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Getting Past Your First Blog Post

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When I started blogging, I said the exact same thing I think everyone says just before they write their first post. “why would anyone care about what I have to say…” It’s a fair question until you think about the people in your life that actually care about you… family, friends, co-workers… there’s a good [...]

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Keep It Simple Spence

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The busier my life gets, the more I try to find better ways to keep things simple… and I mean bare bones simple. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading through two books, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller (Thanks for getting me to read this book Lindsey Nobles) and [...]

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Recalibrating Life & Blogging

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Over the past few months I’ve been taking some time to figure a few things out and get some parts of my life recalibrated so that I can take care of my life in a more manageable way. Truth be told… over the past year I’ve been working on a few areas of my life [...]

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Follow Friday: Randy Elrod, Michael Hyatt, Steve Anderson & Ken Davis

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I thought I would try Chris Brogan’s idea about writing a Follow Friday post. In thinking about this, there are so many people I would recommend following but for today, I’m going to start with the four men I am around the most in my neighborhood. Randy Elrod, Michael Hyatt, Steve Anderson and Ken Davis. [...]

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An Email To Steve Jobs From My Mother

An Email To Steve Jobs From My Mother

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For my 40th birthday, my family got together and gave me an Apple gift card so I could go purchase a 3g iPad. I didn’t have the greatest experience when I went to the Apple store to use this gift card because they wouldn’t let me use the gift card THEY issued to buy THEIR [...]

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The Other Half Of Foursquare – Getting Businesses To Engage

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I’ve been using foursquare for a few months and for the most part I enjoy it. Except for one part… I want more business to engage with us on foursquare, especially in the Nashville/Franklin area. This would help us all enjoy the full purpose of what foursquare is meant to be. For those that don’t [...]

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My Favorite Blog Theme Templates

My Favorite Blog Theme Templates

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Every once in a while I will put together blog sites for newcomers finding their way into the blog world. Inevitably I get asked what blog templates I like to the best so I thought I would share with you my favorite blog them templates. The first thing people learn when they get into blogging [...]

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Content Is King

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I get asked a lot how to drive more traffic to a blog site. There’s a number of things you can do like maximizing your Search Engine Optimization settings, using Twitter and facebook as a vehicle to direct people back to your blog, RSS feeds, commenting on other blogs and the list goes on …and [...]

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5 Changes I Made To How I Use Twitter

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Over the past few months I’ve been trying to streamline my online world to make it more focused and easier to manage. As much as I love all things Web 2.0, I need less distraction and more interaction. This is especially true when it comes to twitter. I started on twitter back in Nov of [...]

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Leaders Who Blog Engage Their Audience

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The more I blog the more excited I get about the power of the internet and the social network blogging creates. Not only are we building a community of people who have something to say, but we are building a community where we can learn so much more from each other. Discussions about business, life, [...]

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The Church of Blog

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I was going back through some of my old posts and came across The Church of Blog. As I read it I noticed a few things I would say differently now. What you will read below is an updated version of an older post I think is relevant for the day. As bloggers we have [...]

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Search Terms That Bug Me – Prostitutes In Kolkata, India

Search Terms That Bug Me – Prostitutes In Kolkata, India

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If you found this site through a search engine because you are looking for images of prostitutes in Kolkata, India, then you came to the WRONG PLACE. This isn’t that kind of website. However, if that’s something you are into, then drop on over to this site, IJM. I’m sure they would love to get [...]

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