And for those of us who work/study, it’s even harder!
Recently, my “free” time ended(actually, reduced) as I have got admission in college and have to study a lot! So, I was thinking about time management.
And best idea that came to mind was making a “priority list”. It is good idea to rank the tasks according to their need. For example, my priority list for blogging right now is:
Writing Quality Content.
Social network profiles for BWS.(Currently, only Twitter!) and comment moderation.
Administrative Tasks like upgrades etc.
Theme Tweaks etc.
I am planning to add time to these as needed. For example, if I have 2 free hours in a day, I will spend 1 hour and 30 minutes on writing content.
How To Make A Good Priority List
It depends entirely on you. You will have to decide what your priority list should be like because no one knows your time better than you.
Ideally, writing content should be on the top as it is most important part and should get biggest chunk of your time.
Socializing and moderation are also important. You can easily automate your twitter by using the right twitter tools and there are good ones available for other networks too.
Have you made a priority list for yourself? How does your priority list look?
This is a video tutorial for creating the custom domain name link to your Blogger blog. Getting a domain name is part of any plan to Move from Blogger to WordPress. Here's how to redirect blogger posts to your new domain name. A custom domain name allows readers start to view your blog as more professional and you to take the name with you if you move to WordPress. In the meantime, enjoy the free hosting at Blogspot.
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Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is accessible by as many people as possible – Wikipedia.
Making your blog more accessible will help you get more readers which translates to success.
Here are 25 tips to make your blog more accessible for readers:
Large Fonts: Large fonts make it possible to read posts easily. You should not make it very big, anywhere between 12 and 14 points is fine.
Good Design: Good design is something you should focus before everything else. Nothing can be better than a well designed blog where the content gets attention.
Follow KISS: KISS stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. Do not make design complex, simple is better!
Dark Text On Light Background: Reading dark text on a lighter background is much easier and when selecting a theme for your blog, make sure it has dark text that’s readable on background.
Looooooooong Blogrolls: OK, blogrolls are great, they help you share your favourite blogs with readers, right? But there’s no use of blogroll with 30 links! Most people will find it, well long! So, keep it short.
Looooooooong Sidebars: I won’t say a word, you know how you feel when you see a long sidebar cluttered with all kinds of ads and links!
De-Clutter Sidebar: Clutter is irritating. Nothing can be more irritating than a sidebar that is cluttered with widgets, ads etc. Identify what’s important for you and keep only the best widgets.
Add Images To Articles: Images make articles look better and also attract focus towards important points.
Never, Ever Use Animations: Animations do only one thing well, distracting readers! Avoid animations inside articles.
Make Your Blog Fast: There’s no point in doing anything if you blog takes forever to load! Further Reading: How To Increase Page Loading Times Of Your Blog By 75%.
Use “Click Here”: With every other blog having different design, there’s one thing that becomes a problem, finding links! In good old days, we had blue links and even most computer un-savy people could use them. So, if you have anything important to link to, try using “Click Here”. And by the bay, Click Here to subscribe to Blogging With Success so that you can get more tips like these straight inside your inbox!
Use Constant Link Color: Do not make every link of different color. It is best to have a constant link color across website.
Make Links Underline: Making links underlined will help to get attention to them.
Make Links Underline On Hover: Yes, it may seem odd to have links underline. And if you also think so, why not make them underline on hover? That would also be a nice effect! To do this, simple add this line to end of your style.css file in WordPress: a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
Optimize For Slow Connections: Everyone in the world does not have a broad band(yet), so try to keep page size under 500 kb. Further reading: How To Decrease Page Loading Times Of Your Blog By 75%.
Avoid Auto Plays: Auto playing music is nothing but an annoyance. And videos, they are even more. Most importantly, they take up lot of bandwidth which may cause visitors on slow connections to move away.
Add A Text To Speech Converter: An automatic text to speech converter can help a lot of people who might have difficulty reading your posts. I found two services that can do this for you: Odigo and iSpeech.
Make Content Column Wider: Anything more than 3 columns is an overkill. And if you are going to get a magazine theme, it is best to make it simple and non-puzzling!
Make Search Easier: Do not forget to place a “search” widget in your sidebar. Even if you are using Apture, a search widget is helpful as many people won’t know how to use it!
