A Stupid Negotiation That Freelancers Are Forced Into Let’s talk about a terrible situation freelance writers (and other variations of freelancer) find themselves in that can be completely avoided. This situation is as follows: Freelancer approaches or is approached to do work for a client. The project is large in size, so the freelancer agrees…
On Giving Away Free Novels Check out this guy: Let’s not beat a dead horse here: This is a stupid idea and if you’ve read more than three articles on this blog it’s statistically impossible for you to not understand my opinion is don’t work for free. Yet this whole “Give away freebies” persists….
Writing Characters Of The Opposite Gender I couldn’t think of a topic to write about today, so I browed Reddit’s writing section. This is always a mistake. I wouldn’t advise anyone use it for actual writing advice – it is populated by people who aren’t very successful at writing who give a lot of advice…
If You’re A One-Man Business, Stop Thinking Like One Every time I’ve tried to scale, I’ve hit a metaphorical brick wall. The problem is that I started with no money, no skills, no experience and no book of contacts. So I learned to do everything myself. And I mean everything. Photoshop, copywriting, web design, emails,…
Copywriting For Charities Let’s talk about some weird thing that pops up every so often in copywriting circles. How do you approach copywriting for charities? Before I get into the meat of this topic, let’s get one thing straight: You use the exact same principles for copywriting for charities as you do when you do…
Let’s talk about Flippa and buying websites. Now if you’re a regular member of the blog, you know we’ve done this before. In fact, most of the articles about this are private, password protected posts. And so, if you know what’s in them, you’re probably thinking, “Jamie… you’re not going to give away the goods…
The Gut Feeling I saw a couple of people asking questions recently about following your gut, and asking how you get a mind for business. Now, for the more charismatic among you, I imagine there are some Tony Robbins sized businesses in the above sentence. For the rest of us though, there’s a problem to…
Let’s talk about transitioning a niche site into something else. At some point, you’re going to have a project where you think, “Should I make a niche site or should I take the idea and do something more with it?” After reading this article, you won’t have to worry about this question. I’ll show you…
Direct Response Copywriting In The Internet Age Have you read great books like The Boron Letters because somebody told you that those books were the key to learning direct response copywriting? When you finished them, did you think, “That’s great and I get it, but who uses actual envelopes anymore? How does this work on…
Six Niche Site Mistakes I’ve Made That You Shouldn’t Quick article today. Here are six mistakes I’ve made with niche sites that you don’t have to. I’ve given you the problems and the solutions for each thing, and getting these things right will probably be the difference between a successful project and a fail of…