January 13, 2012

Ninja Plugin Users – Please Read!

We wanted to make sure that you were aware of the fraud notice posted today by MaxBlogPress, the developers of the Ninja plugin and several other plugins. (Thanks to Myrah for the heads up!) You can find more information about the situation on the MaxBlogPress blog. While we don’t believe there is a need to [...]

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January 9, 2012

Success – How Do You Define It?

  As we make goals, plans and begin to implement our ideas for our blogs and businesses this year, we think about success. What does success mean to you? As a person? What does it mean for your blog? Or you business? Is it about making the most money? Is it about making the most [...]

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January 7, 2012

Blogging and Social Media Weekly Round-Up {01.06.12}

Here are the top ten social media and blogging posts this week… Success Looks Like… Most of us know intuitively that success from the outside-looking-in always appears much more simple and straight-forward than it really is and a lot of my conversations end up having at least on moment where I dispel common myths of [...]

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January 6, 2012

How to Upload and Link to a PDF File in WordPress

It’s great to refer people to your own resources. One way to do this if you have printables, checklists or other files is by uploading the file to your site. This is a simple 4-step process to uploading and linking to a PDF file hosted on your site. Go to Media and Add New. Upload [...]

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January 5, 2012

Top 12 Plugins for 2012 {WordPress}

A guest post from Cathy at Desperately Seeking WordPress. Have you checked your plugins lately? Warnings Most of the errors and troubleshooting that we do at DSWP is related to plugins – either broken or outdated, or plain old bad plugins. Remember – plugins are pieces of CODE – the same type of code that [...]

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January 4, 2012

Google Calendar Tip: Creating Tasks from an Email

In my Everyday Savings series, I mentioned that I will be using Google Calendar more in 2012. Even though I’m a paper calendar kinda gal, I prove to stay on task more with virtual reminders. I still like using my Moleskine planner for scheduling meetings and basic project tasks so I can mark things off [...]

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January 3, 2012

Eat That Frog – Kindle Edition just $.99, Today Only

Today only, get a copy of Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy for just $.99! We recommended it in our favorite books for 2012 list. If you want to get serious about getting more done in less time and being the best [...]

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January 2, 2012

Finding Unread Emails in Gmail

I love all of the efficiencies that Gmail offers over my previous email platform of Yahoo. The one thing that wasn’t clear to me was how I could read just the unread emails so I could quickly delete emails or star for action. There isn’t a button like there was in Yahoo…but there is a [...]

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December 30, 2011

Blogging & Business Goals for 2012 (Link up your goals!)

The Savvy Blogging Team would highly recommend you take a couple of hours this week (if you haven’t already done so) to write down goals for your blog, and for your blogging business this week. It’s the goals that give us the motivation and drive through the day in and day out of blogging.  You [...]

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December 28, 2011

Small Business Checklist for Bloggers

It’s that time again. Time to take a deep breath…and then time to hit the ground running. Fresh start. Clean slate. New vision. New plans. But how do you keep up with a budding business without getting overwhelmed? You’ve got to break it all out so you can focus on what’s important that day, that [...]

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