Image via Wikipedia WordPress is an amazingly cool and powerful tool for building a website.  It is one of my two favorite CMSs (Content Management Systems)… the other being Joomla. What makes WordPress cool is that it doesn’t take a team of geeks to fire it up and make it run every day.  In fact, [...]

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RSS…  Really Simple Syndication.  Rich Site Summary. Most of us know what it is… but few are really leveraging it to help create business or simplify our lives… For those that don’t know, RSS is a news feed.  Basically, by subscribing to a website’s RSS feed, each time the site is updated, we will get [...]

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Here is the Before… Ok, so if you have been following along, you have seen that you really need both a self-hosted WordPress blog and an Active|Rain RainMaker blog. You say, “OK there Skippy, now what?” Well bunky, you need content… GREAT, compelling, addictive content.  And you need to present it in a great, compelling [...]

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We talk about them so much… and so many are the same… but there are a lot of ways to “blog”… There is always a Traditional Blog… We see them by the hundreds here on ActiveRain… these are what everyone thinks of when they think of a blog.  Take some text… maybe add a few [...]

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