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Web Design: 5 questions to ask before you Hire a specialist

Posted on: February 14, 2012

Are you getting good web advice?Unfortunately, in my business, I get called in a lot when web design projects aren’t going like they are supposed to. People who have jumped onto the internet bandwagon, bought a site, or had one built, and aren’t getting what they wanted from it.

These are the things that I’ve experienced with my clients, and you ought to run screaming (well maybe just run) in the opposite direction if you hear these words spoken.  And for sure, you should put your checkbook away and save your money.

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SEO and Google+

Posted on: February 10, 2012

Google+ SEO For Business PagesHave you considered the SEO possibilities of using google+?

If you’re a first mover on this, you’re going to capture more visibility,” says Rob Garner, vice president of strategy for digital marketing agency iCrossing. “This is kind of a gift in a lot of ways.”

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Categories: Google+, SEO
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Your blog represents . . . You

Posted on: February 6, 2012

Drive Traffic to Your WordPress BlogYour blog is the most personal thing you will ever show the world.

Present anyway you want, most of the people who see it will never see you. If your blog’s job is to promote you and generate revenue, then you are going to meet people. Via phone, email, or in person.

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Daily Digest 1.31.12

Posted on: January 31, 2012

From the pubs I read yesterday:

$25K for a Slick Brand Page For Your Business On Twitter

<> Guess I won’t get 1 this week :(

Snickers, Twitter, And The Problem Of Compliance in the UK

<> Didn’t immediately reveal they were sponsored tweets

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How to twitter: #NewNewTwitter

Posted on: January 29, 2012

How to TwitterI’ve finally gotten the #newnewtwitter, and I really, really like it.

Except for what they’ve done to direct messages.

NewNewTwitter is slick and sexy and fast.  It has been simplified somewhat, although I do still have to look for some things after having it for a week or two.

But direct messages are a task.

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Daily Digest 1.28.12

Posted on: January 28, 2012

From the pubs I read today:

Brad Pitt enters Social Media on Google+Brad Pitt Joins Social Media on Google +, Skips Facebook, Twitter

His first foray into social media was a post about his Make It Right venture in New Orleans on Google+.

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Fashion your sidebar headers in Thesis for WordPress

Posted on: October 6, 2010

Drive Traffic to Your WordPress Blog

There are a couple of things you can easily do to your sidebars to dress them up. I’m sure you know by now that the control for the font (size, color, and font face) are in the Thesis Design Options. We’re going to go further than that.

To change the  sidebar color, you must add a line of code to your Custom CSS file (http://YourSiteName.Com/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/style.css/). And you can make the colors different in each of the sidebars by calling out ‘sidebar_1′ or ‘sidebar_2′.

/*Art of Rockstar Sidebar Color*/ .custom #sidebar_1 {background:#BA5A88 none repeat scroll 0 0;}


A couple of things: when you copy and paste these codes into your custom functions file, make sure that your computer doesn’t change any of the characters you see here to something that will kill your wordpress blog.

For some reason occasionally when I transfer code from notepad to my custom_functions.php file on my server, the quotes (“) will be changed to a solid rectangle that I can not even duplicate for you . . .

To simply color the space the header is in, you must add a line of code to your Custom CSS file (http://YourSiteName.Com/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/style.css/). And you can make the colors different in each of the sidebars by calling out ‘sidebar_1′ or ‘sidebar_2′.

/*Art of Rockstar Highlight Sidebar Headers*/ .custom #sidebar_1 {background:#666666 none repeat scroll 0 0;}


 

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Secret Art of RockStar Buzz

Posted on: May 6, 2010

I’m days away from the pre-launch of “The Secret Art of RockStar Buzz” and I’m excited, nervous, and perhaps a little sick to my stomach . . . We’re waiting on the final proofs for the cover – Suggestions?  Complaints?  Remarks??

And the last editing and rewriters . . . it is a week away and I dread it and can’t wait!

Samples are on the official website: ArtofRockStarBuzz.Com.

We plan to sell on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle Readers, Sony Readers, etc.

Keep your fingers crossed for me, and read those samples!  10 essential Plugins for Social Media; 10 Essential Plugins for The Bones of Your WordPress Blog.  Twitter Tools to use and abuse – there are dozens!

As always, I wish you the best.

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Going to take my mortgage money and run!

Posted on: March 22, 2010

I’m not running in the literal, virtual sense in that I’m leaving one actual place and going to another . . . only as far as finance is concerned, I’m running away as fast as I can go.

Well, I did just find an old friend in Belize . . . I may start there as a jumping off place and head further south. I have my eye on São Paulo, although my kiddos are entranced with Australia –

I made a lot of money in mortgage banking (hella money, my kids say), but I hated it every minute I was doing it, and the better the money got, the worse the job got. From where I sit now the people still in the mortgage business must be saints to live with it (And they are probably making HELLA money)

But it’s not for me. Not anymore.

I’ve decided to concentrate on writing – I have a book coming out in May, “The Secret Art of Rockstar Buzz” which I’m pretty pumped about.

The official site is http://artofrockstarbuzz.com. And, in leaving the mortgage business, I have absolutely no use for my website, Georgia Mortgage Money.Com, so I’ve decided to sell it.

Stats, rankings, etc., will be available to anyone with a real interest in the purchase. I’m considering financing it, should a “lone” officer want to buy it, rather than a company, but no promises . . . I want to get completely out of the biz, but that site has been up for 11 years, and in the good years, I made an average of $200K a year with it . . . Mostly loans, but some ads . . . not many, I assure you.

I didn’t have time to bother with them. If you’re interested in the website, email me: traci@tracigregory.com, and, if I can talk you into reading my RockStar Buzz blog, great! or following RockStar Buzz on Twitter - I’ll be proud to have you.


Rock on,


Trace


Originally posted at  MortgageRedeaux.blogspot.com/2010/03/going-to-take-my-money-and-run.html

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