All in the name of profitability. Stepping down from gold-level service is tough. It feels like a demotion. That’s the wrenching decision I made recently when I moved my sites off SiteGround. I’ve gone through many hosting services, and SiteGround kicked the booty cheeks of all the other hosts I’ve used. It was by far … Read more
I hope you’ve already gotten past this one, actually! I haven’t. It stings a bit when your own words come back to bite you in the ass. I’ve been writing online in public forums for over two decades, so I have a lot of words out there ready to munch-munch. Long on advice, short on … Read more
And that’s OK! Jamie Northrup asked this question on social media: Which side hustle earned you the most in 2024? He then announced that his biggest money-maker was Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, a highly passive income stream. That’s the dream of many solopreneurs: Making money in your sleep. Jamie’s living that dream right now, and … Read more
Yes, that Office Space Chotchkie’s Benable is part Pinterest board, part affiliate marketing store. It’s free to use with an invitation. (Consider yourself invited!) It’s quite easy to create attractive lists centered around mostly whatever you want, and make money from them. Here are my Benable lists. Benable is upfront about what makes a good … Read more
Start even smaller with nano-actions. I’ll often come up with something catchy, only to find out that it’s been said before and, more importantly, I’ve read it before. That was what happened when I arrived at the term “micro-action” to describe a small thing that we can do to: I heard Carl Richards, the mind … Read more
Do this daily to sleep better at night. There’s little worse than feeling trapped in your life. Maybe the job that you’ve been working at for a while has stalled, or it’s a chore to get up in the morning to go there, for whatever reason. Feeling trapped grinds you down a slow spiral. Feeling … Read more
Is one better than the other? Creating content and building a platform to monetize the content, sell products, and provide services high-dollar services to an audience who hangs on your every word is a bit of a holy grail for many solopreneurs. The process can be a lonely, low-profit endeavor for quite a while. “But … Read more
Learn even more as part of a community Some people have no problem promoting themselves. I’m not one of them. I’ve opted for the soft sell for most of the time I’ve created content on the Internet, and it’s ended up being too soft. Chalk it up to lack of any number of desirable qualities. … Read more
An old dog teaching me new tricks Taffy, our 15-year-old lemon beagle, has always loved food. For most beagle owners, this is no surprise, of course. The meme “I see you have food, I also like food” is accurate. Taffy still loves food, but she’s an old lady now No longer is she in the … Read more
And how they can work together I’ve written over a hundred articles on Medium so far this year. Before they go up on Medium, though, my articles go up on one of my websites first. All that to say: I still have websites, and I want to see them grow and prosper. Most of my … Read more