Complete Blogging Translators' Toolkit

Complete Blogging Translators' Toolkit - your chance to WIN!

Do you remember me talking about interviews with great blogging translators? I said then that they were all a part of our new project. Well, now I am ready to announce that our Complete Blogging Translators' Toolkit is ready! It is a whole set of products including:

1. Full comprehensive online video training in setting up wordpress – the most widely used blogging platform on the web.

2. A parallel training course on what to avoid with wordpress. If you are new to DIY webdesign – The course will show you how to develop a knock out site – straight off the bat and keeping the newbie mistakes at bay.

3. Blogging translator star interviews – 3 x mp3 interviews with BIG HITTING blogging translators who share their blogging experience and useful tips.

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4. A comprehensive pdf manual crammed with cheat sheets, links to blogging resources, shortcuts and time savers
5. 30 days free membership to our blogging translator support group. Every month we meet up online to discuss trends in blogging, offer advice and support.

We have done our very best to make this toolkit as valuable as possible. And now we are giving you a chance to WIN it! Please go to this page of Sharp End Training Russia website and you will see the contest widget. You can enter by either sending a tweet about the contest or by "liking" it on Facebook. The contest will run for a week and then the winner will be picked randomly by the system.

I can't wait to see who the winner is! Good luck!

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