Stats No Longer Working on Your WordPress Website?

There has been an update to WordPress.com Stats plugin.

If your stats are no longer working, you will need to install the latest version of the stats plugin, called Jetpack and link it to your WordPress.com account.

Below is a video showing you the simple steps to install the new version of the plugin and get your stats working again.

Note: There is no sound in this video – only the steps to install and link the plugin.

You will need to link the Jetpack plugin to your wordpress.com account. This is not your login to your website, but the login you created when your website was first set up. This is the one you set up in order to get the API key you sent me.

If you don’t have your wordpress.com login, please follow these steps:

Go to WordPress.com
Click to Forgot password link
Enter your e-mail address (this is most likely the e-mail you used before your website e-mail was set up)
Have wordpress.com send you the forgotten password or a link to reset it.

After you have reset the password, login to wordpress.com, then follow the steps in the video above to install the Jetpack Plugin for your stats.

If you need help installing the plugin, please e-mail me for help, but I will need your wordpress.com account login username and password. Please send them both with your request for help.

February 18, 2011

How to Add Online Shopping to Your Website – Webinar

Selling Your Products Online – How to add Online Shopping to Your Website

Wednesday, February 23 – 7:00 p.m. – Mountain Time.

Russ Larsen will take you through the steps to put items for sale on your website. This is the easiest and cheapest way to be able to accept online credit card payments for your work and allow customers to order directly from your website.

Topics will include:

How to sign up for a Paypal Account
How to Create a Product Button in Paypal
How to put the Product Button on your Website.
How to get TRAFFIC to your product page – THIS IS THE BIG ONE THAT MOST MISS!

Note: This Webinar will feature websites by Taking Aim Marketing using WordPress.

However, these same steps are needed to add Paypal Shopping to any website. Everyone is invited to attend, regardless of whether or not you have a current website.

Webinar Times Where You Live:

7:00 Mountain Time – 6:00 Pacific Time – 8:00 Central Time – 9:00 Eastern Time

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Important – Each Webinar is Unique – You do need to Register Separately for Each Webinar you Plan on Attending.

A USB Headset is recommended to participate in the webinars. You do not need a headset if you just plan on listening.

System Requirements

PC-based attendees

Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista, Windows 7

Macintosh®-based attendees

Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

August 23, 2010August 23, 2010

Working with Images Webinar

Free Webinar – Working with Photos on Your Website

This webinar will be presented by Russ Larsen and cover a lot of information about using images on your website including resizing, adding borders, making your pictures Search Engine Optimized, displaying thumbnails correctly, adding galleries, finding images you have previously uploaded, adding a slideshow and more.

If you want to learn how to use photos on your website, you do not want to miss this webinar.

We will also include basic tips and techniques on taking pictures and displaying them on your website.

We will also be going over many ways to display photos on your website and how you can save a lot of time once you know the basics of how to work with your photos in wordpress.

We will be dealing mainly with Nextgen Gallery Plugin inside wordpress.

The webinar will be presented through Profitable Hobbies and The I&E Network, but everyone is invited to attend.

Webinar will be Wednesday, August 25, at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time.

May 18, 2010

Live Webinar – Part 5 – Changed to Tuesday

Russ & Marcy Larsen

Web Site Webinar Part 5 – Working in the WordPress Dashboard

I have changed part 5 of my Web Site Webinar Series to tonight – Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. MDT.

In part 5, we will go into more detail about working inside the wordpress dashboard.

Tonight’s topics will include:

How to change your login password and profile

How to Paste Plain Text

How to Paste from Word

How to Update Plugins

How to arrange and work with Sidebar Widgets

How to create and add a Contact Form to your Web Site

How to Upload External Files – such as PDF Documents

An introductions to the HTML Editor – (very helpful when something will not align properly)

If you are working on your wordpress web site – or just getting started – tonight’s webinar will help you with the above topics. All of these are items that you must understand and learn.

The recording will be available to all Taking Aim Marketing Clients – but if you want to attend LIVE – you can register below.

May 12, 2010

Adding to Your Web Site – Video Training Directory

When I first started creating training videos to teach my clients how to add content to their own web sites, one of the first problems I ran into was trying to figure out how to keep the various training videos organized and accessible.

My web site clients often want to return to a video to watch or review several times. As most of you know, as you continue to post more and more blog posts, the older posts get buried and eventually archived.

I wanted even the oldest training videos to stay easily accessible, so I have created a new web page on Taking Aim Marketing, called Video Training Directory. It can be found right along the menu bar with the other web pages.

This directory contains links to the most popular video training tutorials for Taking Aim Marketing clients to view at their convenience.

There is also a form on the page where you can submit a video request. If you cannot find an answer to a question, please use the form to submit a video request. We will make a training video and notify you when it is ready.

Don’t forget to Subscribe by E-Mail to be notified each time a new item is added.

April 27, 2010

WordPress Webinar – Part 2

Taking Aim Marketing Subscribers,

I will be presenting part 2 of my webinar series for Profitable Hobbies and The I&E Network, this Wednesday night at 7:00 MDT.

Last week was very basic and I went over the process of getting a web site started and some of the advantages of wordpress as the platform for a web site or blog.

From this week forward, we will be working inside wordpress. I will be showing how to add pages, add posts, create photo galleries and more.

If you want to become more comfortable inside the wordpress dashboard, it would certainly benefit you to attend.

If you have a particular question or problem that you would like addressed, please send it to me in advance.

Hope to see you all there on Wednesday Night.

Just in case you missed my last post – I did a video showing how to edit the home page of your site, if your wordpress site is set to display a static home page.

You can download and view the video at this page – here.

April 13, 2010

Free Blogging Webinar – Bring Your Questions

Establishing an Online Presence for your Business

A FREE Online Webinar – Presented by Russ Larsen

I will be presenting a blogging webinar to Profitable Hobbies and The I&E Network next Wednesday night.

This is a great opportunity for all of my clients to get answers to questions you might have.

If you are stuck on your blog or web site – please try to attend. I think it will help you a bunch.

I will start with the questions sent in advance of the webinar – please send them to contact@takingaimmarketing.com.

I will then try to leave some time for LIVE questions, but to guarantee your question is answered, try to e-mail it (or them) in advance.

Remember, if you have a questions, chance are that others have the same question.

Please REGISTER and plan on attending if you can.

Hope to see everyone there.

When: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM MDT

Once you are at the registration page, there is a link to show the webinar time in your time zone.

System Requirements

PC-based attendees

Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000

Macintosh®-based attendees

Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer