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Goals for 2010
If you have not set your goals for 2010 perhaps it is time to think about them. While we are a few days into the new year, not everyone took the time during the holidays to set their goals. Goal setting should be done with caution. Do not set unrealistic expectations for yourself. While you certainly want to stretch your limits a bit if you can, do not set goals that are unattainable (i.e. I’m going … Read entire article »
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What’s with the Spam? – An Ounce of Prevention
There are thousands of blogs that are available online. If you are a blog owner, chances are that you have had spam comments. What’s curious about them is what is behind them? Most of these spam comments are all about promoting something – whether it is an online dating site, a pharmaceutical site, or some other bogus website or link that can cause you nothing but grief. In under two hours today I eliminated more than … Read entire article »
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Twitter Users – Beware!
Just like any other internet site, you have to use common sense on Twitter. There are thousands of Twitter users who are selling something – you can find them very easily. They are promoting MLM programs (which personally I detest), they are promoting Affiliate Marketing programs (and someone is making money from these, I don’t know who, but someone is). Everyone has something for sale. I’m not an exception to that rule – and I … Read entire article »
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Twitter Followers – Branding
A couple of months ago I started watching Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn as potential sources of new traffic and earnings. Frankly, I’m the skeptical type. I have to see that something works before I jump in with two feet. Any of you who have read my blog posts here or on my other blog know that I tend to be practical with my time, I don’t go for pie in the sky and I don’t believe it’s possible to make a million dollars sitting on your rear end and doing nothing. So let me introduce you to Twitter and share my thoughts/reflections with you. I was really curious (and to some degree I still am) about why people follow you. Here are some of the thoughts I have regarding how … Read entire article »
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New iPhone Application!
For all of those who travel, especially when you are traveling with a group of people, you know how easy it is to forget not just your room number, but the room numbers of your traveling companions. We can help! As the saying goes ‘there’s an app for that’! Introducing “My Room”. Here’s what My Room can do for you: My Room will keep track of all the rooms you’ve previously stayed in allowing … Read entire article »
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Tips for finding online freelance writing jobs
With all of the recent layoffs, more and more people are turning to freelancing as a way to survive. Many freelancers can go days, weeks and yes, even months between new assignments. But, this does not have to be the case if you understand all of the money-making options that are available to you, and how to make the most of them. 1. The very first thing you must do is make an honest assessment of your skills. Once you have accomplished this, you may identify skills that you were not even aware were marketable. A comprehensive list of your skills will help you decide which freelance market is best for you. Whether your skills are in writing, creating websites or graphics work – be honest about what skills you have … Read entire article »
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Article Writing Tips
Thanks to MJ Logan for allowing me to use this. Here’s some tips, I use these every day. 1 – Copy and paste the Marketplace Guidelines into your word processor. 2 – Go through the guidelines and single out specific requirements. For example, in recent marketplace titles for travel, the publisher wanted 10 subheadings. Start your article by making a section for each of those subheadings. 3 – If they give a URL to look at, copy-paste that into your word processor as well. Go visit the page. Look at examples of what is there. Read them because this is the style you want to use. 4 – Do a keyword specific search on the topic. Exclude any Wikipedia results. From your results, choose two or three informative pages and read them. Make … Read entire article »
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Accidental Freelancer
It’s always interesting to find out how people wound up doing freelance work and my story isn’t much different from others except that I have a few varying twists in my tale. I never considered being a freelancer! In fact, I simply couldn’t imagine depending on chance for a paycheck every week, I really liked the stability of the brick and mortar workplace. What changed? Well for me there are multiple changing points in my road to freelancing. The first occurred in 1991 when I was informed that I had retinitis pigmentosa. Web MD Says this about RP: Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is one name for a large group of inherited vision disorders that causes progressive degeneration of the retina of the eyes. Peripheral (or side) vision gradually decreases and eventually is … Read entire article »
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