This is the 3rd part in a series on Screencasting. Check out the previous post in the series: How to plan a Screencast or start at the beginning: How to Create Professional-Quality Screencasts. Scripting for Screencasts Nobody wants to sound like an idiot when they make a recording. You want to sound like you know what…
Category Archives: Blogging Tutorials
How to Set Up the Digg Digg Social Media Sharing Plugin for WordPress
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I use the Digg Digg social media sharing plugin because it rawks, but it takes a bit of setting up. So I thought I’d make a little tutorial video to walk you through it step by step. If you can’t see the video, visit the blog directly or watch it on YouTube. I do more…
Customize Your WordPress Admin Area for More Efficient Blog Management
In this WordPress tutorial video (about 8 minutes), I show you some really easy tips for customizing the WordPress Admin area and the post writing page: How to show or hide content boxes How to rearrange content boxes How to customize some of the settings It’s amazing how a few simple, easy steps can improve…
Why Your Customers Might Be Your Biggest Untapped Resource
This is a guest post by Nathan Hangen. Be sure to let him know what you think of it in the comments! Businesses rely on trust and authority to survive. If your customers don’t trust you or believe that you have the goods, then they aren’t going to buy from you. Big corporations generally don’t…
How to Use Windows Live Writer
To put it simply, Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is absolutely the business. If you’re using Windows XP or Vista as your operating system (no Macs), you need to give this blog software a try. It’s a free download from Microsoft. This video shows you everything you need to know about how to use Windows Live…
How to Add Video to a WordPress Blog Post the Easy Way
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You’re new to this whole blogging thing. You want to put a cool video in your post like you see everywhere on the web, but you haven’t figured out how to do it. I got your back. Everything’s easy when you know how, right? So watch this video to see how it’s done the easy…
Secrets of How to Write a Post in WordPress – Video Tutorial
Are you missing something in WordPress? You can learn the basics and even learn a couple of secrets at the same time. They’re not really secret, of course, they’re features you may not yet be aware of. Here’s what’s in the video: How to edit the post “slug” How to insert hyperlinks How to upload…
Should You Squidoo?
Should you… what? Squidoo is the brainchild of the well-known marketer Seth Godin. Squidoo is a multi-user site where, in a very user-friendly structured way, you create web pages on any topic you like. The web pages you created are called lenses. You don’t need any technical knowledge to create a Squidoo lens. Why Create…
Knowing Your Way Around the WordPress Write Screen
Guest Blogger Week continues at Remarkablogger with Joel Williams of Blog Tech Guy With the launch of WordPress 2.5 many things in the WordPress admin dashboard have changed. However some things remain the same, and one of those is how each part of a WordPress post affects what is displayed on your blog. For ease…
What Rock Band Can Teach You about Business Blogging
Guest Blogger Week continues on Remarkablogger, with Naomi Duford of IttyBiz Recently, I spent an incredible sum of money on the PlayStation game Rock Band. While this new addition to my living room has probably caused both my business and my blog to suffer — like Twitter, Rock Band shares many traits with crack —…
How to Create a Feed Signature with Secret Content for Subscribers Only
A lot of people ask me how I created the feed signature that allows only subscribers to download my free ebook How to Start a Business Blog. The answer is simple and… unglamorous: I use a WordPress plugin called Sig2feed and some HTML/CSS coding. Anybody can use the plugin. If you don’t know HTML or…
Who Says Thank You More, You or Your Commentors?
I was responding to a comment from my friend Phil Gerbyshak, telling him “you’re welcome”, when I realized that I really haven’t been saying those two words very much, lately. I’ve been thanking people myself, left and right. But I haven’t been saying “you’re welcome” as much. Why does this matter? Who are you really…
Getting Blog Readers to Convert –
Say Hello to PAT
Welcome to My First SlideCast This post contains a SlideCast. If you are viewing this in a feed reader and don’t see the SlideShare player immediately below, please visit the original post or SlideShare to view it. All you have to do is click on the play button, just like a video… except you can…
How I Increased My RSS Subscribers to Nearly 900 in Less than 2 Weeks
In less than 2 weeks, I’ve managed to increase my blog’s subscriber count by nearly 200% to about 900 subscribers (198% to be exact, at the time of this writing). Many of you already know how, but I’ll say it anyway. Two words: Free Ebook. I did this according to a plan, and I’m going…
FeedBurner for WordPress: The Basics Nobody Told You About
There’s a lot of new stuff to learn and figure out when you’re new to blogging, and there’s some basic stuff out there that other people are taking for granted, but maybe you didn’t know about. Setting up FeedBurner for your blog might be one of those things. And it’s not that there’s no good…
How to be a Metablogging Wind-Up Toy
You may have heard the blogosphere described as an echo chamber. That’s a way to describe the effect I’m talking about. Metabloggers blog about blogging itself. About how to blog. About how to make money blogging. About how to bring traffic to your blog. The problem is, they’re not getting this to the people who really need it. Their audience seems to consist primarily of other metabloggers!
Build Blog Traffic with Technorati, Part 2
Tips and information on how to get Technorati tag links into your posts–especially if you have more than one blog on more than one platform.
Build Blog Traffic with Technorati, Part 1
Explains in plain English how to use Technorati to your advantage on your blog in order to increase traffic.
How to start a new blog
Insight into the process of starting a blog for the beginner.
What is RSS? Something that’s Changing Business
How RSS, or, Really Simple Syndication is changing business.