Make Navigation Easier: Make sure that your old posts and other important info is easy to find. As Daniel Scocco says, “Every post of your blog should be no more than one click away”
Make Subscription Links Visible: When people want to subscribe, they will look for easy methods to subscribe. Ensure that you have “Subscribe” links on every page and they are visible too!
Get Rid Of Captchas: Captchas are very annoying! Sometimes, the text is very hard to read and this may irritate the readers. Yes, I know you may get comment spam but there are better ways to fight comment spam without affecting user experience!
Get A Favicon: A favicon helps readers to find your blog in a big cluster of tabs. So, get 10 minutes and make a favicon for your blog.
Test In Different Browsers: I have learned this the hard way. What looks awesome in my Opera browser is often horrible in Internet Explorer and when dealing with clients, this is very irritating!(Nothing can annoy more than a “Design does not look good” from a client using Internet Explorer 6!) It is best to test design in different browsers. A good tool for this is Browser Shots.
Use Contact Forms: Yes, I know that email privacy is important but putting a simple image of your email address is not very user friendly! Please add a contact form to give people a less annoying(wait, it’s not annoying at all!) way to contact you!
Using these tips, you can easily make your blog more user friendly. It’s not necessary to use all of these but those which are necessary for your reader base should be added as soon as possible!
What other tips do you have to make your blog more accessible? Do not forget to share in comments.
But you can't live like this forever! Imagine what will happen to your blog!
Your readers are waiting for a good article from your side and you are silent? They will go to some other blog fast, really fast!
You have to write!
Thankfully, there's a great way to write even when you can't find new ideas yourself!
Want to know about it?
OK, first, shut that open door. Now, look around to make sure no one’s looking! OK, bring your ears eyes closer.
So, the secret is,
Steal from other bloggers!
Wait!
Before you go out there and start copy pasting, let me clarify that I didn’t mean copy pasting posts! Heck, I didn’t mean copy pasting at all!
What I meant was that you should steal their ideas!
And you won’t find ideas in a safe locked in a safe inside blogger’s mansion! They put their ideas out their in wild(in short, on their blog) and still, we don’t spot them.
Welcome To The World Of “Openings”
No one is perfect!
Right?
And that’s the case with top bloggers! Yes, they write great posts, but not every post is complete in itself.
Every thought “If he could have included this or that, article would have been better"!” when reading an article?
Then congratulations!
You already know and have seen the “openings”.
I have always been a big fan of openings and lot of my posts are inspired by other’s post(sometimes from a single line in an article!). don't believe me, then take a look at my post How To Blog Again After A Long Absence. As mentioned in the post, it was inspired by Leo Babauta's post on Write To Done.
What In The World Are Openings?
Openings are just the incomplete points that blogger has left in his posts. There may be different reasons for existence of openings but the biggest one is that it’s not possible to cover everything in one post. So, bloggers usually don't go into much detail!
How To Spot Openings?
There’s only thing I can say, read read and read. The more you read, more openings you will find.
However, one thing I have noticed is that list posts are best places to find openings. For example, take a look at Daniel Scocco’s Email Marketing Basics: All You Need To Get Started. Daniel has 4 steps mentioned in it and but not gone into much detail!
OK, so what openings do you find in it?
Well, for me, the 4 points are an idea list and a full series can be written on it easily! The base is ready(ideas) and all that is needed is to add some advice and ideas and you will have your own posts ready!
Again, another list post is Leo Babauta’s The Elements Of Change. If I had a life change, zen type blog, I would have written following 5 posts from it:
Beating Inertia: How To Do It?
Beating The Resistance of Others. (Leo has already written on this, but hey, that won’t stop you from writing on this topic! And by the way, that post is also a list post!)
How To Find Joy?
Keeping The Joy Alive Once You Find It!
Why And How To Celebrate The Little Victories.
Of course, this is my take on it and you may get different ideas.
But the moral of the story is, when you don’t feel that inspirational, go out, read and steal from other bloggers!
How many times did you turn back to see how good or bad your post is?
And how many times did you think of deleting the post because you felt that it is not good?
The real question is not "how many times did you turn back" but
Did you turn back?
If yes, you are mixing your hats.
Oops! Sorry for going straight into hats thing without explaining what "hats" mean. By hats, or blogging hats, I mean the roles you have to fulfil as a blogger.
Here are some of the roles a blogger usually plays:
Writer.
Editor.
Designer
Stats Analyzer.
