Author Archives: Anne

Social Marketing – Dive Right In!

This post is dedicated to a dear fellow online marketer who asked me today for help with social marketing. Social Marketing is one of those big scary buzz phrases, thrown at business owners by online marketing companies that are trying … Continue reading

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Switching Over to WordPress Twenty Ten

I love WordPress. You love WordPress. We all love WordPress. Part of the appeal back at the time was the two clean, professional, SEO-friendly themes this blogging software came with. Yet, WordPress also brought on an explosion of creativity as … Continue reading

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The Google Adsense Roller Coaster

I have been using Google Adsense for years now. Pretty much since they set up the network, I think, as my reports go all the way back to 2003. In fact, there was a point where Adsense was responsible for … Continue reading

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And…. I’m back!

Kids are back in school and Mom (that’s me) is back to having free mornings for work. I’m back, though still need to get back into a full-mode work mindset. I have to say though – I have thoroughly enjoyed … Continue reading

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The Problem with My Summer Hiatus

This is my first post for the month of August and it’s coming almost three weeks into the month. De facto, I am having time off work this month, not so much by choice, but because my kids are home. … Continue reading

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How to Find Blog Sponsors

If you’re an established blogger that already knows everything about blog sponsors, feel free to skip the next couple of sections and move directly to the one titled “How to Get Sponsors for Your Blog”. The Basics of Blog Monetization … Continue reading

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Sites in Languages other than English

My first ever website was in Hebrew. This was back in the late 1990′s and I simply wanted to create an informational website about cats and cater to the local cat lovers population, seeing as there were no cat-related websites … Continue reading

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The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin

Hey, guess what? The best WordPress gallery plug-in out there is not even a plugin! For years, managing collections of images in a WordPress blog post required a plug-in. NextGen was one of the most popular plug-ins around but there … Continue reading

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