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9 WordPress Plugins That Save Me Time & Increase My Productivity

9 WordPress Plugins That Save Me Time & Increase My Productivity

Be sure you don’t miss a thing! Subscribe to receive updates by email. Or if you use a feed reader, subscribe to my RSS feed! Thanks for visiting!As I mentioned on my setting up a new blog post, one of the reasons I use WordPress.org as my blog platform is because of the ability [...]

Maximize Your Blogging: Set & Work Toward Goals

Maximize Your Blogging: Set & Work Toward Goals

Why do you blog?
Defining your goals and identifying strategies to achieve them is just as important for your blog as for any other area of life. Today, as part of the Maximize Your Blogging series, we’re going to look at the importance of setting goals and making a plan to take your blog to [...]

Maximize Your Blogging: Set Up a New Blog

Maximize Your Blogging: Set Up a New Blog

This week we’re going to continue last year’s post-Blissdom blogging series with more tips for taking your blog to the next level based on my own experiences and lessons I learned at BlissDom. But before we jump in, I wanted to write a basic post for those readers who want to start blogging but have [...]

Creating Category Folders in Google Reader

Creating Category Folders in Google Reader

Last week I talked about the value of organizing the subscriptions in your feed reader. A couple of you mentioned that you weren’t sure how to do that, so I took some screenshots from my Organizing Your Way Google Reader account to help you get started.

To create a folder:
1. To start, if you’re in the [...]

Organizing Your Feed Reader

Organizing Your Feed Reader

Yesterday many of you shared your favorite organizing blogs in the comments of the Question of the Day post, and I thought as a follow-up to that and my post about decluttering your feed reader, it would be good to talk about organizing your feeds
If you use a feed reader, chances are you’ve opened it [...]

Maximize Your Blogging: Having an Organized Media Kit

Maximize Your Blogging: Having an Organized Media Kit

At BlissDom ‘09, the popular blogging conference hosted by Blissfully Domestic and held in Nashville earlier this month, several panels emphasized the importance of having a professional media kit for interacting with marketers, companies and PR representatives.
For bloggers who are focused on earning income from advertising revenue or product reviews, having an organized and complete [...]

Quick Tips: Maximize Your Blogging

Quick Tips: Maximize Your Blogging

Almost anyone who blogs will tell you that blogging is a time-consuming commitment. Because I maintain several blogs and don’t want to sacrifice more time than I have to with my family, I look for every time-saving tip I can find.
Here are a few quick tips that work for me:
Write Quickly
Professional writers will tell you [...]