People have asked me why I keep the blogging to the bank banner going on this blog. The simple answer is because at the moment it’s the one thing that will pretty much definitely help people do better at blogging and at making money from their blog. Does the book guarantee untold riches? Not quite. [...]

I’ve been impressed by the way Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank 2.0 takes a step by step approach to showing how to make blogging pay. So much so that I’m going to pay for 27 minutes of my Advanced Blog Coaching for anyone who orders the book through my affiliate link: Blogging To The Bank 2.0 With [...]

I thought I’d better let you know what’s happening because I’ve not posted for a couple of days. I’ve been working on setting up and making prettier the new Manchester Bloggers blog in Wordpress. There’s a lot you can do with it and WordPress has so many plugins that really help you improve the reader’s experience. So the [...]

That’s right I’ve been a busy bee (bee, get it? One of the symbols of Manchester). I’ve created a blog called Manchester Bloggers to give Manchester a chance to express itself, rather than through those doughty organs of state and newsprint. Anyway, it’s a chance for us to show Manchester in a variety of different [...]

I am so annoyed! And for 2 reasons… Feedblitz Form Failure Now this first reason probably isn’t Feedblitz’s fault. I was giving you the opportunity to sign up for fresh updates as my reviews for Blogging to the Bank and its bonuses are posted when I discovered that the form to sign up wasn’t working. [...]

“Blogging To The Bank 2.0″ is a fine example of a human trait that bloggers and a lot of folk on line demonstrate. Human curiosity! And guess what? I’m a fine example of that trait in action. I managed to resist the temptation to buy the first edition of Blogging to the Bank. Because of course I [...]

12 ways to increase traffic to your blog or website.

Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, MySpace, YouTube and others are very interesting. I’ve said before that I believe that Web 2.0 is just the evolution of the Internet. The Internet Chronology The way the Internet works we’ve had the following technologies: FTP and Gopher for getting content in the beginning The first web browser built [...]

Ok I love Blogger Beta. And thanks for transferring all my blogs without trauma or incident. My only problem is that my favourite blog (read that as the one I post most to) won’t takes posts from my blog client of choice (Windows Live Writer). Yet Windows Live Writer works with my other blogs. For [...]

I tried out and liked Snap Preview on the blog. If you’re not sure what Snap Preview is simply go to a link hover your mouse pointer over it and you’ll see a thumbnail of the site, or blog page, referenced. It seems rather a nice little idea. Let me know what you think. If [...]

Hurrah! I’m 2 years older and this blog now has over 350 posts and counting… I’ve been looking forward to this milestone so I could do a review of where we are. Marketing Knows No Country Boundaries! You my loyal reader have changed your reading habits. You may be interested to discover that you have [...]

I’ve just read a nice article on blog marketing by Lee Odden. In his post he gives “25 tips for marketing your blog”. Including Lees and to make 35 tips in all I’ve added a further 10 wrinkles for blog marketing: 26. If you’ve never blogged before try it out first using one of the [...]