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6x5 Posterous

The simplest way you start blogging! Get started with Posterous straight away:

6 times 5 points:

5 things to know, 5 things to try, 5 things to read, 5 pages to bookmark, 5 people to follow on Twitter, 5 blogs to subscribe to. And 5 things about the author,

David Barnes

Posterous is the easiest, fastest way to create and run a blog. This fast-paced, easy-to-read ebook will show you how.

This simple ebook will show you:

How to use the simplest FREE blogging system around to create a new, easy blog that you can update as easily as sending an email.

Because you

are

just sending anemail!

If this is your first blog, some

essential tips from experts on how to run a successful blog and draw traffic

.Some great examples of people building brilliant Posterous blogsThe most helpful pages to look at when you need help.

5 Things to Know

1 Posterous is the easiest way to blog that you can imagine

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just email post@posterous.com

Send your first post to post@posterous.com

,and Posterous will create a blog for your right there and then. Keep sending mail to that address, and it will keep adding it asthe new post. And

naturally, it’s FREE!

2 Posterous won

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t let you choose a theme or modify the colours. Limited fiddling potential!

If you want to control the way that your blog looks, Posterous might not be for you. Every Posterous blog uses the same theme and colors

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and they all look good!

On the other hand, if you know that lots of design options will mean you spend more time fiddling than writing content (like me

…

), Posterous will be perfect.

3 You can use Posterous to autopost to any other blog

If you like the sound of posting by email but want to keep your fancy pants WordPress template or whatever, Posterous can sti

ll help. Set up Posterous to “autopost” to

your existing blog, and anything you mail to post@posterous.com will appear on your Posterous blog AND your main blog. Autopost can also go to Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere

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so all your existing online friends will see when you post something new.

4 You can attach photos, documents, videos, MP3s to your emails

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Posterous will make them viewable and downloadable

You’re not limited to text emails. Anything you can attach to an email, Posterous will handle. It won’t even make your reader

s download the original files

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documents,images, videos and sounds are all visible (or hearable) right there on the web page.

5 It keeps track of how many people read your stuff

If you’re nervous to start blogging because you fear that nobody will look, Posterous helps by telling you how many times each post you make has been viewed. So you’ll

now that you’re not working hard to write for an audience of none.

5 Things to Try

Now that you know about how Posterous works and what it can do, here

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s all you need to do to get started. The five activities are all you need to know to run yourPosterous blog.

1 Create your blog and your first post

You won

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t believe how easy it is to start your blog on Posterous. Just send an email and hey presto, you

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re a blogger.

Ingredients

You need an email address.

Steps

Create a new email2.

Address it to post@posterous.com 3.

Make the subject the title of your first post. (

“

Welcome to my new Posterous blog

”

if you

’

re stuck for inspiration.)4.

Type the content of your first post. If you

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re stuck for something to say, tell the world a bit about yourself.5.

Make sure you clear away any part of the message that you DON

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T want to make part of the blog post

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for example, your signature file.6.

Send the message and wait for a reply message from Posterous. This message will contain a link to your new post and your blog home page. You can send this linkto anybody who might want to read your stuff. Here

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s the confirmation message I received: