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A Guest Post by Paul Cunningham from Blogging Teacher . Recently Darren blogged about how you can use small victories to build momentum in your blogging. This same technique can also be used for product creation for your online business. Creating a product for sale is a goal for many bloggers, but some bloggers struggle to see a path from where they are now to where they want to be with their product. One of the biggest obstacles can be the reality that creating a product to sell involves a lot of hard work. Instead of looking at your product idea as one giant project that you need to complete, build momentum by breaking it down into smaller steps that you can achieve with less effort. Here is an example of a process you can use to progress from running a blog to launching a paid membership site as a product. Create a Free Report or Email Course Timbuk2 Blogger Shoulder Bag (Black/Black/Black)   Take a look at your Google Analytics and see how many visitors in the last 30 days w

For those that aren’t in the know, the browser based “IDE” is an abbreviation of I ntegrated D evelopment E nvironment. Very simply said, it’s an application that can be used to write code, but usually with added compiler/interpreter, debugging and automation features. Finding a decent freeware code writing application (view previous code-editor compilations for Windows or Mac ), never mind an IDE, can prove difficult. Some operating systems have it harder than others, and if you use more than one, or are on the move a lot, coding can be a bastard. Hence it pays to code in the cloud. By elevating your coding platform to an online environment, you not only rid yourself of OS issues but even of hardware independence. No matter where you find yourself, you can always access all your files with the same IDE. Here’s Why You Want An Online IDE If the aforementioned motivation of increased portability and accessibility wasn’t enough, here’s something else to think about. With your codi

What I have to tell you could very well change your life. Was that too dramatic? Sorry about that. Anyway, you’re probably here because you want advice on how to ask your dream girl out. Well, I believe I have some tips that can help you out. Now I’m no Erik von Markovik , but maybe I can give you a few creative ideas. As they say, there are plenty of fish in the sea. In this case, for all intents and purposes, Facebook is our sea. That’s right, Facebook . We’re on it every day anyway. Social networking has changed the way we do everything , so why wouldn’t it change how we pursue the opposite sex? Why not do things where we’re most comfortable? Let’s face it; if you are reading this there is a decent chance you are a geek. Now that isn’t a bad thing by any means, but what it also signifies is that if you are a guy geek, then statistically you are probably not so smooth with the ladies (stereotypically). That’s okay, because geeky men are good at analytical thinking, in fact, so mu

The vast amount of cool customizations maybe one of the reasons why people choose to go through hoops installing their own self-hosted wordpress blogs instead of using other free blog services. And one of those cool things is the wordpress tag cloud plugin. For those who are unfamiliar with tag cloud, it is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, typically used to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are normally listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. Thus, both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. This is what a wordpress tag cloud plugin looks like: I never really put much attention to tag cloud, but one recent discovery altered the path of my focus a little bit. It’s (not) gonna rain What I discovered was a tag cloud with a twist – literally. What made it different from ordinary tag clouds was the way the content of the cloud twisted aroun

The Apple Tablet is here and its officially called the Apple iPad . Steve Jobs is demoing the new Apple iPad right now live and you can follow the Engadget live blog to get all the updates as they come through. Apple iPad Tablet “SO all of us use laptops and smartphones… the question has arisen; is there room for something in the middle. We’ve wondered for years as well — in order to create that category, they have to be far better at doing some key tasks… better than the laptop, better than the smartphone” “What kind of tasks? Browsing the web. Doing email. Enjoying and sharing pics. Watching videos. Enjoying music. Playing games. Reading ebooks. If there’s gonna be a third category, it has to be better at these tasks — otherwise it has no reason for being.” Powered with an amazing 10 hours of battery life, the Apple iPad has a full capacitive multitouch, and is available with 16-64GB flash storage. The Apple iPad is .5 inches thin, weighs 1.5 pounds and has a 9.7 inch I

A Guest Post by Johnny B Truant I saw Gary Coleman on TV last night and thought, “That guy has to be rich. Everyone knows who he is.” But then I realized that Gary’s true paid celebrity ended over 20 years ago, and whether he’s rich or not today is really a matter of luck and investment. But that’s not how most people are wired to think. We figure that if someone is or ever was in the public eye, they probably have a big fortune. But who knows how well Gary invests? It’s distinctly possible that most of us here have more money then he does. This whole thing occurred to me after a few people asked me if I was loaded yet, since I made Problogger’s list of 30 bloggers to watch in 2010 . They were asking tongue-in-cheek, but there was a grain of truth behind it. The simple fact is that people equate popularity with riches, and that’s not accurate at all. I’ve gotten a fair number of new readers and Twitter followers since that list came out… but I had a couple of five-figure months und

Many bloggers and analysts argue that search engine ranking and SEO are starting to become less and less relevant in gaining traffic as social media rises. Sites such as Digg, Twitter and Stumbleupon are sworn by in the blogosphere for getting huge spikes in traffic when a post goes viral. So if you own a blog or website and think that your content has what it takes to compete on these sites then you’ll need to add social media buttons such as the ones we have here on MUO at the bottom of this post. We’ll look at two options. Firstly, the easier one – plugins. Plugins Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform mostly because of how adaptable it is by using plugins – and it’s free. The first plugin we’ll look at is one you’ll recognise from many different blogs. The tweet button. Twitter Twitter is the fastest of all social media sites by its very ‘micro-blogging’ nature so having it at the top of the post works best. Download and install this plugin. If you’re not familiar

A Guest Post by David Cleland from TotalApps . In 2006 I proudly started my first blog, DigMo ! It was technology, it was creativity, it was music and it was education. Despite it being a bit of blog soup I was pleased at how quick the site grew but within a few years it reached a critical point beyond which I really couldn’t get the traffic to grow. The site was frankly far too general to appeal to a specific community. The site had a massive 80% bounce rate and taking advice from reading the great advice on this site I decided to take stock and critically re-evaluate the future of DigMo! As a result I decided to split the site and create two separate niche blogs, DigMo! To focus on educational technology and I launched a new site, TotalApps , to focus on Mac and iPhone App reviews. The thought of starting from zero scared me and I looked at ways to get the site up and running quickly. I decided the best way to draw attention to the blog was to offer regular site competitions. Fi