Those who lead a subsistence existence grow only enough food to feed their family, support their animal’s grazing area or farmland, and perhaps to provide a small marketable surplus.

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Editor’s note: next Tuesday I will be starting a new series titled “Ten Questions With…” and every week I will feature an interview with a top blogger from across all genres. My first interview will be with Cameron Low the new owner of NorthxEast, so please check back.

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Apologies - Upgrades Gone Wild

November 29th, 2007

I just upgraded to WP 2.2 last night and there seems to bo some issues. Apologies if this is affecting your RSS Feed.

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There have been quite a few posts around the blogoshpere recently about how guest posting on other blogs can increase your site traffic. Last week I ran a post that discussed a little experiment that I conducted in order to discern if commenting on posts increased visitors to my site. This week in the name of information dissemination, I am reporting on another strategy for increasing visitors to your site, and that is guest posting.

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Nonverbal communication is one of the key components when it comes to conveying confidence and self-assuredness when meeting other people. This post regarding handshakes is the start of an ongoing series to help you project poise in any situation.

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Today is the day that I go from being a fulltime employee to fulltime entrepreneur.

It has been a tremendous amount of hard work actually getting to this point and being able to remove myself from structured employment.

For those of you who would like to find yourself in the same position, perhaps you have been thinking about consulting or freelancing, I offer up these tips in a list that I call:

From Zero to Entrepreneur in Five Easy Steps

1. Create your vision
2. Get motivated
3. Get a plan
4. Get focused
5. Be persistent

One of my new goals here at MyTropicalEscape will be to experiment (I am a trained scientist after all) with helpful techniques and tips (whether it’s attracting more traffic or making money) that other bloggers are suggesting and then report back on my success, or lack thereof.

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Last week I put together a post entitled, “30 Must Read Articles To Help Kick Start Your Blog, Attract More Readers, And Stay Motivated.” Initially, my main goal was to force myself to do some research on various topics and come up with some quality reading to help increase my blogging knowledge. This post looks at the importance of responding to those who email you, and practicing what you preach.

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