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will keep you up-to-date about useful business tools I come across. You
also learn about my projects and their outcomes.
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forward to sharing with you.
Alexander Kohl
Feb 12, 2008, Writing as a Home Based Business
I have entered the competition. More out of fun (and for the free goodies).
The more important thought is that freelance writing can be a great home based business. If you have ever thought about it, check out my other site: www.freelance-writing-career.com.
Wikipedia shows that about 950,000 books are published each year. Only a handful reach the bestseller lists.
Is it pure luck or is there a system behind it?
According to Mark Joyner, a blueprint exists to achieve bestseller status. He has followed this blueprint and turned 3 of his books into bestsellers.
And now he is going to share that blueprint with us. It is released as a new Simpleology training.
If you have read more of this site, you probably know how much I admire his work. So I will surely enter the competition, just because every entry is going to get a course for free, not to speak of if you win...
Selling Service is very different from selling products. Your clients cannot test before they buy. But you can build personal relationships to attract the most profitable clients.
I have just implemented a fantastic tool (that is if you are a freelance writer and looking for job opportunities):
You can subscribe to receive daily emails with the latest job offers from 25 job and bidding sites on the net. Or you can keep up to date with an RSS feed.
That's why I have neglected this site. Fair enough reason?
Dec 21, 2007, Great Blogging Overview
I went through the Simpleology course on Blogging. My verdict: Great if you want to get a good overview on blogging, but not specific enough to help you make the most important decisions.
It outlines what the important decisions are:
Choosing your niche
How to generate high quality content
How to build traffic
Possible ways to monetize
It also gives some good pointers of other resources on the Internet to do all these things. But it does not give specific help or advice which route to take.
It is still free, so I highly recommend grabbing it quickly. But you need a blog to do that. Then again, if you interested in learning about blogging, you already have one, or you can just set one up for free. It tells you how.
It's been 3 weeks that I have been using Spam Arrest. It is great.
I got used to choosing the email sender account in Outlook. Only takes a second.
One other drawback is that there are some automated emails that I want to receive. I had to manually add them to the authenticated emails. That took a bit of extra time in the first few days.
And one person complained that they had to go through the authenticate process. I was happy to explain why that was and now she is looking at Spam Arrest as well.
Definitely a worthwhile investment. (They've got this special for $20 for 6 months at sign-up.)
Oct 15, 2007, Home Based Business Start Up and Beyond
A home based business start up is only the beginning. During the growing pains you will either take the business into maturity and eventual decline. Or you start a Second Youth with even more exciting growth.
I just received a glowing email from a friend. She was so excited that she had found this organisation that is making a huge impact on small - well in fact tiny - businesses: Kiva.org.
They are giving micro loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries. That concept is great anyway, but this website takes it one step further and makes you feel as though you are a personal part of it.
