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Blogging Beginners – What an endorsement for blogging instructions

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Wizzer in Blogging Beginners Member Site, Blogging instructions

One of our latest members at Blogging Beginners wasn’t thinking he was in need of real blogging instructions but had a few “issues” with WordPress that he was struggling to put right.

I’ve always believed in “customer service” NOT the type you get in Customer Service Departments (what a misnomer those things are – the last thing they provide is service!) but what we all really know what is required:

Doing what you should to help someone and going the extra mile without thought of “what’s in it for me”. Oh yes, and doing it before you’re asked!

Well, back to Kevin.

Actually no, I’ll let you read Kevin’s story at his Kevingonline List Building blog.

Here is a small excerpt:

Then after changing my theme to a much more manageable one, I had a small issue I couldn’t fix and when I asked him about it, he made a 5 minute video and sent it to me with detailed instructions on how to complete the process — I was blown away!  Mark and Randy are my idea of what customer service should be everywhere.

We all do what we think is right and then someone actually stands up and tells you.

I can’t tell you how good that makers you feel.

Thanks Kevin – you’re a gentleman (That’s probably just a quaint old English saying – in modern day terms – You Rock!!)

Based on Kevin’s feedback I’ve decided to give something a try. I may live to regret this but I’ve decided to add a “Chat With Me On Skype” facility to WizzerSays. It’s already over there in the sidebar.

Now here’s the deal:

  1. I’m in the UK and I won’t be getting up in my pajamas in the middle of the night to tell you how to put your cat out. (Those of you who know me from Guru Fodder will understand the pajamas reference!
  2. I have a full time business away from the internet which means although I’m near my computer most of the time I’m not available all day everyday.
  3. I have a family and I do move away from the computer at weekends
  4. If I’m here I will chat with you and provide answers to your questions or if I don’t know I’ll find out.
  5. The plugin I’ve installed looks pretty good but I’ve not fully tested it yet – bit hard to call yourself so please be patient while I iron out the wrinkles.

Kevin – if you’d like to do the honours…

Email Overload

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Wizzer in Wizzer

Do you suffer from email overload?

Sounds like the start of a headache tablet advert!

What I’m asking is not a general question. I’m sure the straight answer is a resounding YES.

But what I want to know is not about those spammy unsolicited messages but those you receive from people you’ve agreed to receive them from.

Specifically I want to know what you think about receiving emails from Randy & myself regarding Blogging Beginners or WizzerSays.

I know that the vast majority of people who start a program, buy e-books, personal development stuff etc never finish and many don’t even open the first page!

To encourage our members to do what it takes I’ve been sending emails to new Blogging Beginner members reminding them where they should be and encouraging them to get in touch with ANY questions they have or if they simply don’t know what they should do next.

I’d love to hear your opinion – should I stop doing this?

If you are a Blogging Beginner member what do you think – have I become a pain?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

I may not change – it’s for your own good you know!!  ;) ;)

Building Twitter With TweetSuite

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Wizzer in Mandigo Theme, Tools, Twitter, Wizzer

One of the members at Blogging Beginners – Mark from Insomnia Cures – introduced me to TweetSuite a few days ago.

I’ve checked so many Twitter related plugins and tools lately I thought this might be just “another” idea.

But, in fact I was pleasantly surprised. I can see some real value in this one.

There is a WordPress plugin – that always gets me onside!

Once uploaded and activated you can position the Tweet icon to the left or right of every post you make. Automatically the plugin adds a footnote to every post you make suggesting “be the first to Tweet this post”.

As soon as a visitor Tweets the post – either the icon at the top or link at the bottom of the post, their Twitter icon shows up below the post – try it – click the link at the foot of this post and see what happens. There – you now have a link to your Twitter account.

And now my reservations.

The plugin installs a number of widgets which you can add to your sidebar(s) to show your latest Tweets, Most Tweeted, Favourite Tweets etc. The widgets don’t work too well with the Mandigo theme. Each Tweet that shows up manages to attract the bullet point icon (in my case the blue arrow) and looks really bad. I haven’t looked into why this is yet – I probably won’t in fact because I already use Tweet My Blog which provides much the same information.

I’m happy to have my hat put on straight if I’m missing a point here – so do let me know if you know different.

I think it’s a great plugin though even if you don’t use the widgets (simpl;y don’t add them to your sidebar). You can download it at TweetSuite.

Here’s a screen shot of the backlink to my Twitter link I got in seconds. – I captured that screenshot with Jing by the way – remenber I told you about that a few days ago.

Imagine if all sites were using TweetSuite – how long would it take to create a massive following?

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Blogging Beginners Need New Onlywire

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Wizzer in Blogging Beginners Member Site, Video, Wordpress Plugins

Onlywire has grown up and Blogging Beginners need to take note to get their posts bookmarked and backlinks campaign off to a flying start.

Watch my video about Onlywire, the WordPress plugin and how to get set up and started.

Blogging Beginners Member Site

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Wizzer in Blogging Beginners Member Site

A smiley by Pumbaa, drawn using a text editor.
Image via Wikipedia

I couldn’t have predicted how good it would make me feel when members at Blogging Beginners make a breakthrough with their sites.

Today I was looking at the latest post at Denise’s site Backyard Oasis and was struck with a great sense of happiness for her. She really seems to be enjoying herself now the “technical” stuff relating to blogging has been taken care of.

This site is only a few days old and yet it already looks outstanding. Denise is integrating video into the site and where she was previously having diofficulty with images this is no longer the case.

Well done Denise – keep those great posts coming – an inspiration to all Blogging Beginners Member Sites.

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