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How Thesis Theme makes managing blog post images easy

April 30, 2011
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If you’ve been a reader here for any length of time, you know I utilize the Thesis Theme to power this site as well as several others. Because seldomly read documentation, I “discover” Thesis features almost daily. For example, I add an image to almost every post on this blog. For a few months, I [...]

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How Premise by CopyBlogger helps build great landing pages

April 1, 2011

This is the first co-authored post by Jim Raffel and Shelby Sapusek. Together, we’ll give you some insight on why we chose the WordPress plugin Premise (affiliate link)from Copyblogger to design the ColorMetrix User Group Meeting landing page, what we liked about it and some advice from our experience with it. To fully understand this post, [...]

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How social media success resulted in Google sitelinks

March 21, 2011

Have you noticed that some Google search results include a listing of sitelinks immediately following the main search result. In the Fall of 2009 when I began rebuilding the ColorMetrix site, I remember wondering how I could get our site to show up as it now does in the image above. The answer I found [...]

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Four online business tools I love and use most

March 14, 2011

There are several online business tools I use as a blogger and business person that make my life both easier and more successful. I’ve written about all these business tools before so you may wonder why I’m utilizing this post to do so again. There are a couple reasons: As time passes, I have come [...]

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How to do advanced e-commerce with WordPress

February 7, 2011

As of this writing, I am responsible for the e-commerce activities of two sites that run on the WordPress content management system platform. I’ve taken vastly different approaches with these two sites. This post will explain how I manage online stores with multiple products both physical and virtual. The two sites MolkkyUSA.com is a site [...]

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21 days to a (better) blog – part 3

October 22, 2010

This is the third Installment of the 21 days to a (better) blog series. It will make a great deal more sense if you have read week 1: up and running and week 2: the devil is in the details. This week I am leaving out the redundant writing, posting and editing schedule. By now you [...]

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21 days to a (better) blog – part 2

October 15, 2010

Please be sure to refer back to Week 1: Up and running if you didn’t get a chance to read the first installment of 21 days to a better blog last Friday. This week I am focusing on some of the devilish little details that separate a fun blog from one that has the potential to be [...]

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18 Useful WordPress plugins

October 11, 2010

Recently while speaking at the Central Wisconsin Social Media Conference I was asked by Jim Carlson for a list of the WordPress plugins I use. I figured as long as I was taking the time to pull the list together I may as well share it with you as well. The link included with each [...]

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21 days to a (better) blog

October 8, 2010

I’ve been blogging a little more than five years now. Admittedly the pace has picked up in the last year and as a result I’ve learned a few new tips and ticks to go with the old tried and true ones. Over the next three Fridays I am sharing the best of what I’ve learned. The format [...]

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Central Wisconsin Social Media Conference

September 30, 2010

Next week Thursday is the Central Wisconsin Social Media Conference. The conference will be attended by many small and mid-sized manufacturing firms. As an early adopter of business-to-business (B2B) blogging, I’m looking forward to jump starting some small business bloggers. Closer than you think. Wausau, WI is closer than you think (depending where you live). [...]

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