traffic to your business blog or websites because it works. But
have you considered submitting some of your best articles for
pay?
No, it's not going to make you a millionaire either but you
might want to give some thought to adding this as another income
stream. According to PR Newswire, Associated Content received
over 8.2 million visitors in October and they were reading
articles!
Does that make your ears perk up?! It should because the articles
are short how-to information that you're already submitting to
places like Ezine Articles and Article Snatch.
As a result of their incredible growth, AC paid out roughly $1
million to registered users this year and they are making offers
to contributors daily. Why not you?
My suggestion: Take a look, see if it's something you can add to
both your income and marketing mix.
2. Wordpress Morphing Again
Many of you have switched your blogging to the Wordpress platform
and this is coming as old news, but for those of you still
looking....Wordpress “just” changed to version 2.7 and you
might want to wait before jumping onboard because very soon it
will be changing again.
Some of you aren't seeing the videos I embed in the posts, so
here's the link from the Wordpress team to quickly give you an
idea what the newest features of this upgrade entails.
From watching the video, it appears that many of these features
were available using plugins and some of them, in my humble
opinion is just more eye candy.
Here's what Mark Ghosh, a Wordpress programmer had to say about
the new features:
"Professional designers and web developers who help
small businesses and individuals with their custom WordPress
needs have been telling me that some of their clients are worried
about the new WordPress 2.7 and the hype surrounding it....
I have tried to allay the fears in my replies with examples of
how blogging tasks will get easier in 2.7 with screenshots and
writeups on various blogs and review sites."
One of the things that bothers me as a solo entrepreneur is the
reference to 'professional designers and web developers'
because I don't see myself as either one. It's beginning to
feel like a Microsoft patch clone move to me.
Every time you look around, Wordpress is 'upgrading to make it
better for users', but it seems the average user isn't who
these upgrades are actually for.
I should talk right when I couldn't get the free version to work
the way I wanted, but think about it this way: Do you want to
hire someone each time one of these 'upgrading to make it
better' changes happen?
Or do you want to make a quick few changes yourself and get on to
the next thing?! Don't get me started on all the 'free help'
that's offered online.
Quite a few of you are chomping at the bit to upgrade. Some of
you are of the same mind: Holding your breath until this gets to
be too much damn trouble!
If you've been online a while, doesn't this smell a bit like
the 90's.....when everybody was building 'interactive' websites
and small business people were being taken to the cleaners with
each 'new and better' site upgrade? Think about who is really
benefiting from all these 'upgrades'.
Before I go, Quickbooks now has the official 2009 Federal W-2's
and 1099 forms available. So if you did any contract hiring this
year, get over there and get your forms downloaded.
That's it for today and I leave you with this -
The more things change, the more they remain...insane. ~Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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