Weird news from the awesome Rick over at PandaPassport.com: I was a little disappointed to see that, especially since I had written a pretty hefty Dalian piece for them a while back. Maybe they figured that if I did one piece pro-bono, that I wouldn’t mind if they lifted all the stuff I’d written about…
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Bazaar
Christmas season is coming. The best opportunity for business is participating in bazaars. You can sell whatever things you like. It can be gift ideas for christmas, clothes, flowers, and furnitures. But before deciding to have one, make sure that you have enogh budget to buy your things to sell. Then, get a supplier or…
Freelance Writing
I have a full-time job on the weekdays.I hang out with my girlfriend on thursdays and fridays. When i get home from work, i get on websites like ninerniner.com, associatedcontent.com and textbroker.com and do some freelance writing. I set up a paypal account and all of the money i get from those websites goes right…
Upstart
In the spirit of my recent Craig’s List finds, here’s an older one from Simpson’s Paradox on the same topic: Just saw an ad looking for writers for “an upstart magazine”. I’m thinking they meant “a startup magazine”, you know, a no pay, write for exposure, percentage of clickthoughs, etc., magazine, rather than a presumptuous…
Credit Cards and Freelancing
An article called How a Credit Card Makes Freelancers Bawl on how to avoid common problems with credit cards, accounting and freelancing. It’s geared to freelance writers but it’s good advice for anyone with a home business or startup. Meet Joe, a freelance writer with a decent portfolio containing a mix of print and online…
Tips for a successful buzz marketing
The buzz marketing is very attractive since the goal is to make marketing without spending a cent. In the traditional marketing, you have to spend a lot of money to make advertisings in TV, to put a classified ad in news paper… With the buzz marketing, you will be able to put life in your…
my business
ive been busy lately with my business. a lot of reservers now!! and im so happy. once my boxes arrived from US ill contact immediately my customer for their payments. then ill send their items. thats easy but a little stressful. but im happy doing my business. it makes my day complete.
Market Rates
An anonymous Craig’s Lister posted this guide to standard market rates. I guess he or she was also tired of applying to jobs, and wasting time exchanging emails to find out that “the going rate” is 25 cents per blog post. Sure, you can get content for that price… if you want to outsource to…
Starting Your Business
Starting a business i not that easy to do. It needs lot of efforts, mind buggling thinking, and study of course. ONce you have decided on what kind of business you are planning to establish try to have a study first before putting it to action. Try to determine if that plan of yours will…
Eating Better While Working At Home
I saw this article on Putting the “Work” Back Into “Freelance Worker” on Freelance Writing Jobs There was quite long list of ways to treat your home office more like a clock-in job (although you’ll still have to deal with the “I’m busy, it’s not like you have any REAL work, you work from home!”)….