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I have been blogging for close to 8 years now. At first, I was not too serious about this career. When I was a student, blogging was a great way to connect with people, learn new things, and share my views with my readers. I made some change on the side which was not bad [...]

We have all been there before: being excited about a new project and ready to go but not knowing how to name our project. That happens to start-ups and small businesses all the time. What you don’t want to do is pick a name that does not feel right for your business only to have [...]

When I started blogging on this site, my goal was not to make a living out of my effort. I have been in the corporate world and have run my own start-up as well. I was just passionate about blogging and sharing what I knew with my readers. That was way back in 2002. Nowadays, [...]

So you want to own your own social networking website? Maybe you want to have a web service in place to help new bloggers host their blogs on your website or you just want to create a community around your favorite niche. Whatever the case, you won’t have to spend too much money to get [...]

These days it’s very tough to find a blog domain that is easy to remember and brandable. Most straight forward domains seem to have been taken. After all, there are a lot of domainers out there that take pleasure in registering all kinds of domains only to sell them for huge profits in a short [...]

As someone who has launched over 200 websites in the past couple of years, I can tell you that it always pay to plan ahead and design a structure for your blog. As a blogger, having a plan (flowchart) that you can refer to track your progress and expand your blog helps. Let’s say you [...]

Finding a domain for your brand new blog is one of the most important decisions you could ever make as far as your business is concerned. Having a domain that is “brandable” and easy to remember can be the difference between becoming a top blogger and failure in your endeavors. There are plenty of people [...]

Anyone who knows anything about blogging knows that having an attractive logo can be a major factor towards making it big in the blogging world. Your blog’s logo is not only a great branding tool, but it also leaves a first impression on your readers. If you don’t pay too much attention to your logo, [...]

Many bloggers don’t treat their blogs as a business. They treat it as a hobby, and that’s why they never manage to get it to the next level. I am not a big fan of this approach. When you start a blog, you either dream too high or too low. If your goal is just [...]

WordPress has made it so easy for newbie bloggers to get started with their blog and manage their content more effectively. A few years ago (in the pre-Wordpress era), people used to have HTML and static blogs. You had to manage all your pages yourself as there was no system to do it for you. [...]