Troubleshooter.
There’s no problem if you wear multiple hats!
Let’s take a look at real world hats to understand better.
Let’s say you have 10 hats. One day, you go out wearing 2 of them, how would you look?
Not good!
1 hat is enough at a time.
Similarly, you should be wearing one hat at a time.
Wearing one hat a time will only prove good for you. For example, I am a writer for Blogging With Success and at the same time also WordPress Expert! And I am not half bad at both(as far as I know and clients say!)
The real problem arises when hats are mixed!
For example, I sometimes mix writer and editor and get wriditor(?). OK, time to stop making silly words and getting back to post.
So, when I mix a writer and editor, this happens(besides getting a wriditor, that is! )
I start writing a post, reach half way, think “Hmm.. it doesn’t look half good!” and hit the “Trash” button in WordPress.
And there goes a good idea, into the trash. This has happened many times with me.
Finally, I got a fix. This fix was suggested by Mary Jaksh in a response to my question in A List Blogging Bootcamps.
The fix is to not mix the editor and writer. When writing, just write. Check back again after 1 day and edit. This way, posts come up best. I have tried it and it works great.
Similar theory can be applied to other hats as well. For example, when writing, you should not worry about anything related to design (images in post, formatting) because that's a different thing.
Moral of the story: Wear One Hat At A Time, Be Happy And Organized.
EMail marketing is one of the best methods for marketing your blog and selling your product. Top bloggers use it to drive traffic to their blogs and sell products.
Recently, we moved to MailChimp and our experience with it has been great.
FeedBurner
FeedBurner is one of the most loved services for bloggers. It’s free and has lot of useful features.
Although it's not that reliable with stats but gets the job done.
Pros
Free: FeedBurner is free for feeds as well as email updates. You can have as many subscribers as you want without paying anything.
Simple: Like everything Google, it is simple to use and the user interface is very easy to get used to.
Cons
Fluctuating Stats: It has become a routine now. If you have watched your blog’s stats for last 2-3 weeks, you must have noticed the fluctuations! While I understand that problems may occur with services, they should not occur so often!
Incomplete Solution: FeedBurner is not complete solution for email marketing. Yes, it can send updates but you can’t send custom emails. You can’t even change the subscription confirmation email!
Support: What’s the one area where Google comes up lacking? It is support. And since FeedBurner is under Google, it has non-existent support! I have had a small issue once and asked in support forums about it. No prizes for guessing that no one replied!
MailChimp
MailChimp is a superb email marketing solution that is fantastic for bloggers as well as marketers. Let’s take a look at its pros and cons.
Pros
Features: MailChimp has loads of features. If I start writing all of them, it will be a separate post altogether, please check out MailChimp Features.
Support: MailChimp has great support staff and problems are resolved very fast. And on top of that, there’s a superb knowledge base.
Free Tutorials: MailChimp offers a lot of good tutorials and there are even free guides to increase your newsletter subscribers.
Lots Of Stats: While FeedBurner stats are good, they are not very informative and it takes a full day to understand what things like “reach” are!
Good Pricing Structures: MailChimp’s pricing structure is comparable to the similar services.There’s also a free plan that allows you to send up to 3000 mails per month and manage 500 subscribers. And not to forget that you get awesome social media features for an awesome price that no other competitor offers!
Cons
FeedBurner Integration: MailChimp’s FeedBurner integration is not that good! We still use FeedBurner for delivering feeds and it would be great to have MailChimp report number of subscribers to FeedBurner but it doesn’t. FB stats show MailChimp as agent and subscriber count as 0 for it! I contacted both MailChimp as well as FeedBurner. FeedBurner didn’t respond while MailChimp said it’s FB issue!
It’s hard to find many negatives with MailChimp; the only con may be a personal issue or it may be affecting just FB integration.
Which Way To Go?
I won’t answer this as the choice is obvious and the only factor to consider is your wallet. But the price is justified and then you can use MailChimp for free if you have under 500 subscribers!
Which service do you use for email delivery? And how’s your experience with it?
Sign Up And Get $30
If you sign up for a non-free MailChimp account now, you will get $30 credited as Monkey Rewards in your MailChimp account. That's 3 month cost for a list up to 500 subscribers and allows you to send unlimited mails! Click here to sign up.
Do Not Get Puzzled, Take The Straight Way To Promote Your Blog!
