The Skills You Need to Start an Online Business

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There has never been a better time to start an online business. Many people ask me what skills and abilities you need to do this. Obviously you need the technical skills necessary to create the product or perform the service you are selling. But that isn’t even half the story. Here are the skills that [...]

Reader Profiles for my Blog

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I was inspired by Darren Rowse’s article about writing reader profiles to inform your blogging. Darren Rowse, for those of you that don’t know, has been blogging since 2002 and writes a number of successful blogs including ProBlogger.net which aims to help bloggers learn the skills of blogging and is one of the most successful [...]

Know Your Visitors – Know Your Customers!

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Most websites fail. Why? Because, they don’t post regular content that people will want to read. How do you know what people want to read? The answer is to get to know your website’s visitors and potential visitors. By knowing your readers, you will hopefully have some idea about your potential customers! Here are a [...]

Marketing your business with a website and social media

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If investment banks can break the economy; small businesses can start the healing process. Now that start up costs are lower than ever, thousands of talented and skilled individuals who are frustrated by lack of corporate opportunity will do what they’ve always wanted and become their own boss. However, many small businesses are using old [...]

My 5 biggest blogging mistakes

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I first set up WordPress on my website 4 years ago. Since then it has been a long journey trying to post once a week whilst learning all I can about web publishing. Things haven’t always gone smoothly. So, for the record, here are some of my greatest gaffes: 1. Not creating the whole site [...]

How to publicize your blog posts

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The job isn’t over when a blogger publishes a blog post. Indeed, for some it has only just begun. Many bloggers will try to maximize the exposure for each post through submitting the post to various social media sites. I will be talking about social media a lot but before that there are also a [...]

The best shared hosting for WordPress websites

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If you are either just starting out as a blogger with a self-hosted WordPress blog or you are frustrated by your current host – here is a list of the best WordPress shared hosting companies as voted for by WordPress experts. Shared web hosting is a service where many websites reside on one web server [...]

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