Many folks are making a good living publishing books to Amazon and other online e-book stores. As long as you have the talent for writing, there is no reason you should not pursue your dreams. You do need to track your sales and performance to make sure you are reaching your goals. NovelRank is a handy tool that tracks your sales rank and gives you an idea which months have been the best for you.
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Micro job sites such as Fiverr have been around for a while. You could find talent to help with your projects or get some paid work on those. Creating micro job sites may not be a bad idea for businesses. The Pricerr Theme is a professional theme that turns your WordPress site into a job site.
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In the past couple of years I have seen many bloggers recommend others to publish guests post to gain links back from popular sites. That is not a bad idea if you don’t go overboard with it. Recently I have seen many bloggers who have been forced to remove guests post due to their sites being penalized by Google. While I have written about the importance of building quality links, I have never been a fan of just publishing guest posts one after another on any of our sites. Here are a few reasons for that:
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Most bloggers understand the importance of being active on social networking sites such as Facebook. These sites can potentially drive a ton of traffic to your community. Adding the appropriate social buttons to your site would help your cause too. Many of us give the majority of our content to our readers for free. But there are some folks who charge their readers for their very best content. You don’t always have to ask your community to pay for your special posts. You could give premium content up for likes, tweets, and +1s, and get your posts to go viral.
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Google Reader is dying. It is quite a huge deal for us bloggers. I don’t know about you but I have over 1200 feeds that I track with Google Reader. Unfortunately, Google is not going to keep Google Reader around past July 1, 2013. That does not mean RSS is completely dead. You will just have to find other ways to manage your feeds. Here are 4 tools you can use to manage your RSS feeds:
Great News: a desktop application that lets you save and organize your feeds on your computer. It is not perfect but it does what it promises. All your articles are stored locally, so you won’t lose any article. [click to continue…]
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Instagram is one of the most popular photo sharing sites around. A lot of folks are active on the site, sharing their photos with people from around the world. Editing photos to share on Instagram is not hard. There are many tools that can handle the job. InstaWeather Pro happens to be an elegant application that makes adding weather reports to your Instagram photos a lot easier.
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Google+ is more than a simple social network. It is a social layer for everything Google. It should go without saying that the more established you become on the site, the better chance you will have of leveraging your Google+ network to get your business more exposure. Becoming a Google+ superstar is not easy. It takes a lot of time and effort. You need to stay active in the community, build connections, and contribute value to the site. Here is a simple plan to strengthen your presence on Google+:
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VPN services should not need any introduction to business users. They help you keep your privacy while browsing the Internet. It is true that many torrent downloaders are relying on VPN sites to avoid getting tracked. But there are many legitimate uses for VPN services. They are especially useful for business users who are constantly traveling.
Not all VPN services are the same. Some promise a lot and don’t deliver. Then there are some that are slow and have non-existent customer service. With these VPN services, you don’t have to worry about those issues:
BolehVPN: provides you with proxied servers and lets you surf anonymously. It is useful when you are using public Wi-Fi hotspots. Your activity is logged by these guys. [click to continue…]
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We all use images on our sites. Blog posts without any images are plain boring and tend to get less attention anyway. Some bloggers believe they can just include any image they find online in their posts. That can’t be further from the truth. Including copyrighted material on your site without giving credit or asking for permission could get you in trouble. That’s where Alamy comes into play. It helps you find royalty free and premium images for your site.
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With the emergence of AuthorRank, more bloggers are going back to their author pages to make sure they have the right information listed. Adding a good looking author box to your website is a great practice anyway. Fanciest Author Box for WordPress is a cool plugin that adds a good looking author box to your posts and pages. It can work for single and multi-author sites.
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