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Easy to Start A Podcast: Text To Speech Blog Posts With Odiogo

Easy to Start A Podcast: Text To Speech Blog Posts With Odiogo

Lynn Terry sent out an email this afternoon alerting her readers to a new utility that can make your blog posts more accessible to more people. In her post “New: The ClickNews Podcast“, she shared a new free service that changes your blog post text to speech. If you look at the top of this post, you will see a little button that says, Listen Now. The service called Odiogo and it uses text to speech technology to make a blog post into a podcast. Once installed the post is changed to audio and a feed that can be followed through ITunes is made available... 

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The Roadmap To Become A Blogger Review

The Roadmap To Become A Blogger Review

You can tell Yaro and Gideon of Become A Blogger are not from the United States (they’re from Australia) because I got my pre-release copy of their new free report “The Roadmap To Become A Blogger” at 4:30 on Thanksgiving Day. Of course I was enjoying a day with my family while working on getting a Thanksgiving feast ready for the dinner table and didn’t even know I’d received it until I checked my email the next morning. And then, of course, I had to go shopping with my daughters, so it sat unopened in my email inbox until today. Quite... 

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CBC Kelly: Choosing A Niche Market & Teaching In The Manner The Market Wants To Learn

CBC Kelly: Choosing A Niche Market & Teaching In The Manner The Market Wants To Learn

Continuing with my Cross Blog Conversation with Kelly McCausey at Sparkplugging WAHM 2.0 after reading her response to my questions to her here, I now have a bit to say and will attempt to answer her questions to me: Do you see yourself as a Master Translator for the Baby Boomer crowd? How do you think being a Boomer affects how someone wants to learn about making an income on the internet? First I want to respond to Kelly’s post about specialized learning. She totally steered me away from my rant about the internet marketing gurus and the email overload I’m... 

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Become A Blogger - Fantastic Blogging Training Videos

Become A Blogger - Fantastic Blogging Training Videos

If you’re reading my series on Blogging for Money, then you will probably be interested in the wonderful site I just ran across today for new bloggers. It’s called Become A Blogger and is a MUST SEE for anyone who needs help setting up their WordPress blog. Yaro Starak, who’s blogging course “Blog Mastermind,” I recommended in a earlier post, and Gideon Shalwick, a world-renowned author of entrepreneurship books, have teamed up to bring you a fabulous series of videos that will teach you everything you need to know to get your blog up... 

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Only2Clicks - Great Tool

Only2Clicks - Great Tool

I found a great tool the other day that I thought I’d share, it’s called Only2Clicks. It’s like Favorites or Bookmarks on your browser but it’s web-based so you can use it even when you don’t have your own computer. For me, that’s nice because I don’t like to save my favorites on the computer I use at work or if I’m at a friend’s house and want to look-up something quick, I can just go to Only2Clicks to find it. Basically, you sign-up and then you add links to your favorite websites. You can categorize them with... 

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Setting-Up Your Blog Properly – Part 2

Setting-Up Your Blog Properly – Part 2

Table of contents for Set Up BlogSetting-Up Your Blog Properly – Part 1Setting-Up Your Blog Properly – Part 2 As stated in Part 1, after installing your WordPress blog on your own domain, there are 3 steps you need to take to get your blog set-up properly so it will not only be indexed by the search engines but also be easy to run and a good place for your visitors to go. I’m going to cover each step in a separate post, this is Part 2. These steps are specific to a WordPress blog hosted on your own domain. The free or hosted services like Blogger and WordPress.com... 

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