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The Linkys – 17 April 2009 edition

April 17, 2009 Blog
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Friday again! The perfect day to introduce THE LINKY AWARDS, a showcase of the most helpful, inspiring and all-round amusing Websites I’ve visitied in the past week. This week we’re focusing on Mac applications, WordPress, Daddy-blogging and good business advice. The ‘Information Overlord Award‘. This week’s award for the site that is ridiculously chocked full [...]

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Do forms follow function?

April 15, 2009 Blog

Forms are a great way to capture information from website users, right? Umm, wrong. I have a client who sells a very high end landscaping service in London, and he doesn’t want me to include an enquiry form on his websites contact page. In a way, I think he’s right. A homeowner with a big [...]

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Friday Links

March 13, 2009 Blog

For this week’s ‘Friday Links’ post, I’ve got some really awesome resources for you. Just to put them into perspective my week entailed wondering how how be a better blogger and whether I should pursue a couple of new projects in a recession. It’s been a tough week and a bit of inspiration was needed. [...]

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Productum – a new WordPress theme from Woothemes

March 11, 2009 Blog

Yesterday Woothemes launched Productum, a new business theme for WordPress. The developers have stretched WordPress a bit on this theme, adding some very nice features, including: Home page image switcher to help promote your latest products Home page scrolling carousel dedicated to a specific category 6 widgetized areas (2 x left sidebar,4 x footer columns) [...]

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Some Friday Links

March 6, 2009 Blog

I thought I’d try something new this week, so I’m posting links to some of the articles I read on the blogosphere that had an impact on me in the past 7 days. I’m an avid blog reader, but luckily for you I’ve filtered out the mountain of junk to find 5 posts really worth [...]

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5 days to a better blog – Day 5

February 27, 2009 Blog

5 days ago I set out to make my blog, and yours, better places for our readers to visit. If, like me you have a day job and a small business on the side, you don’t have time for a very limited number of marketing activities. My plan is to use 5 methods to make [...]

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5 days to a better blog – Day 4

February 26, 2009 Blog

Today is a biggie. And it’s one 99% of the population is better at than me. Today’s lesson – Interaction I can go for weeks without checking my Facebook profile, and I only use Twitter when I have something to complain about Update: I now use Twitter a lot. I rarely comment on other blogs [...]

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5 days to a better blog – Day 3

February 25, 2009 Blog

Yesterday I suggested we should only write blog posts when we have something of value to add. Today I’m going to contradict myself. Today’s lesson – Write to a schedule I’m the world’s worst blogger. I never write to a schedule and it hurts my blog traffic and my RSS subscriber stats. Why? Because most [...]

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5 days to a better blog – Day 2

February 24, 2009 Blog

Yesterday we discussed the first step to making a bad blog better. Today I want to discuss writing. Or not writing. Today’s lesson – If you have nothing to say, say nothing We’ve all read the A-list “make money blogging” blogs. And they all say pretty much the same thing: If you write it, often [...]

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5 days to a better blog – Day 1

February 23, 2009 Blog

In case you haven’t already figured it out, BLOGGING IS HARD. Using a blog to get clients for a small business requires a lot of time, great social interaction skills and a bunch of dumb luck. All of which are in mighty short supply in most business environments (mine included). I have a 5-step program [...]

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