Blogger Q Answered: Is it worth changing themes to fit additional widgets?

by Tia Peterson May 17, 2010

This question was submitted by Irene Saiger of Bamitbach: Sharing Food and Memories with Friends and Family While reading this, some things you might think about are: Is your existing theme helping you out at all? Is your sidebar wide enough to fit widgets that you need or want? Have you recently changed your theme [...]

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Common Sense Blogging: BizChickBlogs’ Guide to New Post Ideas (5 Ways)

by Tia Peterson May 12, 2010

This post is the 5th in the  series. Last time I checked, “stale” was not a positive attribute. Stale cereal, stale bread, stale popcorn, stale wine – yuck. No one wants to consume those things, and they end up in the garbage disposal or becoming food for the ducks (well, not the wine). So… how [...]

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Blogger Qs Answered: Should Guest Posting Be Reciprocated?

by Tia Peterson May 6, 2010

This question was submitted by Jennifer Brown Banks, of Pen and Prosper. — Tia Peterson

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Blogger Qs Answered: How do I add my picture to my comments?

by Tia Peterson May 3, 2010

Question submitted by Monica Dennis of Village Works, Piece by Piece — Tia Peterson

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In Business Blogging, Subtlety is Overrated

by Tia Peterson May 3, 2010

The Problem: Your blog is not converting visitors into clients or customers People are coming (maybe in small numbers), clicking around, maybe even staying awhile, etc. They’re signing up for your free newsletter – maybe – or subscribing to your RSS feed. But they’re not contacting you or hiring you. Somewhere along the path, people [...]

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Your Turn: You Ask, I Answer Your Blogging Questions

by Tia Peterson April 30, 2010

A couple of days ago I sent a message to my blog subscribers and let them know about a new series I’m promoting called Ask Me. Ask any blogging-related question and be featured here at BizChickBlogs.com! Backstory I receive emails every week from readers who have questions about their blogs, and I am happy to [...]

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How to Create an Elegant Food Blog: 8 Tricks from Fantastic Foodies

by Tia Peterson April 29, 2010

Top food blogs are elegantly displayed with tons of visuals. These 8 food blogs do a fantastic job at presentation and engagement. I’ve included links to the blogs, as well as information about what platforms they are on (Blogger or WordPress) and how you can do the same thing on your blog. Not just for [...]

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Common Sense Blogging: 4 Design Principles that Transcend Time

by Tia Peterson April 26, 2010

This post is the fourth in the  series. Website and blog design is trendy, isn’t it? Just like hairstyles and jeans. And like any good shopping mall, the Internet presents a huge variety of outfits for your blog. Some really stink, though. They just break all the rules of good design, and what’s worse is [...]

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The Best Advice I Have Ever Received

by Tia Peterson April 21, 2010

The best advice I have ever received came from the late Dr. Johnny Mac Allen, my public relations and advertising professor/advisor in college, and, for the brief time that I got to share his company, a dear friend of mine. His advice? Read. — Tia Peterson

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8 Minute Post – Becoming Un-boring

by Tia Peterson April 16, 2010

Check that – actually in 7 minutes now, I have a call I need to get on. So I want to see if I can get this out in 7 minutes. And counting. 6 now. Includes finding a Flickr pic to go with it. — Tia Peterson

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My Best Post Ideas Come at Night

by Tia Peterson April 15, 2010

Warning: This post contains a lot of  (link). All day long I am consuming, producing, connecting, engaging, learning and planning. But I realized just now that I write at night. It dawned (for lack of a better term) on me that it’s now, in the still of the night (and yes, it gets still even [...]

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