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Vacation Rental WordPress Themes: A Mini-Roundup

by By - on May 1, 2013 with 0 Comments
Vacation Rental WordPress Themes: A Mini-Roundup

Vacation rentals and the overnight lodging space has been undergoing a bit of a transformation lately.  With innovative companies like Airbnb, Housetrip, and Wimdu breaking into the nightly rental market and laying the groundwork for new technology – it’s an industry that is set to continue to grow significantly in the foreseeable future.  Now, nearly [...]

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18+ Modern (and Beautiful) WordPress Hotel Themes

by By - on April 29, 2013 with 0 Comments
18+ Modern (and Beautiful) WordPress Hotel Themes

If you’re looking to start your own (or update an existing) hotel, inn, bed & breakfast, vacation rental, or resort website – you’ll quickly see that there are plenty of options to choose from and avenues to pursue. While there are multiple solutions available to you in terms of platforms – choosing WordPress (and a [...]

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19+ Free & Premium WordPress Video Themes

by By - on April 27, 2013 with 0 Comments
19+ Free & Premium WordPress Video Themes

Whether you’re a video blogger looking to showcase your work or a business wishing to highlight some of your products or services, creating a video-centric WordPress site or blog has never been easier. With rich, multimedia becoming more and more common on the web – a niche has been carved out for theme designers to [...]

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SEO Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Permalinks (URLs)

by By - on January 17, 2013 with 0 Comments
SEO Tips to Optimize Your WordPress Permalinks (URLs)

Whether you call them slugs, permalinks, or URLs – one thing is certain, they play an important role in optimizing your site for the search engines and ultimately leading to better rankings.

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My Blogging Experiment: A Case Study Begins

by By - on January 16, 2013 with 2 Comments
My Blogging Experiment: A Case Study Begins

My relationship with this blog has not been the most stellar, through the years it’s taken a beating…

  • Dozens of theme changes, frameworks, and plugins
  • Changed domain names more than once
  • Switched topics, direction, and content more than a handful of times
  • I thought about selling it altogether and giving up blogging
  • Taken month-long or year-long hiatuses from posting

No blog should ever be treated this way or put up with that type of abuse…

Which, is why (starting today) I’m going to begin a little experiment – and sharing as much as I can along the way.

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32+ (Absolutely) Free Genesis Child Themes for WordPress

by By - on October 9, 2012 with 3 Comments
32+ (Absolutely) Free Genesis Child Themes for WordPress

Genesis is one of the most powerful, versatile, and clean WordPress frameworks on the market today. Used by some of the biggest sites and bloggers out there (ProBlogger, Chris Brogan, & Copyblogger among others) it allows you to build upon a beautifully coded back-end that has been optimized with sparkling, clean code and enhanced to [...]

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How to Leverage Your Existing Content (And Make More Money)

by By - on October 7, 2012 with 0 Comments
How to Leverage Your Existing Content (And Make More Money)

One of my most successful and immediate strategies for making money from a blog or website, also happens to be one of the easiest to implement. While the strategy I’m about to share usually has a bigger impact on existing sites, it can even be used with new sites – with equally impressive results. My [...]

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My Traffic & Income Report: September, 2012

by By - on October 2, 2012 with 2 Comments
My Traffic & Income Report: September, 2012

My second update, things seem to be progressing nicely.

As I mentioned in last month’s income & traffic report, the beauty of blogs and websites is that they continue to draw traffic and make money (for the most part) even when you’re hands-off with them.

It did take some time to write the posts during September, but those will be added to the archives – and continue to draw visitors over time.

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Using Freebies to Attract Traffic and Customers (Online & Offline)

by By - on September 30, 2012 with 0 Comments
Using Freebies to Attract Traffic and Customers (Online & Offline)

“Give ‘em the razor, sell ‘em the blades” – King Camp Gillette

Gillette went from selling 168 blades his first year to selling more than 70 million in just under twelve years.

The “something for nothing” model has been a very powerful and strategic marketing tactic to grow business and build a customer base.

It’s an extremely lucrative strategy, one that you can also use to grow your business or website.

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