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Is Starting Your Own Business Risky?

by Sonia Simone on October 11, 2011

Starting a business is risky. Horribly, terrifyingly risky. Nearly all new businesses fail — that’s the official statistic, right? Some say 4 out of 5, some say as many as 95%. Successful entrepreneurs have a different kind of DNA from the rest of us. Ice water runs through their veins. They thrive on risk. The [...]


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The BlogWorld Expo Virtual Ticket (or, How to Get To a Conference You Can’t Get To)

by Johnny B. Truant on October 11, 2011

We live a lonely life out here on the internet. Sure, we’ve got email and blogs and social media and Skype and the occasional contact via an actual phone, but in real-life terms we’re pretty isolated. We usually live far away from our “work friends.” We swap ideas in small, discreet blocks — a half-hour [...]


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49 Drop-Dead Gorgeous Reasons You Should Run Your Website on WordPress

by Robert Bruce on September 22, 2011

Yeah, you can pick up a theme to bolt onto your WordPress website just about anywhere these days. But why would you go just about anywhere to find something that’s so vital to your work? This is 2011 after all. Your website should be stunningly designed. It should make performing the basics of good SEO [...]


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23 Reasons Your Blog Isn’t Making Any Money (And What To Do About It!)

by Danny Iny on August 29, 2011

Sure, you want comments. And subscribers, and shares, and likes. But you don’t really care about any of these things. You want what they will eventually lead to … Money. Yes, traffic is good, and so is reader engagement. But if you’re reading this, chances are you’re running a blog with the intention of marketing [...]


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3 Simple Techniques to Getting Your Message Seen, Heard and Out There into The World

by Pamela Wilson on August 15, 2011

On the snowy, northeastern Christmas of my 11th year, our parents gathered all five kids around the kitchen table to deliver the news. We were moving to San Antonio, Texas. I was devastated. Texas? I imagined what our new home would look like. We’d be miles from any neighbors — who all walked straight off [...]


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Introducing the StudioPress Marketplace: Great WordPress Themes from Exceptional Designers

by Robert Bruce on August 11, 2011

When you’re buying a premium WordPress theme, you have to ask yourself (or someone who knows what they’re doing) real questions about security, stability, SEO, ease of use, ease of updates, and much more. That’s why we created the Genesis framework to be the rock-solid foundation of a smart WordPress site. Then it’s just a [...]


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