Exactly one week ago The New Business Blog was up on the homepage of Digg thanks to an article written about how impossible it was to get up on Digg’s homepage.  It was definitely unexpected and certainly not unwanted, but what lasting effects has it had on my site?
In terms of traffic, I’m still getting more […]

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Have you checked out your website’s stats recently and noticed that the number of hits on any given day is relatively flat and no matter what you do, no matter how many times you submit your content to Digg or Reddit, you just can’t seem to jump start your traffic?
It turns out your site’s traffic […]

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If you were to look at Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest people, after a while I think you would begin to see a very common trait - a vast majority of these individuals are self made and generated their billions by owning businesses.
Just to make sure I wasn’t seeing things I recently had a […]

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Despite my quasi-critical article about Digg and how it needs to lose the “high school clique” feel, I think I made it pretty clear that I still really enjoy Digg and think that it’s a fun and useful site.  Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for another high profile user driven news site.
Specifically, I’m talking […]

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To quote Chris Farley in Tommy Boy - THAT… WAS… AWESOME!  
Getting up on Digg’s homepage was completely unexpected and, unfortunately for me, was probably a one shot deal.  Not to say that I’m not grateful, because I certainly am, but I think I just happened to write a post about a topic that was of interest […]

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Let me start this off by saying that I really enjoy Digg and I hope that one day, just one of my articles will make it up onto their homepage.  That being said, I think there are some things about Digg that need to be addressed before the site becomes useless.
The other day while I […]

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For those of us who run websites, it’s no secret that our primary goal is to try and get people to our site.  I mean, what’s the point of taking all of the time to put together these sites if nobody is going to read them?
That being said, what type of traffic should you be […]

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Looks like it wasn’t Wordpress’ or GoDaddy’s fault that I had such a tough time upgrading The New Businesses Blog yesterday.  I don’t know if I should feel good about that or if I should feel like a dunce.
After yesterday’s near miss, I was kind of afraid to update my two bigger blogs, Saving Without […]

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Remember how I talked about how it was kind of a pain to switch from a Blogger based site to a Wordpress based site, especially if you were using GoDaddy as your hosting service?
Well, I was about five minutes away from going on a suicide watch thanks to the fact my ENTIRE BLOG DISAPEARED after […]

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Aside from getting all of your paperwork filed properly, choosing the best checking account for your small business is probably the most important decision you’ll have to make in the beginning stages of your business.
So where do you start and what should you look for?  I’ve put together a list of items I looked at […]

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