Author: Tara

Attention Freelancers: This is a must-read. Samuel over at Wake Up Later blogged about the “10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers”. My favorite is #6 — “I have a great idea. Do you want to…?” I bet you wish you had a dollar for every prospect who approached you with that line. There are a lot […]

Click on over to Smashing Magazine to get a first-hand glimpse of 30 interesting blog designs. Some were very interesting. I liked Elitist Snob. It’s a clean, cute design that reminds me of Freelance Switch — a blog I enjoy reviewing on a regular basis. With only a month until the end of 2007, maybe […]

Liz Gaines over at NewTeeVee, following up on an earlier article on how to master viral video advertising, penned an interesting post about how a Stanford graduate student achieved over 20 million views on YouTube – but not necessarily in the most admirable way. Who you are, how you show up, what you do every […]

Dougal Campbell at Geek Ramblings shares some interesting thoughts in a white paper entitled How to Create a Secure WordPress Install which he ran across at BlogSecurity.net In this 10-page document, written by Philipp Heinze and David Kierznoski, you can learn what you need to know to make your WordPress install more secure. This whitepaper […]

Are you trying to navigate your way through the confusing world of SEO when it comes to optimizing your blog? Patrick Altoft, from the UK, is the author of Blogstorm, an internet marketing blog. In a recent article on SEOmoz.com, he shares some tips on how to reveal and/or cloak your incoming links depending on […]

Deb Ng, a freelance writer, wrote a post at Performancing about how she makes money with her blog. Posting about a prior story by Amy Derby who makes $1,000 per month on her blog, Deb shares with us what she’s doing in terms of monetization. From Adsense to Amazon, combined with a bit of Kontera […]

Technology has made it possible for us to do more things – to get more done. And now that we’ve managed to cram in to one day what used to take us three or four, our next challenge is remembering all the things we need to do. Over the years we’ve used all sorts of […]

I love to use mind mapping. It’s fun, easy, and a wonderful way to add a bit of creativity to everything we do. Earlier this year, I interviewed a woman named Jamie Nast, author of Idea Mapping, for my weekly television program, Michigan Entrepreneur. We had a great time. She’s been teaching mind mapping to […]

Commenting on blogs is probably not at the top of your To Do List — but maybe it should be. It’s certainly one strategy to build good solid traffic, as well as subscribers, to your blog. Darren Rowse at http://Problogger.net recently wrote a post about Caroline Middlebrook who did a great job of increasing her […]

It’s time to step away from the computer and get out of the house to enjoy some fresh air and socializing with fellow bloggers from around the world. Our friends over at Mashable: Social Networking News have assembled an awesome list of real-world events where we can network with people who love the online world […]