Published on April 21st, 2010
It’s time again to enjoy coffee and creative conversation with your peers in the Birmingham creative community. We’ve had the opportunity to to meet and make new friends with a lot of folks, while sharing some of our projects that we are involved in. Chris shared a podcast he is working on while April looked for assistance in a creative discipline she is learning, web design.
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Published on March 15th, 2010
Thanks to everyone who came to O’henry’s to join me and Chris in good coffee and creative conversation. I’m excited to say that our idea of creating a creative community seems to be shared across Birmingham. We ended up having around 10 people show up and another half dozen or so who were interested but couldn’t make it. That’s pretty great considering the effort Chris and I put forth in advertising the event.
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Published on March 2nd, 2010
What started out as a Tweet-Up meeting between a couple of creatives in Birmingham, is evolving into a group of creative who want to build a creative network of peers.
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Published on December 19th, 2009
There are two ways of making money blogging, one more profitable than the other. First of all, small business owners find a great advantage in the use of blogs that provide rich informational content and the opportunity for great marketing promotions. But let’s take a look at how you can turn blogging into a profitable activity. There are two possibilities: you either get paid for allowing other business owners to advertise on your site or you can include the blog in one of the many affiliate programs that enjoy such a popularity on the Internet nowadays.
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Published on December 19th, 2009
Competition is fierce online, and the top places on the search result pages are the most hunted for; therefore, any blog owner who tries to make money on the Internet needs to use a whole strategy to attract the best visitors and the highest traffic. The working principle for the blog optimization for search engines is the keyword. When you start the race for SEO (search engine optimization), you already have an advantage: blogs are usually the ones to receive more traffic then other complex sites due to their highly informational content. By keywords we mean those sentences or structures that a user types in the search box of an engine.
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Published on December 19th, 2009
Before creating a blog as such, it is most advisable to learn what type of helping tools you may need to design and update the pages when necessary. One fine example is the famous RSS, a group of web feed formats that are mainly used to keep the blog content new and fresh as often as possible. Why is RSS the first choice of a large number of users? Simple, an RSS document includes the very text you have on the blog or a summary of the content in some other cases; thus, one can keep a close watch over the blog without checking the pages in detail.
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