I’m intrigued by the new teleclass Millionaire
Entrepreneurial Coach Ali Brown is hosting. It’s called “Ali’s
Top 10 Recommendations to Kick-Up Your Revenues This Summer!”
Great Web Hosting
Every one needs a good web host for their sites – no ifs, ands or buts!
I have been with my hosting provider for some two years now and I have to say they have provided me outstanding service – no, I am not a high dollar player with them. But let me tell you, there are some well known names who do host with them. Such as Mike Filsaime.
A New Look at the 80/20 Rule
By Michelle Howe
The economic recession has made all of us rethink our marketing
plans. What used to work without fail is now either working
poorly or not at all. Companies need to go back to the drawing
board and start again with the basic truths of marketing.
One of the most consistent and true basics of marketing is the
80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle. According to
Wikipedia, “The principle was suggested by management thinker
Joseph M. Juran. It was named after the Italian economist
Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy was
received by 20% of the Italian population. The assumption is
that most of the results in any situation are determined by a
small number of causes.”