Dealing With Difficult Customers If you’re a writer or freelancer of any sort, you’re probably going to have to deal with difficult customers. I’ve had to, and everyone who I know who is also a freelancer (not all of them writers) have also had to deal with the problem of difficult customers. This article is…
Yesterday, I wrote a sales letter for a product/service hybrid. I was having trouble getting started, so I decided to check out the competitors to see what they were doing wrong. I’ve written about this before in the Gaps in the Market article. This approach is good because if you see something your competitor’s product…
When you are a freelance writer and would-be empire builder, it is very, very easy to get side-tracked. It’s the New Year, which means resolutions. At the very least it means some sort of forward thinking. I wrote a plan for the next few months, and how they are going to look from a writing perspective. As…
I woke up yesterday and had a business idea that would probably make lots of money. What’s more, it was relevant to my education, so it might justify the amount I wasted spent on the expensive certificates on my wall. I was pretty thrilled… but to include it would probably derail my plans. I was…
7 Problems With Scaling Your Business That Nobody Talks About At some point, you’ll have to scale your business up if you want to make more money, compete with bigger fish and save up enough money to buy a Lamborghini in your favourite colour and a Ferrari in your second favourite colour. People online tend…
Success With Writing Is Cumulative: Real World Edition Most people underestimate the amount they can achieve over a sustained period of time. When it comes to authors and writers of all types, they allow themselves to get complacent over the long term. In this article, I’ll show you why you should avoid this. Last night,…
The Niche Site Challenge Week 22 – Let’s Not Fail Edition It’s the twenty-second week of the niche site challenge. The niche site challenge – for those that happen upon this page randomly – is a little challenge I put together for myself (and anyone who wants to join) where we spend a year trying…
… Or The Best Way To Decrease Your Consumer Spending There’s an easy way to stop spending money. I’m going to tell you what that is in this article. Don’t worry… I’m not going to tell you that you have to becoming a minimalist nomad who can fit everything in the boot of their car….
Expected Value A few months back, I came across a concept called “expected value.” It came via way of a poker playing friend, where apparently expected value is a big thing. I can link you to the Wikipedia article for expected value, but frankly it’s a mathematics-fest and I don’t really understand it. What Is…
A Few Weird Habits That WILL Help Your Writing Endless gurus have endless “productivity hacks” which are designed to help you shortcut your way to riches. If you type in “life hacks for writers” you’re probably going to get a billion results with stupid stuff like, “write what you feel… and buy yerba mate tea…