Most of us would dearly love to get 211,657 visitors to our site in a year. But what if a 6 word poll could start an avalanche  of visitors to your site? Could it be possible for you?

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211,657 amazing visitors to my site – from a 6 word poll?

In a shocking announcement, John Reese recently shared that he sold everything he owned and was off to travel the world. The only material possessions he had left fit into a backpack he carried with him as he set out on the journey.

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Getting Focused On What Really Matters…

Have you ever walked into an airport, seen that there is nobody in line at the check-in counter, but still made a bee-line for the self-service kiosk? Better yet, have you ever waited in line for an ATM machine even though there is nobody in line for the teller inside the bank? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, you’re not alone

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Why Your Customers Don’t Want to Talk to You

We needed to install one of those hand-held shower gadgets in the bathroom that my mother-in-law uses. We found a nice-looking Waterpik ® product, one that requires no tools for installation. It did, however, require several sharp implements to get the unit out of its plastic armor

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Around the house

I don’t talk about finances much here other than issues revolving around rates and making money. That’s an area where I know my stuff, but I leave the rest to our resident financial experts. Today though I want to talk about money — my money — with a personal look at how freelance success has, and hasn’t, changed how I spend

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Money and the Freelance Life (or Why I Drive a Really Old Car)

We have a few changes happening at All Freelance Writing, and I wanted to make you aware of them. Here’s the rundown: Matt Willard was doing a trends-focused humor series here

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Some Blog Schedule Changes You Should Know About

This Friday my guest will be Kathy Goughenour, who left a soul-sucking corporate job to run a successful business from her cabin in the woods! Kathy is an experienced, savvy marketer. From corporate marketing to direct sales to virtual assistant to internet marketer, she’s been there and done that professionally and personally. After taking the leap of

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Friday’s guest is Virtual Assistant expert Kathy Goughenour

In psychology, the term ” identified patient ” refers to a family member — often a child or a teenager — who gets scapegoated for behavior that is actually just a predictable response to dealing with an unhealthy family. Tony Hayward is BP’s identified patient.

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Tony Hayward Is a Scapegoat

Ideas are the bread and butter of the marketing business, if you will ignore the cliché. Every commercial, every direct mail letter, every single email, almost every word of any marketing piece came from an idea. Ideas are important.

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What is Marketing but Selling Ideas

Before turning the page on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s all-too-hasty firing of Shirley Sherrod, let’s consider what leaders in the private sector can learn from the episode. Yes, Vilsack rushed to judgment. But why?

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White Executives Should Head to the ‘Hood

One of the strengths of Affiliate Marketers is that they can move quickly.  When Michael Jackson died last year, it only took a matter of hours before affiliates were targeting people searching for news on the subject.  This ability to move quickly is what sets affiliates apart from big advertising agencies and old-school marketing firms.  However, it can also lead to a paralyzing condition that I like to call Affiliate Hyperactive Disorder . Monkey set up offers.

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Avoid Affiliate Hyperactive Disorder

Yesterday on Twitter I noted that I finally made a decision regarding the book I’m working on — The Query-Free Freelancer — and whether I would pursue a traditional publisher or opt to self-publish the book. I’ve chosen the latter

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Why I Won’t Pursue a Publisher for The Query-Free Freelancer

Last week, I published an article called 5 Online Tools Freelance Writers Can Use to Make Life and Business Easier , which offered my suggestions for free and cheap tools that any freelance writer can try.  One of the items on that list was Skype, which enables you to make free calls (including international calls) from your computer.  Skype is free and not only helps freelance writers manage client communication, but it’s also an incredible tool for conducting audio and video interviews. Want to see a sample of a video taken via a Skype call?  Check out the videos I took using Call Recorder for Mac (discussed later in this post) for Newstex.com .  The video recording feature in Call Recorder allows you to record both parties on the call (using a picture-in-picture feature) or just one party (which is great for those of us who work at home in our pajamas).  You control everything on your end.  The person on the other end of the call just needs a Skype account, a webcam, and a microphone

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Tools to Record Interviews Using Skype

Have you ever wondered whether you’re really making the best use of your time? Do you ever feel that too much of your day is spent on low-value activities that perhaps need to get done, but certainly don’t require your level of experience or training

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How to Give Time Back to Your Team

My friends at the Washington Post , where I’m a member of the newspaper’s “On Leadership” panel, posed a provocative question to the group that is perfect for the times in which we live. Here’s what the editors asked: “Tony Hayward, once credited for BP’s ‘green’ turnaround, is forced to resign in disgrace.

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Where Have all the Business Heroes Gone?

My radio guest this Friday will be Kathy Goughenour, who left a soul-sucking corporate job to run a successful business from her cabin in the woods! Tune in this Friday, July 30th at 8am Pacific/11am Eastern on Your Way To Work At Home. Click on the blue arrow on the upper-right where it says TOGINETRADIO

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Work at home job listings for 7/27/2010

Cloud Computing can help your business reduce costs as you don’t have to invest in hardware and other physical infrastructure, your data is stored on a secure location and you only pay for what you use – there are no licensing fees associated with cloud computing.

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The Legal Issues Around Cloud Computing

The CEO of a watchband manufacturer considers opening up a factory within a “safe zone” in North Korea, but is it too risky? This fictional case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review , along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your email address.

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Case Study: Setting Up Shop in a Political Hot Spot

In the past couple of years, the jawboning directed toward China has moved on from IP infringement — stealing content! — to currency manipulation — stealing jobs! Last month, China found a way to blunt the pressure without actually doing very much, announcing that the value of the RMB would no longer be fixed against the dollar, but would float at a carefully managed level — not yet noticeably different from the fixed value. And this may be essentially the same tack China has taken with the IP issue

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Why China Might Never Protect IP

Opera, which was born in Italy at the end of the 16th century, is struggling for survival in the country of its birth. The demand for tickets is falling; according to one estimate, the number of operagoers in Italy has fallen, over the years, by 20%. The costs of mounting operas are rising, and the art form usually caters only to small audiences at a time

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Slaying the Phantoms of Italy’s Operas