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Waiting for the perfect idea...

Forget being perfect. Start your blog now.

One of these days it’ll all come together. You’ll quit daydreaming & start a blog. But is waiting really the right way to do it? Not exactly. Here’s what to do instead.

Sometimes, blogging with WordPress.com is the right choice

A while back, Elizabeth Urello of Automattic (the people behind WordPress), wrote a post about whether a person should use WordPress.com or WordPress.org. That’s a common question among people with only basic familiarity with either flavor of WordPress. The article offers the best analogy (the freedoms and responsibilities of owning versus renting property) I’ve seen … Read more

High Cotton Wine & Cheese Co. Website

Walkin’ in High Cotton today

The wine, cheese, charcuterie, dessert & coffee (OMG could it get any better?) shop is open, the website is live, we just wrapped a Google Hangout for the first half of training, and Highlands, NC’s High Cotton Wine & Cheese Co. is looking good. Paige, daughter of owner Sherry and designer of the great-looking High Cotton … Read more

Reality check: The real cost of a WordPress website

Over the last couple of years enough entrepreneurs and small business owners discovered WordPress as a solution for their websites that most people who use the web at all have at least heard of it. Many, however, don’t fully understand the difference between using WordPress on WordPress.com versus using the WordPress software installed somewhere else. … Read more