My Favorite Web Stuff

I can’t believe it’s been more than a MONTH since I last posted here.  Oh dear!

So I was out of the country.  Overseas.  Down under.  Way on the other side of the world.  And I still got my email, and I still kept up with SOME things, but not all of them.

There was the conference, and the gorgeous bayview from the place where I stayed.  And the flu. 

The amazing thing though, was that if I had stayed on top of things, nobody would have been the wiser as to where I was.  And that’s the message in Tim Ferriss’s 4-hour work week, one of my favorite books.

And that’s also my goal for later.  I did learn a lesson though.  It does take quite a bit more to do that (the keeping up thing) than I had expected. And boy is it easy to get side-tracked.

I knew I had neglected things a bit, but whoa!  When I looked at my blogs, I realized that I hadn’t posted anything for more than a month on ANY of them.

So here’s my post

And a little word about internet cafes.  God bless them.  I’m in San Francisco right now.  Tomorrow, I’ll fly back to Virginia.  And right now, I’m in this cool coffee place (Progressive Grounds” on Cortland Ave/St? at Bernal Heights).  Those things are great.

Earlier today, I was at another one, called Muddy Waters, (I think on 30th St.) and then there’s another one on Mission nearby that’s really cool (also includes an art gallery) that I will have to spend some quality time in next time.

BTW, that one is located right between TWO Thai restaurants, one of which is called Pad Thai (sp?) and is outstanding!  The other one has an excellent duck pineapple dish.  And right in the middle — the internet cafe.

In Wellington, I had internet access where I was staying, but there was a limit on the amount of data I could transmit, so I felt guilty every time I was downloading something.  During the conference, I was able to use the university’s wireless, but then I was hunting around for an internet cafe, and didn’t find one till I almost left (it’s along the #18 busline, at the main drag of Newtown, but I don’t remember the details.  Next time…

Now I’m thinking… is there a website that lists all the internet cafe’s in the US or the world?  Probably.  Gotta find it.  And if there isn’t……….

Another reason why I love the internet?  Connecting with people I haven’t talked to in years and years.  Just connected with an old pal from grad school.  And the person I visited in NZ was an old friend whom I met when I was still (believe it or not!) in high school!  But we had lost touch, had each moved a lot and changed continents, and yet, the internet made it possible for us to connect again.  Cool!

And when I now look at how much being online has become part of me, I’m just amazed.  I used to gripe about it, and now it’s such an integral part of my life that I feel the need to scout around for internet cafes!  Funny, isn’t it.

Anyway, more soon.  And yes, I’m definitely back, and will post regularly. I’ve got quite a new favorite web things to write about.

Meanwhile, have a fabulous day!

Elisabeth

WordPress Lessons Registration is Closing! If you’ve always wanted a blog or want more traffic for your blog, or, by gosh, want to actually make money with your blog, you NEED WordPress Lessons!

And you better hurry. Mike Paetzold, the WordPress Guru who REALLY knows what he’s doing and isn’t afraid to share all the insider info with YOU (and me!), is starting his latest round of WordPress Lessons tomorrow. Tonight is the deadline for signing up.

And why not wait till the next round? What, and waste all summer? He won’t be doing this until September at the earliest. So why not get the info and put it to USE? By September, you could have a popular, money-earning blog, and guess what?

Here’s the best part: If you sign up now, you can retake the course in September for FREE! And tweak your blog and/or update it with all the newest bells and whistles.

WordPress Lessons comes with a lifetime membership, so you can take it over and over as often as you want, which means you get to pick Mike’s brain, something that usually comes at quite a price! (much more than you pay for one set of “lessons.”

Do I recommend this? Highly! My blogs would not exist without Mike’s Lessons. Read my review further down this blog, or over at Ezinearticles.com for more info.

Best of all, go to Mike’s WordPress Lessons Sign-up Page and check it out for yourself.

You’ll be glad you did.

Elisabeth

P.S.: In case you missed it… WordPress Lessons are CLOSED for now. BUT there’s another VERY COOL way for you to turbocharge your online adventures, and I have temporarily redirected all the links above to a website where you can learn TONS of great stuff and actually MEET a lot of Internet Gurus. It used to cost hundreds to be part of this, but right now, it’s within range for just about anybody.

In case you wondered… Yes, I joined, and I’ve gotten my money’s worth many times over already.

