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How to Find Free Images to Use on Your Blog without Breaking Copyright Laws. All images, pictures, drawings, and so on are owned by the person who originally created them and are protected under copyright laws in the United States. Therefore, if you’re a U.S. business or using images on your blog owned by an individual from the United States, then you need to either have permission to use that image or pay to use that image. Alternately, that image needs to hold a copyright license that allows you to use it on your blog without paying a royalty or asking permission. That’s a lot to consider. How do you find images to use on your business blog without violating copyright laws and without having to pay or ask for permission all the time?

Fortunately, there are website that provide free stock photography or images with Creative Commons licenses that allow you to publish them on your blog as long as you provide attribution with a link back to the owner (as well as any other requirements listed with the image). 1. stock.xchng 2. morgueFile 3. 4. 5. Image: stock.xchng. Tips for Better Blogging.

If you’ve taken the plunge into self-publishing, you’ve probably already learned that setting up a blog is the easy part. Tools like Blogger, TypePad and WordPress make it simple to set up your own site with just a few clicks. It’s the next step — the branding, promotion and the actual writing — that’s the toughest nut to crack. If you want your blog to hit the big time, you’ll need to dress up your site’s public presence. Here are Webmonkey’s tips for what you’ll need to play with the big boys and girls of the blogosphere. Soon, you’ll be swapping political commentary with DailyKos, and CoolHunting will be linking to you. Establish a Brand Get a domain. BYOD. Get a logo. Ditch the prefab stuff. Write Better Headlines Most of your new readers will arrive at your blog by clicking on a permalink, not through your home page. Headline writing is a delicate art, but here are some tips: Keep it short. 50-60 characters is ideal. 70 characters is your upper limit.

Offer a clear takeaway. Validate. Stephen King Made $80,000 From Digital Short Story. Steven King's "Ur" novella was written exclusively for the Kindle. The bestselling author told the Wall Street Journal in an interview that the 2009 experiment has made him around $80,000 so far. I didn't do "Ur" for money. I did it because it was interesting. I'm fairly prolific. It took three days, and I've made about $80,000. You can't get that for short fiction from Playboy or anybody else. This does prove there is a market for short stories sold through ebookstores like Amazon.com's Kindle store. Tips And Tricks. Stickam - The Live Community, Live Streaming Video. 4 'Preciprocity' Templates for Content-Based Link Builders - Search Engine Watch (SEW)

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Psychotactics: Small Business Ideas. My niece, Marsha, she’s just nine years old I don’t know if you remember what it was to be nine, but you sure do remember homework, don’t you? There’s mathematics, comprehension, geography, spellings and a ton of other stuff. At times, when I’m mentoring Marsha, I can see her brains fry. The well of information becomes too much for her. She needs to find a way to deal with that information, but she’s trapped. It’s a lot like how business owners feel today My list, your list, it’s a mile long already. And then if you’re anything like me, you’ll want to improve things in your business too.

And often, learning doesn’t stick What makes learning stick is a low-level of mastery. So we’ll sweep through and learn all the words, because you have to do it. I do the same thing with Adobe Lightroom I sweep through the entire series which I may watch on steeletraining.com, and then it’s time to solidify the training. So I go digging for more on the same topic. But surely all this takes a ton of time. Regator - Only the Best Blogs. Datablog | News. Bloggers Blog -- Blogging the Blogosphere. Get Free Access To The Launch Coach Library. Blog | SuperWAHM, Expert Business Planning for work at home moms. Introducing Guest Blogging. Guest Blogging. Goodlife Zen. By Mary Jaksch This is my story of how I went from bust to boom. I was reluctant to write about all this, but people urged me to share it, so here goes … Have you ever been dealt a devastating economic blow?

Maybe you lost your job, or your business went under. It’s a dreadful moment, because suddenly the future looks bleak and you have to pick yourself up and start again. And no matter what happened, you blame yourself. But how to pick yourself up again, and what to do next? I stumbled upon a solution quite by accident after I lost my mother’s inheritance through trusting the wrong kind of people. I’m quite a private person and am reluctant to talk about all this. Here’s what happened…. The year 2007 was bad. It took me a while to pick myself up after that debacle, and I started to think seriously about how to produce an income, and still retain my creative freedom.

Finally Sebastian came up with an idea. “Mum, I’ll make you a website. I had no idea what he was talking about. Nike is right.