What does a chain and Jerry Seinfeld have to do with resuscitating your blog? Well the short story is that Mr. Seinfeld works on his comedy by working on his jokes and he works on his jokes by writing everyday. He uses a motivational technique to ensure that he writes every day, he calls it “Don’t Break the Chain“. He takes a big wall calendar and puts an x on the days he does write. If he doesn’t write one day, he breaks the chain. The idea is too keep the chain going and don’t break it.

You can do the same for your blog. Get a big wall calendar or use this online version of Don’t Break the Chain. There’s even an option to add it to iGoogle/Google Calendar or display it on your blog. It’s fun and a perfect tool for visual people.

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If you tend to get really awesome blog post ideas when you are not by your computer (of course because you can’t be creative if you sit there all day) then you may want to check out www.posterous.com! You see you can post a blog post, twitter post, new pic on flickr and more all with www.posterous.com!

All you need to do is register on their site, confirm your email address, create your profile, and set up your blog/twitter/flickr/facebook settings. Then blog from the train, the cafe, the long drive (if you aren’t driving), the park, while waiting for the ski lift, … you get the idea!

It works fabulously with your WordPress blog, so what are you waiting for? Get “autoblogging” already!

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Track your blogsite visits, keywords, visitor locations and more through Google Analytics and this WordPress plugin. Here’s how

1) Create an account on Google Analytics and get your Google “UA” number (you will see this at the end of your account set up)
2) Download and fpt this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/ into wordpress.

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If you copy and paste your blog posts from Word, or even your e-mail, into a blog post you may notice that your font is not consistent.  The problem is that Word (and email editors that use Word)  has it’s own code that hides in the background.  When you copy your content from Word into your blog post you not only copy the content but you copy the Word code as well. This means that your blog post now contains all of the Word code (if you want to see it, click the “code” tab when you edit or create the post), so your post may now appear in Times New Roman font or another font.  It may also be a different colour or size that is not consistent with your blog’s font settings. The Word code  conflicts with WordPress code in many other ways as well.

So how do you avoid this?  Do one of the following:

• Type your post right into your WordPress blog account.
•  If you prefer to write your blog in Word first then copy from Word to Notepad, then copy from Notepad to WordPress. Notepad is a basic editor and it does not contain any coding that would conflict with WordPress (or any other blogging software).
• If you prefer to write your blog outside of WordPress and you don’t care what you use, then write your post in Notepad and copy from Notepad to WordPress.

WordPress contains a spell cheker (look for the “ABC” icon in the toolbar) and it contains tools to change the font settings if you wish (click on the right most icon – it looks like a keyboard).

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So what is a blogsite really? Why should you care?

What difference would it make to your business if you knew what it was?

Would it attract money? clients? speaking gigs? magazine columns? the clients of your dreams?

Would it make you the go to person in your market?

Would it give you the ability to make changes to your site when you want to without knowing any geekese?

Would it attract Google?

Would it allow clients to find you instead of you seeking them?

If you do not care about any of the above, then please don’t keep reading and ask yourself “Why am I in business anyway?”

If you do care and you want to know more then I invite you to attend a free teleclass to learn more and ask your questions. We promise not to use any techie jargon and explain everything in plain English!

The teleclass will take place Wednesday June 4th at 12pm eastern (5pm London, 9am PDT). Sign up below!

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