Archives for December 2014

Twitter is one of the top social media websites, and certainly a MUST for every serious blogger out there. Just in the first quarter of this year the network gained 14 million monthly active users. And the numbers continue to increase. Social media is…

I’m starting a new series here at Marilyn Thompson Solutions and cleaning up my WordPress site. Now that I think about it, you could call it spring cleaning, but it’s actually more than that. The new series is called WordPress Wednesday and it starts…

In our last week’s post on Chrome extensions that ease bloggers’ social efforts we mentioned using Pinterest secret boards to keep content for later reading. This is just one of the many ways these boards can save you time and money. In February this…

We talked about the power of good email marketing in our post on the beginner bloggers’ first steps . In fact, a large email list of targeted and responsive engaged readers is probably the strongest direct marketing channel available to bloggers. But…

Your WordPress sidebar possesses some prime real estate on your blog or niche website, so it’s interesting how many people seem to simply set it up with the standard default settings. Whether you utilize one or two sidebars I want to share with you what…