Are you trying to promote your blog but don't know where to start? Or are you starting t0 promoting your blog but not getting expected results? Guess what, blog promotion doesn't need to be rocket science. In this post, I will tell you 20 blog promotion methods which are so easy that even a zombie can use them (that's why "dead" is in title! )
Commenting: Commenting on popular blogs can attract some targeted visitors to your blog. Try leaving your comment in first or second place to get maximum benefit. And yes, your comments should not suck!
Comment luv: Commenting on comment luv enabled blogs is a step further. Comment luv enabled blogs will display title of your latest blog post after your comment and if it's something interesting, people will visit!
Forums: Forums can be a great way to learn new things and attracting traffic. Similar to comments, leave useful information and people will visit your blog. And don't forget to add your blog in your signature.
Guest Posting: Yes, it's not that simple but it works best for promotion. Just try guest posting on a popular blog and you will see the effect.
Top Commentators Widget: Many blogs have a top commentators widget in sidebar. It is a good idea to comment on these and get your name there because that will add link to your blog from blog easily without having to guest post.
Direct Pitch: Asking someone to check out your latest post and link to it if it's useful is a good strategy. However, just make sure that you do not do it with every post.
Link Exchange: Link exchange is a bit old but many bloggers still use it. The process is simple, you place a link in your sidebar to a blog and in return, the blog owner also links to you similarly.
List Posts: List posts are always effective! Write a good one and then promote it a bit. It will help in getting new subscribers and visitors.
Grab My Button: Just add a "Grab my Button" widget(Learn How To Create One) to your blog's sidebar and readers who like you and your blog will add it to their blog. Free advertising!
Paid Advertising: If you don't have much time for promotion, try buying some ads on a popular blog/website. This can drive lot of traffic ( in exchange for a lot of money!)
Facebook: Creating a Facebook fan page will help adding a new dimension to your blog. By having a presence on Facebook, you can easily grab new visitors.
Twitter: Twitter is another good source of traffic. Create a twitter account for your blog and do not just tweet latest posts, add something else. For example, we regularly post 140 Character Blogging Tips on our twitter account@bwsteam.
Social Bookmarking Icons: Adding social media icons to bottom of the posts is another effective method. You can use any good WordPress plugin or services like Share This for other platforms.
E-Mail List: Having a newsletter where you can send latest posts or promotional messages is a good way to get traffic from existing subscribers. Just tell them what's special in the post and they will come. Don't forget to subscribe to Blogging With Success Updates to get latest posts in your inbox.
Apture Toolbar: Apture toolbar is a great promotional tool. You can use it to let your readers share articles on Facebook, Twitter and via mail. And since it appears at top of your blog, it grabs attention quickly.
Directory Submission: You can submit your blog to different blog directories to get some links. It is best to submit to directories that do not require a link back!
Your Profiles: Add link to your blog from each and every profile you have around the internet and people will check it out (only if you are helpful, that is!).
Join A Community: Social bookmarking sites are good source of traffic. Join one and start participating. Soon, you will have good traffic. It's best to start with upcoming communities instead of bigger sites like Digg because it's easy to learn and share in a small community! Blog Engage and Bloggeries Blog Forum are good places to start.
Email Signatures: How many emails do you send each day? 100+? Then add a signature to bottom of each one and you can easily spread the word. It is best to add this in your email service so it is automatically inserted after every mail.
Design: A good and unique design promotes itself. Spend some time to design your blog properly and you will soon see the effect!
So, these were 20 simple tips to promote your blog. If you have some more tips in mind, do not forget to share in comments!
And most of us follow it blindly. I have to confess that I am also a victim of "building network". I tried to be active everywhere, from Delicious to Twitter to FaceBook. But I forgot one thing in the process, my first priority should have been Blogging With Success!
I went on to create a Facebook page and a Twitter account(thankfully, I did not spend much time on LinkedIn and Google Buzz). And then, I started worrying why there were so few followers!
However, I just realized the problem behind this.
Tell me, when you build a house, do you start building foundation first or something else? Of course, foundation!
Now, here is what I did:
I left foundation half-built and started working on walls! Result: Walls were weak!
A Simple Logic That I Ignored
When creating a Facebook page, I ignored a simple logic:
Fans do not fall from the sky!
Only people who visit Blogging With Success will "Like" our facebook page!
However, I ignored the logic and went on to create a page on facebook!
