Affiliate marketing is a brand new industry that has cropped up in the wake of the internet. As websites have become more sophisticated, ecommerce has exploded, and more people have been able to advertise and generate referral bonuses for themselves. The profits soon add up. Affiliate marketing, on a basic … Continue reading
When I lived in the United States, Thanksgiving was my favorite holiday because it was the one day of the year when families, neighbors and friends did what they should do every day — got together and had a good time in spite of the differences that kept them apart … Continue reading
A copywriter is like a defense lawyer. No matter how guilty their client is, a good defense lawyer can find a way to make their client appear innocent. No matter who the client is or what they’re selling, a good copywriter can make any product sound safe and appealing. Just … Continue reading
Mystics and even a few quantum physicists question the reality of this world. Since I’m neither, I won’t hazard a guess, but a practicing physicist talks about his Big TOE (Theory Of Everything) in the video below that might blow your mind. The reality I want to write about is … Continue reading
Awhile ago I wrote a post titled, What should you blog about? in which I argued that you should blog about the truth and the things that matter to you. More recently, I reported that the blog was republished elsewhere. Since then, it has been republished in its entirety on … Continue reading
Remember my blog post, What Should You Blog About? Of course you don’t. 75% of my readers are here for the first time and I doubt it was all that memorable to you others. Don’t bother reading it unless you want to. Right now, I just want to refer you … Continue reading
Welcome to the most destructive suffix in the English language: “-ism”. I ran across this optical illusion last week and have been obsessed with it ever since. In a lot of ways, it sums up what “-ism” means to me: The guy on the left is sure there are four … Continue reading
Between 1968 and 1972, I worked on and off at Either/Or Bookstore in Hermosa Beach, California. In many ways, Either/Or was the Los Angeles version of San Francisco’s City Lights. The owners, like City Lights’ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, had their roots in the so-called beat generation. That explains why they were … Continue reading
“Oh, you must be one of those Glenn Beck conspiracy nuts” someone on Facebook replied to me when I criticized President Obama’s foreign policy. I had to look up who Glenn Beck was to figure out what he was talking about. Apparently Glenn Beck thinks Obama is a Muslim or … Continue reading
The article looks at three options of where to work when you\’re a freelancer (home, cafe and coworking space). It details their positives and negatives. Continue reading
