The arrogant artiste. We’ve all met them, those creative types that think anyone who doesn’t “get” their art must be stupid. Our little town has one artiste who has created a whole new art form – how to destroy your marketability in a single stroke. How excited would you be to have your local hometown [...]
Yes, this is a bit outside what I usually talk about; but these sorts of folks need to be stopped. I was checking the visitor and referral logs for several of my websites. When I kept seeing the same site appearing in sites with a wide variety of topics, I thought I should see what [...]
As you may or may not know, my main business is as a writer. Much of my business has come from people I have met online through forums and from folks who simply found my business website and liked what they saw. A number of my customers speak English as a second or even third [...]
I recently blogged about how having Adsense or other affiliate advertising on a business site can lead to reduced sales – see Adsense Kills Business. One of the people who visited mentioned that they wanted ‘to get something from the people who came’ and didn’t buy. This got me to thinking about the many sites [...]
My primary income comes from my writing business. YourMessageConsultant.com focuses entirely on selling my writing services – mainly writing essays and marketing content for websites. This site Blog About Crafts and Crafty Tips are about my hobbies and while I include this site among my portfolio to show my writing clients, it is completely separate [...]
It’s so very tempting; selling advertising or using programs like Adsense, TextLinkAds, or any of the many others to boost revenue. Sure those pennies, nickels, and dimes add up over time and may even bring in a somewhat sustainable income. If you work at promoting your website and getting a nice bit of traffic, you [...]