It was great fun and a fitting end to a great year!

The award winners are as follows:

Chapter member of the year: Kathy Potts

Board member of the year: George Morrisey, CSP, CPAE

Rosita Perez Spirit Award: Robyn Winters

Ed Peters Past President Award: Sandy Geroux

Academy Member of the Year: Tilly

George Morrisey LifeTime Achievement Award: Kenneth Banks

This is a Complete guide to starting a WordPress Blog and earning money from it..
Written by Kristin Stone…

Here are the topics that will be covered:

Create Blog File
Picking a Domain Name
Sign Up with a Web Host:
Point Domain to Web Host.
Install WordPress
Login to WordPress
Install WordPress Theme
Set Up Permalinks
Install Plugins
Set Up RSS with FeedBurner
Set Up Google Analytics
Making Money – Set Up Advertising
Getting Traffic to Your Blog
Learning More
Can Someone Do This For Me? Yes!
What Is a Blog?

A blog is a website that has some automatic organizing features included in it. Your theme, the look and feel of your website, will be consistent on every page. Your readers will find navigating your website very easy if it is in the blog format. They can browse by category, tags, or date. And you can make money all while offering your content free to your readers. How?

How Blogs Make Money

Blogs make money through having advertisements on them and also by selling products or services. I will cover all of this in detail in Step 12 below. For now, know that if you are persistent in building your blog, your content, and your readership, over time you will have the potential to make good money. How much?

Some people make very little and give up. Don’t do that! When starting out, you might only make a few dollars a month while you are building your readership. Over time you could quite easily earn an extra $1000 per month from advertising revenues. Some top bloggers make a full living off their blog earning 5 or 6 figure incomes. And their are the tippity top blogs that earn in the millions. Your income potential is only limited by your belief and the work you put in.

Of course you will need to be persistent and stick with it even when it seems like things are going nowhere. Build your network of blogging friends over time and compare notes, ask for feedback and share learnings with each other. And, of course, continually provide great content for your readers and they will reward you with loyalty and referrals.

Complete Guide to Setting Up a WordPress Blog

There is a ton of information available on making money through blogging. This post will give you the steps for setting up a WordPress blog, customizing it, getting traffic to your blog, and how to make money from your blog. I promise to offer details where it is necessary and help make things simpler where there is already a lot of complexity and confusion. There are other blogging platforms out there, but none compares to WordPress. It is the most popular and the easiest to use. It is also free. (Your only costs will be domain registration – about $10/year and web hosting – about $6.95/month.)

I’ll guide you to getting the most important things done so you’ll get off to the right start. Then once your blog is up and running, you will have enough knowledge and experience to search the internet for information that will allow you to hone your blog even further. For now, this guide will be all you need.

There are many steps, but with this post and the free Blog Setup Checklist (free excel download), you can complete this quickly, in a day or two working full time, or you can spread it out over as much time as you need. The Blog Setup Checklist will help you keep track of where you left off and a place to write down notes or questions to follow up on at a later time.

The Best Way to Use this Guide

Bookmark this page. Download the WordPress Blog SetUp Checklist (free excel document). Check off your progress and follow the steps one by one right online with this post.

The Steps to Setting Up a WordPress Blog, (more…)

A Guest post by Celestine Chua from The Personal Excellence Blog.

Ever wondered what are the traits of the top, successful and excellent bloggers?

I have. Since I started my blog, The Personal Excellence Blog, in 2008, I have studied top bloggers extensively. I read many articles on how to build a great blog. I listened to different bloggers say their piece. Through personal experimentation, I learned what works and what doesn’t work, and integrated them as blogging habits. It has given me great results. After a lot of hard work in the past 1.5 years, The Personal Excellence Blog has grown into an well trusted and established resource on how to achieve excellence in life.  It has 3,500 subscribers, 5,000 readers a day, 110,000 page views a month, over 160 articles, a bundle of free ebooks and has been (more…)

Hello NSA Central Florida!

Can you believe it has been an entire year since we made an official changing of the guards?? Wow! Where does the time go? Well, let’s see… it goes into building our businesses, attending meetings, making meetings happen, appealing to our clients, helping our colleagues, spending time with family and friends, and well… life. That’s where it goes and that is exactly what we asked all of our members and guests to do this year: Imagineer Your Business in the way that works for you! I think we have done just that and I am pleased and honored to participate with you in our June meeting, which is our last meeting of our fiscal year.

