Focus and Action for Online Entrepreneurs
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As you may know I am a huge fan of the 2010 theme that is now the default theme for wordpress. While I love this theme there are a few things I don't love so much... namely the HUGE header image, and how difficult it is to take out tags, and a couple other small things. I also find it difficult in general to customize font size, color and all the other little things for ANY wordpress theme. It's just a little more complicated and takes a little more time than I am willing to … [Read more...]
Last week in the Kiss Club someone shared this very interesting post about how to make money with Amazon. In the article the guy made some very interesting suggestions that made a lot of sense. One of his suggestions was to look at the competition on the first page and see what their sites looked like. Then build that type of site. I am currently working on one of my niche sites and when I looked at the competition they all had a storefront on the homepage of the site. Well, heck, that looks … [Read more...]
When you're blogging it's important to make it easy for your readers to share your posts with their friends and followers. These are buttons that will let people share your content... if you're looking for how to allow people to connect with YOU on social sites you're looking for How to Add Social Networking Buttons. One of the easiest ways to let people share your content is to add a share button to your blog posts. That's what I'm going to show you how to do today. 1. Go to addthis and … [Read more...]
Sometimes in your business you're going to need to ask something of someone else. Whether it's for a guest post, or maybe you want to do an interview with someone, or maybe you just want to do a link exchange. I get these emails on a daily basis, and I generally just delete them. Not because I don't want to participate, or help people out, but because of the way the request is written. That is... until I received this fantastic request for an interview last month from Leanne Chesser from Wahm … [Read more...]
You may have noticed... I love Elegant Themes themes. They are gorgeous and lovely. The only problem is they are a little more complicated to upload and install than regular themes. (which is because they give you so many extra goodies to work with). I have installed one or another of the themes from the Elegant Themes guys on just about all of my sites. Here's a couple examples: Well, this site uses the Personal Press theme. My Easy Chicken Recipes site uses the Cherry Truffle … [Read more...]
I have had a couple people ask about how to upgrade wordpress so I thought I'd do a quick tutorial (yes, actually quick ~ because it's super simple!). Here's the steps to upgrade your wordpress site: 1. Log into your hosting account. 2. Find the fantastico button 3. Click fantastico 4. Identify the site you want to upgrade on the list of wordpress installs 5. Click the upgrade button. 6. Click the upgrade button again when asked the second time. 7. Copy and paste the "if … [Read more...]
On Friday I did a quick (HA) WP Robot review. I've been using it to spiffy up sites and get dead weight making money around here. One of the big things about spiffying up sites is finding themes. I don't know about you, but for me, theme finding is fun and can be frustrating, AND almost always takes hours. Have you seen how many awesome themes there are out there? Not to mention the fantastic themes they keep adding to the Elegant themes membership site? So I'm trying to be all focused … [Read more...]
There's been quite a bit of talk about how to cloak your affiliate links lately. There are a few different ways to cloak your links. Here are three of the most popular. 1. the simple link cloaker plugin (which people seem to be having issues with) 2. Ninja Affiliate Plugin 3. Create subdomains to redirect. I've covered the first two so today I'm going to show you how to create subdomains to use to redirect your affiliate links. What you'll need: hosting account that allows for … [Read more...]
You may notice that many themes these days have an image for the blog name instead of just having wordpress use the title of your blog. This tutorial will walk you through creating a new header image without using photoshop. Step 1. Identify the size of your logo image. When you upload your theme you'll generally find the blog name image is called "logo.png". The first step in this process is to find out what size that image file is so you can create a new one that will fit the space … [Read more...]
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Social media gives me the opportunity to get to know you better, as well as giving me the opportunity to share more of me than just the "internet marketing" side. I share multiple facets of me, and my life on social media, so if you choose to connect with me don't expect it to be 100% internet marketing... because it's not. :)