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Making Money Online: How to Professionally Unplug to Get Things Done

In yesterday’s post, Making Money Online: Unplugging to Get Things Done, I talked about how I’d basically shut myself off for about a week from email, social media and blogging to finish a book I was co-authoring.

My co-author and I were finishing up the last few chapters of the book, which we’d been working on for about four weeks. I was just ready to be done with the thing and …

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 and filed under Personal
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Make Money Blogging: Is Your Relationship a Help or a Hindrance to Your Blogging Success?

I’m a huge fan of Dave Ramsey. For those who don’t know, Dave is a talk show host who preaches debt freedom. One of his favorite sayings is, “Debt is dumb.” Why am I talking about Dave Ramsey and debt freedom on a blog about blogging?

Well I assume that most who visit blogs like BloggingTips do so to learn how to make money online – or make more money online. …

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial
Posted on February 9th, 2009 and filed under Personal
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The #1 Dark Secret Many Online Entrepreneurs Have

One of the things that I find the hardest about my career as an online entrepreneur is motivation. I think it’s because many assume that if you’re an online entrepreneur, you’re automatically motivated. Well, to be honest – I’m not — at least half the time. This is a huge chunk when you consider that I make my living completely online (I’m a freelance writer).

Before I go on let me say, …

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial
Posted on December 29th, 2008 and filed under Personal
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Be Careful What You Blog, It Could Cost You Your Job

We’ve all heard the stories about bloggers who have written things about their companies in their personal blogs that have caused them to get fired. Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com is probably one of the most well-known examples of this, but have you considered that your company could fire you just because you blog regardless of whether or not you ever mention your company (by name or not) in your blog?

That’s exactly …

Written by Susan Gunelius from Women On Business
Posted on February 25th, 2008 and filed under Blogging News, Personal
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Classic corporate subterfuge: Writing the email blog

If you’re like many of us, you’re working in your boring, dead-end office job for just one reason: you need a quiet place with internet access where you can update your blog. (Also, it helps you pay for rent and food and stuff. But mostly jobs are about blogging, right?)

Even if you love your job, there are few who can resist the lure of a half-hour of downtime and a quiet desk …

Written by Kris Larson from Carthage
Posted on January 10th, 2008 and filed under Personal
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Setting your blogs goals for 2008

Have you thought about your goals for 2008 yet? Better yet, have your written your goals down and defined them specifically? Its one thing to set goals, it quit another to achieve them. If done correctly you can achieve and possibly exceed any goal that you set for yourself be it Blogging or some other aspect of your life.

Here are some effective ways to set, monitor and track your …

Written by jblanton from Success For Your Blog
Posted on December 27th, 2007 and filed under Personal
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What do you do for a living?

I’ll be going home for Christmas Tuesday, back to a small town of 7,000 people on the edge of Ontario and Minnesota, a place where designers and bloggers are a very foreign concept that I’ll inevitably have to explain to anyone asking “what I’m up too now”.

People don’t really get what a designer or a blogger is there, and explanation of either is usualy meet with confused looks and attempts at …

Written by John Leschinski from Leschinski Design
Posted on December 15th, 2007 and filed under Personal
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