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#FanPageFriday Recap 2013 Volume 4

January 26, 2013 by 1 Comment

#FanPageFriday is always a great time for Facebook fan page owners to shamelessly plug their awesomeness. I am always delighted at the wide variety of pages shared and it does kind of tell a little bit about what each person is interested in when sharing a page that is owned by another person.

Someone recommended my fan page this week, but mine does not count. It was a nice thought though. :)

As usual, I have to go over what #FanPageFriday is all about. In order to participate, you have to be a fan of my Facebook fan page – http://facebook.com/NileFlores, then you have to do 2 things:

1- Share a Facebook fan page that you recommend that is not your own fan page. It is optional, but would be nice if you told others why you recommend the page as well.

2- Share your own Facebook fan page.

It is really simple and only takes about a minute to do.

#FanPageFriday Recap 2013 Volume 4

WP Kube

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WordPress Kube, a WordPress Marketing Blog which focuses on WordPress Themes, Plugins, News, Tutorials and Modifications.

Kimberly Castleberry

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Social Media Technology Specialist

Birdbook

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Birdbook is the worlds first truly handbuilt and custom social network for Birders and Bird Lovers!

Pepper Scraps

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Scraps of life: Enjoy the everyday, improve your blog, and reach your dreams.

Keep The Tail Wagging

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Sharing tips on dog training, dog behavior, dog nutrition, dog health, dog safety, and new products.

Jupiter Jim’s Marketing Team

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Over 80 FREE VIDEO TUTORIALS on WordPress and Thesis! I also create WordPress Blogs and Websites for small business and home-based business owners.

Rebecca Malcolm

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Time Freedom and Financial Security ~ Inspiring You to Have the Best of Both

CommentLuv

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Over half a million downloads from WordPress.org and still going strong!

Basic Blog Tips

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Basic Blog Tips – Blogging | Social Media | YouTube Videos | Podcasting

You Want To Work From Home

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I’m a mom of 3 helping others find LEGIT ways to work from home around their families!

Slap Dash Mom

{Slap Dash} means random. I blog about crafts, recipes, rants, and more.

Raising Miro on the Road of Life – Travel Podcast

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Raising Miro on the Road of Life – Travel Podcast – Inspiration, Travel, Unschooling & Global Citizenship

Cherrie Dejolde Bautista

Author, Certified Empowerment Coach, Analyst/Computer Programmer. Inspiring & uplifting others by becoming the best that I can be, and enjoying life to the fullest!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this past #FanPageFriday. For those who want to participate, go over to my fan page at http://facebook.com/NileFlores/ and like it.

Also, please visit some of the fan pages above as they are great! See you next #FanPageFriday!

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How To Widen Your Blog Circle

January 25, 2013 by 94 Comments

As a blogger, you probably have met quite a few people. You probably have some regular readers, and maybe interact with the same number of people. Not that they are boring, but after some time, you might find yourself stagnate in your site’s progress. It might be from lack of knowledge in a topic, or perhaps a problem reaching new crowds. I am going to share with you on how to widen your blog circle.

Your blog circle currently consists of the following:

  • Your regular readers and commentators
  • Your subscribers
  • Your social network followers

Within these numbers are a small core of people who you interact with the most. A lot of times these are the people are both influence and learn from you. Often you will find yourself in a niche that is similar or has some overlapping, so some of your articles may be similar. The thing is that you only go to their sites and comment, and they do the same. This is great in some ways, but you forget one thing: there are more people in the world that you could be connecting and learning from (and with.)

Of course, your Internet routine may be different but aside from email, reading news sites, and other things, for bloggers, reading other blogs, commenting, and social networking are also part of that regimen. So, knowing this, if you do the same thing every day, reading the same blogs, commenting on the same blogs, and interacting with the same people on social network sites, you are going to produce nearly the same result every day.

To break out of that, you need to widen your blog circle. In order to do that, you have to connect with people you have not connected before, and read blogs that you have never read before. Of course, this is time consuming, but if you honestly want to break out of blogging doldrums, you really need to liven up some.

Here are some ideas on how you can widen your blog circle:

  • When you read another blog in your own blog circle and leave a comment, check out the other commentators. Visit their sites and comment. It would not hurt to also follow them on social networking sites.
  • Join forums, Communities on Google+, Yahoo! Groups, and Facebook groups that are relevant to your niche.
  • Search on Twitter for hashtag terms or topics that are relevant to your niche and follow people who regularly show up in those results.
  • Make a list of 5 to 10 blogs to visit every week. Visit, leave a comment, and connect. Eventually as you become part of their blog circle, visit those who comment on their site.

If you think about it, while these suggestions involve using time, they certainly do not money. A lot of bloggers are not really rolling in the dough to be shelling out the cash for advertising.

Is your site sitting on a plateau in its traffic? Are you not getting out there and connecting with others?

If you are not having these issues, do you have any suggestions on how to widen one’s blog circle?

