Legal Marketing & PR

How To Create A Fluid Header In Headway

Posted on May 06, 2010
This is the last in our brief series today of videos produced by my friend John Haydon on using some of the features built into Headway.  In this one, John is going to show you how to use the Visual Editor in Headway to create a fluid header.   Once again, if you want to learn more about Headway and [...

How To Configure Your Blog’s Typography In Headway

Posted on May 06, 2010
Once again John Haydon gives us a look inside what you can do with the Visual Editor built into Headway.   What is great about using the Visual Editor in Headway is the fact it does not require any custom.css to get the results you desire. You can find out more about Headway Themes and all of its features by [...

How To Visually Edit Font Type, Font Colors, Font Size And Line Height With Headway

Posted on May 06, 2010
Yet another great tutorial video from John Haydon on using Headway’s built in features to gain the design elements you desire without using custom.css. In this video, John shows you how to use the Visual Editor in Headway to edit font type, colors and size...

How to upload a header image into your WordPress blog with Headway

Posted on May 06, 2010
John Haydon has been doing some amazing post lately showing how to use some of the kick butt features built right into Headway. Best of all, you don’t need to do any custom.css to accomplish any of this. This post and video is just the first in a series we are posting today where we will be featuring [...

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Mental Workout: 6 Steps to Train Your Brain to Write Faster and Better

Posted on May 05, 2010
How long does it take you to write a blog post?  I don?t mean all the hours you spend ruminating on a subject, and I?m not asking about research time; I?m talking about the time you spend in front of that blank page writing. Does it take an hour?  2 hours?  2 days? No matter how [...

New Version of MarsEdit And I Just Installed It

Posted on May 04, 2010
As you may or may not know, MarsEdit is my favorite blog post editor out there. It is a Mac only program, sorry PC users.  And they just released a new update that is just amazing. In fact, I am using it now to type this post and I am using their new feature, Rich Text Editor [...

Blog Comments Are Not Road Kill

Posted on May 03, 2010
Lately the conversation on some of the blogs and even on twitter have centered around comments. Mainly comments on your blog and whether you should have them turned on or shut off. Here are just a few: The Life and Death of Blog Comments The Death of the Blog Comment? Why Everyone Should Turn Off Blog Comments Let [...

How to steal your competitors audience

Posted on April 29, 2010
Starting a business is not that easy. Besides knowing who you are, what you and your company stand for, how you?re going to brand and position yourself, you also should have a slight idea to whom you?re going to sell your stuff. Who do you want to attract? What person do you want to become [...

Are You Building Your Blog Like a Catapult?

Posted on April 27, 2010
In my Physics class, we were given an assignment: build a catapult. I immediately knew this project was going to take some time, and as I went through it, I found that building a blog is similar to building a catapult. Let me explain how… How to Build a Blog Like a Catapult It may sound ridiculous, [...

It’s wake up time

Posted on April 26, 2010
Whether ­real life-service of delivery in World of War Craft, domestic animal training via PC or snowboarding in a hand stand. There probably is hardly anything which can not to be found on the Internet. Except you maybe. And if there is something. Is it what want found? Maybe a nice Facebook portrait in which one [...

The Right Ways To Get Traffic To Your Blog

Posted on April 22, 2010
Last week I received an email from a former client wanting to know if he could stuff his site full of all the keywords he could to boost his placement in search results. Perhaps it is my growing hatred of Google that prompt me to write him back and tell him to pull his head [...

It’s All An Experiment

Posted on April 20, 2010
There are a zillion things you need to do to build a profitable blog, right? I mean, there’s traffic building and content writing and product creation and reputation fortifying and comment encouraging and a bunch of design stuff and on and on. And on...

Facebook, Nestle, Green Peace – now what?

Posted on April 15, 2010
Mr. Werner J. Bauer Chief Technology Officer Nestle Dear Mr. Bauer RE: Facebook, Nestle, Greenpeace and? what happens next? Like many others, I have been watching the Nestle Facebook situation unfold. I am curious – did the social media activities from the third week of March really amount to anything more than a blip on some random dashboard? Did [...

7 Steps to Freedom From “Google Slavery”

Posted on April 14, 2010
What is a “Google Slave”? It is simple really. A Google Slave is someone who is enslaved by Google’s promise of free traffic. It is a truly diabolical form of slavery, because it is enshrouded by a fun and pretty exterior. It looks great on the outside, but once you enter the dark realm of [...

Passion And Action – The Advice I Wish I’d Been Given

Posted on April 13, 2010
I have a sister who is 12 years younger than me, and I enjoy passing on my wisdom to her. Mostly this takes the form of music recommendations, but sometimes I pass on something that really matters. Here’s a nugget of wisdom I wish someone had shared with me when I was her age: Passion doesn’t [...

