First, click Refresh on your browser to view the new theme correctly. Working on a new theme for Zoomstart is just one of the “little things” that has consumed a lot of my time lately. Other things include Summer and studying the art of blogging. Currently I’m also reading a brilliant book suggested by a … Read more
Every time you turn around there’s another article about how poor a revenue source Google AdSense is for most blogs and websites. The truth is, it’s great for very large and well known sites that get a lot of competitive bidding on site targeted ads. And if you get bigger than big, you can negotiate … Read more
Did the headline get your attention? I hope so. That’s its job. For the last week I took a little hiatus from blogging to go to blog-writing school. Where is this school? It’s all around you. There are eBooks, blogs, and blog posts that can teach you everything you want to know about how to … Read more
Outside of the fame and the fortune (or quest for them), blogging is about writing. There’s absolutely nothing more rewarding if you’re a writer than to have people read what you wrote because you wrote something worth reading. And as for fame and fortune … that’s just a product of what you wrote. At least, … Read more
I see quite a few charicatures around the net, and the other day my head wandered into the thought “I wonder what I’d look like in South Park”? So, I thought I’d check online for some SP pics and use them as a model to create my own likeness in Photoshop. And then I ran … Read more
One of the things I’ve wanted to do lately is go timeless. What I mean by that is getting rid of the date in my WordPress permalink structure. The problem with doing this kind of thing after you’ve started your blog is that it breaks links. And by that, I mean all of them. The … Read more
What if you could narrow your search to find the best information on the web? Google Co-op is a cool little feature that allows you to create your own custom search engine. It’s a little different than Site-search because you can add as many different websites to search as you want. It also has a number … Read more
There’s a lot of chatter lately about how difficult it is to write a blog. After a while, a lot of people just run out of ideas and throw in the towel. Maybe this will help … Blogging is about writing, more than anything else. And you have to exercise that. This is a creative writing … Read more
A few weeks ago, I conducted a little survey here to get some feedback on a topic for an eBook. Branding stood out as a favorite. So branding it was. And branding it is. And incidentally, part of building a great brand is testing it. And surveys are a good way to get the opinions … Read more