While I travel a great deal and am a big believer in face-to-face business contact, the reality is that I make my living online. I say that, because over the last four or five years it's been my online activity that has driven the business I do offline and face-to-face. To drive that business … [Read more...]
Why keyword research matters if your blog is going to be a business
About a month ago when I shared "Finding the fun by changing direction," I didn't anticipate that part of the fun would be learning the value of performing keyword research before writing a blog post. But half the fun of most journeys is not knowing where they will take you or what you will end up … [Read more...]
Paradise by the WordPress Dashboard
The WordPress Dashboard is possibly one of the most powerful, yet misunderstood tools on the entire internet. I say this because left to its own devices the dashboard will become a disorganized mess of widgets installed by your chosen theme and various plugins. I wonder if you even know you can … [Read more...]
If you build a WordPress site, will they come?
Are you focused on the visual aspects and the functionality of the websites you build or the content and strategy to disseminate said same content? For example, I'm not a designer and over the last 15 years I've let my coding skills go in favor of developing sales and marketing expertise. So I build … [Read more...]
The WordCamp experience comes to Milwaukee
If you are in any way connected to the digital scene, there is probably no better way to spend $20 than buying a WordCamp Milwaukee ticket. That $20 will get you two full days of learning and sharing WordPress-related knowledge. You'll get that and a pretty cool after party Shelby and I are … [Read more...]
WordCamp Phoenix 2012 Takeaways
I spent this past Saturday at WordCamp Phoenix 2012 and, as it has become my custom, I'm sharing my takeaways from the event with you today. The unexpected and intangible Networking: I've been to enough conferences that I know this, but I always seem to forget that one of the biggest values of … [Read more...]
Shake it up a bit: Reposition your widgets
Over the last couple weeks, I've spent time rearranging this site without going through the pain of a complete redesign. The nice thing about WordPress is, depending upon the theme you utilize, much of the site layout can be changed by moving widgets around. The following are some of the changes I … [Read more...]
Edit Flow is one cool WordPress plugin
For over a year, I've had the good fortune of having Shelby Sapusek as an editor for this site. Together, we create a great deal of content each week and keeping track of where it all is in the editorial process can be tricky. We're actually writing a six-part (three from each of our perspectives) … [Read more...]
How to choose hosting solutions that work for you
Earlier this month, I shared The 2012 Plan and one of the cornerstones of the plan is "Automate." In that post, I siad: "A task worth doing manually is worth automating. If it’s not, then stop doing the task entirely." It was with that thought in mind that I began to look at the servers on which we … [Read more...]
WordPress Enhancement Cyber Monday Picks
This is post 674 since I started blogging in July of 2005. For all of those 674 posts, I've depended on the WordPress platform to power JimRaffel.com. I've watched WordPress grow into the feature-rich, community-supported, open source solution it is today. As great as WordPress is, if you're goal is … [Read more...]
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