Building internal and external links is good for you, but over time, those links can become broken. For the links that you've published months or even years ago, there are several reasons why they might be broken, but you won't know it unless you manually check each page, or unless you have a handy...

Anyone can blog. Even you, the small business owner.  Everyone from Gramma to your dog is blogging these days. There is even a kid's show about a talking dog who blogs, but his little girl owner gets credit for it since no one would believe a dog is blogging! Basically, if you have something to...

How to Set Better Business Goals Can you believe we have started the 3rd month of the year already? We are a good chunk into 2013! I should be excited, but I'm not. Why? Because these last 2 months have not gone the way I wanted. My goals for business have not panned out. I'm not sure exactly why,...

It doesn't matter  how often you post to your blog, but managing that time and everything that goes with it, does matter. Lets take a look at using online and offline blog post calendars and management systems. Online calendars:  I personally use the Wordpress plugin, WordPress Editorial...

Using a Wordpress security plugin doesn't have to be hard or expensive. It beats the hell out of being hacked and having to recover or re-build your entire site. Here's what I'm using now. Wordfence Wordfence scans your site for viruses, malware, trojans, malicious links, protects your site...

This post is from the series 80 questions for business owners and covers 3 questions in one post. 15. What part do you play in generating your business? Each of us is better at some aspect of our business than we are at another. For some of us, it's designing products that we excel at and...

I've found a free Wordpress list building plugin that is easy to use and offers a lot of options for the free version, but we'll have to see if it actually helps build my list.  Pop Up list building? For the last year or two, I've heard how much Pop-Up list builders actually help get people to...

A blogging list of words and blog terms I've been online for nearly ten years now, actually longer. But, I call myself a blogger and I help clients set up their own websites and blogs, so I should know what I'm talking about, right? I should and I do usually, but there are still words for...

For the last few years we’ve heard nothing but negative news from the media, friends, family and other businesses. They want us to believe that things aren’t good with our economy, the job market, and so much more. Do you buy into the negativity? I pretty much quit the news about 6 years ago....