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If you read yesterday’s post, you will know that I have a blogging buddy (something that is highly recommended by this very Challenge and elsewhere): Mario Kluser of Mario LIVE! So, the other day I received a wonderful and insightful comment from a reader, Miryam Stenger, on my post titled The Successful Freelancer Knows How to Compartmentalize, and I told Mario about it. I said, hey, I got the best comment ever from this woman I don’t know, perhaps a new reader. Meanwhile, I approved the comment (it was her first on this blog) and it appeared at the bottom of the post. [read more…]

This post is part of the series, Freelancing. See the rest!

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The main goal of this blog is to help people bridge the gap between their “real” life and their “online” life. Some people have a rich online life that is limited to email and browsing, but think they absolutely cannot have a website of their own, that they don’t know where to start, and so forth.
The beauty of this 31-day challenge promoted by Problogger’s Darren Rowse is that it helps you, step by step, improve your blog (but a lot of the advice is valuable also for other kinds of websites) with specific tasks. The only thing you need to bear in mind is that for this challenge to be truly helpful, you must already have a blog or website. This challenge is for those who are not absolute beginners, but are not yet fully fledged professionals. The in-betweens. I fall into this category, so it is the ideal challenge for me. I have a few followers, I have some subscribers, I have a newsletter that is slowly growing, and I am set up for advertising and affiliate sales. I just have to find new ways of letting people know that I exist and giving them good content they can enjoy and perhaps learn something from. [read more…]

This post is part of the series, 31-Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. See the rest!

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Everyone Should Have a Blog

April 24, 2009

In this post I advance my theory that everyone should have a blog. Blogging allows you to explore all kinds of media and forms of communication, as well as helping you become a better communicator. Not to mention the fun!

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Promoting a Post in Your Blog – day 3 – 31-DBBB

April 8, 2009

In this post I describe how I tackled the task of the 3rd day of the Challenge. Today we were supposed to choose one of our best posts and promote it in various different ways. I chose four ways to promote my post on Freelancers and how they can manage their time and I detail how I went about it here.

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5 Great Reasons to Have an aStore (Amazon Store) – Day 2 – 31-DBBB Challenge

April 7, 2009

In this post I fulfill the task for the second day of the Challenge, which is to write a “list post.” I also announce the opening of my very own Amazon Store (aStore for short).

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Day 1 of the 31-Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge: The Elevator Pitch

April 6, 2009

In this post I accept the Challenge launched by Darren Rowse, the 31-Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. The task for today, day 1, is to write an Elevator Pitch for our blog — if you only have the time of an elevator ride with someone, what would you tell them about your blog to convince them to become readers. Great fun!

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What Are You Good At? Whatever It Is, Diversify

April 5, 2009

We all know how to do many things, but we rarely think of ourselves as talented or as having a lot to offer. I want to change that, one post at a time, by focusing on what we already know how to do, and how to make that work to our advantage in this day and age.

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Ask Egg Bird: How to Upload Photos to Facebook

April 5, 2009

In this post I teach Nancy from Connecticut how to upload photos to Facebook.

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The Successful Freelancer Knows How to Compartmentalize

March 30, 2009

In this post I tackle some of the pitfalls of going freelance: time management, limiting the work hours, keeping a lid on the amount of worrying, and respecting our own time as valuable to us and others.

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Read All About It: Our Newsletter Hits the Stands!

March 25, 2009

In this post I announce the arrival of the Life+Web Newsletter and describe what readers can expect in each issue.

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