When you write a blog post, what are you really doing? You’re teaching. When people read what you wrote, they’re learning. When you distill the essence of it all, that’s what it comes down to: teaching. I’m writing this after conducting a group blog coaching call, which the participants paid for. What, exactly, did they pay…
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Make Your Customer the Hero
The best subject about which you can write on your business blog is not your business, but your customers. Make your customer the hero. You are the that person in the hero’s story who provides the sage advice or the whiz-bang gadgetry the hero needs. But you’re not the hero. Your customer is. People don’t…
How to Brand and Name Your Blog
There are three ways to pick a name for your blog: Personal Keyword Brand Personal: Naming Your Blog After Yourself Seth Godin’s blog does not have a name. It doesn’t need to. I mean, he’s Seth Freakin’ Godin. That’s the name that matters. It’s just Seth’s Blog. Some people are their brand: Seth Godin, Chris…
Watch Me Fly through Creating my Blog Consulting Page Layout in the Headway WordPress Theme
Watch this video on how I redesigned the Blog Consulting services page in the Headway WordPress Theme. Run time: less than 5 mins.
Watch How Easy is the Headway Theme for WordPress
Watch the Headway WordPress Theme video on Remarkablogger if you can’t see it below. You’ll probably want to watch this one at full screen. In this video you can see how easy it is to use the Headway theme for WordPress. What you’re looking at is me, redesigning this blog, right before your eyes. And,…
New Remarkablogger – New Domain, New Server, New Design
Well, there’s just so much newness all over the place, here. I finally did something I’ve been meaning to do forever, move this blog to its namesake domain, remarkablogger.com and off of michaelmartine.com. I’ve also moved it off of Slow Daddy and onto a much faster server, so I hope you notice the difference in…
Meet Headway: The Next Evolution in WordPress Themes
With the new Headway WordPress theme, you can visually design your blog through simple drag-and-drop editing… without needing to know everything about HTML, CSS, and PHP. In the past few years, premium WordPress themes have evolved to employ greater and greater functionality and sophistication. First, there was Revolution (which really created this whole category), then…
