Archive for the 'List of 5' Category

5 Bloggers Who Make Me Think

I was tagged by Roger Anderson with a Thinking Blogger’s Award. The idea is to link to 5 blogs that make us think, and tell why we like them. The hard part is picking only 5, as I am pretty brutal on weeding my RSS feeds weekly, so I tend to only read the [...]

5 ways to increase comments on your blog

From almost day one I have had some great participation on this site (after all, one of my goals is to make this a true interactive website for small business owners) and as it stands right now, I have a bit more than 4 times as many comments as I do posts (or, put another [...]

5 Ways Bloggers Tick Me Off

Require me to login and or register to leave a comment. Who the flip are you that I should have to remember another password just to talk to you?
Publish a partial feed. When you change to partial feeds, I unsubscribe. I am sorry about the scrappers who republish your feeds; but honestly, if I wanted [...]

5 Easy Steps to Podcasting with a Wordpress Blog

First, a disclaimer. I am writing this as a functional guide to PodCasting with Wordpress. This is NOT the definitive, encyclopedic guide to podcasting. Rather, this is a how to for the non-technical among us. I have tried to enclose links to my sources if you wish to have more background, or as a springboard [...]

Simple 5 point formula for success:

1. Decide what you want to do
2. do it
3. ask, “is this working”?
4. if yes, keep doing it,
5.if not, change and start again at 2.
[tags]success, decision making, how-to[/tags]

5 things I wish someone had told me

I often wish I had a time machine like the souped up DeLorean in Back to the Future so I could go back and tell younger me some things.
If someone had told me these things years ago (and I had listened), I would have saved myself countless heartache and pain. There are more, but these [...]

The Top 5 Google Tools I Use Every Day

Hello, my name is Hugh and I am Google’s slut.
It seems as though only yesterday when I discovered this crazy little search engine named Google, which eventually replaced Yahoo as my search engine of choice. Nowadays, Google is all grown up, with a ton of tools and applications, from email to spreadsheets and blogs. Here, [...]