FREE How to Blog manual
November 21, 2009 by Megan · 2 Comments
Want to blog for business or personal but don’t know where to start? I have prepared a non technical e-manual for beginners: An easy step by step plan on all you need to know to get blogging with wordpress.
Here’s what is in the How to blog manual:
- A welcome note from Megan Bayliss
- Blogging as a business tool
- Important & helpful how to blog links. Copy & paste into web browser address bar
- Acronyms
- What is a blog
- What is a blog post
- How to start a blog
- Domain name
- Hosting space
- Theme (website look or skin)
- Colours
- Logos
- Pictures
- Plugins
- Spiders
- Key words
- Writing a blog post
- Categories and Tags
- Length and language of blog posts
- Titles on blogs
- Sub titles within blog posts
- Photos on blog posts
- Links within your post
- Pre publish your blog post
- Comments
- Comment Moderation
- To leave a comment
- Widgets
- How to insert an image in a Widget
- Stats
- Blog Roll
- Web site or Blog promotion
- IP and ISP
- IP Blacklisting
- Get a Feed – an RSS feed
- How to monetise your site
- Blog and web site development at Imaginif
- Passwords
- Notes 27
You can begin blogging immediately with the help of my plain speak blogging tutorial. All I ask is that you leave me a comment if you download this manual and let me know when your blog is up so that I can come and visit. If you found the How to Blog manual helpful, link back to this page so that others can find it too.
Global Financial Crisis verses a positive bottom line (with quality mustard)
June 26, 2009 by Megan · Leave a Comment
We can learn a lot from a hot dog stand.
Today I heard a very powerful story about a hot dog stand. This hot dog stand was run by an old man who had started if many, many years ago. He loved his business and his customers. He used the best buns money could buy and his sausages were made to his own special recipe by his friend the butcher. He took great pride in every single hot dog that he made and word of mouth had spread far and wide. As a result he had many customers coming back time and time again for over thirty years.
One day the man’s son came by to visit his father. His first question to the old man was to ask how he was coping with the challenges of the Global Financial Crisis? The old man said he had no idea what this crisis was and he certainly hadn’t seen any down turn in his business. But the son went on about how the old man needed to change his business, cut his costs, get smarter and do what ever he can to protect the hot dog stand.
The old man respected his son as he had got a good education and he was very smart. So he started to look for ways to cut his costs. He started buying smaller hot dog buns, that were one day old. That saved him a lot. Then instead of getting hot dogs sausages specially made by his local butcher he bought them in bulk from a supermarket. He also started to charge extra for condiments like sauce and mustard. And last but not least he cut down his working hours to save on electricity.
The old man told the son what he had done and the son told him that he had done the smart thing. Over the coming few weeks the old man noticed that many of his regular customers started to complain about his hot dogs – they had never done that before. Business got slower and slower, until finally the old man shut his hot dog stand down. He was very sad that his business was gone, after so many years, but his son reassured him that many businesses were going broke as a result of the Global Financial Crisis.
Mmmmmm………….kind of makes you think doesn’t it? I think there are a lot of great hot dog stands out there that are going to send themselves broke as a result of GFC induced panic.
The above story was taken from Andrew Griffiths Business Bullets (No. 25). Do you get his marketing bullets?
Megan Bayliss lists the Imaginif blog for sale
May 28, 2009 by Megan · Leave a Comment
Megan Bayliss is busy fulfilling contracts and has had insufficient time to even blog! My goodness…that’s a turn up for the books!!!
Web and Blog site for sale
Given this time of flipping and rearranging, I have decided to resign as Director of Imaginif and to sell the website.
If you are interested in buying this website, make me an offer.
Blogging workshop and self managing your website
April 30, 2009 by Megan · Leave a Comment
Last night’s blogging workshop was a one on one affair – the proportion of teachers to students was 100%. EXCELLENT! The idea of having a web site with a blog page and the thought of good spiders (or bots) running over the weekly changing blog post information was understood and well received. In fact, Jennifer McCabe from Running on Empathy was motivated to post not only last night but to also pre set to post this morning at 7.45 am. Well done Jennifer, I am really looking forward to watching your web site quickly climb the indexing charts and blogosphere ranking algorithms.
Given the success of the one on one teaching I am considering redesigning the workshop to exactly that, one on one teaching. I will now trial the idea with people who engage me to build them a website with a blog page.
If you live in Cairns, want a website built and would also like to use a blog page as a marketing tool for your business, then I will consult, build and train you to self manage your site all for just $1000.00 + GST (domain name registration and hosting package is responsibility of web site owner – this is an approximate cost of $150.00).
To engage me to build you a wordpress web site, you need to have an idea of what you want (how many separate pages across the top, colours, logos, content, etc) and whether you may want a blog that you can constantly update as a way to market your business on a global arena.
Once only offer to Imaginif readers:
Manual for new bloggers
written by top 50 Aussie Blogger, Megan Bayliss from Imaginif



