This post talks about 7 ways that you can use in order to help you improve your problem solving skills. Some of these methods include: determine the root cause, identify constraints, reverse engineer, and a bunch of other useful tips. The article is well written and provides some nice examples to back up the assertions made throughout the a

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John Chow has been Unclogged. I felt that it was time that things where called by there name and I call John Chow by his name an d many other names. It is time that this guy stops hurting bloggers by feeding them the crap he feeds them. The problem was there was know body that really called this guy out. I welcome you to see how I Unclogged J

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A post on how to go about improving your productivity throughout your daily life. The posts gives some advice on how to approach problems so that you can solve them more efficiently. The do's and the don'ts are also covered. Handy information that is not rocket science, but useful to be reminded every once in a while. This is a post writ

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This post discusses John Chow and his recent post on what he calls "The Ramp". The ramp is the explosive growth in web traffic that blogs need to become A list bloggers. There are three points that the author brings up that questions the validity of Chow's ideas. One of them revolves around content vs promotion. Chow states that Promoti

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In the process of redesign my blog, I’ve done a lot of research into the design trends of some of the top blog designers in the world, and I thought that it would be applicable to showcase those designs here in one nifty list… I don’t normally publish many of these lists, but this one is different and really valuable indeed (you’ll probably s

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If you owned a brick and mortar store, would you report your sales stats to everyone that walked in the door? If you owned an electronics store, would you tell someone that wanted to buy a television that you knew nothing about televisions? Would you waste that customer’s afternoon by trying to talk to them about a bunch of unrelated jibber j

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While viewing my own blog, I have noticed that in the last 5 minutes a new Adsense feature was being tested! My top 468×60 adsense strip had two arrows to rotate through new advertisements, much like you would see at the end of any Youtube video. Less than 60 seconds later, the arrows in the ads seem to have been removed, possibly meaning the

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Here’s a competition with a difference. Most blog comments type of competitions want you to leave the most number of comments at the host’s blog - I don’t, in fact I only NEED to see ONE comment from you and that’s your entry comment.

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1) Write short paragraphs.
People reading online are not looking for a book. They are primarily skimming. They are hunting for information. A long paragraph will cause high bounce rates. Readers will determine that it’s probably not worth the effort to continue reading. Readers will make a split second decision to continue and reevaluate qui

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This is a Part 2 of the short series on RSS and expands on information provided in my first post “What Is RSS And How You “Eat” It“. But this time I want to discuss details that are more relevant to bloggers and how we can use RSS technology to promote our blogs while providing most benefits to both readers and us.

In this post I will cove

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Contests are a great way to promote a blog whether it is new or established, we could all do with the extra traffic. Here are a selection that you might be interested in.

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Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising such as Google Adsense is popular among publishers because they are easy to set up and don’t require any maintenance. Just copy and paste a few lines of code, sit back and watch the money roll in. Or does it.

Here is a simple but realistic analysis of the truth about the earning capabilities of PP

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Ok everyone - this is it. Most of you have seen my other posts regarding my custom design I have been working on over the last few weeks. Well after working and speaking with many other bloggers and designers, I feel like I am almost ready to release my theme to the world. However, before I do, I want to get one more session of feedback - I a

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You can get carried away with social media.rnToo much use of social media can take up time better spent (or that should be spent) elsewhere. There are so many different ways social media is used it can be overwhelming.rnThe author of this post offers l7 way that you take back control from social media and take back control of your life or

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A good way to increase readership and influence is through guest posting. With guest posting, you get to extend your influence to an entirely different audience than normal. This can drastically increase your exposure and give you some standing room in an entirely different audience base. Guest posting is beneficial to both parties, and is

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