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Why Every Entrepreneur Should Use WordPress

January 23, 2013 by 90 Comments

Entrepreneurs have a lot of tools available to them when it comes to their website. One of the most powerful tools is WordPress. If someone says it cannot be done with WordPress, they either have no imagination or lack the skills to make any website project happen. I’m going to make a very bold statement that every entrepreneur should use WordPress and I will tell you why.

Before I get into explaining out my bold statement, I want to make sure that if you are an entrepreneur, you need to get out of whatever ways you are stuck in. If it helps your business in the end, you should become more open-minded. It is hard to learn anything new if you are not open to it. People like to say something is tough and give up easily because they were already closed to the idea before giving it a chance. How can your business thrive if you apply that same mentality to other areas, and not just your online business?

What Is WordPress? Short Sweet Pitch for the Entrepreneur

WordPress is a content management program that allows you to use your website without having to fool with your theme or takes gobs of time to update. Whether it is you or someone you hired, you can quickly create pages, blog articles, upload and sell products, interact with customers, and even collect leads. Oh, and it is easy to learn to use.

Practical Business Uses for WordPress

WordPress can do a lot of things. However, this is for entrepreneurs. So, here is the list of practical business uses for WordPress:

  • Landing pages and Squeeze pages
  • Contact forms for lead generation and list building
  • Solely List building
  • e-Commerce – Digital downloads
  • e-Commerce – Products
  • Membership Sites (digital downloads, information, products, etc…)
  • Product or Informational Forums
  • Small niche cost per click and advertising sites
  • Applications specific to your business
  • Reservations and event sales
  • Auction and freelance bidding sites
  • Bill payment and credit card processing companies
  • Website Directory for businesses
  • Adult Pay Per View Sites
  • Portfolio site for Construction, Photography, Web Design, Interior Design, and more
  • Video membership site
  • Website for local, corporate, or international businesses
  • A site that is mobile responsive

And this is just a small portion of the long list of what WordPress can do for nearly any business niche. Now there are other way to use WordPress, but these are uses that are either commonly used or ways that if you are newer to WordPress as an entrepreneur that you can build an online business.

Really, instead of asking what can WordPress do for you… why not ask, what YOU can do with WordPress? WordPress is available for anything you need it to do. Like I wrote earlier, aside from the list I shared, WordPress can do a lot more!

You do not have to have a static site and install a bunch of different scripts to get what you need. You can install WordPress, some plugins that do what you need and have one central location to manage your entire website! Wow… pretty cool, huh? :)

Learning How To Use WordPress

Learning WordPress does depend on how willing you are to learn something new. Not everyone has the patience or may be open-minded. There are free video tutorials out there to help you learn WordPress.

It is a lot easier than opening up a PHP or HTML file and manually coding your new content into your website. Aside from that, there are great themes you can buy, and even affordable designers to help you brand your online business uniquely.

Even if you want to do it yourself, there tutorials and information is available for free and also for purchase. Relying on services with selecting, drag, and drop elements together to make your site is limited. And some are even expensive… requiring you to even use their hosting. They boast that your site will be different from others, but if you look closely at their available portfolio, most of the sites have an extremely similar look.

With WordPress, you can brand yourself successfully and uniquely, and in the end have less maintenance. This is making your website work for you while you do what needs to be done, networking and connecting with people who might be interested in what your business is all about.

Do you use WordPress in a unique way? Do you have a site that is not entirely on WordPress, and wonder if WordPress can do it? Are you still skeptical?

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#SharingSundays Recap 2013 Volume 3

January 21, 2013 by 7 Comments

This past week, we had a small turnout, but I am still posting a recap. That means that I hope if you are reading this #SharingSundays recap, that you are visiting, commenting and sharing.

#SharingSundays is every Sunday and is open to everyone. I send reminders out the day before or the day of the event when I can. In order to participate, you simply share your most recent blog post. It does not matter if it is a guest post you did elsewhere, as long as it is yours.

The event is at my professional Facebook fan page -> http://www.facebook.com/NileFlores

#SharingSundays Recap 2013 Volume 3

Jim Landers shared Add a Static Home Page or Front Page using WordPress 3.5

Marcie Hill shared 4 Ways to Overcome Bloggers Block

Hope to see you next time for #SharingSundays!

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#FanPageFriday Recap 2013 Volume 3

January 19, 2013 by 7 Comments

Fridays seems to come by quickly… so that means another #FanPageFriday happened at my Facebook Fan page. My fan page is not always about myself and events like #FanPageFriday allow others a bit of the spotlight.

As usual, I always have to say how #FanPageFriday works. In ordr to participate, you need to go to my Facebook fan page -> Nile Flores and post 2 things:

1. Post a link to a Facebook fan page you recommend.
2. Post a link to your own Facebook fan page.

Yep! It is really that simple! Here is what was shared this past Friday.

#FanPageFriday Recap 2013 Volume 3

We had one page shared several times, so it is only fitting to list the fan page first in this recap.

Kimberly Castleberry

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Social Media Technology Specialist

The Epic Blog

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The Epic Blog is a Bloggers Blog about Blogging, Business, Web Design, SEO and Social Media

Post Fever

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Postfever is a blog that mainly focuses on Blogging tips, Money Making tips, SEO, Affiliate Marketing and related content.

Smart Passive Income with Pat Flynn

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No, I’m not making millions, but I am living off of passive income made online. I’m here to show you what I’ve learned.

Jupiter Jim’s Marketing Team

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Over 80 FREE VIDEO TUTORIALS on WordPress and Thesis! I also create WordPress Blogs and Websites for small business and home-based business owners.

Peace One Day

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Be part of the biggest call for peace the world has ever seen.

GoMoSoLo

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Web Design ยท Marketing Consultant

Oasis Advanced Wellness

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Oasis Advanced Wellness was founded in order to help meet the needs of those looking for natural/alternative health care alternatives without using drugs, surgery or radiation.

A Harmony Healing

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Visit for easy healthy recipes, cooking classes, Alcat testing, radiance wellness parties, company health seminars, and more!

Hope to see you next Friday! If you need a reminder, you need to let me know so I can send you one on Facebook. :)

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#FanPageFriday Recap 2013 Volume 2

January 14, 2013 by 26 Comments

I am please that #FanPageFriday has been welcomed with open arms. I know for some people who are newer to the concept, getting the hang of it took a little, but hey… we all learn something new everyday, right? :)

For those that are reading this and are not sure what #FanPageFriday is, well, it is an event held every Friday on my professional fan page. I allow each person the opportunity to share 2 fan pages. The first must be a fan page owned by someone else that you recommend. The second fan page is the one you own. This makes it fun and allows some friendliness in the community.

#FanPageFriday Recap 2013 Volume 2

David E. Stanley

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The Official Facebook Fan Page of David E. Stanley

InnerVeritas Direct

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Nick success with past life experience and skills learned in the field of Life, Health, Wealth and Spirituality can be shared. You are invited to connect and discover how to achieve your “Own Definition of Success.”

Deeper Cravings

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I began Deeper Cravings as a way to help others foster a connection with the body through the practice of presence: mindfulness, mindful eating, meditation, self exploration, art etc. This allows us to embrace our body & heal our relationship with food.

Rocofit Health & Fitness

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Expert Trainer Rosa Coelho helps you become fit & healthy with kettlebell workouts, following a primal diet and being kind to yourself! Stop dieting, wasting time at the gym and start enjoying the benefits of being incredibly healthy!

LearnBlogTips.com

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Learn Blog Tips is an inbound marketing blog where you’ll learn blogging productivity, copywriting and landing page optimization tips.

Blogging Tips Today

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Blogging Tips Today is Dedicated to Making You a Better Blogger and to help you build a Great Blog

Kevin Muldoon

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I’m a full time blogger, affiliate marketer and WordPress fanatic. Through my blog I share my knowledge of working online for 13 years to help others make a living through the internet.

WP Kube

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WordPress Kube, a WordPress Marketing Blog which focuses on WordPress Themes, Plugins, News, Tutorials and Modifications.

List25

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Our goal is to consistently conciliate your curiosity with our top 25 lists.

Softstribe

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Guide on WordPress Training, Techniques, Security and Some Fun!

FitSugar

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Healthy Happy You.

Pepper Scraps

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Scraps of life: Enjoy the everyday, improve your blog, and reach your dreams.

Kimberly Castleberry

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Social Media Technology Specialist

Boom Social with Kim Garst

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Your #1 resource for learning how to become a ‘social’ entrepreneur!

The Best Web Hosting Service

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Web Hosting Reviews

Just a note to some of these fan page owners… you need to take off the URL and any call to action on your Fan page header images as it violates Facebook’s terms of service.

Feel free to visit the fan pages above, and connect. See you next Friday for #FanPageFriday!

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#SharingSundays Recap 2013 Volume 2

January 14, 2013 by 4 Comments

#SharingSundays is still going strong. This event allows you to shamelessly plug one of your most recent posts on my professional Facebook fan page. Pretty nice, huh?

With this event, I am really hoping to encourage people to visit each others sites and widen their blog circles. And when I mean visit, I mean comment and share those posts. We as bloggers know how much time it takes writing an article and publishing it. So… why not show some appreciation as well. It only takes 2 or three minutes tops to read, comment, and share an article, right? :)

#SharingSundays Recap 2013 Volume 2

Garen Arnold shared How Will Social Media Influence SEO in 2013

Gurwinder Singh shared What is SEO or Search Engine Optimization?

Dewvesh Sharma shared SEO for WordPress – What Every Blogger Should Know

Karen Woodham shared Gangster Squad Blazing Minds Film Review

Thank you to all who participated in #SharingSundays. Remember, the event is every Sunday, all day. If you live on the other side of the world… just because it is not Sunday, does not mean you are exempt from the event. Feel free to join in and have fun. Share. Connect. Enjoy!

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