Great Blog Posts from Around the Net on Personal Branding, Personal Development, Internet Marketing, Entrepreneurship, and Life in General.

22 Tips To Prevent Your WordPress Blog Being Hacked | Michael Dunlop, incomediary.com

Michael reminds us these useful tips on avoiding your blogs being hacked. Online security is a very real issue and many people forget to update or even add it to their online blog or website which can mean disaster if you are not careful.

5 Steps to Make More Money From Your Website with Less Traffic | Corbett Barr, thinktraffic.net

What does it take to make significant money from your site when it’s still small? Here are five steps to get you there. Corbett used these steps successfully, and so has nearly every other successful blogger he knows.

The Lion By The River | Stuart Mills, unlockthedoor.net

The moral of this story is simple; there’s still time to change. No matter what mistakes you’ve made, no matter how many people you’re hurt or let down, no matter how many opportunities you’ve missed out on, you can change… -Stu

How to Write Your Most Popular Blog Post | Corbett Barr, thinktraffic.net

Wouldn’t you like your next blog post to become your most popular post ever? Corbett shares a formula that can be broken down into 5 steps, which has helped him consistently create his most popular posts.

WHY YOU AREN’T AS SUCCESSFUL AS YOU WANT TO BE | Chris Brogan, chrisbrogan.com

You are not as successful as you want to be because you’re looking at little numbers and wanting to pop them like digital bubble wrap, instead of working on the tasks that have no numbers beside them, but are worth so much more than the number to the right of these words.

The Dark Side Of Internet Marketing | Ian Douglas, ian-douglas.com

A well done, very creative and an enjoyable read post from Ian. As a fellow fiction-writer, I doff my hat to thee. Looking forward to the sequel! -Bolaji

Is Blogging Broken? Is The Future of Blogging Paid Access? | David Risley, davidrisley.com

Paid Blogging. Is this where we’re heading? I think, for some, the answer is yes. And, it isn’t a bad thing, because you’re likely going to find that the best information stays behind a pay-wall. Like it or not, reality is reality. -David

Optimalism: The Ism That Will Change Your Life | Maren Kate, escapingthe9to5.com

Maren started searching for her own “ism” that could put a name to the path she has been trying to follow. And found the -Ism that will work on her. She coined optimalism as pursuing the best course of action, that gets maximum output from minimal input, to achieve optimal results.

7 Mistakes that Lead to Guest Post Failure | Andrew Nattan, copyblogger.com

Writing and submitting a guest post also offers some real opportunities for spectacular failure. Andrew posted some mistakes that you may commit that will lead to guest posting failures.

How to Travel the World and Live a Jetset Life, with Rob and Kim Murgatroyd | Chris Ducker, virtualbusinesslifestyle.com

Chris did a great interview with  Rob and Kim Murgatroyd from jetsetlife.tv. The interview includes some questions on what started their awesome adventure of discovery and travels and the ways on capitalizing their travels by creating top notch passive income products.

ON REVOLUTIONS | Chris Guillebeau, chrisguillebeau.com

It was a tiring trip, as one might expect, but also a timely one. When I booked my flights, I didn’t exactly plan on revolution breaking out across the region; apparently revolutions are not scheduled in advance. – Chris

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