With the advent of WordPress 3.0, the ability to add ‘drag and drop’ navigation to a website became so much easier.  WordPress added built in functionality for navigation menus’ – and if your theme supports nav menu’s, they can be added by a few clicks of a mouse.  If your theme does not support Nav [...]

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This is a follow on from my recent article “How Not To Network“. When using Facebook there are a couple of practices that I see my connections use, that concern me. Posting To A New Contacts (or Pages) Wall In principle, posting to a new contacts wall is a great way to develop the relationship.  [...]

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Podcasting is a great way to share your content and thoughts with a wider audience. I have been trialling the PowerPress plugin from Blubrry and it’s pretty impressive. The video below demonstrates how to manually add the Podcast into a wordpress post or page, so that it is delivered to your readers and through your [...]

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Today, I received an email from a new Linked In contact, which leaves me wondering how much about networking they really know, understand or care about it. The contact was through a group, and whilst we are now connected, I would say that I barely know this person and that they barely know me.  Kind [...]

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It has been a long held belief of mine that if you want your site to rank well and consistently in the search engines, then you need to be providing good quality information (content) to your visitors and a great user experience. I’m also an advocate of using articles on other sites as part of [...]

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Amazon S3 is an excellent way to deliver content to website visitors quickly, effectively and at relatively low cost. However, sometimes uploading content can be a challenge!  Whilst the Web interface is fairly good, and I demonstrate how to us it in the video:  How To Upload Files To Amazon S3, sometimes a desktop application [...]

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Self Confidence is such an important asset for any person to have in business.  In February, I was honoured to speak with Kate Sanner, of Vivacity and Boost Your Self Confidence in 90 Days. During our discussion we spoke about the importance of Self Confidence, the impact poor self confidence can have on a business [...]

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This week, Facebook announced it’s new SEND button – part of it’s social plugins functionality.  SEND extends the existing LIKE capability previously introduced by Facebook, by allowing visitors to your website (or other web presence) to ‘email’ your page to specific Facebook friends. Once the Send button is added to a page, it’s three simple [...]

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Back in January, I had the pleasure of speaking with Larissa Zimmerman from National Financial Fitness in celebration of Financial Wellness Month. Larissa shared a whole heap of information for business owners from: Increasing performance Improving morale Reducing stress and Decreasing the risk of fraud. Enjoy the chat we had:

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Over the last few days, I’ve seen the following status updates within my Facebook Community: ATTENTION: Friday, Facebook will become owner of the publishing rights of ALL your private photos. You need to make a simple change: go to ‘account’, ‘account settings’, ‘facebook adverts’ (tab along the top), ‘ads shown by third parties’, choose ‘NO [...]

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