In a recent post, Joanna Young, who is in the midst of a blog migration to WordPress, lamented the fact she has more than 70 categories. Now, given the fact blogs are rather experimental and evolutionary by nature, it’s easy to see how that could happen. A couple mistakes I made were –

Adding subcategories
Using long […]

Hello!
Today, Robert Hruzek published my guest post on his wonderful blog, Middle Zone Musings. Hope you’ll take a look.
Since my fairly lengthy post is over at Robert’s, I won’t be posting here today. Instead, I’ll use the extra time to catch up on other important work.
Have a wonderful day!
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Image via WikipediaA couple months ago I downloaded Zemanta, a free blog publishing tool that’s coming in really handy. Once you’ve installed Zemanta on your hard drive, which takes only a few minutes, it will appear automatically in your post writing screen in WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal, Blogger, Tumblr, Live Journal, or Ning.
As you write […]

Image by TeeJe via Flickr Robert Hruzek just announced the topic for his monthly group project — Life is a _________.
Here’s a great opportunity to exercise your inner poet. I hope you’ll think about submitting a post. Should make for fabulous reading.
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Comments are what distinguish blogs from other forms of online communication. At their best, comments are conversation contributions, so I’ve taken to thinking of Word Sell commenters as Word Sell co-conversationalists. Thanks to all of you for making Word Sell a place to learn and share ideas about writing and marketing. We’ve had lots of […]

A detailed, highly informative explanation of how to use LinkedIn from Jennifer Laycock.
From Traffikd, A Small Blogger’s Guide to Social Media Marketing. Practical advice for those of us with limited budgets and time.
From Tibi Puiu, an incredibly thorough analysis of direct blog ad sales. This could be the winning monetization model for many types of […]

Whenever a company starts thinking about launching a business blog, the question inevitably comes up about time commitment. All this writing takes time, they will say. We don’t have time to do it. Well, there’s no question writing takes time. And, if all you’re going to do is publish posts and let them sit there, […]