Looking for an easy way to turn your WordPress powered blog into a book? Anthologize is a plugin for WordPress that will turn WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic text.  Anthologize gives you all the tools you need to publish your work in a new and exciting way.

Once you have this plugin installed, you can grab your own posts, import feeds for other websites or create new content within Anthologize.  Then all you need to do is edit your work, put it in a basic outline format and then publish.  You can export your masterpiece as a PDF, ePUB, or TEI based file.

If you have ever dreamed of publishing some of your blog posts together, in an easy to download format, Anthologize gives you all the basic tools to get the job done.

As somebody who did this the hard way with Word and a few select plugins and work arounds, I wish I had Anthologize handy when putting together my Everyone is a Marketer eBook.  It probably would have saved me a lot of time. I will definitely be giving Anthologize a closer look when it comes to any future publishing I might do.

You can pick up Anthologize for free and start turning your blog into a book today.

Everyone is a Marketer brings you some of the most popular advice, suggestions and tips I have shared with you in the past year all together in one convenient spot for you to download.  Within the 22 chapters, you will be able to learn really simple marketing techniques that anybody can use.  I do not care if you are starting out on day one of your business or day 141, I have suggestions and help here that can do anybody who reads it some good.

Go learn more about the eBook and download it (in the handy PDF format).

• Get the Free Marketing eBook for Beginners!

I would also love to hear your feedback too.  So if you have any reviews, thoughts or your own marketing tips you would like to pass along – be sure to send them my way.  I might even publish them here for the world to see.  This holiday season, I know we are all looking to save a buck or two – so let me give you this eBook for free.  The only thing I ask in return is you let me know what you thought of it once you’ve unlocked all the marketing secrets that are within the pages.

While working on a new eBook, I needed an easy way to get Microsoft Office Word 2007 to export my writings as a PDF file.  After doing a little searching around, I found an add-in that will do just that.

This simple download allows you to export and save files in the PDF format in Microsoft Office 2007.

This download works with the following Office programs:

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

You can download the add-in here.

After you install this download open the document you want to publish and then, depending on the program you are using, select Save to PDF from the Office or File menu.  Hope this comes in handy for anybody else looking for an easy way to save files from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to the PDF format.

PrimoPDF if a great tool to have in hand, if you need to do some printing but you don’t really want to have a paper copy laying around.  This is a free tool that outputs high-quality PDFs.  The very easy to understand user interface scores tons of points for me too.  You also have the ability to optimize the PDF output for a screen, print, ebook and will add document information for you- such as the title, author, keywords and more.  Download this free application and try to tell me it doesn’t replace your current print to PDF option.

Who says this Internet thing isn’t a great learning device? This made it easy to pick up pointers on how to link inside of the document, and then how to export to PDF and secure the document up some so that it could not be edited. I would suggest anybody bookmark this video and play it again if you ever want to get into the basics of digital publishing yourself.

Unlike other eBook deals, you get an extra perk with this setup.  You can download both the digital eBook version, or head over the the official page for it and pick up all five chapters as audio downloads too.  I wanted to give to you the best of both worlds.  The topics covered in the eBook cover all aspects of the web hosting world:

• Moving from Web Host to Web Host
• Getting going with your own Ecommerce Store Online
• How to Find a Job in the Web Hosting Industry
• Best Methods and Tips for Setting up a New Blog
• The Ever Popular Handy Guide to Domain Names

Download the PDF and let me know what you think.  Also as far as distribution goes, please feel free to share the link to download it to anybody and everybody you know.  This is a project of mine I have been working on getting together for some time now and I want everybody to know it is free of charge. 

To tune in to the Web Hosting Show, be sure to check out WebHostingShow.com, subscribe to the RSS feed or add us to your iTunes podcast subscriptions.

I have had the idea for some time now to wrap up some of the full length guides (maybe four or five of them) from the Web Hosting Show podcast, and turn them into a short eBook.  Then, when you are downloading – you could pick up the eBook to read or you could have the option to go listen to that “chapter” via the past podcast.

Then later on down the road, if this project is a success I would like to do a few volumes of the same, maybe after four or five guides later on.  My outlook on this is I’d like to help and get the help in the hands of those who need it in anyway that I can.  Since another eBook as been “in the cards” for me for a while, figured this might be the best of both worlds. 

What do YOU think?

I don’t know by how much I have grown as a writer in that time – I like to think there has been a little leap in quality and class. I’ll let you be the judge of that though. Still relevant even after all these years – here are a few of my very first posts for this blog right here.

• What is Virtual, Reseller and Dedicated Hosting?
• What is Web Hosting?
• What is a Sub Domain?

Many of these made there way in one way, shape or form into Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting. I’m really starting to get the itch to do another self-help book about the hosting industry – just need to find the time to get it all written.

In comparison with what I know now with what I knew then I think I could help even more people out. What do you think?

Your Web Host Thinks You’re Stupid

Now I didn’t just write that title because I thought it would grab your attention. Sure, much of the Web hosting business is about as much fun as watching paint dry. I worked there and I’ll be the first to tell you that. The truth of the matter is that with some Web hosts, you will not get your questions answered.

Now why will you not get your questions answered? “Well, some questions are just not suppose to be answered” is probably the remark they would make. Think of it as your parent telling you, “We will tell you when your older” when you asked them where your baby sister came from.

Here are some questions you might ask your Web host, and the response back you would probably get.

Question: What do you mean by unlimited Web hosting?

Web Host’s Answer: By delivering you unlimited services, we can promise you that your services will always be unlimited. You are only limited by going over the unlimited margin, which in that case we would have to take your Web site down.

As I have said before, and I will say many more times before I die – there is no such thing as unlimited in Web hosting. Everything has its limits in life, and Web hosting is no different. Your Web host can only reasonably give you so much disk space and bandwidth before they run out. They will run out. Think of it as water in a glass. You can only fit so much water into that glass before you overflow.

Your Web host doesn’t like for you to ask hard questions either.

First let me explain what happens to your questions and support requests that go into your Web host. They get dumped into a big database filled with other questions from other Web hosting clients. Each question is usually referred to as a “ticket”. My goal as a Web hosting support person was to close as many tickets as possible.

I remember the days of getting paid next to nothing for answering Web hosting help desk tickets. I would login to the Web host’s customer support system and wait. When a problem would come up, I would open the ticket and check out the question. If it was a hard question, I would watch it sit. If it was an easy one, I would go ahead and answer it.

Now before you say, “You sure are a lazy bastard!” let me explain. I was never trained to handle questions over a certain level of expertise. In some other cases, questions might need a server password I didn’t have. Billing questions could only be answered by the billing team. They were the only ones with all the billing access. Easy questions, or as Web hosts call them “Level One” tickets are answered by the bulk of the support team. Other questions usually fit under the category of “really freaking hard” and take somebody with some server experience to tackle them.

Too many Web hosts don’t have a big enough team or enough time to train everybody on how to answer every question. So if you have ever wondered why it took you three weeks to cancel your billing – now you know.

+ Check Out Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting!