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21 Content Types to Inspire You

    Sometimes we get writer’s block and just need a nudge to think about what to write. Tools like this are wonderful. I’ve printed it out to refer to when I get stuck – and to remind me to stay on target with audience needs.                                             Follow each of these and you’ve got 21 ready-to-be-consumed blog entries. Then start again, and again. Evergreen stuff. Source – http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/2012/06/content-we-crave/

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    How To Keep People Coming To Your Website

      Getting your website found in the search engines is one challenge. Encouraging them to stay for longer than a few seconds is the second challenge. The next challenge is how to get them to come back! You want them back to build your audience, add to your authority, extend your reach and increase your revenues amongst other things. Here is a great article on some 20 ways you can get visitors to return. Check them out. 20 Ways To Bring People Back To Your Website Once you’ve read this, go to your website and make a list of the 3… Read More »How To Keep People Coming To Your Website

      What’s Your Excuse?

        I meet lots of people in my development work. 99% of those people join my workshops because they are not making progress; they’re not where they want to be, doing what they want to be doing. 100% of them have a reason why. And they’re all excuses. You’re either getting results or you’re giving reasons. Which are you? Become someone who makes progress. Get into this June Challenge – have a look here – or go to Stretch Yourself Challenge Workshop. (aff link)

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        Blogging Tools For You

          Love it when you search for something and come up with something else equally as useful and these are great! I fell upon Mandi’s site and noticed she had some tools for bloggers so I thought I’d share the love. Check out her site – she has some really cool stuff, especially if you have kids. Here are her free blog tools – http://lifeyourway.net/free-printables/business/ Say thanks to her when you get there 🙂

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          Help! My Website Has Been Hacked!

            That was me last week. Again. Admittedly it was a few years since one of my sites was last hacked. This time it was two. It’s no fun. Even less fun is the support you may not get from your host. Mine was no help. Needless to say I had already done what I could to remove the malicious code. Still, the care factor was marginally above zero. Fortunately the attack was more for pride and vanity than to destroy any content or pillage (so far as I could tell). It’s a horrid feeling to realise your site has been attacked.… Read More »Help! My Website Has Been Hacked!

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            Being In A Blog Challenge

              What is a blog challenge? That’s where a group of people commit to writing  a blog post each day, usually for a fixed period such as 30 days, and publishing it to their blog. Why would you want to be in a blog challenge? Primarily there are two key reasons people participate in blog challenges. They want to increase their writing output. Perhaps they need the discipline of writing every day to build the habit of regular writing. Maybe they have a blog which needs populating and they are inclined to not write to the blog often enough. They want… Read More »Being In A Blog Challenge