A Guest Post by Marelisa Fábrega . Image by drmama . Do you have a really good idea which you want to go viral? Is there a behavior you’re trying to modify in your blog readers, such as encouraging them to save, eat healthy, or start an exercise program?... 

Yesterday I shared 6 reasons that I find email newsletters to be a more effective way of driving traffic to and making money from blogs than RSS . Today I want to show you exactly how I do it. Firstly a word about technology – I use Aweber to deliver... 

The guys at Clicky recently wrote a post asking someone to re-develop their WordPress plugin . Since I have quite a bit of code lying around for what they needed, I emailed them and told them I’d be happy to build it. If you don’t know Clicky,... 

Time and again advice is given to bloggers to know or identify their target audience. This is sound advice. However, you should also remember that the reason why you need to know who your target audience/readers are is to be able to adjust to their needs.... 

W ordPress 2 iPhone app has just been released. I had a quick look and I like it. It is a perfect iPhone application for mobile blogging. It is very simple to log in to your WordPress blogs (both .com and .org). Blog URL, username and password are all... 

Email is back! Earlier in the week I mentioned that one of the emerging themes in the monetization sessions at Blog World Expo was the idea of membership sites as a way to make an income from a blog. The other theme that emerged in a number of the sessions... 

In this post I want to present some visuals on how I’ve expanded one of my blogs and diversified its income streams. How do I expand my blog? How do I move beyond the basics of making money with AdSense on my blog? I’m asked these two questions... 

Over the last few weeks I’ve been exploring principles that are evident in many successful blogs . So far we’ve looked at Listening , Trust , Usefulness and Community . Today I want to get personal with you and share a story with you. The... 

As mentioned a few days back – the popular Membership Site Mastermind Course has just reopened its doors to new members for the last time in 2009 – for 3 days only. In short – Membership sites are where you sign up readers to pay a... 

One of the things Mark Jaquith and I talked about when Mark was on Press This a month back, in the episode aptly titled the Future of WordPress , was that Automattic would be adding a way for people to indicate whether a certain plugin was working for...