Okay people, I just read some really big news in the web world – WordPress just passed a huge milestone – it now has 50,000,000 blogs on the web. Half are self-hosted (including mine). That means 50 million websites on the World Wide Web are built on the same platform or with the same ingredients. … [Read more...] about Optimistic News for Entrepreneurs
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8 Steps to Freedom: Build Your Business and Leave Your Day Job
Given the day and date I thought I would touch upon the topic of freedom. Many aspire to own their own business but it's hard to leave your secure, benefit providing "day job" to test the waters of free, free, freedom from an employer. So how can you taste "freedom" before taking the plunge? 1. … [Read more...] about 8 Steps to Freedom: Build Your Business and Leave Your Day Job
The Ultimate Guide To Facebook and More
In fact, the United States has the most users on Facebook with over 120 million registered according to CheckFacebook – a Facebook stats resource. Second is Indonesia and third is the UK. The fastest growing populations of Facebook users are in China, Kuwait and Japan. See the map below for a … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide To Facebook and More
Finding The Blogger In You
I'm going to stick with the theme of writing blog posts for a little while because if you want to build your brand online, and position yourself as a knowledgable resource in a particular industry, then blogging is the way to go. Blogging is great for many reasons besides building SEO (Search Engine … [Read more...] about Finding The Blogger In You
Search Engine Optimized Blogging Tips?? What’s that?
I spent some time the other day training a client on how to create blog posts on their shiny new blog / web site that we recently launched for them. Training clients on this part of the process is something I really enjoy because they get so excited to see how the back end of WordPress works, and to … [Read more...] about Search Engine Optimized Blogging Tips?? What’s that?
Building Your Online Identity on a Budget
Times are tough for many economically. People and companies are trying to stretch their budgets and do more with less - less people, less time, less money. Here are 5 tactics to to build your online brand if you have no blog site and no budget. Comment on other people’s blog posts. Who are the … [Read more...] about Building Your Online Identity on a Budget