This post is all about the importance of having a reliable blog host. I was prompted to write it, after watching some of the world’s biggest blogs totally fail to cope with the traffic from their coverage of Apple’s iPad launch.
Here’s what happened AND what we can learn from it!
Blogs, bandwidth and the iPad launch
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Blogs, bandwidth and the iPad
Building a successful business blog
If you are already making the income you want from your blog, this post is not for you.
However, if you are working hard and not getting the results you deserve, read on!
Here’s one of the secrets behind every successful, commercial blog I have ever studied:
You can’t do everything yourself!
Every successful business has key people, who’s [...]
What can you learn from Leo Laporte?
Are you interested in making money from your blog? If so, this blog idea will help you get on track and save you a lot of time and stress too!
Firstly, if you want to succeed with any business, you need to make sure you using the correct strategy for what you want to achieve. In [...]
Is 2010 the year of the $100 ebook?
One of the income streams many bloggers consider, when thinking about monetizing their blog, is the sale of ebooks.
This makes a lot of sense. Ebooks are easy to produce, they can be distributed with ease and there are no issues regarding stock levels etc. Equally, if your readers value what you have to say, and [...]
Blog Idea – Cheap hosting can be costly!
I was reading post last week, on a search engine optimisation (SEO) blog. As I’m interested in SEO and there were several other interesting posts, I bookmarked the site and decided to go back later.
When I went back to the site (5 hours later), I found that the blog was ‘down.’ This [...]
Who benefits from YOUR social media time?
Blogging is an incredibly powerful tool for business development and a great way to share ideas and connect with people. It’s an excellent way to deliver content and build amazing communities around that content.
However, many bloggers spend just a tiny percentage of their ’social media time’ actually blogging. Their blogs are seldom updated, yet [...]
Blog ideas – Full disclosure of hyper-links
When people visit a blog for the first time, there’s a tendency for them to be a little nervous about clicking hyper-links.
Some links provide relevant information to the reader, regarding the subject you are covering.
Some point to affiliate partners.
Some links manage to do both successfully. They send the reader to [...]
How to be lucky
Have you ever noticed how some people are really lucky? These lucky people always seem to be in the right place at the right time and they attract great opportunities, as if they were a good luck magnet. Here in this post, I am going to show you how you too can become incredibly lucky [...]
Where’s your strategy taking you?
With the right strategy, you can achieve almost anything. Seriously, whatever current business or career problems you have, you can solve them so long as you learn the correct problem-solving strategy for that situation.
For example, have you ever heard the famous saying; “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink!”
The [...]
The Twitter widget
After the launch of this blog on Thursday, a number of people asked me how they can get a copy of the Twitter ‘widget’ that I’m currently using. So, here’s the download link, along with a few ideas on how to use it.
A brief look at The Twitter widget
The widget is a free [...]
How to make money while you sleep
If you have ever heard people talking about how to make money while you sleep and was curious how it worked, (but not curious enough to buy their wonder program), here’s the low down!
Whilst there are stacks of books and seminars on this topic, the key information is all included in this post, right now, [...]
Just launched: The Ideas Blog
Welcome to the ideas blog!
The ideas blog is a place for sharing great ideas, covering all aspects of business and professional development. You can find out a little more about the idea behind this blog by reading this.
As many of you will already know, I write a very popular marketing blog. However, there [...]
