Archive for August, 2009

The Advantage of Self-Hosting Your Blog

By Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz on August 28, 2009

There have been some interesting questions going around a board recently about the advantages of self-hosting a business blog as part of regular website vs using the free WordPress.com blogging service.

I would love to add my two-cents to this discussion, so here goes:

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Categories: hosting, wordpress

Blog Marketing Tips, Tools & Tactics

By Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz on August 25, 2009

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New Mini-Course ‘Blog Marketing Tips, Tools & Tactics’ has just been released!

As you know, the business of blogs has grown and evolved significantly over the last 24 months. A quote from the WordPress.com site puts it best… “Blogging is growing both in the US and especially internationally.

Tens of thousands of new WordPress blogs are created every day – by regular bloggers, companies, large media publishers, and many others. (more…)

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Categories: News, blog

WordPress from your iPhone

By Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz on August 24, 2009

wordpress-iphoneIntroducing the only iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds.

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Categories: Small Business, blog

Introducing the New Twin Cities WordPress Forum

By Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz on August 19, 2009

UPDATE: Unfortunately due to lack of activity, I have taken the Twin Cities WordPress Forum down.  Thank you for your interest – I will be more than happy to answer any of your WordPress questions if you leave a comment or contact me. ~Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz

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Blogging Services

By Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz on August 17, 2009

BLOGDon’t have the time to upload, format and find images or embed that YouTube video for your blog posts along with the basic SEO and tags?

With our new blogging package, we will take care of that for you! Just send us an email with your blog post and we will take care of the rest. We can even schedule your blog posts to post (more…)

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Categories: blog

How to write a blog post

By Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz on August 9, 2009

Lynn-TerryHow to write a great blog post is a question I hear from clients all the time. And I always meant to write a blog post on it or create a downloadable cheat sheet on it.   So what happens? I received a link today in my email to a blog post by Lynn Terry on how to write a great blog post. And her advice is dead on. I couldn’t have written a better post on the subject myself.

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Categories: blog

Blog Terminology Part II

By Lisa Drew, Lyrical Biz on August 5, 2009

faqA while back I wrote a post on Blog Terminogy where I covered a couple of terms that you run across with WordPress – Pingbacks, RSS and Categories/Tags.

Today I will be covering Permalinks and Authors & Users (more…)

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