Will you buy without the BS? Awesome (stop laughing)

As the WordPress Blogmistress grows gently, all the while with none of this “Get your Kick-Ass WordPress Website Here!” or suchlike, I constantly see otherwise quite sane and personable people selling in what I call the “Awesome Rock Star” way. You know what I mean – every blog post or article is “7 ways to [...]

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Keeping it current

Yet more inspiration today! I received an email from an agency whose owner I know, within which they were selling their blogging platform – of course this is of interest to me and to many that I work with, so off I popped, following their link. Only to find that while they may well be [...]

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We’ve never had it so easy…

I’m not one to use punchy, attention-grabbing headlines, but couldn’t resist this time. What I’m referring to is that it’s never been so easy to “chat” with our customers online.  And while I have seen a similar sense of things in other areas of marketing – offline networking, for instance, I’ll stick with what I [...]

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WordPress tip: Setting a different home page

As you can see on the Internet Marketing Action website/blog, the home page is a “static” page and not the usual list of the latest blogs. By telling WordPress to take your visitors to this “home” page, it appears more like a website. You do this, after creating the page that you want to be [...]

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Granting access to your WordPress stats

When you want to allow someone else access to your WordPress stats, the following should help: Login in to your WordPress.com account Go to Your Account (top right menu option), and then into stats Scroll to the bottom and you can grant another person access to the stats by adding their email address. This will [...]

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Latest project: Iterative Projects for Agile Project Management and IT Strategy

Iterative Projects for Agile Project Management and IT Strategy

While chatting with a friend online, getting to know her and what she does better, we started to explore the world of “Agile” – and with our mutual no-nonsense approach, bestowed the title of “Mistress Agile” upon her – joking around, as you do. But then we got to thinking about actually doing something with [...]

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Setting up a blog with WordPress…

Well, the full title is actually “setting up a blog using WordPress, your own domain name and hosting”! Working with a few good business people this past couple of weeks has inspired me to create some step-by-step notes on how to set up and create a blog.  Now for this I suggest WordPress, your own [...]

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Coming soon…

Really detailed notes on how to set up your own blog.  Having done a few in the past week or so, I thought I’d do some notes along the way.  Now to polish those and set them free into the world so they can be helpful. First though, I’m testing out some extra plugins on [...]

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