If you’re saying this, you got one thing very right … Putting a product out there for anyone to buy can be scary. So scary, that it’s a wonder you published it at all, right? Agonizing over details, alignment, color schemes, spelling, everything. Editing for clarity. Re-editing. And editing again. Finally you put the link … Read more
Here’s how to set them free. Writing sure accumulates over a couple of decades. Most of mine is on my 20-year-old blog. Nearly 1,300 published articles. Most of questionable quality. All written and published in WordPress. Overall questionable quality … … but somewhat insightful at times. If you were to have absolutely nothing better to … Read more
And how to get it back! “God is very fair. He gives everyone 24 hours.” “You have time to do anything you want. Just not everything.” Great advice … if you actually follow it! I’m a side hustle hoarder. In the worst way. I post a list in my weekly newsletter Side Hustler’s Progress of … Read more
A love note from the trenches “Make money writing on Medium, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.” It’s fun until you: The Second Brain / Zettelkasten / Thought Garden supposedly fixes all of that. Be blown away with a flood of ideas and a cornucopia of brilliance on tap. My Obsidian vault? It’s more … Read more
My wife and I used to make our own dogfood. One of our dogs was forever plagued with ear infections, and it was cheaper to make dogfood that avoided the allergens than it was to buy antihistamines. We did all the research and math to make sure the food was nutritionally sufficient, and got the … Read more
And you can start today (I’ll show you how) Sometimes we’re far harder on ourselves than anyone else will be. Whatever your roles are in life, there’s always more. More you could keep up with. More you could contribute. More you could take on. This holds doubly for content creators of all mixes and matches. … Read more
My wife encourages me to talk to myself. She’ll be downstairs on the couch with our dog Pippa and I’ll be up in the office in front of my Blue Yeti, talking to no one except the speech processor. She’ll occasionally hear when I’m talking up there. She won’t hear what I’m saying, but she … Read more
Here’s how I’m going from sporadic to solid If you’ve created online for any length of time, you’ve likely grappled with consistency. You know consistency makes the difference between building trust and fading into has-been territory. Yet, you’ll miss a day. Then two. Then a week. I still struggle with consistency For 20+ years I’ve … Read more
Sharing this trick I learned to get some time back Calls to action make the difference between selling and not selling. In a recent coaching session with Jamie Northrup, he brought up the idea of a content flywheel. Each component of your online empire promotes something else, leading people along their journey to eventually become … Read more
Derek Hughes is a fitter content creator than I am. He’s gone way beyond merely “being consistent” with his content publishing, and had this to say about consistency: If your strategy to make money online is ‘be consistent’.You don’t have a strategy.You have a treadmill. ~Derek Hughes I admit this stung a little because, yeah, … Read more