Cindy Szponder’s Tips

Found this great video over at YouTube by Graywolf’s SEO Blog. It shows, in an easy format, how to avoid duplicate content on your WordPress blog.

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“You already know what to do. Problem is, you’re just not doing it.”—Jeffrey Gitomer
Principle 5:  Survival and Success Are a Combination of Knowing and Doing.

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Knowing: Why do you want to succeed at blogging? What is the motivation behind starting your blog? Keep asking yourself  “why” as you answer each question. Do it […]

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“Industry is cheap. It is laziness that costs. It has cost many a bright man a bright career.”—John Patterson
Principle 4: Boot Camp Separates the Winner from the Wanna-Be Winner.
Basic training is all about self-discipline–physical, mental and psychological. Intense basic training is a requirement for success in any field. Successful bloggers completed bootcamp […]

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Found an interesting article over at e-Strategy Blog.
In it, the author makes recommendations about how advertisers can utilize online video advertising effectively. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’d much rather be given the choice of whether to mouse-over something I see in the video to see whether there is a link to the […]

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“Success is up to the attitude within each one of us individually.” —John Patterson
Principle 3: Positive Mental Attitude Is Determined by You. Not Others.
Stop and think about what you’re waiting for before you can be successful in life and as a blogger. I hope you’re not like someone I know who has […]

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“Self-belief is the most convincing characteristic to others, and THE most convincing characteristic to yourself.” —Jeffrey Gittomer
Principle 2: Self-belief.
For the blogger, this means having the confidence to express what you know and believe, and make it public. If you don’t believe in yourself, in your ideas, in what you’re marketing, how in […]

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Here we go with the first of the 32.5 business and personal success principles.
“Think and act–two words of progress.” —John Patterson
Principle 1: Think!

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This is a very powerful concept and I can see why it is listed as the first success principle. If you’ve ever read Napolean Hill’s classic, you’ve heard the saying, […]

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There’s a book I’ve been meaning to read for quite a while and I’ve decided the best way to get around to reading it is to work it into my daily blogging. These are powerful strategies for business and personal success that originate from a man named Patterson who lived and worked in the late […]

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I’m in the final stages of writing an ebook and my fingers are wearing out faster than my ideas! Guess I should hire this person to take dictation (imagine how fast she/he could type if all fingers were used).

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This is the second video in the series I’m creating to accompany the ebook I’m writing. In order to upload the robots.txt file, you’ll need an FTP program. I use and like FileZilla.

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