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Approximately six weeks ago I went ahead and bought Thesis. I posted about my first impressions here. Today, I finally went ahead and installed Thesis on this blog as well, so seems like a good time for adding my “second” impressions. First, since I’m already a Shareasale affiliate, I went ahead and signed up as [...]

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Keeping a blog fresh with regular posts can be a challenge. At some point or another, we all feel we have simply run out of  stuff to write about. Some people call this “Writer’s Block” and there are as many ways to overcome this horrible condition as there are writers. Today, I’d like to share [...]

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I started doing “this” back in 1997. “This” means creating websites, promoting them and monetizing on the traffic (as opposed to creating websites for other people’s business need). It’s a pretty common business model for most of us. The Age of Webmasters Back then, we were called webmasters. As a webmaster, you were expected to [...]

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I won’t name any blogs, but I have seen this on several blogs. Every once in a while, either as a regular feature or just a once-in-a-while thing, they post what might be described as “sexy pictures”. Nothing explicit, nothing that would be illegal anywhere, but not exactly family-friendly either. I am not a prude and [...]

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I finally gave in to peer pressure and bought the Thesis theme for my blogs. All the cool blogs seem to be running on Thesis nowadays, so I figured it’s worth a shot. Total disclosure moment: I honestly am not that enthusiastic about it on the get-go. There is a lot of hype on the [...]

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I can’t even tell you exactly how many blogs I own and manage right now. I personally write in about five of six blogs, and I manage close to a dozen others. Running multiple blogs is different from focusing on a single one in a few ways. Today, I’m going to share a few tips, [...]

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I’ve never actually tried to add a file for people to download on any of my WordPress blogs. Until today, that is. I guess there’s always a first time? I had a cat-themed template designed and I wanted to share it with site visitors. Now, with HTML, it’s fairly simple. I have done that before. [...]

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I’m not sure if it was a matter of focusing on other projects in work and life or just some innate conservatism, but the fact is, I was late in jumping on the social media promotion wagon. When Facebook and Twitter started out, I just didn’t have the attention span for learning new tricks (does [...]

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