Articles for October 2006

WordPress as a CMS

A moment ago I was working on my training company website, only to realise that my implementation to tweak WordPress to display a custom home page and the blog as a subdirectory didn’t work out too well when the blog posts flowed over to more than one page. What I was doing originally was to simply [...]

Blogging is a Social Activity

Blogging is sooooo much a SOCIAL thing! Hahas Blogging is not only about personal publishing and having that personal voice and having your opinions published, and frequent updates. Its is also about reading other’s blogs, commenting on other’s posts, really making friends in the blogosphere halfway round the globe and conversing on the [...]

Opt-in Lists and Email Marketing - The Key for Internet Marketers

A website has the potential to close a sale once, with a good sales copy and good value product. But sales copies typically have a conversion ratio of 1 - 5%. Even the best copies out there manage to sell 5% of the time… that is 1 in 20 hits. So, Internet Marketers out [...]

Using Blogs for Coaching

Actually I’ve always thought that blogs are a great way to do coaching. The chonological structure of the blog is perfect for e-training! Just imagine a sequence of videos being rolled out for a 10 day program, with feedback and clarification done via blog comments - wonderful idea isn’t it? I was [...]

How much can one earn from blogging?

I’ve been asking myself this “How much can I eventually earn from blogging like this everyday?” Because I have been making a couple (read “a lot!”) of sacrifices in terms of rescheduling appointments and deciding not to go for some other possible opportunities out there, just to stay home and find out more about [...]

Integrating Forums and WordPress - bbPress!

Have you ever wanted to integrate a forum with your blog? From the creators of WordPress, you have bbPress 0.72! Actually, bbPress has been around since some time. The software came about because the creators of WordPress were originally using another forum software - miniBB - and they found it getting slow with the [...]

How do I get to Technorati top 100?

I got this from the Problogger.net post. He said that he analyzed that Technorati top 100 blogs, and the average time that these blogs have been around is 33.8 MONTHS! Oh my. I have barely started 2 months. Never mind. At least, this blog is 2 months old. I only [...]

Is Paid Blogging Ethical?

One of the articles in WebProNews was discussing about paid blogging and blogosphere ethics. The content in the blogosphere has a reputation of being personal opinions - true from the heart of the author of the blog. With the use of PayPerPost, ReviewMe and CreamAid, people will start to recommend products for the sake of [...]

How to be the World Top 500 websites on Alexa

I can’t believe it. I just searched the Alexa World Top 500 sites, and I found that Google.com.sg is the ONLY .sg domain in the top 500! It is ranked 208 today. I was actually observing what makes a site top 500… the answer? Provide something useful (a service, a product, or information) for free Examples. [...]

A new Singapore Corporate Blog - Royal Plaza Singapore!

I just found out about a new Corporate Blog for one of the Singapore Hotels - the Royal Plaza Singapore Blog! According to the blog: Royal Plaza Singapore, one of the leading business class hotel situated in the famous Singapore Orchard Road shopping district, will be closed for renovation from October 2006. It will re-open [...]
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