I LOVE WordPress Lessons. I took them (for the first time) last fall, and they changed my life!

Seriously. I was a total techno newbie and felt intimidated as heck. That has changed A LOT lately.

And there is one person who deserves a whole lot of the credit and just about all the credit when it comes to blogging and building blogs, driving traffic to blogs and all that stuff. That person is Mike Paetzold.

How did he do it? It came with the program, and that program was:

Wordpress Lessons.

Mike teaches WP Lessons in small groups, a few times a year. There’s a membership area with all the files we need to have a perfectly optimized WordPress blog, ready for download. Plus detailed instructions on how to download it all and install it. The instructions come in the form of videos plus PDF checklists.

But that’s just the start. In fact, that’s all there before the official lessons even get started. So what’s left to do in the lessons? A lot!

In the lessons, which are 4 weekly meetings with extensive Q&A, Mike helps us optimize our blogs. He tells us what to turn on, how to drive traffic, and how to make sure our blogs show up high on Google. And so on.

There’s also a forum for trouble shooting and such.

And if you can’t bring yourself to install your own blog, Mike will do it for you, for a big discount over his usual fee.

And, and, and… You get to talk to the guru directly, get personal help, get feedback on your blog, and more.

And the best part? You get to do it all over again, and again, and again, for free. For the price of admission once, you’ll get lifetime membership and get to take the course over again as often as you like.

I’ll be back when it starts over. There are always new developments, I keep building more blogs, and Mike always has more info that will help me make them better and better, and get more and more traffic.

Where can you sign up? Right here!

And if you already have a blog, and would like to just get more traffic, Mike has a little extra something that will help you with that: check it out here.

But the timely stuff is WordPress Lessons. They sell out. Fast. Mike limits his class — after all, you get individual attention. He personally answers his Help Desk questions, and fast. So there are only so many people he can handle. Especially since all the alumni get in for free.

Here’s that link again: WordPress Lessons.

Traffic for your blog? Of course. Without traffic, a blog isn’t worth much. After all that time and energy you put into writing your blog, you want people to read it, don’t you?

Mike Paetzold is my favorite blogging guru, and he has just come up with a little product that teaches us how to get traffic to our blogs. He himself has tested his program, and using just those techniques, he has gotten traffic from zero to 50 visitors daily within something like 3 or 4 weeks! That’s pretty amazing. It has taken me several months, and I’m pleased as punch that I now get about 50 visitors on my other blog, which I started in September.

50 visitors in 4 weeks is much better. And more is better still. What if I work more than 50 minutes on my blog?

I know that because he mentioned it in last night’s round of WordPress Lessons. As an alumna, I get to retake this class every time he teaches it. Is this cool or what?

And that’s of course how come I was able to finally get this blog up. I’m easily intimidated by tech stuff, but I’m working on it, and it has been getting so much better in the last 6 months that it really amazes me when I think about it.

But getting a shiny new blog set up is one thing. Getting people to come by for a visit is quite another.

So that’s what this 15 minutes a day program is all about. Mike provides us with simple, easy, step-by-step instructions that will help us get people to come to your blog in droves.

Will it work? I’m counting on it. Mike has been making a nice living just blogging for quite a while now. Why not me too? Or you?

Check back for more details in a day or two.

In the meantime, here’s where you can get that fabulous program:

i’ll keep you updated on the stats as I put this program through its paces…

Would you like your own blog? I can’t believe how easy it is. If I had known, I would have been blogging for years!!!

So here’s my first resource: If you too would like to learn how to do some easy blogging with WordPress, check out Mike Paetzold’s course “Wordpress Made Easy” on how to do so easily, and quickly.

And if you want to do all that cool stuff that others are doing with their blogs, including making some serious cash, Mike can help you there too with his advanced course.

I’m still studying his materials, but hey, he got me off to a quick start. And takes me by the hand to help me set up a rocking money-making blog (tee-hee!).

More info to follow soon… I’ve got some cool resources that have transformed me from a paralized-by-fear-of-technology e-wimp to someone who’s staying up into the wee hours because she just can’t tear herself away from all that excitement! So beware, too much knowledge can interfere with the rest of your life. But then again, it’s all what you make of it, right?

P.S.: This and most of the first posts here have been moved over from my OTHER blog, so the posting date doesn’t actually reflect when it was originally written.

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