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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 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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Thinkdave.com goes global

January 14, 2009 Blog

Thanks to my new found faster broadband and being 2 timezones closer to the US, I am now able to offer my WordPress services to clients in the US, Canada (eh!) and the UK. Considering over 60% of my blog traffic originates in North America, I’m sure this will help my business grow in 2009. [...]

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I am website. Hear me roar!

December 10, 2008 Blog

If you’ve been paying attention you’ll have seen Monday’s post about planning your micro business website around your customers’ needs. Today I’m suggesting you reel those customers in and decide exactly what your website will and won’t do for them. You aren’t Amazon.com and you most likely have little or no budget for your website, [...]

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365 days, 80 posts and 2 valuable lessons learnt

November 24, 2008 Blog

Today marks the 1st Anniversary of the thinkdave.com blog. Exactly one year ago I posted my first article “Website planning 101″ (more on that on Wednesday). I’m pleased to report that while I’ve only managed to write 80 measly articles in the past year, I have learned 2 valuable lessons. Blogging lesson 1 – Write [...]

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WordPress 2.7 is about to become the only CMS you'll ever need

November 8, 2008 Blog

I came across a promotional video for the Beta release of WordPress 2.7 on Webmonkey today. Looking at the promo it looks like the WordPress development team are really starting to put more emphasis on the Content Management aspect of the platform. No longer is WordPress just a blogging tool. It’s becoming the only tool [...]

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When the Internet breaks, who do you call?

November 4, 2008 Blog

I don’t really punt myself as a website hosting expert, but I have helped out a few of my clients in the past by offering cheap, simple web hosting. Web hosting is a great service for a freelance web designer to offer because it generally costs next-to-nothing to run. Until something breaks. The strange thing [...]

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thinkdave.com featured on CSSmania

October 30, 2008 Blog

After trying to get listed on CSSmania for about 6 months, and I’ve finally made it! If you’re visiting from CSSmania, enjoy your 2 seconds on my site. If don’t know what CSSmania is, it’s a showcase of websites built using (almost in my case) valid XHTML/CSS. Some of the world’s best designs are featured [...]

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