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Small Business Marketing With Blogs 101

February 28, 2008

This is a guest post written by Ryan Imel at Theme Playground.

Usually the most difficult part of any endeavor is the beginning. How to start? Entrepreneurs are faced with this issues constantly, and can find an answer a few different ways. For beginning a client project, I find Basecamp useful, for business plans some enjoy PlanHQ. Unfortunately there isn’t a nifty little program to help you through the process of business blogging (yet). Hopefully this simple little guide will get you out and on your way.

Hire a Know-it-all to Setup Your Blog

This is necessarily the first place to start. You have to have a blog to begin, even if you write some posts before it’s ready to go live (highly suggested). If you don’t know anything about the process at all, grab on to these ideas as tightly as you can. If you do, well, you can probably skip this step. Read more

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Wanna Become a Freelance WordPress Designer?

February 26, 2008

We’ve just released a one-stop-shop of basic WordPress tips, shortcuts and links for those wanting to get started in custom WordPress design and development.

It’s called the WordPress Developer Toolkit …. it’s free. Go check it out and be sure to bookmark it for later.

And in case you haven’t seen our extensive and free WordPress tutorials section, go check it out too.

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Three Reasons to Use Blogs for Internet Marketing

February 25, 2008

This is a guest post by Ryan Imel of Theme Playground. 

Here are three reasons to use blogs for marketing your business:

1. Blogs are Communiciations 2.0

According to Seth Godin, all marketers are liars. In that case, even more fundamentally, all marketers are communicators. After all, you can’t lie without communicating. Read more

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Hide Your Affiliate Links with This Plugin

February 22, 2008

If you’re an iThemes affiliate, or another site, and want to hide the long affiliate link, check out the GoCodes plugin.

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Help Us Create the Next Premium WordPress Theme

February 22, 2008

iThemes wants to hear from you …. what would you like to see in the next iTheme? We know you have your own tastes, preferences …. let us know what you’re wanting so we can better serve you.

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Looking for a Good Blank WordPress Theme?

February 11, 2008

We’ve just released a blank WordPress theme based on our Essence Theme Series for those who want the layout of Essence, but want to be able to easily tweak it to their heart’s content.

You can buy just the blank theme for $79.95 or get it with with the rest of the Essence series (6 color styles in all) in the multi-use package for $199.95.

Here’s a screenshot of the new Blank WordPress Theme:

blank wordpress theme

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