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Archive for October, 2009
It’s Your Baby
I subscribe to a newsletter put out by Alan Cohen. I first discovered Alan Cohen a couple of years ago when I read his book Relax into Wealth: How to get more by doing less (you should read it when you have a chance). He doesn’t send out too many newsletters, but when he does [...]
Here’s One for Working Smarter
As most of you know, I’m a statistics junkie (there, I admitted it). I’ve cut back on the amount of statistics I track because I found that stat tracking could be a full time job. That being said, I inadvertently ran an experiment. The experiment solidified my belief that it’s so much better to work [...]
QualityGal Updates Payment Structure
Earlier on, I had written a post on the writing site QualityGal. It has received a thumbs up from several of my readers. Recently I received an email from Ashley from QualityGal. She wanted to let me know that QualityGal has revised their payment structure, and that effective November 1, their pay scale will be [...]
My USA Today Interview about eHow
Wow, I was mentioned in a USA Today article about Richard Rosenblatt, the owner of Demand Media which owns eHow and Demand Studios among other online sites. About a week or so ago I was interviewed by Jeff Graham of USA Today. I didn’t get too excited because I’ve been interviewed before by other reporters [...]
You Gotta Get Active In Order to Enjoy Passive Income
I was on Kidgas’ blog today and his final statement on a recent post made me chuckle “Just wish that passive income was less active.” He’s got a point, but residual income becomes more passive and less active over time. The amount of initial activity usually depends on two things: How much money you want [...]
Another Online Writing Site: Digital Journal
Digital Journal boasts that it has journalists in over 140 countries. That means that this opportunity is open to international writers. To make sure I wrote to them and asked if they accept non-US writers and they quickly responded with a confirmation that they do. Here are current stats on Digital Journal: Alexa Page rank [...]
Let’s Get Rid of Those Dreaded Belly Fat Ads!
Over the past week or so I had been watching my Google AdSense income for one of my sites slowly decline. First it was barely noticeable until finally, the ad revenue reached an all time low. The drop was so severe I had to check to see if my website was still online. I navigated [...]
Oh Those Plagiarists…
Grandma, I think you’ll get a kick out of this post. Just recently you made a comment about your frustration with folks who steal content. Being new to Xomba, I decided to set a daily schedule of adding Xomblurbs/Xombytes. It seems that the successful Xombies (??) are those who post new content on a regular [...]
So Many Writing Sites – How Do I Choose?
The Internet is fraught with content sites looking for freelance writers. Some of them pay on a per page view basis and others pay on a revenue share basis. There are still others that use a combination of both. No matter what the payment plan is, there are a few things I check out before [...]
Earning Money with Xomba
A couple of weeks ago I signed up to write for social bookmarking site Xomba. I had run across Xomba before and had been approached by other folks to sign up but chose to pass on the opportunity after visiting the site. At that time the site looked very spammy and I didn’t want to [...]
