Category Archives: Blog Consulting

Managing your passwords with Passpack.com

November 9th, 2011

In our line of work as Blog Consultants, data security is a top priority. It protects our company, as well our blog clients. Malicious attacks, Trojans, spyware, malware and viruses put the data at risk if we don’t take the necessary steps to protect it. Protecting our client’s WordPress or Hosting login information is of the utmost importance to us. In the past, we shared login information with each other via e-mail and instant messages, but this method of sharing important information is no longer safe.

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Social Media Jobs, business acumen & ambitions

February 7th, 2011

Children’s dreams and ambitions change over time, just like technology evolves.  New opportunities in the job market are allowing for old school Marketers – those of the print and mail ilk – to learn new ways to deploy their brand using the technology in Social Media platforms.

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It takes a village to raise a corporate blog during start-up

February 3rd, 2011

Hello BlogConsulting.com readers!  My name is Marcus Anderson and I will be posting many more articles on blogging & social media topics for you in the future.  I have launched several blog hubs for social media campaigns in my 23-year corporate career.

One thing that every corporate or business blog has in common is a start-up period. During this time it is important to realize the personality of your blog is yet to be determined. Think of your blog as a newborn child. The genetics, infrastructure & design, will in place. The environment it was born into will eventually impact its personality (tone) of your platform as it matures.

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Starting a blog? Just pick a horse and ride it

January 31st, 2011

Starting a new blog is very similar to coming up with its first topic.  There are hundreds of reasons to initiate this technology for your business, and literally thousands of topics that could be written about Social Media. I could, and probably will, spend the next year typing them all out, but at some point you just have to pick a horse and ride it.

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Resources for WordPress Themes

March 3rd, 2010

One of the selling points for individual bloggers to go with WordPress over any other blog platform is WordPress’s community. The community that contributes to WordPress in many different ways: some help out in forums, others write plugins, and many design themes (also called blog designs). In this post I will talk about WordPress themes. The most obvious and popular place to go is WordPress site itself, where you can find a little over 1,100 themes. All of the themes listed on WordPress site are free, and come with a screen shot and a live preview.

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Movable Type or WordPress?

December 28th, 2009

Every other person I talk to asks the million dollar question — which blog platform do you recommend, WordPress or Movable Type? First of all it’s nearly impossible to describe and list the features of both applications in a single blog post. There are many books published on Movable Type and WordPress, and in the end it all comes down to personal preference, specific needs, the server you are on, and even budget. Before I go ahead and recommend one or the other let me briefly introduce you to both of them, and tell you what I think.

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FirmDot is now BlogConsulting.com

October 25th, 2009

Dear FirmDot Customer,

We’re excited to announce a new name in blog consulting — namely, BlogConsulting.com. We’re adopting the new name to better reflect who we are: your partner of choice for understanding how to get the most out of your blog.

What does this mean for you? It doesn’t change the way we do business, or what you can expect from us. You can still access our site at FirmDot.com, in addition to BlogConsulting.com. Our invoices and other communications now read BlogConsulting.com, but you can continue to pay us the same way you always have. We’re working on a new Web site to introduce the name, along with a suite of new services to better serve our customers, and we’ll notify you when it is available.

We appreciate your business, and we look forward to providing you with even better service as BlogConsulting.com.

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