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 Checklist … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