Headway 1.6 Is Available And This Thing Rocks!!!

Posted on April 09, 2010
It’s finally here!  Headway 1.6 is out, documentation, videos and all. If you have a previous version of Headway 1.6, go grab this. You will see below why you need to do this. You can access the documentation by clicking here. And there is a ton of new documentation and tutorial [...

Join Our Advanced Discount List – And Save

Posted on April 09, 2010
Dave Navarro of The Launch Coach is in my opinion one of the smartest people out there when it comes to marketing and offering products to one’s readers. Dave also produces some of the best stuff out there on getting results selling your own stuff online...

How To Start Blogging Today With WordPress

Posted on April 08, 2010
You’ve finally decided that you want to start a blog for your business or nonprofit. You’ve outlined a blog strategy, defined specific goals, decided on topics, and have determined who will publish content. So what are the next steps? Where would you begin if you wanted to start blogging today? Starting a blog is not as hard [...

Don’t be a Blogging Whore – Stop asking for links!

Posted on March 29, 2010
Strong words? Well, yes, yes they are and I mean it. Over the last 3 weeks, I have received at least 15 emails asking for a link exchange with this blog to another blog. If you blog and have more than your mom reading your blog, you are most likely getting some [...

The Small Business ?It? Factor: The Critical Differences Between Winning And Losing Bloggers.

Posted on March 24, 2010
Guest Post By Genuine Chris Johnson I?ve had the good fortune to help just over 100 people get started blogging in the time I?ve owned my business. I?ve helped almost exclusively ?rotary clubbers,? the small town, mainstreet folks that prepare our wills, list our homes, make our loans and do our taxes...

Writer’s Block – Its all about the cows

Posted on March 22, 2010
For some reason over the last week I have been completely blank on what to write about. Speaking as someone who has written often about this very subject. Talked to a number of our clients about it. And even tweeted about it. Experiencing my own self imposed writer’s block has not [...

Is Your Blog a Big Whiny Baby?

Posted on March 17, 2010
I was talking with a fellow blogger recently about what it takes to make a small business grow and be successful. I?ve learned quickly that growing a business and growing a blog are really not all that different. Actually, the exact same principles apply...

PayPal: 5 Things You Maybe Didn?t Know

Posted on March 16, 2010
If you?re going to blog for profit, you?ll need a way to accept shopper?s money for whatever you are selling, whether that?s a service, products, advertising, or memberships. With the shopping cart comparison I?m doing, I know a dozen decent ways to do just that...

The SoMe sheep have a lot to answer for…

Posted on March 12, 2010
Is there a full moon constantly setting over the SoMe industry communities these days? Seriously! Is it me or are we all starting to notice some interesting (others would say disturbing) behaviours falling out of these trade communities? We can all appreciate the dynamics at work when we?re in various situations: eg...

Creating Captivating Blog Posts (or how to write for goldfish)

Posted on March 11, 2010
You’re smart enough to decide within a few seconds if you’re getting what you need from this post. And it’s my job to keep you here so that you can at least get to the first subheading. But there’s a good chance that you won’t finish this blog post...

Blogging and Social Media – Benefits of Social Media Marketing

Posted on March 10, 2010
A business who uses social media as one of its marketing tools will have available to it many benefits. One key benefit we discuss often here on Blog For Profit is the fact blogging and the other social media tools are a great way to develop channels of communications between you and your customers [...

Structure your posts for better impact

Posted on March 09, 2010
Have you ever given any thought to how you structure your posts? It makes a big difference in how much and how thoroughly they?re read. Here?s some clever tricks you can try to improve your post?s structure. Don?t bury the lead (Or bury the lede, if you want to be an anachronistic word snob...

Headway Premium Wordpress Framework Overview Video of What is Coming in 1.6

Posted on March 09, 2010
Michael Martine of Remarkablogger fame has been working with us at Headway on more than just SEO and other marketing efforts. Michael has been producing some great tutorial videos we will be using in the documentation and tutorials. What is great, the videos will be accessible right from the Visual Editor and in the [...

Blogging And Social Media Should Not Be Overlooked By Local Small Business

Posted on March 08, 2010
The other day you will remember I started this series with the post, “Blogging and social media should not be overlooked by small business.” What we touched on were five (5) key points as an early primer to why as a small business you should be using a blog and social media...

Blogging And Social Media Should Not Be Overlooked By Small Business

Posted on March 05, 2010
I always find it interesting to see small businesses who are reluctant to take advantage of the power of the Internet. Especially when you consider even businesses in a small town or in a localized neighborhood, can see huge benefits from being online...

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