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You can make real money online

One bright note in the ongoing financial recession in the United States is the opportunity to earn money online. Since more companies are cutting back on full-time staff members to save money, they are turning more and more to outsourcing work that used to be done in house. Before you decide that you are going to earn money working from home however, it is important that you understand that there is no method of “getting rich quick”. Work at home opportunities are numerous, provided that you know where to look and you can avoid getting scammed. For most people, the…

April 2013: Goals attained and missed

By Doreen Martel

In my ongoing determination to keep up with goals I set, based on the original January goals I am not doing so hot but remember, I did change these goals in early April. So, with that said, let’s see how well April worked out. In fairness, I should disclose I did not work the last week of April (or the first week of May) regularly (which is why this post is going up today nearly 1/3 of the way through May) so that had an impact on my productivity clearly! But let’s see how things stacked up! Blogs – April…

The CMO – Chief Mediocre Officer

By Doreen Martel

Most business owners want it all — A successful, growing business where they make the rules and the decisions. There is however a danger that the business owner may wind up being what I like to call the Chief Mediocre Officer. In fact, many small business owners find themselves doing everything not simply because they are saving money, but because they want to maintain complete control over their business operations. Are you becoming a CMO? You might think that you are not a CMO and you feel that since this is your business, you have certain responsibilities that must be…

oDesk: Another Epic Failure

By Doreen Martel

Several days ago, oDesk decided to roll out another “feature”. Now, I’m not sure who thought this was a good idea (or for that matter WHY they thought it was a good idea) but the overall failure of this feature is evident in reviewing the response from contractors (most, not all). The feature is called “Similar Contractors” and it is placed in full living color on the right hand side of the users profile. The worst thing about this “feature” is the total lack of foresight oDesk displayed in implementing it. Failure number one: Communication Never, never roll out a…

Subscriber Milestones: A total head fake!

By Doreen Martel

Yesterday I was tickled to death to see I had reached 300 subscribers on my blog. Daily I am getting about 200 new views (wait until I tell you the most popular search term!) on my blog so this is exciting! Finally, after nearly four years, I’m seeing what appears to be some real movement. But look at that image! I was actually DELETING the 300th subscriber from this blog! Why you may ask? Can you read that name? No me either. I have a plugin called Ban Hammer on my site and when I added it I added this…

Content Mills: Like it or not they are valuable

By Doreen Martel

I recently read a very well written blog post from a freelance writer who made the argument that freelancers should not start off their careers using a content mill. The theory is these sites encourage poor writing, encourage writers to accept lower rates of pay and stunt the growth of most writers. However, in my personal experience, this is simply false in many ways. Experience matters For many freelance writers who are just getting started (myself included), they may have not written anything since their school days. While there is some truth to the fact that many graduates who have…

Check it out: iPhone app for self-motivation

By Doreen Martel

Some days I wonder if it is fate that sends me to find specific sites that are better left unexplored. Yesterday, I ran into a site on Twitter and later in the day, I ran into exactly the same site using another search. What’s so ironic about this you might ask? I was actually looking for something LEGIT to write about rather than tripping across yet another questionable opportunity. Yet, here it is. I will disclose here I am NOT a fan of MLM shemes of any kind, but this one is more shady in my mind that others (like…

March 2013: Goals attained and missed

By Doreen Martel

March was a strange month and while I think that most of my goals fell short of where they should have, it wasn’t all that bad. There are also some changes to my January goals which should be noted. Most specifically, I will never meet my Textbroker goals as I’ll only be doing select writing at that site. The bulk of the work I originally planned to do there will be done at Blogmutt instead. In addition, the Skyword goals are shot to hell because frankly, there are not enough new articles to warrant setting any kind of goal there…

How to Create Online Income to Pay Bills

By Doreen Martel

Internet marketing, freelancing, article writing and blogging are all possible ideas to earn money online. Can they really help pay bills? The economy is in difficult shape, this is no big secret to anyone. For many, this means looking at additional means of earning income to help pay bills. Chances are that if you are like thousands of other people, you are searching online for opportunities that will allow you to earn additional income. While it is true that there are ways that you can earn income from various online activities, it is important that you know what you are getting…

Writing Site Reviews: Blogmutt

By Doreen Martel

Most of you know I am always looking for new writing sites to experiment with. While I have some private clients, the work load varies from month to month. Oftentimes, I sign up on writing sites and “watch” long before I write anything there and this new site was no exception. Meet Blogmutt. What is Blogmutt? The service is a platform for blog owners to purchase content at a fixed price for a specific number of posts per month. For writers, you can write as much as you want and are paid $8 per post. The good news about this…

What happened to February 2013!

By Doreen Martel

So here we are again at the end of another month! First I broke one of my rules: You know the one about not feeding trolls in forums or actually it was more like getting into shouting matches with idiots but ya, that I blew big time. This was another mixed bag month though I did manage to take two full weekends OFF which I think is a record for me. I did not take them off back to back though! So let’s see what the good bad and ugly of this short month was. So let’s see what is…

Update: Microsoft Support

By Doreen Martel

A couple of weeks ago I posted about a purchase of Windows 8 and complained about a vendor that really gave me a problem. However, I do want to follow up on this post because something really remarkable happened. After this post I went back and read the forum where I had posted my original complaint and saw that the person responding suggested I should contact Microsoft Support. I honestly did not expect to get anyplace with this but decided that it wouldn’t hurt to check. So I called them and I spoke to a very nice young man and…

My own worst enemy

By Doreen Martel

You know there are sometimes you cannot help but shoot yourself in the foot. I’m particularly good at that and tend to be my own worst enemy. Remember when I wrote the post on setting goals for 2013? I made this observation early in the post Finally I got around to deciding what I should set up for work-related goals for 2013. One of the first things I need to do is learn to not be so snarky when commenting on things that annoy me. This of course will take all of my self-preservation skills since stupidity makes me crazy…

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Posts Tagged ‘ @doreenmartel ’

You can make real money online

April 2013: Goals attained and missed

The CMO – Chief Mediocre Officer

oDesk: Another Epic Failure

Subscriber Milestones: A total head fake!

Content Mills: Like it or not they are valuable

Check it out: iPhone app for self-motivation

March 2013: Goals attained and missed

How to Create Online Income to Pay Bills

Writing Site Reviews: Blogmutt

What happened to February 2013!

Update: Microsoft Support

My own worst enemy

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