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Blogs By Heather Q&A – Feedburner vs. FeedBlitz delivery schedules and more!
Here is the latest Blogs By Heather Q&A. Don't be shy about asking questions. I'd love to help and I know others will benefit from the solutions as well! Discussion This Week: FeedBurner vs. FeedBlitz For this week's Q&A I would like to...
Looking for new ways to get noticed and found on the web?
Many of us use newsletter (email marketing) services like Constant Contact, AWeber, MailChimp, and so on to deliver information to "our" list of customers; which is a great tool in itself in building relationships, promoting sales or driving traffic to your...
How To Use a Landing Page for Your Business!
In my next newsletter I will be explaining what a landing page is, the different types of landing pages, different uses, but more so, HOW TO begin and use landing pages in Blogger, TypePad and WordPress. So be sure to sign up! It's going out next week! Sign...
10 Tips for PowerBlogging!
I just read a great post on BlogWorld and wanted to share it with you. There, the author shares 10 great tips on how to make the most of the time you don't have! It's called PowerBlogging! With a wonderful husband, two adorable kids, three fun lovin' dogs,...
Blogging from iPad2!
My husband gave me the new iPad for my birthday! What a great surprise! So I figured I would try blogging with it! It's only allowing me to compose this post with HTML code only. Don't know HTML? No worries! I will be holding a HTML for Bloggers webinar in the...
What’s New with MailChimp – Use Your Newsletter To Build Your Business
I personally use Constant Contact and a lot of my customers do, but many also use the free MailChimp email newsletter service. Although its free, they are always improving their service and features. They have now integrated with SurveyMonkey, a popular, free online...
Get Your Customers to Hit The Buy Button by Debbie McNeill
Here is another Featured Article by one of my partners, Debbie McNeill ofCraftyPerson Production! I subscribe to her Technology Solutions newsletter and recently received the following article and wanted to share it with you as I believe it is very...
Use PayPal to Sell Digital Goods!!!
Many of my customers sell digital goods online, such as PDFs or tutorials, and many already use PayPal to setup their cart and accept online payments. I mean, who doesn't have PayPal right? However, they have had to manually email customers the digital content...
Round-Up: Popular “Blogs By Heather” Articles
I'm on vacation this week but thought I'd share with you several, popular Blogs By Heather articles, by customer request - meaning customers frequently ask me how to do these things and I refer them to these links and tutorials. So if you're a new...
Adding Sound to Your Blog
In helping a customer, Jennifer Van Wart, with her new beach themed blog, www.BeachSideStampers.com, she asked if there was a way to hear the ocean sound when someone visited her blog? Guess what, there is! Jennifer has a Blogger blog and it was very simple to...
Adding a Sign Up Box for MailChimp
In my last post, I referenced an article on how to add a sign up box for Constant Contact. Almost immediately I received emails on how to add this for MailChimp. MailChimp is a free email marketing/newsletter service, www.MailChimp.com. I'd be happy to help, so...
Blogs By Heather Q&A – Subscriptions and Followers – What do they mean? How do they differ?
As promised, here is the latest Blogs By Heather Q&A. Every week I would like to try and recap all the questions and answers as I feel many would benefit from the answers and I appreciate the questions and love to help! Discussion This Week:...
New Blog Designs – Sandi MacIver and Shelagh Freemantle
My friend and fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator Sandi Maciver, and one of her dearest friends and downline, Shelagh Freemantle, recently had new blog designs installed. Both of them use Typepad and are at the Pro level so a custom background could be installed....
What is Google+
Google has released a new social networking platform and my friends at MACS (Motivators and Creators Women's Group) just posted this nice summary of Google Plus. Excerpt from their article: Google+ also has some other interesting features. One of which is called...
5 Kinds of Content that Your Readers will Love
We, as bloggers, make our bread and butter from high traffic numbers. And in order to improve our traffic numbers, we must create content that our readers will love to come back to day after day after day. Otherwise, we risk running a stagnant blog, which isn't...
Keep It Simple – Ways to Improve Your Blog’s Speed
I'm so excited. I recently wrote a few articles on this topic, and it is discussed in both my books (check them out here on Amazon) under "Blog Layout & Design", TypePad has just posted another one as well. Although it's posted on the...
Adding a Favicon – Quick and Easy in the new Blogger Gadget!
In a previous post I have written instructions on how to add a Favicon to your Blogger or Typeapad blog. That tutorial will still work! However, Blogger has just added a new, quick and easy way of adding it to your site (1-2-3 and you're done)! I am so...
Auto Post Signature in WordPress.com
After writing the recent article on how to do this in TypePad, I was asked how to do this in WordPress. I do have a WordPress.com test blog that I used while writing my 2nd book, Creative Blogging, where there is an entire chapter in customizing CSS code in...
Blogs By Heather Q&A – Dropdown Menu Code, Sidebar Moved, Add Feedjit and more!
As promised, here is the latest Blogs By Heather Q&A. Every week I would like to try and recap all the questions and answers as I feel many would benefit from the answers and appreciate the questions. Discussion This Week: Dropdown menu code...
TypePad: Coding so a new post signature will appear on every post
In Blogger this is very easy to setup in Settings, then Formatting, go to Post Template (click for tutorial). However, in TypePad this can be done as well but you need the $14.95 level as it requires CSS coding. Setting up your signature to automatically appear...
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