Don’t anyone panic because it’s not our LAST MEETING EVER! Hehe! But rather the meeting where we pay tribute to all that we have accomplished, we honor those members who have gone continually above and beyond, and we celebrate. This year is no different. It’s the annual dress up at the crack of dawn June meeting. So, dress up in formal attire if you wish and feel silly, but fun, like the rest of us… but also:

-         Celebrate your colleagues and check in with them on how business is going.

-         Hear a phenomenal speaker who has won Emmys! Wow! Welcome Bill Stainton!

-         Share your stories of what you are doing that works and how you’ve built your business.

In each meeting we seek to provide powerful content, relevant knowledge and immediately applicable skills and this meeting is no different. Bring your gussied up best that your imagination can muster and bring an open mind ready to drink from that fire hose of knowledge we call NSA Central Florida!

It has been an honor and privilege to serve as the mere guide on the side this year as your President and I know we are in for an even more powerful year coming ahead. Won’t you join us? We are looking forward to seeing you at 8:30 am  on Saturday and encourage you to register now online if you haven’t already. This is the don’t miss event of the year for your chapter!

See you soon!

Monica Wofford, CSP

NSACF Chapter President

NSACF End of Year Meeting and Awards

Saturday, June 19th

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM chapter meeting

Our meeting location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tampa East

10221 Princess Palm Avenue

Tampa, FL 33610

In order to reserve your seat for this valuable meeting, simply go to our Online Store on our website:

http://www.nsacentralflorida.com/this_months_program.html

NSACF End of Year Meeting and Awards

Featuring

Bill Stainton

What I learned from 29 Emmys that Speakers Need to Know!

There are three elements to any presentation: the Structure, the Content, and the Delivery. Bill Stainton has won Emmy Awards as a producer (the structure), a writer (the content), and a performer (the delivery). Find out how a 29-time Emmy Award winner applies the lessons he learned from the world of television (and from pals like Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jerry Seinfeld) to his presentations, and how you can do the same. You’ll learn:

• How to think like a producer when crafting your presentations
• How to structure your presentations for maximum effect
• How to utilize predictable unpredictability to keep your audiences awake and interested
• A simple rule to help you plan your openings and closings
• How to use the secrets of comedy writers to make your speeches and stories come alive
• How to use acting tips to turn your presentation into a performance

Who is Bill Stainton? Check him out online at: www,ovationconsulting.com

Bill Stainton is a multiple Emmy Award-winning TV producer, writer, and performer; an author; a business humorist; and an internationally-recognized Beatles expert. He blends the business smarts he learned from twenty years in corporate management with the show biz sparks he gleaned from working with people like Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jay Leno to create entertaining and enlightening presentations enjoyed by audiences around the world!

Saturday, June 19th

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM chapter meeting

Our meeting location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tampa East

10221 Princess Palm Avenue

Tampa, FL 33610

In order to reserve your seat for this valuable meeting, simply go to our Online Store on our website:

http://www.nsacentralflorida.com/this_months_program.html

WE INVITE YOU TO OUR

June Chapter Meeting and End of Year Awards Program

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

“What I Learned from 29 Emmys that Speakers Need to Know”

with

Bill Stainton

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM – You are encouraged to dress up for this special occasion (awards, new officer installation, etc.)

Our meeting location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tampa East

10221 Princess Palm Avenue

Tampa, FL 33610

In order to reserve your seat for this valuable meeting, simply process your registration by going to our Online Store on our website: http://www.nsacentralflorida.com/thismonthsprogram.htm

NOTE:  ONLY PRE-PAID CHAPTER MEMBERS AND SPEAKERS ACADEMY MEMBERS MAY HIT REPLY TO THIS INVITATION SO THAT YOUR SEAT CAN BE RESERVED FOR YOU.  ALL OTHERS PLEASE REGISTER VIA THE ONLINE STORE

Law 1: Adults are Babies with Big Bodies

Recall the kinds of learning activities we did as small children—coloring, drawing, finger-painting…all hands-on activities. Children with very little experience learn through experience. As adults, we bring a lot of experience to our training programs. We want to acknowledge, honor and celebrate that experience. If, as children with very little experience, we could discover and learn, how much more as adults can we discover and learn.

Law 2: People Don’t Argue with Their Own Data

If I say something in a training session, you might believe that I’m convinced about its truth—but just because I (more…)