WordPress Pro Tips – The Quick And Dirty Guide

I’m not a pro yet at WordPress and internet entrepreneurship, but we are moving up the learning curve pretty quickly. After six months working full-time building TomJohnston.org and MightyInvestor.com, I’ve already made a ton of tiny mistakes.  Errors you won’t have to make if you read this quick and dirty guide.WordPress Pro Tips ChecklistBe Thoughtful About […]

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What Not To Include In Your Blog

When building an internet business, it’s important to think about what not to include.  The most successful brands and websites have a focus and clarity of purpose. A site that details the best deals on cash back and travel credit cards is more likely to flourish than one focused on everything under the sun–and, oh […]

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Gamify Your Writing

If you are a blogger or other content creator, I suggest you gamify your production–especially at the beginning of your venture. It works much better. What do I mean by this? When I first started this website, I gamified the early stages by gamifying writing content. I pledged to donate $1000 to the charity of my […]

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Grammarly Review – Grammarly Helps You Catch Those Stupid Little Errors!

For anyone aspiring to make money online, a crucial part of the process is creating content so compelling that it drives traffic to your website. This is true whether you are a blogger providing daily content or a website selling a product. Regardless, you have to keep visitors interested and engaged over time. While not the […]

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Writing is a Craft to Master

When you think of writing, what comes to mind? Fun? Elegance? Struggle? Fear? For many, writing is a struggle. This is normal if you have not written much. Writing is a skill like any other. However, once you find your voice, learn basic grammar, and practice a lot, I suggest you challenge your assumptions about how difficult […]

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Journaling and Writing in WordPress

If you have an interest in developing a web-based business, I suggest you post all your personal writing inside a blog. By constantly updating and posting to a blog, you are always developing basic WordPress skills–but these skills are developed on the side and as a knock on effect of just maintaining your journal or […]

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Stick with the WordPress Defaults

If you are building a content-oriented blog or website, I suggest you simply use the basic template in your theme for structuring blog posts and pages.  What do I mean by this?  Don’t get so persnickety that you have to center every blog post heading and make it bold.  Or move the first paragraph down […]

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George Lucas On Being Productive At Writing

I have always found the following comments from George Lucas on what Francis Ford Coppola told him about writing a script to be helpful.  Apparently the conversation happened early in Lucas’ career, sometime in the 1970s.  I wish I had a link or a book to quote from directly, but I don’t recall where I […]

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