Result? At least 3 hours wasted on creating and fine tuning the page and almost 0 traffic in return.
What Next?
Now, I have 2 choices! Either I can continue to put efforts into Facebook page or put it on hold!
And I am going to choose the second option. For now, there will be no activity there. It is good for Blogging With Success because it gives me more time to write posts and books(hint hint!). I am keeping Twitter account( @bwsteam ) alive because there are many short tips that can't become full posts!
What About You?
Are you also busy building walls instead of foundation? What steps are you going to take to build a better foundation?
I was thinking of doing it for a long-long time but had to give up because of different reasons! Finally, I have moved entire e-mail subscriber list to MailChimp. While I don't like the idea of a chimp carrying all the mails and delivering to your inbox, MailChimp have insured that he will play nice! So ladies and gentlemen, meet the postman who will deliver mails to your inbox from now on:
Watch Out, He Will Be Delivering Updates To Your Inbox From Now On
Previously, we used FeedBurner for email delivery. While FeedBurner is fine, it lacks something that I love, Control! With FeedBurner, only a few things can be customized.
For instance, if I write a free e-book(hint, hint!) and want to send it to e-mail subscribers, I will have to add a link to the footer of RSS feeds. Now, this works fine for old subscribers.
But what about a new subscriber? Here's what you will go through if you are a new subscriber and want the e-book:
You sign up for e-mail updates.
You get a confirm subscription mail from feedburner with a link to verify. I can customize this mail but I won't add links here because that means that you can get e-book even if you don't subscribe! This is a big no-no for me!
You confirm and get a "Thank You" e-mail. I can't customize it so you do not get the e-mail at this point!
There's a new post on Blogging With Success. You get update about it and in footer, a link to book download page.
You download the e-book!
Depending on time of subscribing, it may take anywhere from 2 minutes to 2 days for you to get the e-book. Something no one would like!
The MailChimp Difference!
With MailChimp, here's the new and fast process:
You sign up for e-mail updates.
You get a mail with a link to confirm subscription.
You confirm.
Seconds later, you get a thank you mail with the links to download e-book.
To ensure that you get timely updates, please add feeds-at-bloggingwithsuccess-dot-net to your white list. Also, make sure to enable images in mails to view them properly.
What About Old Subscribers?
I have already imported FeedBurner list to MailChimp. If you are an old subscriber, you can view our new terms of use. If you agree, you can continue receiving updates and if you don't agree, you can unsubscribe by clicking "Unsubscribe" link in the latest e-mail update and you won't get another mail from us again.
Interested In A MailChimp Account?
MailChimp offers a free account that lets you manage up to 500 subscribers and send 3000 mails per month. You can sign up for free account here.
If you are planning to start a newsletter, MailChimp is best option available. Prices are comparable to competitors and features are awesome. I will write a full review soon.
For now, just wait for the chimp to deliver latest post to your inbox in a beautiful mail and let us know if you have any suggestion.
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliagte link(s) to MailChimp.
Not only GMail, but whole mail system was a distraction for me. I used to spent a lot of time checking all my inboxes and finding needed mails(ask Shirley, who had to forward me mails every week because I kept messing up info between my 3 mail accounts).
While I always try to blog with maximum efficiency, emails have always been a big bottleneck. However, with some simple tweaks, I have managed to turn GMail into a productivity powerhouse that helps me optimize my workflow instead of distracting me.
In this post, you will learn:
How To Use GMail To Be More More Organized: With the help of Google Calender, you can manage your time easily and be more organized right from GMail.
How To Organize Your Inbox And make It Clean: A cluttered inbox is a big no-no for productivity. Learn how to keep your inbox clean without spending any extra time. My inbox never has more than 20 mails in inbox because of "Send & Archive" lab feature!
How To Integrate All Your Accounts With GMail: Managing different mailboxes has always been a headache. Now now. Learn how you can integrate all your accounts into GMail. For example, I have added my two other mailboxes to GMail and now, I can send and read all my mail right from GMail.
How To Turn Chat Off: Chat, while useful is the biggest distraction. It is better to turn it off. However, I still know how important it is and have included a small alternative!
So, let's start. Wait, I have to follow the standard procedure of warning you before it:
OK, now that official warning part is done, we can safely proceed.
We are going to do lot of experimenting, so let's proceed to (GMail) labs!
