How to Start a Blog (The Complete Step-by-Step Guide)

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{Want a PDF version of these instructions? Go here.}   Last week, I asked you how I could be of help. Of the hundreds of responses I received, many of you said you were itching to learn how to start a successful blog. Starting a blog is one of the very best things that ever [...]

How Can I Help You?

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Claire here. You’re on my blog, ClaireDiazOrtiz.com, where I write things. Good things, bad things, things in the middle between bad and good. Today, I’m writing to ask you a kinda weird thing. Here goes. What do you need? Yup. Is there a way that I can help you? I’m not being weird. I’m genuinely [...]

Five Things Every Blogger Needs to Know About Unverified Email Subscribers

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One day last week, I had a bit of a field day learning about unverified (or “unconfirmed”) email newsletter subscribers. Although most people are able to find something more normal to become obsessed with for a 5 hour period (a difficult jigsaw puzzle, a dirty house) I – apparently – am not terribly creative. Unverified [...]

Me (In 3 Minutes or Less)

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This week I’m excited to announce my new column over at Babble.com, entitled The Business of Being a Woman. I’ve long admired the fun, classy, light-hearted Moms over at Babble, and it’s fun to be writing for them. The first post, “All About Me (In Three Minutes or Less)“, went live, and, as the title [...]

The Best WordPress Plugins

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  I’ve talked before about why WordPress is the hands-down best blogging platform around these days, and I’m sure I’ll talk about it again. Once you have a blog set up, though, the next most important thing is to have the right plug-ins. [Don't yet have your blog set up? See my recent post pointing [...]

How to Set Up a Blog

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I love to talk blogging, and enjoy sharing why I firmly believe that most entrepreneurs and business folk can benefit from blogging. To get a blog going, though, you do need to set it up. In this post I want to point you to some of my resources detailing exactly how to go about setting up [...]

How People Find ClaireDiazOrtiz.com

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Back when I started my first blog, back in 2006, I had the unique pleasure of discovering a new, favorite past time. No, not blogging itself, but rather looking up what people are searching for when they find my blog. Over the years, this passion has only increased. Here’s a compilation of some of the [...]

Platform Building in Three Steps – An Interview with Michael Hyatt

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The other day, I told you about one particular book. It’s called Platform, and I love it. It’s all about how to create a dedicated network to help support your aims and you can read more about what I thought of the book here. Today, I’m doing an interview with Michael Hyatt about the book. However, since life [...]

How (Not) to Do A Google Plus Hangout

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And the technology gods have struck again. Today, I had the fine task in front of me of presenting some work stuff for a small group via a Google Plus hangout. I do not have the best history with Google Plus, but was eager to work with her to put aside our differences so that I [...]

Five Reasons I Haven’t Been Blogging

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The worst thing to blog about is why you’re not blogging and/or why you haven’t blogged. {I bet you can guess what happens now.} Five (Great!) Reasons I Haven’t Blogged Much of Late I traveled to too many places in too short of time. On such travels I had mere moments to myself in between [...]