I have to hand it to Darren Rowse again on another great post. Recently, @alisonkerr asked the question on Twitter, “What’s the most common mistake made by new bloggers? How can we avoid it?“ Since Blogging has become a buzzword that has trickled down to the “unwired society” it’s something I get a lot of […]
Current Projects: The Cotton Club
I have been playing around with the idea of updating my blog theme, or giving it a facelift for a few weeks now due to the fact that I had hacked my old theme pretty heavily testing various plugins, etc. I didn’t really want to go for anything drastic in terms of design because I […]
My Approach to Monetization
I have a simple, possibly hard headed, approach to monetization. Granted I haven’t ran a campaign personally in several years, and I know that the game has changed a lot in that time, but I don’t think that I am too far off base w/ my thought process here… (and I would love to get […]
More Thoughts on Monetization
You might notice that I am now running some advertisements on my blog in the sidebar. For those of you who know me, you will know that this is a stretch for me, up until this year I never attempted to monetize any of my personal projects, and honestly I haven’t built an affiliate link […]
Central Arkansas Refresh Meeting
Just a heads up, the Central Arkansas Refresh Group is going to have our second meeting this next week (Tuesday, March 31) at the Starbucks located at 9401 N. Rodney Parham Rd. in Little Rock. The start time is 6:00pm and we expect the meetup to last about 2 hours but with all of the […]
Blogging: Getting Started
I have a lot of inspiration for this post because I just got finished listening to ShoeMoney’s webinar for the second time about monetization and it has got me pretty excited. Well, actually it’s a combination of ShoeMoney’s webinar and some actual results that my partners and i have been seeing on our first online […]
Advantages to WordPress
I am a pretty big fan of My partners and I have been learning the advantages of adopting frameworks for our clients projects because of the benefits they can bring to the table. As of late we have been using Pleth Networks, LLC, is planning on adding WordPress Framework sites to our list of service […]
Personal Websites & Blog Development
I get no less than 2 or 3 requests a week from friends asking what my recommendation is for them to setup their own personal website or blog to showcase their family photos or post entries to the web. I usually point them to a few sites like Pleth you have access to our developers […]
Why Trackbacks are Useful For Blogs
Trackbacks are something that a lot of folks probably don’t think that much about but I think that they are a pretty important component for those of us that manage our own blogs to consider. There are a couple of things to consider, I found an article on WebReference today that I am tracking back […]
Setting up a Blog Maintenance Plan
As I am sure many of you who manage or contribute to an online blog know, finding time to manage the blog can be a chore sometimes, especially if you have plenty of other irons in the fire. My situation is a little different in that I work from a home office and find myself […]