Beginner Writer Motivation Issues A lot of people think that writing blocks and lack of writing progress is a motivation issue. It’s not. It’s a lack of sitting down and writing that’s the issue. In this article, I will address once and for all the issue of writer motivation. I’ll give you the tools to…
Here’s an article that’ll either chill your bones or make you shake with excitement. Maybe it’ll do both. The Guardian on how Facebook and Google generate one-fifth of the world’s advertising revenue. I could go into details on why this is both apocalyptic and awesome, but here’s the major takeaway: Google and Facebook are where…
Your Skills Are Problem Solving Tools. You Are The Angle. It’s important to think of your skill set and your knowledge as problem solving tools. If you do this, you’ll have a better life obviously. You’ll make everyone else’s life better too. You’ll also never run out of content for your website, which let’s face…
Yesterday I posted a collection of articles on market research. Then I received a follow up question about finding the target audience. Most gurus would say, “load up your keyword research tool and see what people are searching for.” Big mistake. Keyword research goes a lot further down the road than that. SurvivingMyTwenties, who asked…
Commenter Kyle left his thoughts on this article the other day: That’s a good tip, but you would think that hundreds of freelancers would have already pounced on this. I guess if you niche down really far it could work. To summarise for those of you who hate clicking links, the article is about flipping…
Here’s a useful and practically free tip I use whenever I have a new brainwave idea. It’s similar to the future notebook idea I posted about a week or two ago. When you have a new project idea, be it an e-commerce store, an informational product or a service business, here’s what you need to…
All Romance E-Books and Why You Should Be Act Like A Publisher Way back in the archives, I talked about topics like copyright, the publishing industry and thinking about your words as assets in the future. For a good few years, I wrote and sold short stories as a hobby. It was much later that…
Pro-Business Tip: Help People Save Money There are a lot more people that want to be entrepreneurs than ever will be entrepreneurs. It’s a sad fact. There’s no one issue that keeps people from achieving the dream – it tends to be a mix of different factors. Maybe you’ve got a full-time job, a couple…
Pay Attention to your Business Idea Blind Spots If you’re running an online business, then chances are you’ll spend a lot of money. You’ll buy software, memberships, courses, more software, software as a service, more software, WordPress themes, Photoshop templates and more software… the list goes on. When you think of the above things as…
The Basics Of Online Course Creation I’ve been working on an online course recently. There’s a lot of terrible information out there and there are a lot of good articles. I’ve broken down the success of an online course into two constituent parts, with a third little addendum to those two as well. Read below…