Before this past week, I had not really followed the news about the Mists of Pandaria expansion apart from a mention here or there in my RSS reader. So now that I am leaving the wow-free zone that I have created for myself, I am trying to catch up on all the tidbits of progress. I admit, when I first got wind of the expansion I was just as bitter and cynical as the rest of the “kung-fu panda and pokemon” complainers. I am not sure if it is the long leave, or the news I am reading itself but I am looking forward to it. Never a Real Choice One of the big complaints that did manage to invade upon my fortress of wow-less solitude, was the “dumbing down” of the talent trees. When I first heard the news, like a good chunk of my friends, I was full of rage over them needlessly simplifying a process that already worked “just fine”. I bemoaned switching to a system that gave up choice in favor of “hand holding”. … [Read more...] about The Illusion of Choice
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5 Basic Freelancing Myths Uncovered
Freelancing is a booming industry and everyone want to achieve success and earn some extra money out of it. Nothing bad in that, it good to earn with your skills and be your own boss but even when people have lots of skills then why they fail to be a good freelancer and achieve their goals. May be because they might be moving in wrong directions or you are confused with few myths which you must ignore. Here are few freelancing myths which keep people away from getting successful in freelancing career: When a newbie starts a freelancing career, he/she thinks that its very easy to get clients and work via Freelancing websites like Elance, Guru, oDesk etc. You need to be efficient and have a strong profile to show to clients to attract them. There are many times when clients reject the work or bid and many freelancers get disappointed with same and leave their freelancing career. Thus if you want to get success then prepare yourself mentally that it might take time to get good projects. … [Read more...] about 5 Basic Freelancing Myths Uncovered
5 Basic WordPress SEO Practices for WordPress Bloggers
We have already talked about advantages of using WordPress as your Blogging platform and one of the many reasons is SEO. When it comes to Search engine optimization of WordPress Blog, it’s fairly easy to achieve with few changes and many SEO plugins available for WordPress. Here at ShoutMeLoud, we always talk about various Search engine optimization technique and this post is dedicated to WordPress Bloggers who are looking forward to improve their WordPress Blog SEO. Honestly, anyone can create a WordPress Blog and start blogging to get traffic. Apart from quality content, there are few SEO settings will make sure your WordPress blog is optimized for search engines. Whenever I talk about driving traffic to your site, it’s organic traffic which is best as it helps you to get targeted traffic. In this article, I will be sharing few WordPress SEO practices which you should implement on your blog from today, and it will help you to get more traffic from search engines like … [Read more...] about 5 Basic WordPress SEO Practices for WordPress Bloggers
5 Basic Tips to Become a Better Editor
We all know that it is always good to have guest posts on our blog. It’s a win-win situation for both blog owner and guest blogger. We have shared few articles related to guest posting and how to get guest bloggers to write for your blog. If you have missed those articles, here are the links: Having guest blogger is good but are you sure that how to handle those guest bloggers and how to be a good editor to them? Guest bloggers will only return to your blog if you are nice to them and you know how to efficiently edit the post. Here are few things which I learned about editing since I joined ShoutMeLoud blog network and I guess it would be useful for you too to become a better editor. Proper Knowledge: No matter what blog niche you are having either its blogging, technology or any other, it is important that you must have good knowledge about it. In simple words, you need to keep yourself updated with what’s going on in blogosphere and specifically in your niche because if … [Read more...] about 5 Basic Tips to Become a Better Editor
[Freelancing] 5 Killers tips to Make one-time Client a Returning Client
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I have offered WordPress services for a long time and the best part which I like about my services to my one-time client always turned out to be returning client. When it comes to Client and Freelancer relation, nothing could be better than getting returning clients. From my experience I have learned few things which I will be sharing with you, which will help you to convert your one-time client into returning client: First Email: It’s truly said “First impression is the last impression” and it holds the same into Freelancing world. First Email in response to any inquiry of your client is most important part, and if you do it right, you can quickly convert those inquiries into clients. For example, when ever I get any inquiry for my Blogspot to WordPress migration service, I explain them everything like what they are going to get into the package and how we can start with the process. This gives a clear idea to the client about the process, things which they are … [Read more...] about [Freelancing] 5 Killers tips to Make one-time Client a Returning Client