Even Celebrities Are Blogging
This Fast Company article — titled Celebrities Boost Their Brands With Personal Blogs — got my attention. Typically, celebrities start something first and then everyone else gets on the bandwagon, right? The article is loaded with good information, but these quotes stuck out to me: Blogs lend themselves to creating a casual environment with fans…
How Real Estate Agents Can Use WordPress: A Real Estate WordPress Theme
In order to demonstrate how WordPress could be used by real estate agents and brokers, we decided to drum up a demo version … here’s a screenshot that’s linked to a live demo of our Real Estate WordPress Theme. Here are a couple of reasons we think a custom WordPress theme would be a good…
Fake Steve: The Online Dairy of Apple’s Steve Jobs [Not]
“Fake Steve” is a blog written by a Forbes magazine Senior Editor Daniel Lyons … only he assumes the identity of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. It’s now garnered national attention in the New York Times. A couple of things stick out to me: Write well and humorously … and people will read you. To the…
Know Thy Strengths
I’m fascinated by personality tests and other tools that help clarify who you are, what you’re good at, etc. I took the Myers-Briggs Test Indicator in college and that started my immense interest in the subject. So a while back, I bought the book Now, Discover Your Strengths and took the StrengthsFinder test. I thoroughly…
Your Whole Blog Should Be a Landing Page
I’ve been doing some reading on landing pages … and the thought occurred to me: My whole blog should be a landing page. Here’s what I mean by that statement: Simply, your blog should convert your site guests to accomplish your goals, whatever those are. As a blog designer, one of the first questions I…
Compelling Content that Causes Clicks: The Forbes Magazine Model
For some time now, I’ve been clicking over to check out the delicious “In Pictures” galleries that Forbes Magazine puts up on a continual basis. These content snippets in particular are great examples of compelling content that creates clicks … Here’s two examples in particular that I ate up: 10 Elements of a Business Plan…
Control the Traffic or Ride the Waves
He who controls the traffic — the mass of Web users logging on each day — is king. That company or website who can steer and siphon and redirect the majority of Web surfers is Google controls traffic through search. Now … Google is a verb. When your brand name is used commonly as a…
Duct Tape Business Blog Theme Released With New Header Logo Image
Due to popular request, John Jantsch and I have released version two of our Duct Tape Business Blog theme … this time with an editable graphic in the header. Please note: If you’re not skilled at Photoshop or tweaking a blog, you may want to use the Duct Tape Business Blog theme with the text…
WordPress ‘Evolving’ Into More of a Content Management System
Reading some summaries of WordCamp at Blogging Pro, I saw this blurb that really caught my eye (and excitement) drawn from Matt Mullenwegs talk: WordPress is evolving into a content management system. My friend Brian Gardner has talked about WordPress as a CMS … and I wrote a whole series about how smaller church websites…
Our Free WordPress Themes Site Gets a New Dress
I just gave RockinThemes, where Nathan and I have launched over 40 free WordPress themes, a new facelift. The old site was, well, old and outdated. Badly. We’ve got some tweaks still to do but you get the idea. Here’s a screenshot: