15
Dec
Written by Susan on December 15th, 2008
ATTENTION ALL TECH CHALLENGED READERS!
Tip O’ The Mornin’ To Ya: One of Alex’s students has created a forum where we can all go to get (or give) some much needed tech help. You won’t find much there at the moment, but it’s a good start to a vital service – you get to post your questions, and someone who knows an embarrassingly great deal more than you will be able to sort you out and get you over yet another of the many tech hurdles we all have facing us in this wild ride to Internet Income success.
It’s called The IM Crowd Forum (click this link or on the pic). Get the word out on your blogs so we can all be aware of its existence!
Those kind souls who have been interrupted in their own journey to help others along might find this a nice base from which to dispense their tips and wisdom…no more sending the same instructional email to a dozen different seekers. Post it here once and point everyone who asks toward this site. When I get a sec, I’ll post the blogroll tip I mentioned in my last post to the forum, just to get the ball rolling. Those of you who have seen a need, and have the answer to any of the questions you’ve seen flying around, take a moment and do the same.
Know how to post a video to your blog? Share the steps. Found a better way to get your Profit Pulling Platform up? Let us all know (me especially! Still working on this one). Know of a plugin that will make life easier for we newbie bloggers? Don’t keep it a secret! Just want to say something encouraging? Bless you for a saint.
And those of you who are just starting out, feel free to ask any question. I’m not sure there’s really no such thing as a dumb question, but go ahead and ask it anyway. Life’s a risk.
12
Dec
Written by Susan on December 12th, 2008
This is a quickie update, folks, as the momentum is building with the Alex Jeffrey’s group of students at the moment. I am in the process of tweaking this blog’s design goofs, trying to upload some links, signing up for Aweber, getting a marketing domain name, looking into Adwords, partnering with those who are in this process with me, reading the how-to info on Alex’s website, taking notes of all I do to put into a how-to eBook of my own soon, responding to comments and questions…
All this while trying to remove my head from my anal orifice! Shoot, I may post video of THAT, if I ever get around to learning how to upload vids.
So I necessary am pressed for time. But fear not, Reader, I will have a post very soon that tells you in excruciating detail what I’ve been doing to keep up with my fellow students in this astonishing Internet Income training program (including posting links you can follow to learn even more). I also intend to give away some of the how-to’s I’ve managed to pick up from helpful students along the way that I see others are also struggling with.
Are you wondering how to get a blogroll list of names on your site quickly? Others have explained how to add to your list one-by-one by going into your WordPress dashboard, choosing Manage – Links, and clicking on Add New. But if you want your blogroll up fast, and you see that others already have a long list on their sites and want to save yourselves some time, I can send you an .xml file I have of about 70 names or so. Just comment on this blog and I’ll email that file to you, along with the instructions on how to upload them all in an instant (thanks to the great help from Austin Delaney - you’re on my Christmas card list, man!)
If you know how to create an .xml file of your own, I’ll put the instructions here:
First, go into “Widgets” in your WordPress dashboard and make sure that your Links are added, so it shows up on your sidebar.
Then, follow these steps:
In your WP dashboard:
1. Manage
2. Links
3. Click ‘Add New’
4. Over on the right, under ‘Related’ you see 3 links: Manage All Links, Manage All Link Categories, Import Links. Chose ‘Import Links.’
5. A page comes up that says “Import your blogroll from another system”. Go to the Browse button under “Or choose from your local disk.”
6. Find where you’ve saved the links.xml file
7. Make sure the category selected at the bottom is ‘Blogroll’ (there’s a dropdown list if it isn’t already listed as the default)
8. Click ‘Import OPML File’ button at the bottom.
Since my name doesn’t happen to be on this list, could you do me the favor of adding me manually? That’s Susan Livingstone (with an ‘e’ at the end!), and the address to this blog, of course, is http://susanlivingstone.com.
That should do it – I’d love to hear from you if it works (or even if it doesn’t – we can brainstorm our way out of the mess, if necessary).
Finally, want to mention Garry Parke’s “Get A Slice of the $1 MILLION Up For Grabs!” post – get there (from here), read it, follow the directions, and you can get your name and a link to your blog in Alex’s new eBook wherein he describes the case study he’s making of this, his first training program (and all the successful student’s he created from it – THIS MEANS US!).
More later, folks – must go and see if I can increase the circulation to my butt, now.
11
Dec
Written by Susan on December 11th, 2008
Self-tooting horn!
I’ve managed to create a blog, as anyone reading this can obviously see. Well spotted, alert reader! I still have some issues, like making the text big enough for human viewing – the default seems to be on little bitty, which is somewhere below font size 1, apparently. Hopefully fixable. I’m also using WordPress for this blog, and haven’t figured out just yet how to get my personal API key, which I need to get some of the plugins I want to use working. But these are fairly minor. The main thing is I GOT MY BLOG UP!
And I couldn’t have done it without some help from a fellow newbie, who’s several steps ahead of me on this journey to Internet fame and fortune. As you speed along that information highway, O Cherished Reader, take note of those of us in the bike path, pedaling doggedly along. Please don’t run us down.
Anyway, I want to give a shout-out to Dean Holland (www.deanholland.com) who’s helpful new ebook on how to set up a blog in WordPress got me over some hurdles and made it all happen quicker than it would have, left to my own resources.
He’s allowed me to offer you a copy of his book for free, just by clicking on the picture. (Told ya – I’ll pass along anything good I can to help you in your own quest!)
He would deserve a mention in any case, just because he’s a helpful guy who’ll offer a hand and a kind word to those of us who are struggling to be like him when we grow up. So visit his blog and tell him Susan said “hi”.
