In “How to Find Your Tribe in One Word” by Liz Strauss, she wrote about how it is too easy to feel separated from society by the actions often not of our choosing. Lots of folks have lots of reason for feeling we’re on the outside. It’s almost overwhelming. The world can seem to be o...

I have often wondered how it happens that everyone is always willing to share a piece of two of advice about everything related to the internet and online industry while people will rarely act as experts in other industries - be it nuclear science or construction - without proper training and real k...

I guess it is hard to avoid the usual end-of-year topics for any blogger and I don’t think I am any exception to the rule so I have decided to build my own collections of blog posts that I could easily remember myself as those that initiated the most animated discussions in the blogosphere. Af...

As we continue with this series on blogging jobs, it’s time to look at the income a blogger can make by blogging for pay. The skills and qualities a company or blog owner is looking for from a blogger are extensive, far beyond just writing abilities. As with any freelance job, determining how ...

Over the last two months I have made become a really good friend with Mark Mason. I have to tell you that this is one very smart guy. Mark has a very demanding job working as some kind of freakazoid engineer at Texas Instruments and does Internet marketing only about one to two hours per night. Amaz...

I first wrote about my home office setup in How I Blog: Matt Craven back in May 2006 when I was still the editor of The Blog Herald. Things have changed a bit since then. Computing Setup I generally blog from my home office - though sometimes from the local Starbucks or Caribou for that java fix. I ...

Over the past year alone, I can’t count how many hundreds of people who have told me that they’ve just decided to make “beginning blogging” be their blog’s focus. They wanted me to tell them what I thought of their plan. I told them they weren’t done, yet. Yes, th...

I have had a lot of fun learning the inner workings of WordPress as well as learning how to make WordPress Themes. Over the past year I have landed quite a few jobs for providing customers with their very own professionally designed WordPress blog design, or as most bloggers call it, professional or...

Let me ask you three questions. 1. How interesting is your business blog? 2. What's the noise level of your blog? 3. How do you unlame a business blog? Metaphorically speaking, how do you get a two-legged lame old dog to get up and bound out the door, barking up a storm through the whole neighbo...

Ian Parks from The Random Forest called in a question today and wanted some thoughts on how to utilize Micro Niche Finder. For those who don’t know about Micro Niche Finder, this is a program that will allow you to enter in various search terms into the program and it will return information t...