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Grow a Pair

Are you familiar with the term “grow a pair”? I think it’s American slang. It refers to certain part of the male anatomy that comes in pairs but this is not a medical blog so I won’t get any more specific than that. I trust you can figure it out. “Grow [...]

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Around the Web

1) Tech Smith’s Jing Project
Tech Smith created Camtasia Studio.  When I upgraded to Camtasia Studio 5 I payed an extra $8 to have a physical copy of the software shipped to me.  Inside the box were some promotional materials and the Jing Project was one of them.  I’ve only spent a few minutes with it [...]

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IE “operation aborted” Solution?

Many people have reported issues loading this blog with IE. Apparently it has something to do with the aweber javascript. Martin Russell shared a solution with me the other day. I added a defer to the javascript code. I’m no javascript expert but I think this allows the whole web page [...]

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Fighting Spam Comments

More traffic is generally good but with it comes challenges.  One of the challenges is spam comments.  The spam comments are getting annoying.  There are dozens of them every day.  It’s no big deal to just delete them all with one click and I don’t plan to turn comments off any time soon.  Akismet still [...]

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All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt

Imagine being in a place where you don’t speak the native language. It’s a bit strange. Think about how important it is to read & speak to communicate. What if you couldn’t read the signs or understand the words when someone spoke to you and didn’t even know how to ask a [...]

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The Perfect Promotion Tool

If you look around the web, most successful Internet businesses have a blog. Google has a blog. Yahoo has a blog. Amazon has a blog. But blogs aren’t exclusive to multi-billion dollar corporations. There are thousands of smaller companies and individuals making comfortable 6 or even 7 figure incomes with [...]

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Get More Traffic Automatically

As I was fixing my in-line opt-in box issues the other night (thanks to Fred Black for sending me the code that fixed it) I was a bit frustrated that I had wasted 2 hours on it.  I’m not a web designer or techie by any means but if you’re going to have a successful [...]

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2 Methods to Increase Blog Visitors?

Tim Ferriss recently made this post asking for readers to register their blogs at Technorati and find something interesting to link to on his 4HWW blog. I loved his book, The 4-Hour Work Week, and I find many of the posts on his blog interesting so I decided to help him out.
When I [...]

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Snowboard John’s Practical BlogRush Tips

Recently, I mentioned a new service called BlogRush.  The BlogRush widget is at the bottom of my sidebar.  It’s only been a few days but I’m already seeing results.  Click here to get a Free BlogRush Account and start driving more traffic to your blog.
A few days ago I read this post on Snowboard John’s [...]

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BlogRush

Do you see the new widget under my picture on the right hand side of the page?  It’s the BlogRush widget.  John Reese has just launched BlogRush.  The big idea behind BlogRush is to drive more traffic to your blog and best of all it’s free.
There is a really cool video describing the BlogRush concept [...]

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