Happy Friday! Links from this week you might enjoy: New to freelancing? Avoid these mistakes, writer Thursday Bram says on Brazen Life. It’s as much about you as the book, says FundsforWriters’ Hope Clark. This is true now more than ever. Rose Egge, a 20-something who’s battling cancer, writes about how her work here is […]
I’ve been a mad woman this week. My new guide, How to Take a Career Break to Travel, launches Monday, and there are what seems like a million moving parts that need attention. You’d think writing the guide would be the majority of the work, but I’d say it’s only about half. The other half […]
Every once in a while, as I’m planning my blog posts for the upcoming week, I’ll think to myself, “You haven’t had a post lately with a lot of comments. Which of the posts in your queue will solicit a lot of feedback?” Because what blogger doesn’t like feedback? Comments are proof that someone’s actually […]
If there’s a secret to growing any blog with a personal component, it’s this: Blog about where you want to go, not where you are. Where you are can be interesting, entertaining even. But where you want to go engages us on a totally different level. Because when you share where you want to go, […]
Happy fall! I’m writing from my parents’ house in upstate New York, where I’m hanging out with Cooper (the dog I brought home from a writer’s colony) while they’re on vacation. So far, this has proven to be one of the best perks of becoming self-employed; I can work from wherever is convenient! Thought-provoking links […]
We can only teach ourselves so much. You can practice, practice, practice. You can read blog posts and watch YouTube tutorials. You can — and this is my favorite — closely watch others who successfully do what you want to do and see how they do it. But if you really want to take your […]
Since I launched my eguide on starting a social-media consulting biz, several people have asked how I help small businesses and organizations build online communities. When you run a social media campaign for a company, how do you go about doing it? It differs according to each client. It also differs according to your consulting […]
When I launched my first eguide on social media consulting, I didn’t have a plan. I knew enough to let my network know about the product and encourage them to tell their networks about it. I knew enough to pitch guest posts at blogs with good-sized audiences. And I knew enough to offer an affiliate […]
Between my soon-to-launch guide, potential new clients and other projects, I’m swamped — in a good way. But I still took a few minutes to give you a heads up on great links from this week: This Forbes piece argues for rethinking the risk of entrepreneurship. I’ve been following this woman’s quest to get pregnant […]
During a recent blog-coaching session with the fabulous Sarah Bagley, we were brainstorming how to grow her readership. (Yes, I’m offering blog coaching for individuals!) And Sarah had an ah-ha moment that was rather genius, one that’s worth sharing with you. She used to focus on commenting on other people’s blogs to lure them to […]