I’m pleased. I added an opt-in form to the blog today. I know, big deal, lot’s of blogs have them. That’s true, but this is the first time I’ve done it so I wanted to share some ‘lesson’s learned’.
I can’t say it was a straight path from start to finish, but it wasn’t too convoluted. I used AWeber for the mailing service. It’s double opt-in (duh!) with a confirmation email, a thank you page, and a follow-up/welcome email.
I made a mistake by going to AWeber first and setting up the campaign. I should have written the two emails and created the Thank You page first. That’s one lesson learned. Continue reading
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I was following some of the items coming out of the Digital Ireland Forum from the publication SiliconRepublic. Two things in particular got my attention. Both of them were about kids.
In the first item, “Kids need to think of entrepreneurs as the new rock stars“. IN my opinion, here in the states and probably elsewhere, kids really lack role models to inspired them. There are some, movie stars, sports stars, the ‘money’ professions of doctors and lawyers. The first two are very limited in the number of opportunities which makes it very tough even if you do have the skills. The last two are at least more obtainable, though still with challenges and very high costs.
Though it’s a bad idea from an SEO perspective, I’m building a new blog from scratch. WordPress is a great platform and makes updating things very easy, but it’s grown a lot in the past few years and I’d do things differently now.
Some of the decisions I made before were valid then but now is now and it’s time to take a look at things from the beginning.
Now, however, I’m going to document a lot of the steps I’m taking in case it might help someone else set up a new WP blog.
There are a lot of things to do before this post every gets published, but I’m going to start listing them here as I go.
Our Litigious Society
One of the first things is, unfortunately, legal stuff. The number of disclosures and policies that a blogger needs just keeps growing and growing. It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard to list them all and still meet the standards for visibility.