Enter The Net

Next dates for this workshop:

February 11, 2012, 9:00 AM – 3:50 PM

Learn the ins and outs of running your own blog. We’ll show you how to set up and administer your blogspace using WordPress. We’ll teach you how to market your blog so that more people than just your friends and family are paying attention. We’ll teach you the lingo so you’ll understand RSS, pings and trackbacks. We’ll also spend time exploring various plugins for photo galleries, tag libraries and other useful ways to extend your WordPress installation.

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Next dates for this workshop:
9 class series begins:

• Meets every other Saturday, October 08, 2011 -February 04, 2012 Download Flyer
  
• 9:00 – 11:50 AM (class), 1:00 – 3:50 PM (optional lab)

This is a great course for the small business owner or manager who wants to have complete control over his/her own high-quality website.

During this intensive 5-month course, you will design and launch your own custom website using the WordPress system. You will be able to start with a basic theme which you can customize to your own desires. You will be able to freely edit your site and its contents without any knowledge of web design languages.

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Anyone who runs a blog has experienced spam comments.

The basic premise is this: if you leave a comment on a blog site that allows you to list your website and the blog owner approves your comment, you will gain an incoming link to your site.

[Read more about this here.]

So, there must be armies of people out there who constantly cruise blogs and leave comments without actually reading the articles. The vapid comments, combined with a clear lack of experience with the English language, sometimes produces humorous headscratchers.

So, this Hall of Fame seeks to enshrine some of the best we have received. Please submit your own entries, using – you guessed it – the comment form at the end of this post.

The Spam Blog Comment Hall of Fame

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I recently posted a status message on Facebook about needing to clean my house. One of the comments on the post pointed me to a site called FlyLady.net. FlyLady is a personal coach and resource for cleaning. Her motto is “You Can Do Anything For Fifteen Minutes.” The idea is that if you just take 15 minutes to straighten up the kitchen or clean a part of the bathroom, it will look nice and you have only spent 15 minutes doing it – not a whole day. Since I work from home, this bit of advice was immediately implemented to great success.

It got me to thinking about internet marketing and the swamped small business owner. A top complaint from the harried business owner revolves around finding the time to maintain a robust marketing presence. But what could you do to help get more traffic to your website in 15 minute blocks?

• You can go to a blog about your industry and leave a comment. The link back to your site will help you on the search engines. If you do not yet have a quality list of blogs related to your industry, spend your 15 minutes searching for them and saving them to your “favorites.”
• You can invite 5 new people to be friends on Facebook or LinkedIn.
• You can look for 5 new people or businesses to follow in Twitter (most of them will turn around and follow you right back.)
• You could write a quick entry on your blog .

Now, any one of these activities could easily distract you and take you beyond your 15 minute limit. That’s not good. But, if I can limit myself to 15 minutes of cleaning, you can do this! The end result of these small bursts of effort is that your internet marketing presence will be dynamic and growing.

This short article was originally featured in the Clackamas Small Business Development Center email newsletter.