Mastermind Pros has joined WPMU and now offers free blogs to all of our members.  This is a very exciting addition to all that Mastermind Pros has to offer simply because we know the importance of individual blogs for getting your name out on the world wide web and establishing credibility.

If you do not have a clue how to get a blog started, or you are looking to improve your blogging experience, we recommend getting your very own mmpzone.com blog today.  It is easy to do this once you are a member of Mastermind Pros.

We also teach you the best of affiliate marketing, and that ties into knowing about blogging and social networking.  The internet changes from month to month, and people are flooded with one opportunity after the next.

Mastermind Pros helps you stay on course and avoid the pitfalls of too many offers for programs that will take your money and then disappear.  Honesty is around on the internet but sometimes it just takes time to find it.  For this reason we offer you a chance to establish your web presence with our blogging community.  We enjoy helping and supporting all our members.

Success is the destination.  Sharing and caring are all part of the journey.

We hope to see you blogging very soon.

In a little over a month there have been some major changes at Mastermind Pros.  There are new coaches and new classes being offered.  Frank Terranova, the CEO, is offering training for Google Cash Detective 5 days a week and twice a day for people who have purchased the program.  There is a loyal group attending the trainings, but you have to have purchased the program to have access.

Mastermind Pros is having week night classes Monday through Thursday, and then again on Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon depending on your time zone.  We have members from around the world so the times do vary according to where you might live.

Everyone is getting excited with the new book that Frank Terranova is working on.  It is going to put a whole new light on having success in Search Engine Marketing.  Most people who purchase ebooks in this area get mislead into a follow the leader type of mentality.  Even if you have some success with running ads on Yahoo and Google, you can learn from this book that Frank is writing.

Now if you are into blogging, there is a huge opportunity for members of Mastermind Pros coaching group.  You can have your own blog without the hassle of domain purchase and site hosting.  This is a great way to start your entry into the blogosphere.  Even if you have blogs this is another area where you can have a blog and create some back links.

Our blogs will have the subdomain with mmpzone.com.  I look forward to watching this grow since I coach the blogging class for Mastermind Pros, and enjoy helping people develop success with their blogging efforts.

We hope you are having a great summer so far.  The future looks awesome with Mastermind Pros.  Our members are having some great results with our jv programs, and making their websites, blogs, and landing pages.

I have spent most of the morning looking at blog tutorials and templates.  Although I do not feel that I am any further ahead in getting some updates to this blog, I still have learned a lot.

I have found out that my Camtasia program software key does not work with my new computer.  How does it know I switched computers?  That is just scary.  Well that lead to time spend looking for the key and finally a letter to support requesting help.  My Camtasia is 2 years old but I see no need to pay for an upgrade.

I did that so I could watch some tutorial videos that were made with Camtasia.  However then I thought I would just watch them with my browser, but for some reason firefox would not open them.  That lead to downloading up updated Firefox plugin for Adobe Flash, and then I had to uninstall my video links because they were not set up right, reinstall them, and finally watched some videos on changing blogging templates.

Well 4 hours later, I am ready to go get away from the computer for a while.

There is so much to learn about blogging once you decide you want to have one of the better blogs around and get lots of followers.  You have to start posting things that people will read and return to read.  How do you compete to get readers with all that there is out there?

I see people with thousands of followers.  That is my goal.  However at Mastemind Pros, we do not only want followers, but we want to give our followers some quality content.  Mastermind Pros is in the business of teaching success.

Well where am I with the blog and the blog update?  I read that simple changes are better than complete radical changes to start with.  However with so few readers maybe radical changes would not upset that many people.

The changes will most likely take place in June 2009. Or if not that will get changed.  Who knows what Word Press has in mind for blogging by then.

One thing definite is that things will be changing.  I look forward to the future.

To learn more about blogging or affiliate marketing please join us at our Mastermind Pros Succes School.

More and more people are blogging, yet more people still do not blog than do blog.  Blogging is the easiest way to start your own web presence.  Perhaps starting out on one of the social sites is easier, but they still are similar to having your own blog.

The advantage to having your own blog, whether or not you host it, or have it hosted by Blogger or WordPress is up to you.  Yes, there are other choices out there, but I guess I am set in my ways and go for the big 2.

Whether you want to set up a blog for fun or profit, you should get started with blogging.  So far more men than women blog, and people from countries other than the USA seem to be more interested in blogging than we are here.  Maybe there are too many distractions in the USA.  However we are seeing people who are becoming more and more tied into communication and information rather than television.

What can you offer information on? The best way to see where you want to start is to search what other people are doing out there. Search Google for some of your interests and then fine tune your search to blogs.  When you find some you like leave comments.  If you want to know how they got started perhaps ask questions in your comments.  I would say that over 1/2 of the bloggers out there will answer your comments.

Start your blog if you haven’t done so yet.  Let us know how you are doing with it.

We have been waiting and waiting and now the wait is over. WordPress 2.7 is here. So now we will be upgrading this site once again and hoping that all the plugins will be happy campers. The interface looks great, and overall WP looks like it is about to take a turn for being a very friendly site. Yes, even friendlier than before. I noticed the FREE WordPress was upgraded earlier since we have a few blogs there, too. For those of you still afraid to start your own blog, you should really be our guest at one of our Monday Night Blogging Classes. You can take the fear out of blogging, starting your own blog and learn how to be a social marketer, or networker, or both. If you want to learn how to join us for a class and see what the Mastermind Pros are all about just leave us a comment here on the blog.

Over the next few weeks we will be exploring the changes to WordPress with 2.7, and we are sure there will be several little fixes along the way, but well will keep you informed of all that is happening in our Monday night class so you won’t have to panic. We know the people are WordPress have a great blogging platform and if you start out with a free blog or just jump in with a hosted one, you will be picking from among the one that most professional bloggers use.

Blogger blogs are getting better though, and with Google Friend Connect there is going to be some more competition brewing. My answer to that is get them both and link from one to the other.

Whatever you do get out there! Get a blog, visit blogs, and be sure to leave those comments that the bloggers love to get. You can never have enough comments. Well maybe I should rephrase that…No SPAM Please.

I am just amazed that it took so long to get this blog back on its feet. It has been a great learning experience though. Word Press has gone through so many upgrades lately that it makes it difficult to keep up sometime.

Now that the blog is back in working order we are looking forward to keeping it updated more often. Mastermind Pros is not sitting still. We have partnered with some good opportunities and we will be including them in this blog. Mastermind Pros does not fear the doom and gloom sayers. We do listen to what they are saying and find ways to move forward no matter what the economic future holds.

We have to maintain our Frank The Frog attitude and keep holding on. Do not let anyone steal your dreams.

Oh the fix for the blog was simple after weeks of trying this and trying that. It was reinstalling the template. Sometimes during an upgrade something might get a little dust on it.

If you have a hosted blog from wordpress.org, it is recommended to keep good backups of your files. Then keep backups of those somewhere in case your computer crashes.

Is There Such A Thing As A Quick Fix?

Word Press has been really busy lately with updating and upgrading their blogs.  I am finding that while the Mastermind Pros Blog is looking really great in Firefox, it is looking pretty terrible in Internet Explorer.  I am not really sure what is causing the differences, but we are going to go throught it and do some trouble shooting in our class to see if we can fix it.

The problem seems to be in the theme.  However there is only one way to find that out and that is to go in and check the blog using new themes, or we could try something different.

Why do I think it is the theme?

Since starting this blog there have been several updates to Word Press.  This blog is heavily laden with plugins, too.  Perhaps the theme is no longer compatible with the new plugins.  There are several places to start and we can learn on each step.  It sounds tedious because it is, but we want our blogs to reflect on us.  We must take the time to go through the necessary steps to see if we can get the blog to show up great on both Internet Explorer and Firefox because they are the two most popular browers right now.

We have similiar blogs with the same template but we are not having the same trouble.  So is that a template problem or not?  That is what we are going to be figuring out in tonight’s blogging class starting at 8:30 Central time. 

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