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It happens from time to time, there comes a point where you look at a blog and you’re just cringing. It’s old, sad, the content is drooping– it has seen better days and if it were a horse it would be put out to pasture or sold to the glue factory. Fortunately, with a little [...]

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Ben Franklin said it first. It’s probably better to save a penny than spend it and earn it back later because the earned penny will be taxed a second time. I’m not talking about being miserly or cheap, but wisely frugal. When you are working online it’s important [...]

Although it’s not my highest earner, I like using Project Wonderful for managing paid advertisements. Here’s why: Payout is low (ten dollars) If you don’t meet payout you can easily set up your own ads on  other peoples sites without a separate advertiser account You can set minimum bids for your ad boxes You can [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In WordPress the how is the easy part. When adding a new post look in the right upper hand corner of the screen. That’s it. Once you’ve written your post and selected “Schedule” it will publish on your blog at the time you defined. The why part is a bit more involved. If you have [...]

Social networking can be lonely stuff. After all, I sit in my little home office drinking coffee and trying to explain in detail to people why they should pay attention to me using 140 characters or less. And I try to do this in less time than it takes me to actually write the article [...]

This is probably the hardest part of the process; deciding how specific or broad, how personal or professional, and exactly how detailed your posts should be can be a much more difficult process than just writing the posts. Actual writing skills can be helpful, but absolutely perfect written English is not a requirement. There are [...]

Actually, let’s be honest: On any given day writing is probably going to be more for fun and less for profit. I have a handful of blogs that I keep up (more or less regularly), I write (shamelessly) for a content mill, and from time to time I  actually bother to get articles published through [...]