Posted in free articles, plugins on Apr 10th, 2008
If you are in a active community like Simon’s Town you’ll find people and groups involved with many issues concerning the community. But they are using traditional methods to discuss, escalate and resolve the issues; email, phones and paper. And when they get a solution they have no way of making it public.
Let me give [...]
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Posted in blog on Apr 10th, 2008
Dear New Blogger,
You may be new to blogging and you want to blog. You may already know that it easy to blog and there are many places you can blog for free, at least that’s what people tell you. And they are correct.
However this letter to you is written because many people want to blog [...]
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Posted in blog training, plugins on Apr 9th, 2008
Today I had a new blogger asking me questions about the get a blog options and though why not make it easy for visitors to talk to me. Now! When they want to and when they have an issue.
Well, if you look to the top right in my side bar you’ll see Chat with Johan [...]
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Posted in blog on Apr 4th, 2008
Harry Gross send me this email; just when I thought it’s not worth it to try and explain to people why they should blog:
My own translation:
Dear Johan
I just want to thank you for your knowledgeable newsletter and articles. I feel that your knowledge doesn’t just appear and that it took time to gather the information. [...]
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Posted in blog on Mar 30th, 2008
Get A Blog Newsletter
Technology allows us today to us fancy tools to keep in touch with our readers. But email is still used by many people. Other use RSS and Twitter and other.
This is what you get when you have a blog:
I install the newsletter blog software on your blog and activate it for you.
You [...]
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Posted in plugins on Mar 26th, 2008
I noticed that many wordpress blogs use an intro text above their posts to invite you to subscribe to their RSS feed or email newsletter.
Upon investigating I noticed that the plugin is cookie enabled. Therefore you can set to show it all the time or for one or more visits. This help you to stop [...]
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Posted in blog, plugins on Mar 24th, 2008
As you may know some blogs have an option that allows you to subscribe to any updates to any comments. This is a handy feature when you ask a question and then get an emailĀ update.
This can be a pain when you get many emails. But what if you can manage your subscription?
Let’s say your [...]
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Posted in blog, free articles on Mar 21st, 2008
When you blog to get real estate listing leads your blog will be different to a blog that focuses on real estate sales leads.
Or will it?
This depends if you want to use your blog as one step marketing tool..let’s meet and kiss. However, if you want to use your blog as a two step marketing [...]
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Posted in blog, traffic on Mar 17th, 2008
When you write you need to write interesting articles on what your target market want to read. But that’s not all you need to know what your community searches for. (Because it will help you to create articles for those search terms). And then if you do it well Google will come and index it [...]
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Posted in plugins on Mar 11th, 2008
Google calendar is a great way to manage your appointments. It even sends you an email or sms reminder of events you scheduled. But you can also use Google Calendar to ensure visitors come back to your blog. You can watch this video on how to install and use the wordpress calendar plugin. Below that [...]
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