5 Ways to Offer Awesome Content Without Pulling Your Hair Out

July 23, 2013

No time to create original content? Try these ways to offer solid content to your community without spending all your waking hours researching, writing and publishing.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Launching a Big Website

July 15, 2013

The Write Life is live! This resource for writers has been a vision for more than a year, and we’ve finally brought it to life. The goal of the multi-author blog is to help writers create, connect and earn. So what does it take to launch a big website? A whole LOT of work — […]

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Why I’m Hella Nervous to Launch The Write Life

July 10, 2013

The Write Life launches ON MONDAY! While I should be super excited to launch this new website for writers, a project that’s been in my mind for more than a year and is now finally coming to life, here’s how I actually feel: NERVOUS AS HELL. Why? Because this is my first time launching a […]

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When Absolutely Freakin’ Amazing Becomes Normal

July 8, 2013

When you return home from an event like the World Domination Summit, you feel full. Full of ideas. Full of inspiration. Full of optimism. And full of bits and pieces you want to digest and cobble together and most importantly, act on while they all still make sense inside your cluttered head. Let’s hit pause […]

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The Greatest Gift the Internet Gives Us (and What’s So Great About WDS)

July 4, 2013

It’s nearly that time of year again, when thousands of entrepreneurs, digital thinkers and other creative go-getters descend upon Portland for Chris Guillebeau’s annual World Domination Summit. I’m en route as we speak, excited for an event I’m betting will be even better than last year’s. Many of the attendees at this conference have huge […]

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How to Find Your First Social Media Client

July 1, 2013

You know social media like nobody's business. You're a Twitter power user, you've unlocked all of LinkedIn's secrets, you see Pinterest as a work of art, and you know Facebook inside out. Yet while carefully curating tumblrs is fun, eventually you're going to want to get paid. So how do you find your first client? […]

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Writers’ Roundup: June 28

June 28, 2013

It’s been an exciting week! We had a great webinar with Ryan Ferrier of The 60-Day MBA, who’s offering a freelance edition of his course just for this community. (Signup closes Sunday!) My business, Socialexis, finally has its own site; more details in an upcoming newsletter about why we decided to go that route. And […]

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How to Be More Productive and Accomplish the Big Things That Really Matter

June 24, 2013

Do you ever open your email in the morning with the intention of spending just an hour or two sifting through messages, and then look up to find you’ve spent your entire day responding to emails? Or maybe you reach the end of the day and wonder, what the heck did I get done today? […]

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Writers’ Roundup: June 21

June 21, 2013

Hey there! We’ve got lots of goodies for you this week: Suffering from some tough breaks lately? Not to worry; Jon Acuff reminds us that easy lives create boring stories. If you haven’t paid a visit to Jenny Blake’s fabulous new site yet, you’re missing out. Here, she breaks down the 9 steps behind the […]

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Why New Mothers Need a Middle Ground Between Leaning In and Opting Out

June 17, 2013

While half the blogosphere shouts from the rooftops about how we should all “lean in,” plenty of women are going the opposite route, choosing to “opt out” of the workforce. Or, as some stay-at-home moms prefer to call it, “opt into a different kind of career.” How do I know? Because a lot of my […]

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