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Independent Professionals: Back up Your Blog

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

One of the biggest concerns I had when I started blogging
was how to back up a blog.

Fortunately, the guys at Backup Creator figured it out.
This very simple plugin for a WordPress blog is so easy to
use that you’ll have no excuse not to back up your site
ever again.
(I use it the first week of the month to back up all my
blogs.)

It is a simple plugin (an additional piece of software that
is congruent with WP blog software) that you download and
install. Then, when it’s time to back up, it just takes a
couple of clicks and before you can say jack-robin-son, the
zipped up file will be sent to your inbox.

I save the back ups to my hard drive, which in turn is
regularly backed up to a storage drive.

While Robert, the fellow who coded this little goody, is a
totally techie, the instruction manual that comes with the
plug in is excellent. And in plain English.

The first time I used it it took about 10-15 minutes to
read through the manual and then go back and carefully
follow all the steps in the manual, holding my breath.

By the second month, I was sailing through. By the third
month, it took seconds not minutes. In fact, for one large
site, I clicked on the start button, looked at my email
inbox and found the back-up zip file was already there.

Check it out in the right sidebar when you go to

http://1personbusiness.com/new-posts

Yes I do get a small affiliate payment when you purchase.
It’s part of my plan for monetzing my sites. More soon
about this topic.

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Seth Godin and Tom Peters on Blogging

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Ask yourself: what can happen for you if you start blogging?

Have you asked yourself what can happen for you if you start blogging?

More clients? More personal growth? Increased impact with clients and colleagues?

Why don’t you find out?? Try it you’ll like it.

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Don’t Let Your Website Hold You Hostage

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

The great myth that stops many one-person business owners in their tracks is their website needs to be perfect, or at least wonderful, before they can use it to market their business.

In fact, there’s lots you can do before you have a website, or Read More→

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Great tips for Getting Better with Excel

Friday, January 6th, 2012

Quite frankly, I don’t know how I would run my business without using Excel and its Mac counterpart Numbers. Both of them are spreadsheet applications that let you do just about any cataloging chore from tracking your ezine emails, articles (like this one) posted on your blog, to actually Read More→

Solopreneurs: Is Your Net Working for You?

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

I was shocked when I heard a colleague say she didn’t believe in networking. Then she went on to say, “No one ever gets business from networking.”

Now, I know I did, and have for years. So I thought I’d better check it out with a couple of groups I belong to, just to see if I was a “special case!”

The response was astounding. The replies I got not only told great success stories, but also Read More→

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