Stumbling Again — Traffic Experiment

If I’m going to be wrong about my judgment of social bookmarking, and whether or not it’s worth the efforts, then I’d like to be really, really wrong. Join in with Andrea Hess of EmpoweredSoul.com and Albert of UrbanMonk.net and myself (and others) in a StumbleUpon traffic-building experiment.

Summer Feed Subscriber Slump?

Are your feed counts, hits and visits, and other performance statistics wilting in the dog days of August?
Did your subscriber growth rate hit a wall — oh, say, about a month or two ago?
Chill — it’s not just you.
One of my blogging peers emailed me last month complaining about a “glass ceiling” he felt [...]

Define Your Blog’s Mission in One Sentence

You need to be able to communicate who you are and what you do — what your blog, business, product, or service does — in less than a minute. Actually, you’ve got about 9 seconds to make me want to stick around and keep reading…

How to Sell Ebooks with a PayPal Account

The most well-known services for selling ebooks and other downloadable, digital goods absolutely SUCK:

ridiculously expensive
out-dated web architecture
so user-UN-friendly it’s not even funny

If You Must Pay for Blog Hosting

Okay, there are a million places you can get a free blog, and there are too many ways to create free web pages online to even mention.
Factor in the paid web page creation tools, licensed content management systems, hosting — the number of options is overwhelming. When I first started publishing online, I spent 4 [...]