Dear Jodee, I’ve been writing for magazines for a long time, but with the print media struggling to retain readers gigs are harder to get, so I thought I’d investigate writing for on-line sources. From reading e-books and “pro” Blogger sites it seemed that a reasonable income could be earned this way. Some of the professional writer sites (not just bloggers) decry the skill levels of most Blogger forums and state that participating in them will actually hurt a good writer’s ability to get assignments from more reputable publishers.

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Can I Make Money Blogging? – Does This Close the Door to More "Reputable" Writing Opportunities?

In executive compensation disputes, an executive can gain substantial leverage if the subject compensation, typically a bonus, can be classified as “wages” within the meaning of NY Labor Code section 190(1). If the bonus constitutes “wages,” then the bonus is protected against any meddling by the employer and must be paid in full pursuant to section 193 of the Labor Code. In New York, and most other states, wages are protected and must be paid promptly.

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When Bonus Payments are Protected by the NY Labor Code

I’m feeling motivational today.  You might think that motivation is for wimps and losers.  You might think that motivation is cheesy.  You might want to think again.  Affiliate Marketing can be a very isolated industry.  Communication is all done over wires and screens, and it’s every man for himself out there.  You don’t have a manager telling you what to do.  You don’t have anyone setting goals for you.  If you aren’t careful, you can slip into a downward spiral very quickly when things go wrong. I’m a firm believer in goals.  You have to set them, write them down on paper, and put them somewhere you can see them every day.  I have never missed a goal that I have written down this way.  Try it, you might surprise yourself.

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Getting Down To Business

When you began your career as a freelance writer, you probably did so knowing that you were giving up some level of job security (assuming you left a full-time job to pursue freelancing). But if we’ve learned anything in recent years it’s that very few “real jobs” are actually secure. That’s often a myth

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How to Make Freelance Writing the Most Secure Job Opportunity Around

Hard disk failure is possibly the worst thing that can happen to your computer and it often occurs without giving any warning signs. Test Your Hard Drive for Impending Problems You may however run certain tests on your computer beforehand to get an idea about the current condition of your hard disk

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How to Check the Health of your Hard Drive

Two recent stories from two different parts of the US continue the theme of ever increasing concentration of power in our health care system. Connecticut The Hartford Business Journal reported on growing interest in mergers among small Connecticut hospitals.

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More Examples of US Hospital Market Consolidation: Connecticut and Florida

Also available at: http://danielwrasmus.wordpress.com/ As America grasps for innovative ways to exit the recession, we have forgotten a fundamental business reality: measurement determines behavior. Ask any sales person if their bonus structure determines which products they lead with or not. The problem with America’s national investments is that they say green, but they shout industrial age thinking

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Strategic Measures–Toward New Measures for a Sustainable, Knowledge Economy

I’ve known Rae Hoffman , aka Sugarrae, for close to a decade. She’s a highly respected SEO and Super Affiliate, a successful consultant, and now the owner of both Outspoken Media and MFE Interactive .

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Candid Interview with Super Affiliate “Sugarrae” aka Rae Hoffman

Stacey Abler contacted me recently with a question about a new prospect. In her email she mentioned that she was considering offering a discount just because the contract could be a long-term regular one

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How To Give Clients More for Their Money Without Cutting Your Rates

Bow Wow WOW! (click the link to see inside the book at Barnes and Noble) Here is a giveaway for all you love to dress your pups in Halloween costumes ! Oct 31st will be here before we know it and the time to get stitching is soon. I’ll be giving away a few copies during September and October so if you don’t win the first time check back for future giveaways! How do you enter

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Bow Wow WOW! Giveaway!

In August, most of the businesses in Paris shut down while a vast number of people take their annual holiday vacations. And in case you think that’s a grammatical error, in French one says les vacances , in the plural.

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Farro Salad with Tomatoes, Mushrooms and Basil

MUMBAI: When American Senator Charles Schumer described Indian software firms as `chop shops’, few imagined that the taxman back home could add salt to the slur. Indeed, Indian income-tax authorities are beginning to claim tax on the money that software firms make by sending their boys to work with companies in the US, Europe and other markets—a business that is known as onshore software development, or simply ‘body shopping’. For the I-T department, this is an activity that involves export of manpower and not export of software.

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Onsite revenues of IT companies under tax scanner

In a world where Windows has dominated the PC market for years, there has recently been a rise in popularity for alternative operating systems (OS). Apple’s OS X has become very popular for video producers, graphic artists, and web designers

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VMware Workstation vs. VMware Fusion

Click Here for Your Free Pass to the Online Copywriting Summit While I was at NAMS in Atlanta , I had a chance to sit down with Karon Thackston and Chris Cobb. You may recognize their names

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Free Pass to the Online Copywriting Summit

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising can do more than simply create traffic for your website. If creatively executed, you can put the search engines to work for you and create a brand people can identify. When it comes to PPC advertising solutions, Google AdWords is pretty much king.

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Advantages of Pay-Per-Click

Let’s turn back the clock to the fall of 2009. I was the sole blogger here at All Freelance Writing. Traffic was already fairly significant.

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How We Increased Blog Traffic by 80% in Less Than a Year (and How You Can Too!)

Fresh out of college, I landed a job writing one-page sell sheets for a marketing company for $50 each. On a rare excellent day, I might do as many as two of these.

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How to NOT Get Paid to Write Online (And Make Money Doing It)

I spent the weekend in Atlanta at the Niche Affiliate Marketing Workshop hosted by David Perdew. This is the 4th time I’ve attended and taught at “NAMS”, and I’ll be doing it again in January 2011.

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Back From The Niche Affiliate Workshop…

I had a wonderful trip to New York City recently and shared some of the places that I visited (see links at end of post), but there were plenty more places that I ate at, which didn’t get mentioned in previous posts. So here’s a round-up of them… Katz’s Most of the good delis are gone in New York City, but Katz’s is an institution and I like to believe it’s never going to let me down. I’ve had great meals there, but on this visit, my corned beef was tough and almost all of the meat inside my sandwich was inedible.

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New York City Dining and Travel Notes

There will be consequences if you don't understand the rules and the stakes of Facebook Places. Love it or hate it, you'll need to understand it, says guru B. L

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The Implications of Facebook Pages for you and your business: B.L. Ochman’s blog