It is amazing how I keep finding parallels to Feng Shui wherever I go.

A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I went to hear a talk by Philip Chard about being healed by nature. The theme of the talk was that, today, people are alienated from nature. Some people hardly ever get to spend any time in nature.

The energy we surround ourselves wi

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Do you just display your latest posts on your blog's home page? If you have other content that you want to showcase on the front page, you might want to create a static front page for your blog. You can do this in the new version of WordPress. This post will show you how to do it.

Create a Static Front Page for Your Blog. From Interne

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A couple of days ago, I posted that I had started using gmail.

Unfortunately, I don’t recommend this any more. Or, if you do use it, be sure to back up your archived mail somewhere else as well.

My account at gmail was suddenly suspended. I have no idea why. I had to submit a support ticket to find out why, and to get it reinstated if p

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have been doing a case study of improving the earnings of a boring blog that I had neglected for a long time. Here’s an update on my progress.

The reason I would like to put some more effort towards this is that I only have to do it once. Once the numbers get up there, since there’s not much competition, I will not have to do much, and the

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Thanks to everyone who submitted names for my new ebook. It will take me a little while to go through them all and decide on a winner. I will let you know within the next few days. Once the book is ready to sell, I will have a 24-hour special for readers of this blog to get a copy at a greatly reduced price. I will send an email to my email

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How would you like to be a published author on Amazon.com? I did it!

Amazon has come out with a new book reader electronic device, called the Kindle. I got my book published in the Kindle program. It took less than 24 hours for it to be live.

The help they give you is confusing, to say the least. So I’m going to give you some tips on ho

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I had a few surprising things happen when I created an Amazon Ebay mashup site for Christmas. I posted earlier about Mark’s script to create these sites.

Holiday sites can often do quite well, so I had the idea to make one of these sites for Christmas.

The next day, it only got 3 visitors, but imagine my surprise when, the day after th

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So today is the big day for the launch of my new book, Blog Traffic Jump Start!

This ebook tells everything about how I got such great traffic and search engine rankings to this blog, in the 3 short months since I started the blog.

To thank my loyal blog readers, I am running a 24-hour special on the book - the price is only $12!

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When you are tempted to abandon your marketing plan too quickly, think of this: 1. The first time a man looks at an ad, he doesn’t see it. 2. The second time, he doesn’t notice it. 3. The third time, he is conscious of its existence. 4. The fourth time, he faintly remembers having seen it. 5. The fifth time,

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I have a blog on a boring topic that I am trying to get links to. You can read Part 1 of my link building efforts here. In that article, I discussed how I created an article that would appeal to a lot of blog carnivals, and then submitted it to some carnivals.

The next thing I did, which will be the subject of today’s post, is to submit th

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This is a review of Leo Babauta's book, "Zen To Done". Have you been looking for a system that would make you more productive? One that would eliminate all your distractions and help you focus on what is important? I have been looking for something like this since I quit my job to work on my business full-time. I have finally found the res

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I started this blog on August 14 of 2007, and at the end of October, 2 1/2 months later, when the Page Rank updated, I got a Page Rank of 4. (See blog post for more.) I am writing an ebook describing exactly how I accomplished this in the past three

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Mark at 45n5 has posted an excellent video explaining some things you can do with keywords. I am showing you Mark’s video for two reasons: 1. He has some really good ideas on how to use these keywords to increase your income. 2. He brings up some ta

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Yesterday, I focused on building links to the blog. In order to rank well in the search engines, I am going to have to get links to the blog. The blog is so boring, it would not work well for social networking.

There are going to be three parts t

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You might be wondering why I am reading a book on sales (Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar).

Well, if you are blogging, you are involved in sales. Even if you don’t sell anything on your blog, you are selling yourself and you are selling

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