Authors, Consider Blog Talk Radio!

Blog Talk Radio (BTR) is a huge online network with millions of listeners and thousands of hosts who discuss topics ranging from education to politics – and everything in between. This free (and paid) app allows anyone with a phone and a computer to host their own live talk radio show, or guest on any [...]

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Empower Yourself!

If you’re anything like me, you started the new year with great enthusiasm, but now a little time has passed and (I’m!) you’re getting discouraged. Things aren’t going exactly as we’d hoped and planned, am I right? I definitely need a kick in the pants. It’s past time for me to empower myself to keep on [...]

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How To Open Widget Images In A New Window

Alas, as I mentioned in a recent post, WordPress does not provide a simple, direct option for a website to open a sidebar widget graphic/image in a new browser window. Why should you care? Well, if you are a blogger and/or a self-published author displaying book covers on your website with links to your Amazon sale [...]

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The Shy Writer Tackles a Conference

My guest C. Hope Clark is sharing tips about how a normally shy writer can have the best experience while attending a writing conference! Enjoy … Sooner or later, a writer has the opportunity to attend a conference. Many will pass up the chance. Most of us refuse to attend because conferences intimidate us. We don’t know what [...]

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You Have To Believe

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. ~ Denis Waitley If you read my recent post about figuring out what you really really want, you may have played along with me and spent [...]

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My Ten Biggest Blog Blunders EVER

Blog Blunder #1: No call to action! I was a shy blogger when I first started and I cringed at the thought of asking people to subscribe. I thought if they wanted to read what I had to say every week they would figure it out themselves. But then I realized that potential subscribers often [...]

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