Legal Marketing & PR

Monetizing Your Website

Posted on August 04, 2012
Skimlinks has released a “Ways to Monetize Your Website” infographic that is really comprehensive. Open publication – Free publishing – More blogging Exclusive for subscribers! 30% off coupon for Headway30 Copyright © 2011 Blog For Profit...

How to get your blog up and running quick

Posted on July 13, 2012
Seven easy steps to start blogging now One of the best business marketing tools is a blog.  Needless to say, blogging has been a major part of my business and marketing plan since 2005.   In February 2005, I starting blogging to promote and market my professional service firm...

Monetizing Online Forums – The Right Way

Posted on July 05, 2012
I have known Patrick O’Keefe for sometime now.  In fact, I still have his book, Managing Online Forums on my bookself.  If there is one person who knows more than anyone on the subject, that person is Patrick. Forums have been around since cave carving too...

Don’t keep tinkering with your blog design

Posted on July 03, 2012
I am all for redesigning and working on your blog design and layout.  However, where too many go wrong is they just can’t stop tinkering with things. One mistake I see bloggers make is not letting their new design or layout sit for a few days.  Give your readers a chance to see it for a while...

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What is the Internet?

Posted on June 26, 2012
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine today and we were discussing the Internet.We do that too often as that is what geeks do. The conversation turned to a question one might ask someone in a job interview. Can you diagram the Internet?  What is the Internet to you? Here was my answer...

5 Never-Fail Places to Get Blog Post Ideas

Posted on June 25, 2012
“Where do you get ideas for blog posts?” It’s by far the most popular question I get whenever I talk about blogging, especially blogging for business.  I’ve been blogging since 2004 and although I’ve gone through periods where I haven’t blogged regularly due to a variety of reasons, lack of ideas has never been one [...

Remember Reader Experience

Posted on June 13, 2012
When you spend any time at all looking at other sites, whether they be a blog or a static web site, you see the good and the bad. What amazes me the most about other sites is just how hard some of them are to read.  For that matter, just how hard some of them [...

Going where your audience is with social media

Posted on June 11, 2012
Going where your audience is, is where a lot of marketing fails.  Don’t get me wrong, I love social media tools like twitter and Facebook.  We use them both on a daily basis.  In fact, when we launched our own product Headway Themes on July 31st, 2009, we literally launched it with one tweet...

I have been away far too long!

Posted on June 08, 2012
First of all, to all of my old readers, I am sorry I have been away.  For whatever reason, I have just not had it in me to spend the time I wanted and you deserved to write anything here on Blog For Profit.   I had every intention to do so months ago...

Tabbed Leaf for Headway Themes is here!

Posted on September 28, 2011
One of the most requested leafs around the Headway community is one which presents content in tabbed panels. And just as often, we get asked if there’s a leaf which does tabbed widgets. As of now, the answer is yes to both, and what’s more, they are one in the same leaf! Our Australian developer, [...

Pippity Review – How to Increase Sign-Ups Without Annoying Your Visitors

Posted on September 12, 2011
On the one hand, you want more sign-ups to your email newsletter or for that special offer on your site. On the other hand, even though it’s generally agreed that popups can work very well for this, you don’t want to annoy your visitors. So the trade-off has always been you could grow your list [...

How to Filter your Popup with Pippity

Posted on August 29, 2011
With Pippity, you have fine-grained control of who sees your popup where and when.  Not familiar with Pippity and the powerful features built into this new marketing tool, you need to check it out here.  And if you did not already know, we are involved as partners in Pippity...

WooThemes Forks Jigoshop and they brag about it

Posted on August 25, 2011
WooThemes openly admits and celebrates the Forking of Jigoshop. Call me old fashion, but I have an issue with this. Where are the days of coming up with your own original ideas?  Taking the time, energy, blood, sweat and tears and actually building your own product...

The Story Behind Headway’s SEO Features

Posted on August 23, 2011
There are more WordPress theme frameworks available now than ever before, and all of them are great. They each have something to offer that the others don’t. Diff’rent strokes, and all that. Where they tend to differ most is in how the user interface is set up and laid out and what options it gives [...

Headway Themes – What’s in a name

Posted on August 22, 2011
The name Headway Themes came about by using a Thesaurus and looking at things from a marketing point of view.  It really was as simple as that too. I would like to tell you we spent hours and thousands of dollars on marketing research and focus groups to come up with the name Headway Themes...

Headway v.1 – a spring and summer of building and planning

Posted on August 18, 2011
During the spring of 2009 and of course  the summer, Clay was busy building, coding, testing, breaking and whatever else he does in that head of his while working on the early version of Headway Themes. I on the other hand was doing what I do and that is networking and showing early version of Headway 1...

