When times are tough and you need some extra money to supplement your benefits, how hard have you thought about how to achieve this? You may have spent hours thinking of clever ways to amass more cash, but most of them seem to crash and burn. If you have a … Continue reading
Imagine if all the top bloggers were secretly taking a tablet that made them more focussed and productive. Imagine if simply taking this pill could make you more disciplined, could make you think faster and could help you to achieve the kind of success you’d previously only dreamed of. If … Continue reading
I don’t pay for anything online if I can help it, but I finally broke down and made an exception when I joined Carol Tice’s Freelance Writers Den. This is how it happened. First I subscribed to Carol’s Make a Living Writing blog. I forget how I stumbled across it, … Continue reading
Are you a natural born blogger, or have you somehow managed to land yourself in the wrong business? While blogging is very much something that anyone can do, there are undoubtedly those of us who are more suited to the role of blogger than others and definitely some particular traits … Continue reading
Recently celebrating its third birthday, Pinterest is officially the fastest growing social media website of all time. Home to just shy of fifty million users, it’s also a website that the average blogger would be increasingly mad to ignore. Should you find yourself trying to boost your blogs readership, here … Continue reading
I’m not a best selling author or a blogger with tens of thousands of adoring fans, so it’s not likely Copyblogger‘s Brian Clark is going to be beating down my door for one of his “Here’s How [insert famous writer's name] Writes” blogs. Call it sour grapes or call it … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of writing Why Google Rocks, I got some disturbing news about the God of the internet. Apparently, power corrupts at Google as much as it corrupts everywhere else. Drugstore Cowboy begins: Meet the career con man who made a fortune selling illegal pharmaceuticals online—and pulled off … Continue reading
I distinctly remember when Google was launched because its launch represented my conversion to the internet as a source of information. It’s not that there weren’t any search engines before Google; it’s just that they sucked. I think I was relying on Yahoo back in about 1997, when I got … Continue reading
Are you looking for the secret formula for success in freelance writing and blogging? The answer may lie lurking in the ancient Chinese oracle, the I Ching. Something like 40 years ago, when I was going through a painful and confusing period of my life, I turned to the I … Continue reading
“How’d you get started in freelance writing?” someone asked me the other day. They were a little surprised by the answer I gave them because, like most Americans, they assumed any career started with a college degree and step-by-step progress over the years. Since I dropped out of college and … Continue reading
