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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 — […]
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 […]
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? […]
A lot of you read this blog in Google Reader. That’s the tool I’ve longed used, too, to read my crazy list of blogs and find fodder for clients’ social channels. But Google is about to kill its Reader. (This is one of the first times I’ve been seriously disappointed with Google. If you kill […]
Last year I decided to run an experiment. I wanted to offer free webinars. I did this with a specific goal in mind: to grow my email list. Growing my list has been one of my primary goals over the last year because it’s my most direct line to my community. It’s how I foster […]
This month, my boyfriend’s family came to visit from the UK. My boyfriend’s mother had one request: Could we secure tickets to the Holocaust Memorial Museum? She’d wanted to go to the museum during her visit to the States last year, but both times she stopped by to pick up tickets, the lines were hours […]
I’ve long touted Rapportive as a must-have networking tool. The free Gmail add-on pops up as a sidebar anytime someone sends you an email, so you can easily see more about them — their photo, where they live, job title and links to whatever social networks they use so you can easily connect with them […]
Many of us strive for a bigger platform. We want to connect with more people and gain the trust of more readers. But what happens when BIGGER and MORE has side effects? As my community grows, I’m facing a problem I haven’t yet figured out how to deal with: emails. In addition to the dozens, […]
Notice anything new today? Alexisgrant.com got a makeover! And a pretty FUN one, don’t you think? (If you’re reading this in an RSS feed, click over to the blog to see our new look!) Behind every site redesign, there’s a story. This post explains WHY I went for a new look, HOW I got it […]