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Getting Personal: 4 Ways Your Personality Affects Your Home Business

April 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Your personality may be the most important aspect of your home business. Learn how!

While having business savvy is important for experiencing success in a home business, your personality is really the foundation that your entire business rests on. It is your personality that will make the difference in whether you get traffic, generate contacts, retain readers, entice joint venture (JV) partners or build a successful home business. This is the reason why some entrepreneurs will succeed using certain tactics and strategies while others will completely fail using those same ... Continue Reading

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Falling for WordPress Blogs

September 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Learn about the three major blog platforms – WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr.

Blogging is an ideal way to share your knowledge, musings, life events, and business ventures with the world. For those who are blogging in hopes that others will read, comment, share, or perhaps make a purchase in response to your posts, you may have wondered which blogging platform is the best. Types of Blogs While there are many to choose from, the three main players in the blogosphere are WordPress, Blogger, and Tumblr. The choice is a matter of personal preference, but there are ... Continue Reading

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Surviving Summer As A Mom Blogger

June 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Keep your blog active this summer with these tips and tricks.

Summer is nearly here and not only does it mean hotter temperatures and fresh lemonade, but it also means the kiddos being home from school. Depending on how you look at it, those two months can be heaven with your kids, or a huge, messy chaos of angry mom, bored kids. As a blogging mom you have to think about how to balance time with your kids and keep your blog running smoothly, whether you work from home or even have a full-time job outside of the home. So how can you keep your blog alive ... Continue Reading

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Get Engaged: Creating Success in your Blog’s Brand

April 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Brand your blog, and build an engaged readership, with these tips.

You have a URL, you have a site, now how to make the most of it? Building a brand is easier than you think. Your blog is the perfect platform to engage readers and build an audience. Here are the best tips to brand your blog successfully: Find your Niche Your blog should have a core focus. It's okay to dabble in a few different directions, but make sure it revolves around your main topic. Write about what you love and what keeps you interested. Commit and make it personable. You don't have to ... Continue Reading

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How to Back Up Google Blogger Blog

February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Back up your Google Blogger or Blogspot account with these simple steps.

In recent weeks I’ve talked to three women bloggers who actually had their Google Blogger or Blogspot accounts mysteriously disappear – possibly for policy violations or other unknown causes -- two of which were permanently deleted representing years of hard work. That’s not even to consider what might happen if a blog on this service is ever hacked – the aftermath could be disastrous to have to deal with. For sure, the Internet these days isn’t working like clockwork as it used ... Continue Reading

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How Watching Arthur Can Make You a Better Blogger

January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Can Arthur and friends make you a better blogger? Discover their ideas on etiquette, developing content & being a blogger in real-life.

The television shows my kids watch very rarely draw me in. My tolerance for the corny jokes and silly story lines is pretty low, and although they're not allowed to watch anything crass or raunchy (or with "butt" in the title!), most of what they watch is absolutely annoying. Except for Arthur. I have to admit that I'm a closet fan. That Marc Brown knows what he's doing (and even the re-runs are tolerable). A while back the kids were watching and the title stopped me in my tracks. Muffy ... Continue Reading

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10 Tips to Make Your Blog More Reader Friendly

December 22, 2011 By 8 Comments

Ten tips that make your blog reader friendly and easier to navigate.

As I look around the web and discover new sites, I make mental notes about things that should be standard on every blog. When I build blogs for clients, I send out a questionnaire which lists standard items included in the design. Here are the ten tips I use to make your blog more reader friendly, and easy to navigate: Navigation bar: Yes, this should be a given, but I was on a site recently that had no nav bar. The nav bar gives visitors easy access to visiting must have pages like the ... Continue Reading

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Ten Statistic Tools That Every Social Mom Needs

September 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Learn the best web tools for analyzing your blog and social media outreach.

There is tons of advice available out there for those new to blogging and social media – how to come up with post ideas, where to get free graphics, the top ten best things to do, the top ten mistakes everyone makes. But, whether you’re new to Blogland or a seasoned pro, we all end up with the same question: How am I doing? Some professions are easy to label successful or unsuccessful, but it's a bit more complicated with blogging. For many of us, a successful blogger is someone who has ... Continue Reading

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Must-Have Apps & Gadgets for Moms With Kids This Fall

September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Gadgets and apps for moms and kids – whether you’re taking digital photos, scheduling activities, or protecting computer peripherals.

Moms and kids will have an easier time getting back to school and work routines with some help from technology this fall. From taking family digital photos, to keeping multiple activity schedules and tasks organized, to protecting computer peripherals, this column has the must-have gadgets and apps you need. Xshot iPhone 4 Case & Pocket Xshot Bundle How many times have you wished you could take pictures or video of yourself with your child at a special classroom event or be included in ... Continue Reading

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Boost Your Blogging Skills With 7 Simple Steps

August 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Whether blogging is your hobby or your business, you can boost your skills and create a successful, profitable blog in seven simple steps.

Blogging has become widely popular as a way to share information, network with others, create a brand, or build a list of followers. Mom bloggers, the world over, are generally on the look-out for ways to improve and grow their blog. And since you are reading this article, I imagine you are too. Whether it's your hobby or your business, you can boost your blogging skills and create a successful, profitable blog in seven simple steps: Find Your Voice. In a world with so many voices from ... Continue Reading

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