Here are my top 10 takeaways from WordCamp Raleigh. Unfortunately, I was only able to attend Saturday and with three session tracks, I obviously couldn’t go to all the presentations… So my highlights are from presentations by Gregory Ng of FreezerBurns.com, Grant Swaim of DigitalLiteracyProject.com, Jeff Cohen SocialMediaB2B.com and WordPress for Dummies author Lisa Sabin-Wilson. [...]

WordCamp Raleigh celebrating all things WordPress was a lot of geeky fun this past weekend–I’ll post some highlights in upcoming posts. But for all who missed it, I’ve posted my presentation slides on easy and relatively fast ways to create quality blog content that helps turn visitors into prospects and customers  below. Enjoy! Tweet This [...]

Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE to laugh. And research is turning up all kinds of ways that laughter is good for you, including… Decreasing stress Lifting your mood Clearing your head Boosting your immune system Even burning calories! I even interviewed a woman once who insists that laughing every day helped put her [...]

Then join us for the Raleigh JV Alert Impact Hookup on Thursday, December 3! Where:  Tripp’s 3516 Wade Avenue Raleigh, NC 27607 When:  December 3, 2009, 7-9 PM It’s the first meeting of the Raleigh area Impact/JV Alert Hookup to provide networking, fun, and a chance to meet others top-level local Internet marketers interested in [...]

Here’s my photo set from the event–I think you can guess which one I am… The other folks are (from left to right) Cynthia Richards, Jason Fladlian, Tim Castleman, Willie Crawford, Robert Plank and Niche Prof Ron Capps. You can click on each photo for more comments… Tweet This Post

Last week Deidre Hughey of The Buzz Builder interviewed me about the 7 Deadly Sins of Web Copy for her Author Buzz radio show, and then we took a few questions from listener’s at the end. Wanna listen? Here it is: (I have to warn you though–I had bronchitis when we recorded it, so my [...]

I was reviewing my recent marketing promotion for the phantom teleseminar on 9 Secrets to Ebook Success and thought it might be interesting to share what I tracked and what I learned. (Phantom teleseminar=you just sign up for the audio, there’s no actual call time.) Overall, there was a great response with nearly 90 people signing up [...]

Discover how to maximize your time & income by creating ebooks that sell…minimal writing required…in my FREE audio 9 Secrets to Ebook Success. Here’s just a taste of what I’ll share… 4 ways an ebook can boost your bottom-line even when you’re not working A quick and painless way to create first-rate content that showcases [...]

We’ve covered WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg’s entertaining presentation on blogging and more, SEO for WordPress, Getting Others to Create Blog Content for You, and Staying Out of Hot Water with the Law so far this week as part of our series on last weekend’s Wordcamp RDU. Today, we’ll wrap up with some tips on turning [...]

Continuing with our series of highlights from last weekend’s Wordcamp RDU Lawyer Chris Gatewood (Hischler Fleischer) talked about how to keep ourselves out of hot water. Key points included: Copyrights.  You should include the copyright footer in your documents, but you’re still protected if you don’t. (It can also be a deterrent to prevent others [...]