I had a brief Twitter chat with boxer, physicist and Twitter buddy Ed Latimore last night. He tweeted about insecurity being a neutral thing, and the action succeeding it being all-important. Now, that’s an interesting idea. I presume it’s along the lines of “If you see a fit person and you feel insecure, either you’ll…
Recently I was a young person. I still talk to some young people. In doing both of those things, I know that there are a lot of young people who are worried about starting a business or applying for jobs because they either don’t have experience or aren’t qualified for a particular position. So, should…
Direct Marketing Is Dead? For longer than any of us have been alive, there have been people rambling and ranting about how direct mailing is dead. You can read a book from the 1970’s where a copywriter will say exactly what I’m about to in this article. Check out this comment thread from Reddit: Now,…
Today has been apocalyptic, weather-wise. As such, I’ve been getting down to admin business and other boring duties, as well as some more fun ones; I’ve found a niche for the physical products business, and now I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to provide for that niche. However, that leaves me with a…
Build Your General Knowledge Library I spent the day traipsing through a nature reserve today. It was fun, but it was also somewhat business related. One of the niche sites I’ve been building is an outdoor pursuit. I’m not an outdoor guy. This is half of the reason I’m writing this article today. The other…
What I’ve Learned From Utterly Destroying My Site And Then Completely Rebuilding It If you’ve been eagerly clutching your mouse or frantically tapping your keyboard waiting for my site to come back online; Welcome Back It’s been a lousy few days where I’ve devoted nearly all of my time to rebuilding this site. In…
Copywriting As A Base Skill Learning copywriting fundamentals is a benefit not only because copywriting is a profitable skill in and of itself. It’s also valuable as a launching point for a ton of other skills which are both profitable and enhance the profitability of copywriting in and of itself. This probably has a technical…
Avoiding Homeostasis I’ve been bored out of my mind the past few days. I shouldn’t have been – I wrote a book, I’ve been waiting for the start of the niche challenge and everything is ticking over. But that’s the problem – everything is just ticking over. I have about as much freelance work as…
Why This Era is Good For Pulp Fiction Economics Yesterday I wrote about a history of pulp magazines, and why working out how pulp writers used to go about business is an interesting thing today. I’m going to continue along the same theme today, but this time I’m going to talk about how the information…
Writers Are Like Any Other Supplier… But With One Key Difference When you’re a professional writer, you’re also a businessperson. This is inescapable, and writers who ignore the business side of the writing profession are doing themselves a massive disservice. I understand that writers aren’t always natural businesspeople; I also understand that writers don’t know…