Blogging For Business

If you didn’t know it already, next week, I’ll be speaking at the Hot Seminar Series about the many things you can do with WordPress. Oh yes, it is not just to build blogs. Meanwhile, Kelly has invited me to a cross blog conversation. What does that mean? Kelly started the conversation with a post on her blog and now I answer her question here and we’ll keep it up as long as

Do you have a “Ask Me” page on your blog? If not, I’d suggest you put one up. Questions are a great way to provide content and the content is highly interesting to your readers because – hey, they asked about it. Can’t get get better than that. But what if you have exhausted your questions or you don’t have a library of questions set up yet?

Here are two awesome ideas:

Pick up a

Some of the best things come in the most simple and small packages. I came across this site yesterday all because I couldn’t remember the address of the site I was really looking for. Anyhow, One Word is a very simple site. When you click Go, it will load one word on the screen and a timer begins. You have 60 seconds to write something in the box provided.

On their site, they say,

A lot of times, people start a blog for their business and they they either abandon or lose interest in it because it was totally not what they had expected. A common complaint is, there’s little return on investment or it’s a lot harder than I thought. If you haven’t started your blog yet and wondering if it might be a good move, here’s what you need to know so that you go in with

I’m not the type to watch videos beyond 5 minutes unless they are instructional – teaching me how to do something. Talks, conferences *yawn* but I force myself to at least listen. Boy I’m so glad I did! I read Tim Ferris’ Four Hour Work Week book a while back and will likely re-read it again. There are quite a few things I’ve learned and implemented in my life from that book though some

When you start a business offline or on, it’s only a matter of time when people start telling you that you should start a blog. Sadly, that’s where most stop and leave you wondering why? How is it good for your business especially when the business is not online based or when you offer a service and don’t think you have a ‘product’ for example, a belly dancer who dances at private parties and events.

Anyone who is on Twitter knows it’s a goldmine for questions. People ask questions on Twitter all the time and you will always find some way you can help someone. Besides answering directly on Twitter, I also like to add these questions right here on my blog, in the FAQ’s section.

• It’s a fantastic way to add content to your blog
• It’s content you know people want to read

But the

If you have a WordPress blog or web site, when you go to Settings > General in your admin panel, you’ll see two fields. The WordPress Address and the Blog Address. Ever wonder what they are for and why have two fields pointing to the same place?

I love changing these two fields around. Here’s how. The WordPress script has many files and folders. Maybe you’re the type who likes to keep things all neatly

For the last few days I’ve been talking about making my WordPress powered site (this one) mobile friendly. It started when two days ago, I decided to give the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin a 2nd chance since it’s updated. At that time, I made a quick note about theme-ing the mobile interface.

Well, it’s almost midnight here and I’m still trying to understand this theme. Ugh.

Maybe it’s too late and I’ve been fixing

By default, WordPress displays the full post in your archive or category pages. I’ve been advised by SEO experts that this may not be a good thing because the content is duplicated on archives, category and the post pages itself. So, I’ve resorted to using excerpts. But problem is, the default WordPress excerpt is… well, boring. When viewing full posts, I get to see the pictures I’ve carefully chosen to go with the post. It