As I mentioned in a previous post, my home studio was displaced by my husband needing to move his art studio back into our home. Last night we actually finished the last of the major setup, and the husband was kind enough swap out the old electrical outlets for new and improved grounded electrical outlets [...]
A Jane of Most Trades
where all the other things come to rest
What is really worth your time?
Is it SEO, networking, network marketing, plain old marketing, advertising, directory submissions, blog carnivals, or building back links? Or is it being able to go outside and witness the rain with your kids, taking photographs of moments that would might go unnoticed, developing otherwise impossible friendships with people states or even countries away, voicing your [...]
Stop tag abuse
Seriously, stop it. If you already don’t abuse tags, then you’re on the right track. I honestly love a particular home school blog, but I’m constantly irritated by not being able to find what I need (which in a reasonable universe would actually be on the site and probably is) because the list of tags [...]
How to get a thousand hits in one day
Spend a few years working on your blog. Make some really interesting pages. Keep working on your blog. Join Stumbleupon Stumble for a while (this is really easy to do, remember to “like” or “dislike”) so you know how to define ‘awesome’ in your topic. Keep working on your blog. Make some more really interesting [...]
I actually do have a system
I know, sometimes I find it hard to believe but I do. Here’s the basic gist of what’s going on: I use one advertising network to bring visitors, I am a publisher with the same network (meaning that their ads are displayed on a few of my sites) which allows me to finance my advertising [...]
Don’t know what to write?
Sitting in front of your computer. Hands on key board. Blank page in front of you. And an hour later you’ve realized that being stuck on that first sentence would be a luxury compared to the living terror which is that cold and relentless blank page before you. Staring back at you. Mocking you. I [...]
Seeing productivity?
One of the problems with working online is that it’s possible to do quite a bit of work and still not feel as if I’ve accomplished a darned thing. At least when I was tapping out short stories on my mom’s IBM Selectric I’d have stacks of typed pages and a waste basket full of [...]
If Something isn’t Working…
..then quit trying to make it work. I was reading in one of my favorite blogging forums this particular post where someone said you must have a certain thing with lots of other certain things in order to accomplish something and that was the only way. Period. End of discussion. I wanted to reply but [...]
Content writing
Content writing is something you already know how to do if you’re blogging, on sites like Triond you’re simply writing on topics or in genres which may or may not fit in with the regular flow of your blog topics. Personally, I like Triond. I see a small rise in my Adsense profits (which, I’ll [...]
9 Apps that get it done (for free)
There are few things more frustrating than plopping down a bunch of money on software that you know you may never fully utilize before it’s completely outdated. And there are few things more unfortunate than not being able to use the same programs on all your computers due to licensing restrictions. Inkscape a vector graphics [...]
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