5 Warning Signs Your Blog Network Will Rip You Off
Here are five warning signs that the blog or blog network you’re looking at writing for isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
On Starting Projects: Finding a Balance Between Iteration & Planning
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on the beginnings of a project that I’m quite excited about. This project is the first time I’ve ever gone to the effort of building something around one of my biggest interests, though I won’t reveal which one here.
Helping People: How You Really Make a Business Work
What’s more important to the success of your business–helping people or making money? I believe in helping people first. Here’s why you should, too.
The Right Fear Will Help You Succeed
Most people I’ve spoken to who want to leave behind work they hate and do the work of their dreams tell me that there’s one thing stopping them from giving it a go. That thing is fear.
The 10 Most Common Freelancer Mistakes
Making the switch from employee to self-employed is a tough job. But it doesn’t end there–there’s plenty that can go wrong once you’re in the big chair. Here are ten of the most common mistakes that freelancers and entrepreneurs make so that you can avoid them.
Why Mullenweg Should Stop Trolling Pearson Over the GPL
There was some intense drama today when Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson clashed over the use of the GPL license in WordPress themes. Here’s why I think Mullenweg is making a bad decision, and what lessons you can take from this for your own business.
Marketing Lessons from Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy
Chinese Democracy, the album that Axl Rose has been working on for over ten years, has almost become the stuff of legends. After so many delays, leaks and band line-up changes, it’s hard to believe that this album will ever be released.
But we can certainly learn some marketing lessons from Chinese Democracy and Guns N’ Roses: from both the mistakes they’ve made and the things they’ve done well.
eBook: Evernote Essentials
Evernote is a fantastic tool for capturing and organizing all kinds of information. I’ve been using it for years now–long enough not to remember when I started!
Tips & Techniques for Web Editors: Approaching an Edit
I’m not doing a whole lot of editing at Envato right now, but I’m thinking about it a lot. Not long ago, we hired some site editors for the blogs I’m responsible for so that I could focus more on growing readerships and revenue, and of course, focus on finding new ways for these sites to help people liberate themselves from careers they don’t enjoy and make something out of their dreams (it’s what we do).
Wired: Ad-funded Guardian could switch off presses by 2015
There’s a lot more to admire about the Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, than most newspaper chiefs. But there’s one thing I keep hearing again and again from the traditional media, and it’s on the feasibility of paywalls. There are many cases of proven success with paywall strategies online. The question is not whether or not paywalls work, because they do–it’s whether a publisher can come up with an implementation that works.