WordPress – How to use the Reader

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Powerbloggers stay clear. This is strictly for newbies.

I discovered Reader a year into blogging on WordPress.

• What is Reader?

Its that icon up there sandwitched between ‘blog name’ and ‘follow’ on your blog site.

Its the window that permits you to peer into your peers – I mean, fellow bloggers.

It lists

a] Latest posts by the Blogs you follow get updated here. You can either glimpse a preview or read entire post, depending on walls erected by that WordPress Blogger.

P.S- You can hit ‘like’ or ‘comment’ directly via Reader. Be warned – this indirect route however, does not add up to

How to back-up your blog.

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Your precious blog world . A virtual world forever threatened by computer crashes, viruses worse than Ebola and fickle servers.

Your carefully worded blogs, your painstakingly gained comments, your bevy of  ever-increasing friends/followers. All wiped out in a moment.

It is the virtual equivalent of Tsunami, Hiroshima and Katrina rolled into one!

Worry not. Here’s how to backup your blog world.

3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Writing & Increase Sales

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Kristen Lamb on how to keep it short, simple and direct. Precise and practical, as always.

Kristen Lamb's Blog

Image from the movie “Office Space”

Today, I’m going to give you three ways to instantly improve your writing and sell more books. I’m blessed to have a broad base of experience/expertise which includes corporate consulting and branding. I also spent years in sales and can honestly say, Coffee is for closers. 

What Do You DO?

Last year, I accepted a leviathan project to redo copy for a website and rebrand a struggling company. I first explained my plan and reasoning in a detailed SWOT analysis. The owner was on board and signed off. The existing copy was outdated, bloated, confusing, and failed to appreciate the vast changes in our millennial culture.

I hacked through, reduced as much as possible and reshaped until the site showcased a truly fabulous company. To my horror, the owner came back and wanted me to add a deluge of changes which included mass amounts of extraneous…

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