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Top Five Secrets to a Successful Magazine Cover

Monday, February 4th, 2008 |

Popular Science 1950Let’s step back into the traditional print media world for a few minutes (a ‘warm fuzzies’ kind of place for us been-there-done-that’s, I have to admit), courtesty of Mediabistro, and while we’re there, let’s see if we can learn what successful (aka $ucce$$ful) mag covers are made of.

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America’s Wealth Spectrum: Where are You?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 |

America's WealthEven if, when running a marathon, you’re not a contender and you think all you really want to do is finish, every now and then you’ll want to take a look around to see how you’re doing in relation to everybody else.

Not that it really matters and call me weird, but I like the idea of finishing the race alongside the folks I more or less started out with. Which means, getting ahead or at the very least, keeping pace, is the objective. Falling behind? Step it up!

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There’s Gold in Comments

Monday, October 22nd, 2007 |

My friend William Bontrager reminded me of a couple of things in his unsolicited comment on the latest Wordpreneur Carnival edition. The first, of course, is the tip on ways to freshen up possibly stale AdSense advertising.

The second? That you’ll often find really good and useful tips and information in a blog post’s comments, not just the post itself.

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10 Big Myths About Copyrights Explained

Thursday, September 27th, 2007 |

After having had my fair share of run-ins with plagiarizers through the years, I was going to write a little something about copyrights and the usual crud you hear from content thieves in this day and age of electronic distribution and really easy copying-and-pasting. But why bother when Brad Templeton did a very good job already.

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Literary Contest Scams

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 |

If you’re thinking of entering a literary or poetry contest — you’ve no doubt seen the ads, and when word gets out that you’re a “writer,” you’ll probably get a neverending stream of invites for these in your email inbox like I do — you’ll want to check out this resource first.

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Enter This Blog Contest… Now!

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 |

Got a blog? You’ll want to take a look at this.

I usually give no-skills-required contests like this about as much attention as a vegetarian pizza gets in a butchers’ convention. But this one sure did catch my eye, even though I never ever win them…

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