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Tiffany Dow’s 30 Day Branding Challenge: Day One

by Julie McElroy on October 1, 2011

Facebook, Google, youTube, McDonald’s, Apple,Verizon, Mr. Clean, The Marlboro Man.
All of these are brands that everyone that is not living in an isolated island somewhere has heard of.  Why?  Branding.  When people hear these names, they instantly know what company is behind the name.
How does a small time blogger or business do this?  Well, it [...]

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7 Content Ideas When you Don’t Have Time to Write

by Julie McElroy on September 21, 2011

It is not always easy to come up with original, substantial content for your blog on a regular basis.  Life gets busy, other things may be pulling you in a different direction.  Keeping regular content on your blog is important not only to satisfy the search engines, but to keep readers coming back for more.  [...]

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5 Reasons Why Niche Blogs Fail

by Julie McElroy on September 15, 2011

I know there will be a handful of you who will disagree with the subject of this post, but hear me out.  First, let me clarify the word “niche” for purposes of this blog post.  When I say niche, I don’t mean the large topic areas like blogging or health and fitness.  I am referring [...]

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Five Tips to a More Profitable Website

by Julie McElroy on September 6, 2011

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Ever since I began my “Drive Thru Coaching Program,” (Note: this program has been discontinued), I’ve received a steady flow of freelancers who [...]

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Blog Owners Need for Cloud Computing and Virtual Storage

by Julie McElroy on August 24, 2011

With all the new websites growing on the Internet each and every day, I wonder if there will come a time my host provider will run out of server space.  I mean what comes after terabytes of storage?  Then there is a petabyte and an exabyte.  This is a LOT of information!  Just to show [...]

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Down and Dirty on the Importance of Backlinks

by Julie McElroy on August 13, 2011

I am going to assume that if you have a website, you want traffic. Even if you are not selling a single product or service, you still want people to read your blog posts.  Otherwise, you probably wouldn’t put it online for all the world to see.  Right?  Well, let’s just go with that assumption, [...]

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