Why Outsourcing is a Pipe Dream for Most and 3 Things You Should Never Outsource

It seems like the Internet has really embraced outsourcing over the last several years with the creation of several websites such as Fiverr, oDesk, and Elance. You can now easily find a remote worker with a good portfolio and references usually cheaper than what you’d be able to find with local developers. There’s no doubt [...]

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WordPress Rockstar Series #4

Welcome to the fourth and final installment of the WordPress Rockstar Series. Up to this point, you have learned how to install and use WordPress to create an attractive, functional website. But what about all of the stuff that goes with actually running a website? What do you when you run out of topics to [...]

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Why Your Design Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think it Does

New Art of Blog Design

As bloggers we naturally want beautiful, jaw-dropping websites that we are proud to show off. As a result, we are constantly tweaking the design of our web page because we are not happy with the way it looks. But, have you ever just taken a minute to think about whether your design changes are really [...]

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Why Most WordPress Plugins Aren’t Worth Your Time and the 6 That Really Matter

Confused about which plugins to use

WordPress’s huge popularity is largely due to its ability to become anything by installing plugins. If you want some special functionality for your website, there is almost always a free plugin that can handle it for you. But, even though WordPress plugins can provide some amazing functionality, there are tons of plugins out there that [...]

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WordPress Rockstar Series #3

WordPress Rocktsar Beginner's Guide

Welcome to the third installment of the WordPress Rockstar series, where we will take you from no experience in WordPress to being a rockstar WordPress user. In the second installment of the WordPress Rockstar series we covered these topics: What is the difference between Posts and Pages? How to publish and schedule posts. How to [...]

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WordPress Rockstar Series #2

WordPress Rocktsar Beginner's Guide

Welcome to the second installment of the WordPress Rockstar series, where we will take you from no experience with WordPress to having a very workable knowledge of WordPress. In the first installment, we discussed these topics: Did you know that WordPress is currently used on over 62,000,000 website worldwide? We’ll discuss why this is great [...]

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Why Switching Premium WordPress Themes is Plain Stupid

Why Switching Premium Themes is Stupid

Working with Art of Blog has allowed me the time and resources to work with the best premium WordPress themes on the market. The one thing that I have learned with almost all premium WordPress themes is that while they offer increased functionality, they’re also meant to lock you in. And while this is not [...]

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Why Smart Small Businesses Shouldn’t Have Flashy Websites

Flashy cars and flashy websites

Have you ever thought about how much of a consumer culture we live in? In this consumer culture we routinely seek to have the shiniest, flashiest “things” to show off our status to others. And with this mindset, it’s natural that a business owner would think that he needs to have a shiny website to [...]

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WordPress Rockstar Series #1

WordPress Rocktsar Beginner's Guide

Having several years of experience with WordPress, I forget sometimes just how hard it was to get started with WordPress. I was recently reminded by several people when they began to ask me what I consider very simple questions, such as: How do I install WordPress? What’s the difference between a post and a page? [...]

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Why Personal Productivity is Bull**** and What Works

Why Personal Productivity is Bull

As bloggers, you are responsible for so much more than just creating great content. You are likely also responsible for negotiating advertising rates other sources of income, moderating comments, correcting guest posts, managing social media, and much more. With all of that work load, you have likely looked at some sort of way to increase [...]

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Nobody Cares What You Say On Your Website. Here’s What to Do About It!

Why Nobody Cares What You Say

You’ve likely read all of the blog posts that tell you, “to be successful in blogging, you have to create amazing content.” So, you went ahead and poured your heart out into tons of great posts and videos but haven’t received any results. And now you’re probably wondering where it all went wrong. I’ll tell [...]

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How Tech Savvy College Kids Are Ditching Their Resumes and Getting More Job Offers

Tech Savvy College Students

Today’s college students have tremendous resources at their disposal, and those with some tech smarts are going to be the most competitive, sought after students in their class. Tech savvy college students can now take advantage of tools such as blogging, personal pages, and portfolio tools to get prospective employers offering jobs to them. Students [...]

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