I was reading a forum today, where people asked about their top three picks for Internet Marketing books.

That’s a tough one – if I was to pick two books on just marketing, I’d probably recommend one on mental sales techniques like Robert Ciadini’s “Influence” or Dan Kennedy’s “The Ultimate Marketing Plan” (which I’m currently reading).

For money making, I’d want a book specializing on specific methods – Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad” series for real estate, or Tim Ferris’ “4 Hour Workweek” and Chris Carpenter’s “Google Cash” for affiliate …

Yes, you too can get a FREE ABTheme permanent key – the key to unlocking the greatest SEO-enabled WordPress theme there is – ABTheme!

The way of course is simple – become a member of ActiveBlogging.

Currently, AB members get free credits every month, and the ‘price’ for the unlock key is set at 1,000 points currently. Members can check on their current points in the membership section – just log in, and view your points under Your Account Info.

To actually order a site key, you can follow the …

From time to time the question arises – should I use HTML email instead of text email?

Let me tell you a little story…

I subscribe to the TigerDirect email list. It’s one of the few I open all the time that comes from a store, and I read it right away.

Or at least I used to.

You see, awhile back they tweaked their emailing, and the link that I clicked on each time stopped working.

It took awhile to troubleshoot it (partly because I didn’t consider …

From time to time I like to get input from my members on various topics.

Enter surveys.

Although you can add permanent surveys to your blog (for example, with a plugin called Democracy, which I discussed in the April 2006 issue of “The ActiveBlogging Report“), there’s times you want something simple.

Enter SurveyMonkey.

I’ve used them a few times, and found the service quite good. You simply set up your questions, then activate the survey, and invite people to fill it out (of course I’m simplifying this but the …

I’ll answer the title question quickly – no, there are many others. A quick look on the search engines for “free blog” and “blog open source” will reveal many sites willing to host your blog, or provide you with free software to do it yourself.

So why WordPress?

In 2004, when I started working with WordPress, my main goal was to understand what all this ‘blogging’ was about. I’m not a big fan of writing online (I prefer getting paid for a printed copy of my words!), but I understood …