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Working with a Professional Editor

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Haven’t been online too much lately. The main reason is I’m about armpit deep in the last series of edits for The Tanglewood Murders. Working with a professional editor is a unique experience. If a publisher is taking on your book, you’re going to go through this experience too. If you’re self-publishing your book, you [...]

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Jobs for Writers

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There are two types of jobs for writers – jobs that pay you for being a professional writer, and jobs that enhance you as a writer. Where these two paths intersect, you could call The Land of Goshen. What kind of job you should get depends upon a lot of things – your background, your [...]

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Video Marketing for Writers

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If you’re a writer, struggling, emerging, or already successful, and you have not started a video marketing campaign yet, you should be prepared to launch one in the next thirty days. Why? If you produce information, its a tough world out there. Humans produce more information in two days than in the history of the [...]

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Where is the Gonzo?

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Weren’t we expecting just a trace of Gonzo Journalism in the online journals? Where is the individuality? Where is the dissent?

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25 Ways to Motivate Yourself

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Here are 25 ways to motivate yourself to get through the most dreadful jobs. I have used these many times. Whether you need motivation at work, motivation to lose weight, or just to finish your taxes, they really do work. They have been distilled from several sources over the past ten years or so, including [...]

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What You Could Learn from Mafia Wars

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Now before you say it, yes I know: You either love it or hate it. But whether or not you’re a fan of this remarkable brainchild of Zynga Games, there is one thing you cannot deny – you know about it. Now to most, Mafia Wars is the conveyor of those annoying messages on Facebook [...]

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Many Rewards, Few Guarantees in SEO

The best way to make a client happy is to always, always, always surpass their expectations when delivering your product or service. However, this is only half of the formula. In order to over-deliver you must first (you guessed it) under-promise. And, in a world where the commercials are always turned up a bit louder [...]

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Outside of the Matrix – Social Networking 1.0

It was somewhat puzzling. You have to understand that I’m someone who still gets goosebumps when I hear the sound of a pen scratching paper. Or when feeling blue, an office supply store will pick me up even faster than a trek through the woods. Or that the joy I feel when buying a new [...]

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Planning a Website

How important is your website to your business? Here is an analogy that often clarifies the issue for many clients. Go to the front reception area of your office and toss some papers on the floor. Take down the customer satisfaction plaques from the wall so that only their shadows on the sun-faded paint remain. [...]

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10 Ways to Eliminate Nuisance Web Traffic

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While having a popular website may boost your ego, we all know there are a lot of hidden drawbacks to getting streams of traffic pounding your website day and night. Lost hours every week moderating comments on your blog. Answering emails. Too many orders for your product bogging down your shipping department. Time lost counting [...]

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