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Seeking Expert Advice in How To Be Successful?

If you could connect one-on-one with one expert, what would you want to learn? If I could connect one on one with one expert I would want to learn how to be successful in this day and age. I would want to know what roads and path do I need to take or follow in […]

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Blogging Tips HealthAndWellness

Strangers or Close Ones – Who Gives Best Advice?

Do you prefer to take advice from strangers or people close to you? This is a very good question… As a somewhat private person I find it very hard to ask or seek for advice.  Oftentimes if and when I seek advice I would ask someone not closed to me (like family or friends), but […]

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What’s Your Expertise? – NaBloPoMo

Everyone is an expert in something. Tell us three things you’re an expert in. Sometimes I feel I am not an expert at anything. It’s like when someone asks you what are your skills/talents, often times I feel I have no talents and/or skills, even if I do. So this time, I will look deep […]

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My First Blog Entry – NaBloPoMo (July 2013)

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(image above is a snapshot of my first blog post after migrating my blog from Blogger/Blogspot) Wow, my first blog entry was so long ago, or at least it seems like it. February 2, 2008, is the date I was able to find as my first blog entry. I might’ve had a few other posts […]

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KMP Blog Redesigned – A Look Over The Years

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Redesigning is a major part of blogging. If you’ve been following my blog for some time, you been through the redesigning process with me. KMP Blog has come a long way, since it’s birth in 2008 til this very present day. It has gone from Blogspot/Blogger to WordPress.com and WordPress.org. It has had several domain […]

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How Would You Save the World?

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How would you start saving the world if you woke up tomorrow with superhuman powers?! This is a tough question to answer without sounding a bit crazy. Even with superhuman powers I don’t know if I could save the world. Perhaps if my superpower was to change people’s minds and mentality, I don’t know if […]

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At What Time of the Day Do You Feel the Most Energetic and Productive?

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They say the early bird gets the worm,well I guess I’m an early bird. I am a morning person, and I’m usually super productive and energetic around 6am. This is the time when I’ll jump out of bed, yes, even on the weekends, and open my laptop and start to blog. I prefer to work […]

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If You Were a Superhero, What Would Drain Your Energy?

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As I continue on my blogging superhero theme for this week, today I will share my superhero’s kryptonite. Every superhero has a weakness, or better yet something that weakens them or drains their energy. My kryptonite is toxic, negative people. This includes: the complainers, the miserable, the haters, the insecure, the straight up negative, and […]

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As a Superhero, Would You Rather Have Extreme Strength or Extreme Speed?

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So on yesterday’s superhero post, I talked about my superhero’s superpower being Super Speed. For today’s question I am given the option to choose between extreme strength or extreme speed. I figured since my superpower is already super speed, I don’t think I need extreme speed. So, for this question my answer would have to […]

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Which Daily Tasks Take Up the Most of Your Energy?

There are several things that take up most of my energy, not necessarily in a bad way, as long as what is draining me is allowing me to be productive as well. As you read from my previous post, I am not a person that likes to be bored or kill time doing nothing. It […]

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If You Were a Superhero, What Would Be Your Hidden Superpower?

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Today I continue my BlogHer’s NaBloPoMo blogging series for the month of January and I am loving it. It helps me tap into my creative juices and write awesome blogging tips posts for you all to read and hopefully find useful. Super Speed would be my hidden superpower. I’ve always been a busy person. I like […]

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Where Do I Draw My Blogging Energy From?

Yesterday, I shared tips on Finding the Energy to Write When You Are Not in the Mood. Today, I tell you about my blogging energy and where does it come from… My blogging energy is not necessarily drawn from the sun, but a sunny day with clear blue skies does help. Today, I’m going to share […]

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Finding the Energy to Write When You’re Not in the Mood

I am currently doing a series of Blogging Tips posts via BlogHer’s NaBloPoMo. This month’s theme is Energy, something that we all have tons of, whether we would like to believe it or not. Anyways, below I want to share the following and every day I’ll try to share more blogging tips that will help […]

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SEO Special 50% Off – 4 Days Only

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SEO Rates are now 50% Off ($75/website) This offer is for a limited time only Until Sunday, January 6, 2013 Is your site one of those sites that creates tons of great content but feels like no one is listening (reading)? Is your blog traffic low? Are most of your blog traffic coming from social […]

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Blogging Tips Conferences

My BlogHer ’12 Experience – The Bloggers

I Saw… Some Awesome Bloggers I Met Day 1 was the busiest and the day I met a lot of awesome new people and saw some bloggers I already know. The first person I met was Kay from Movie Star Makeover. I am so glad I met her first, because the conversation we had made […]

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Blogging with Pictures

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(From left to right: Jessie, Rachel & Shalini) The following post/notes were from the BlogHer ’12 session titled: The Visual – Telling Stories with Pictures: Incorporating Graphics, Cartoons and Iconography. Before attending this session I would’ve never thought of any other way to incorporate my own images or comics/cartoons in my posts or getting more creative […]

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My BlogHer ’12 Experience – Attending and Meeting The Brands and Sponsors

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I went.. At the very last minute, maybe less than a month before BlogHer ’12 I got the opportunity for a full scholarship. My Secret to Affording BlogHer ’12 Being that I was already in NYC, I figured this was one conference I did not want to miss, and I knew it would provide me […]

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Ten Tips I Learned from BlogHer’s ‘Your Blog As a Media Company’ Session

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Jaden Hair | SteamyKitchen.com | @SteamyKitchen | jaden@steamykitchen.com Kathryn Finney | SimplyGoodMedia.com | @KathrynFinney | kathryn.finney@simplygoodmedia.com The following tips were from a very insightful and helpful BlogHer ’12 Pathfinder session. Based on the notes, I’ve summarized the session down to these ten very important tips that every blogger should know. I. Invest in your skills: […]

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BlogHer ’12 – The Brand and Blogger Connection

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This conference session was a very popular one during BlogHer.  The room was filled to capacity and quite a few couldn’t get in. I’m glad I got in, because I felt the information was somewhat useful to me and useful to my readers. This post talks about working with brands, how to pitch to bloggers, […]

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BlogHer ’12 – The Technical: Podcasting 101

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There are many forms of blogging, writing blog posts, video blogging, and then there’s podcasting. Podcasting varies too, there’s video podcasting and audio podcasting. During BlogHer ’12 I attended a session on Podcasting and I must say I learned quite a lot, but I don’t think I’m ready to take my blog into podcasts just […]