From inbox, go to settings -> Labs. Here are the labs I use(or have used in past) and recommend(remember, I never recommend anything before trying myself):
Authentication Icons: Shows a key icon next to the names of trusted services. Currently, it works only for eBay and PayPal. However, it helps to easily differentiate between spam and genuine mail from PayPal.
Canned Responses: Helps to save time. You can save common responses(for example, mails to guest post requests and clients etc.) and reply with them easily. I don't use it now. If you mail me about anything(and it's not about promotion of your service), I will personally reply back. More time saving techniques(not related to GMail): How To Organize Ideas And Save Time.
Extra Emoji: This one is not exactly a productivity feature but it's still fun! Adds extra emoticons for you to use!
Google Calender Gadget: Google Calender gadget for accessing calender right from your inbox.
Google Docs Gadget: Adds a gadget in left column that shows your starred documents and smart search.
Message Sneak Peak: Lets you see a conversation by right click. No need to go to message.
Navbar Drag And Drop: Allows dragging and dropping of widgets in left sidebar(navigation bar).
Send And Archive: Adds a Send & Archive button when replying. Saves time and keeps inbox organized.
Sender Time Zone: Displays time zone of sender. Useful to reply to clients at right time.
Title Tweaks: Makes your title Inbox (x) -GMail. Useful when you have multiple tabs open and want to know if there's unread mail.
Undo Send: Forgot adding something important to mail you just sent or sent to wrong person. Allows to undo the sent mail for a few seconds.
There are more lab experiments and you can enable the ones you want easily. Once you have selected the required lab experiments, click Save Changes.
Managing Time With Google Calender(Gadget)
Google Calender gadget is a good addition to your inbox and you can add and look for events right from your inbox. It makes it easy to manage time without going to Google Calender.
Well, that's all about it!
Keeping Inbox Clean
A cluttered inbox surely hurts productivity. Using the new "Send & Archive" button, you can keep only the important mails in the inbox. If you need to retrieve any mail later, just go to "All Mail" label and you will see all the archived mail.
Using Multiple Email Accounts
Most of us have several email accounts for different websites. I have three email addresses that I use regularly. I used to check each and every mailbox when I moved to web interface from Opera mail. This took some time and was far less productive than having all the mail together.
Do you know that you can add any email address to GMail?
No?
First, here are instructions to enable GMail to fetch your mails from your other account(for example, all mail sent to ishansharma(at)bws{expand BWS}.net goes to my GMail inbox}.
Click Settings -> "Accounts and Import".
Under "Check mail using POP3", click "Add POP3 account"
Add the full mail address and password for that account.
On next page, select other settings like leaving message on server etc.
Click "Add account"
Once you have added account, you will be presented with option to send email using the newly added email address. You can continue or go back to account and then set it up.
Here's how:
Go to Settings.
In the top navigation, click "Accounts and Import".
Under "Send Mail As", click "Another another email address".
A popup windows will appear. Enter your email address and password.
Next, click "Use your other provider's email address". Click Next >>
Provide the server address and click "Add Account". A confirmation mail will be sent to the given email account. Click the link in it and you can now send email using this account. By default, your email will be sent from GMail but you can change the account by clicking "Change address" next to the "From" field.
You have successfully set up GMail to fetch mail from your other address and also send mail via it.
Turning Chat Off
This is most irritating feature of GMail. Yes, it is useful but still, you will still get contacted by many people even if you set your status to "busy". The best solution is to disable chat altogether.
It is simple than it sounds. Scroll to the bottom of any GMail page. Look for "Turn chat off" link.Click it.
That's it! Chat is disabled now.
Yes, I know how useful chat can be as I myself use chat to notify clients about updates(who want to communicate that way). It is best to use a third party chat client like Pidgin or other alternatives to manage chat accounts. This way, you can control when you are available(and not get contacted every time you log in).
Alternatively, just set your status to invisible!
OK, now GMail is no longer a distraction. No need to check it every now and then, just keep a tab open and as soon as new mail arrives, you will notice it in title bar. You can manage Google Docs, Calender right from your inbox.
Have any other tips? Do not forget to tell us via comments.
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MailChimp is a superb email marketing solution that is fantastic for bloggers as well as marketers. Let’s take a look at its pros and cons.
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So ladies and gentlemen, meet the postman who will deliver mails to your inbox from now on:
