Getting to Grips with Thesis Hooks

August 31, 2010

If you are a new convert to Thesis one of your first questions is probably: What the heck are hooks? I’m new to the thesis theme, I saw the video on DIYThemes, checked out a few of the sites and liked the customizability of the theme. Face it, if you want to express yourself and [...]

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Want To Change Your Results? Change Your Actions

August 7, 2010

Joke: How many social workers does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the light bulb has to want to change. There is more than a kernel of truth in that story, and I’m not talking about the social worker needing to be only one. For change to happen, there has to be [...]

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Aw Mom, Do I Really Need to Learn HTML to Blog?

August 7, 2010

This morning I was looking at a blog article by Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz fame about ways to learn SEO basics (6 Ways to Learn SEO). The articles including links to various free resources, several blogs if not dedicated to, at least heavy in content about Search Engine Optimisation. Always keen to learn about SEO [...]

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Give Your Blog the Bullet – Five Tips To Get Visitors Reading Your Message

July 23, 2010

As a follow up to my earlier post on free writing, I said I would talk about the next step: editing your results. My inspiration for this piece is an observation by Jakob Nielsen: Nearly 80% of Your Visitors Won’t Read Your Page In 1997, Jakob Nielsen observed in his seminal post: How Users Read [...]

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Cure for Blog Writer’s Block

July 14, 2010

The Problem: Blog Writer’s Block You may have been there already: you start your blog with a hiss and a roar. “I’ll write a new post every week.” Then a few days pass, you write one article, maybe two and then you start to fade. The dreaded blog writer’s block. What’s to be done? As [...]

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Estimating Search Traffic – Update to the New Google Adword Keyword Tool

May 9, 2010

A look at the latest update to the new(ish) Google Adword Tool: Estimate Search Traffic and how it may benefit users.

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New Google Keyword Tool Beta and Better?

May 2, 2010

A guide to the Google Keyword Tool Beta and how its new features may help you build better websites as well as better targeted Adword campaigns. Includes an example of how to use the Category feature to create a tighter keyword list.

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Putting the Marketing Back into Internet Marketing

April 29, 2010

An introduction to Wasabihound.com, it’s purpose: to report on my exploration and experience with internet marketing and the process of creating a business online – lessons, thoughts and stories, and how it might help you.

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Validation

November 6, 2009

I found this earlier this year and while it is a long video (over 16 mins – there’s your warning!) I thoroughly recommend it. It’s a little quirky and the black and white gives it a great Sundance quality. I really like the underlying message – hope you do t00. Give it a few minutes [...]

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Staying in Control

November 5, 2009

I have recently been reading some inflammatory posts on Facebook about a company I work with. Some of the posts have a kernel of truth and to the extent they do, I have no concerns, fair and constructive criticism is to be encouraged and listened to. What (briefly) riled me was some comments from someone [...]

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