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BlogHer ’12/Pathfinder Day – My Blog As A Book Proposal (RECAP)

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Thursday morning I attended an amazing BlogHer session where other blog enthusiasts and myself learned about book proposals. A popular question that went around the room was… “If you were to write a book, what would it be about?” Stefanie Wilder-Taylor of stefaniewildertaylor.com and author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things […]

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Blogging Tips Conferences Marketing Tips

Brands & Blogs: The No BS Guide to Advertising & PR for Bloggers

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BlogWorld and New Media Expo NYC: KMP Blog Review Series 3 of 5 Jason Falls of ExploringSocialMedia.com talked about the relationships between bloggers and PR and Marketing agencies. Jason mentioned some great pointers and case studies along with some marketing and PR terminology and descriptions and how they work alongside with bloggers. You can follow […]

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Marketing Tips

5 Great Ways to Market Your Brand

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You’ve created a brand for yourself now how do you market it?! Whether you’re a blogger or a small business person having a brand is very important. What’s more important is marketing your brand. Marketing helps people find you, know who you are and creates conversation and curiosity.

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Blogging Tips

Blogging Tip# 8 Are you an Asset or a Liability?

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This year you should ask yourself this very important question: Are You an Asset or a Liability?
First let’s look at what each means…

According to Webster’s Dictionary, an Asset is a valuable possession or quality, and a Liability is something owed to another: debt; a handicap: disadvantage.

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Tips Tuesdays

Five Great Dates that Don’t Cost a Fortune

Dating can present a host of difficulties for those who still frequent the scene. Getting to know a new person, learning what makes them tick, and trying not to mess up a good thing by being too, well…YOU…can be a frustrating and disheartening experience. You’re going to meet a lot of Mr. or Mrs. Wrongs before you find THE ONE, and the dates you choose have the potential to make or break a prospective relationship. If you knew the person better, you could definitely come up with something to impress, at least you could if you had the cash on hand for a 5-star restaurant, roses, and a limo. Unfortunately, you may have found yourself a little lighter in the wallet since the onset of the recession (when will it end?!).

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Money Mondays

5 College Jobs That Don’t Suck

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Going to college can be stressful, tiring and most of all, expensive. Most students are struggling to get by paying for groceries, rent, and tuition, surviving on the bare minimum. Although having a job while taking a full load of classes can be difficult, it can also be very rewarding and help minimize your debt. Finding the perfect job to meet your busy schedule may not be easy, but when you do find the right job, you won’t regret it.

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Cars

5 Most Incredible New Car Features

People often say that technology is advancing at an exponential rate (as in, our generation will generate twice the tech as our parents, our kids will generate four times as much, and so on and so forth). And if you think about it, some of the technology available for cars today would have seemed like science fiction just ten or twenty years ago.

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Travel Thursdays

Tuscan Villas: The Perfect Holiday Gift for The Whole Family

The holiday season is getting closer, and in a month or so you will be exchanging gifts with your loved ones. What if this year you gave your whole family the gift of a week or two in a Tuscan villa?
Tuscany is usually conceived as a summer destination, but there is nothing more underrated than a beautiful winter holiday in this wonderful region of Italy, especially if spent in one of its many splendid Tuscan villas. These accommodations have all been restored to offer you a stay with modern comforts.

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Blogging Tips

Blogspot to WordPress Migration – KMP Experience

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For the last 2 years I have been contemplating on making the switch to Wordpress (WP). Let me explain.

When I first started KMP Blog it has always been through Blogspot aka Blogger.com. I have always used Blogspot because it is easy to use and less CSS (complicated computer science stuff)….

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Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips #6 Look But Don’t Touch…How to deal with Copycats?!

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We all do it “steal other people’s blog ideas and/or blog info,” some of us call it research, plagiarism, borrowing, etc… There’s a saying that says “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”- Charles Caleb Colton, I kind of agree with this saying, here are my reasons why:

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Blogging Tips

Word Camp NYC – Blogger Track (Part 2)

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Plugins…The plugins section was comprised of a couple of developers and their products…Beau Lebens talked about Intense Debate, a great plugin to better your comments section. Jonathan Davis talked about a Shopp plugin, great if you sell a product on your site. Rafael Mudge talked about a great spell checking and grammar plugin for your site called After The Deadline.

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Blogging Tips

Blogging Tip# 2 Choosing a Blog Hosting Site?

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Wordpress and Blogger are the two most popular blogging sites out there. I use Blogger. I have tried Wordpress, wasn’t feeling it, I guess I didn’t like Wordpress formatting. At the time when I tried Wordpress I had already been using Blogger for about a year, then something happened and I figured I’d give Wordpress a try, but it didn’t work out for me, so I went back to Blogger and purchased a new domain.

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Blogging Tips

Blogging Tip# 1 Starting a Blog

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A month or two ago, a wonderful young lady contacted me via email and told me she wanted some insight on starting her own blog and wanted to know how to go about it. I was shocked, I am NO professional blogger, and I look up to the real professional Bloggers out there, like ProBlogger, The Huffington Post, Mashable, TechCrunch, LifeHacker, Gizmodo, Engadget, Joystiq, even TMZ to name a few; these people are amazing!! And someday I’ll be just as amazing as them, but as of right now I am just a young apprentice. :-)

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Blogging Tips

Happy Columbus Day – Blogger’s Day Off

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Great weather + Great weekend = a Wonderful (Mon)Day Off!

KMP will resume tomorrow.

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Blogging Tips

Bloggers Can Use A Little Break!

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The Blog Interview for today has been postponed until next week. Yes I know this might be a disappointment for those of you that were expecting an interview. But I promise next week, we’ll have a wonderful interview you won’t want to miss.
Stay Tuned!