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Write It and Forget It

When it comes to writing for the web, I’ve taken on the mindset of write it and forget it. Unlike writing for print publications, the web provides immediate and permanent feedback in the form of comments.
Just about every online newspaper, content site and blog (of course), allow readers to voice their opinion about what [...]

November 3rd, 2009 | Felicia | 3 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Felicia | 18 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

October 22nd, 2009 | Felicia | 9 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

October 16th, 2009 | Felicia | 16 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

October 15th, 2009 | Felicia | 9 comments | Continued
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Writing – The Mind/Body Connection

Last night I had the pleasure of attending parents’ night at my daughter’s school. It’s my annual chance to follow my daughter’s class schedule to undergo a condensed version of her day. I started out in her homeroom and then walked around the school going to all nine of her classes.
At the end [...]

September 24th, 2009 | Felicia | 8 comments | Continued
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An Update to My Unscientific Experiment

A month ago I performed a little experiment.  I wrote three articles using the same keywords on three different sites (Suite 101, eHow and HubPages) to see how much ‘Google Favor’ affects the success of each article. The purpose of the experiment was to ensure that I was spending my time wisely.
Maria (aka [...]

September 13th, 2009 | Felicia | 6 comments | Continued
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August to August to August

Often times when I feel that I’m making slow progress, I have to take time to see where I came from to determine if I’m actually headed in the right direction.
One of the best ways for me to see if I’m headed in the right direction or if I should change my course is to [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Felicia | 22 comments | Continued
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Confessions of a Non Twitterer

I had resisted signing up for a Twitter account when I first heard about Twitter. I couldn’t see a reason for Twittering.
Over time, I acquiesced and signed up. I checked out a few Twitter services and set up Tweet Later, automated my RSS feed through Twitter and maybe a couple of other things. [...]

September 6th, 2009 | Felicia | 4 comments | Continued
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Creating PDF’s for Free with Open Office

I’m very excited about a software program that I came across. It has pretty much the same functionality that Microsoft Office products have. The software package contains a word processor, database software, spreadsheet program, presentation software and image editing program. It has just about everything anyone would need in a [...]

September 1st, 2009 | Felicia | 9 comments | Continued