Giving Your Newsletter Campaign the Professional Touch

I was driving the other day just bopping along to the radio when a commercial came on that made me stand up and take notice. It was the first time I’d ever heard a radio spot promoting Constant Contact. Constant Contact is a newsletter platform that allows you to deliver your newsletter through email. It’s [...]

Why Company Feedback Never Hurts

Whenever I approach a potential project, be it blogging, product reviewing, a web page or a news story, I have the mindset that whomever I am reporting to should and needs to proof my work. I think this way because I’m a writer, it’s who I am. No project goes published without a second set [...]

The Contract: Never Leave Home Without It.

Similar to having on clean undies whenever you leave the house, a contract is innately important when you’re in business for yourself. Ask someone who knows the dangers, and frustrations of not having a contract. (that would be me.) I’ve worked without them before and in a few situations, things have worked out well. However, [...]

The Basic Priniciple Behind Online Communities

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I’m no stranger to online communities. I’ve belonged to them since yahoo groups were about the coolest thing since sliced bread (no offense to Yahoo or the groups, it’s an example) but let’s face it; online communities and social networking have come a long way. It seems like eons since I made my first post [...]

The Twitter Etiquette No One Told You About

Now that the world is all a twitter, myself included, there are a number of rules of engagement for being on twitter and for “tweeting”…