Many of you find the transition to working at home very difficult, understandably.  There is a lot of risk in quitting your job to sit in front of the computer for fourteen hours a day.   I know, because I have done it myself.  I spent twelve years of my life working construction and building maintenance, knowing the entire time it was not what I wanted to do.

Now days I make my living working from home as a freelance writer and blogger for several blogs as well as my own projects(my…

What started as a way to update your friends on your life has spiraled out of control. Suddenly, strangers are finding your site and commenting. You’re popping up on Google searches. People know who you are! And, as you know, with increased notoriety comes increased hatred from random strangers.

Obviously, you don’t want to write anything libelous. But apart from that, at what point do you need to start bowing to public opinion? When you’re trying to decide whether to take down or modify a post, consider these factors:

Shame
The internet is…

You see the word ‘blog’ a lot these days. It seems like everyone has a blog, from grandmothers to garden supply stores. What started out as a few bored geeks posting online diaries has rapidly grown into a phenomenon that’s difficult to describe.

Just what constitutes a blog? Can a series of posts about a company’s product, peppered with links and keywords and SEO terms, really be considered in the same category as a thirteen year old’s MySpace journal written entirely in bad haiku? With such a range of options out…

In the space of 2 days I have received around 20 emails via my ad on the problogger boards for some new authors on Blogging Tips.

One of the things that has astounded me is how little time some bloggers spend on their application email for a blogging position. Your first email to a company is the most important one, they do not know who you are so your first email determines their first impression of you and if that impression isn’t good there might not be a second email!

When applying…

A few months ago I posted on a forum that I was looking for some authors for BloggingTips. I didn’t find anyone at that time so I put it to the side until Mark from 45n5 posted about how he is hiring a writer for one of his blogs, this inspired me to get off my lazy ass and get something done about it. Most of the writers I contacted were quoting a few hundred dollars a month for posting so I was a bit skeptical at first when Mark assured…