On one of the three forums I visit regularly, this one related to affiliate marketing, there’s a discussion thread started by someone everyone there respects. This person has been doing affiliate marketing more or less full-time for several years and just explained in this discussion thread that he’s selling off his websites and shutting down his affiliate marketing business to start a new full-time “off line” career.
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Here’s a little tip for bloggers, mostly for those who post comments on blogs; SPECIFICALLY for those of you who try to sp*m this and other blogs with idiotic comments just to get a link back to your money-making scheme or cr*p-filled website. Don’t waste your time: Most blogs run on WordPress software, which automatically makes all links in post comments into “nofollow” links.
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My wife and I had a long talk over the weekend (or earlier this week, maybe?) about our future. I’ll say up front, we are both in our early-to-mid-60s, not necessarily “too old,” but certainly pushing the envelope for something like starting a brand new career.
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It’s been awhile since I’ve mentioned “jargon,” so I thought it about time to put together a brief reminder: Avoid using jargon in your writing, except when it’s necessary.
“Jargon” may be loosely defined as language that belongs to a particular group, profession, or activity. So using it becomes necessary when you’re communicating with someone who understands the particular jargon you’re using.
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It just occurred to me that I should point you to a couple of resources you can use if you wish to create a disclosure policy for your blog or website. Take a look at mine, if you wish. It may not work for you, and it may have far more or less than you want. But it’ll give you some example of what I’m doing. You’ll find it linked to as “Privacy” in the navigation links of this website.
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I just searched through my posts on this site, and I cannot find anything related to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines that were issued a few months ago about bloggers and others who use customer testimonials on their websites.
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I posted here a few days ago about The Keyword Academy and urged anyone interested in learning about ways of building websites and online writing to check it out. (If you’re interested, check out the “We Recommend” box on the top of the right-hand sidebar on every page of this website.)
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I have to confess that I’ve spent most of my writing life in a sort of tension between “wannabe” and “gottabe.” I’ve always told myself I want to be successful as a novelist. But most of my writing life has been taken up with writing I’ve had to do in order to pay the bills.
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It occurs to me that I may never have mentioned The Keyword Academy to my faithful followers here as a terrific site to learn about making money by writing website and blog content. (You’ll find the same link in that last sentence that you’ll find at the top of the right-hand column [sidebar] of each page on my site here.)
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If you want to find lots of online writing opportunities, I recommend you look for sites that publish lots of “how-to” articles, then contact them and ask whether they accept freelance submissions. With a bit of searching, you can even find a couple of websites that offer steady work for people who like to write “how-to” articles and are good at it.
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I wrote a recent article here about insurance, especially health insurance for freelancers, and even invited comments from anyone who’s found a good, reasonably cheap resource for such insurance.
We’ve recently, in my household, begun looking at the many ins and outs and options of Medicare. Yes, the years are rushing by and my wife, not ME, is approaching Medicare age in the next six months or so. What we’ve learned already is this: It’s much easier to find simple, cheap life insurance rates than to find anything resembling easy, SIMPLE answers to health insurance for Medicare clients.
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I’m discovering daily at how the Internet continues to “blur” the line between plain written words and video, in everything from off line publications to online design and content of websites.
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