Headway Themes – Layout Editor

Posted on August 17, 2011
Building tools for our own use The original idea for the original Headway layout editor came about because of the need for an internal tool to quickly set the layout for sites we were building for our clients. Clay was building the sites and wanted a way to quickly lay them out...

Before there was a Headway Themes

Posted on August 16, 2011
Where did it all begin? Where did Headway Themes get its start is one of the most asked questions we get when we are talking to people.  Or when either or both Clay and I are being interviewed about Headway. The genesis of Headway really started with our other business we use to do at G2WebMedia...

People?Have you ever noticed…

Posted on August 15, 2011
Have you ever noticed it is those who can’t who want to tell you how you should… For whatever reason, this just stuck in my brain the other night. If you have visit my own blog here at Blog For Profit lately, you will notice my postings have been almost nonexistent...

Headway 3.0 – a small sneak peek

Posted on August 08, 2011
Below is a sneak peek at what we have been working on at Headway Themes this summer. Headway 3.0 is coming along nicely.  Clay and his team are working their butts off on this new version of Headway. What is most amazing is the fact that 3.0 truly takes Headway and how you will build your site to [...

The Best Type of SEO Blog Post There Is (And Why You’re Not Using It)

Posted on July 20, 2011
As bloggers, we tend to overestimate our core audience. It’s nice to think that all of our readers will dive into our content with some basic idea of what they’re doing. The idea is that there’s no reason to define well-known terms or concepts because you assume your audience already knows about them...

5 Ways Blogging is Like Getting a Tattoo

Posted on July 11, 2011
I recently got my second tattoo and in between bouts of cursing from the pain and wincing from the lack of $40 my wallet was now suffering, I got to thinking. Blogging is a lot like getting a tattoo. Now bear with me on this… You Should Never Start a Blog on an Impulse Blogs [...

It’s Here! Introducing Gallery+ for Headway

Posted on June 16, 2011
Gallery+ is a new leaf for the Headway WordPress framework. As its name suggests, it provides gallery features. Although a free gallery leaf is available for Headway, Gallery+ has several additional features that earn it the “plus” moniker, key among these is the ability to use Headway Photo Galery and NexGen galleries so if you [...

Introducing Excerpts+ Leaf v2 for Headway Themes

Posted on May 31, 2011
Excerpts+ Leaf for Headway Themes [I am Co-Founder of Headway Themes] is an awesome leaf that greatly enhances how you can display post excerpts and content to give your site the ?wow? factor. In particular, Excerpts+ uses the post?s Featured Image in various ways to add that professional look to your layouts...

Memorial Day – take some time

Posted on May 27, 2011
Here in the U.S. we have the official start to summer this Monday.  Memorial Day has long been an indication summer is upon us.  Time for BBQ’s and grilling. Time for going to the lake and doing what you do at a lake.  Time for more golf.  Time for that backyard, screen house picnic I remember [...

Stop doing what you are doing and consider your readers

Posted on May 26, 2011
They come in waves.  Daily if not hourly.  Questions asking about some of those “fancy” features some Web sites have on them.  Or questions about some god awful font someone is looking at. You know the features I am talking about too.  They range from flash, auto starting videos, image sliders, rotating images, and  etc, etc, [...

I grew my blog to over 10K subscribers with the help of Headway Themes

Posted on May 25, 2011
One of the reasons the Headway community is so important to us is how our users are taking Headway and building their Web presence.  Not only building it but growing it to a serious level. It is comments like this that makes us want to continue to innovate and make Headway Themes better and better...

Get a Web Presence NOW!!!

Posted on May 24, 2011
Every day, I see post on a few of the Listservs I follow about another new internet marketing course or seminar.  And each of those days and each of those post always say the same thing. WOW, what great looking Internet marketing seminar.  Wish I could attend...

“Client loves his site and I love Headway Themes”

Posted on April 18, 2011
I received this from one of our Headway Themes user yesterday in our forums.  They gave me permission to reprint it here too. Client loves his site and I love Headway Themes   I have just finished a client site using Headway 2.0.8. It is at Federal Workers Compensation Consultants...

Lisa Sabin-Wilson launched Allure Themes – WordPress Themes design just for women!

Posted on April 15, 2011
On April 12th, 2011, our friend and fellow WordPress Commercial Theme developer launched the brand spanking new, sparkling and amazing Allure Themes [affiliate link].  What is so awesome about Lisa’s creation is the fact, these are beautiful WordPress themes for women...

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