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  • Why Wasn’t I More Succcessful as a Problogger?

    Recently, I put up a post entitled, My Time Line – Rise and Fall of a Problogger, where I discussed year by year how my career progressed. What I didn’t really remark on was why I wasn’t more successful? Focused on Money When I first started blogging as a career, I was young and I Read more

  • Developing a New Site – Planning is Key

    At work, I’m currently part of a project team that is getting ready to develop a new service based website. While I would love to discuss the specifics of my project at work, I’m not going to for fear of coming into conflict of the NDA that I have signed. Previously, when I’ve been tasked Read more

  • The Most Important Skill: Marketing

    For the last ten years, I’ve been realizing more and more that the most important skill that anyone can work to acquire is an understanding of marketing. While I don’t consider myself a sales person, I have a much better understanding today regarding the motivations behind buying something, and that has lead me to many Read more

  • Pay for Blogging

    There are countless articles online that discuss payment for writing, and most of them focus on how low paying the writing positions seem to be, but having been a full time blogger for five years, I have some insight into the content market. Writing vs. Blogging First, I want to make clear that there is Read more

  • My Time Line – Rise and Fall of a Problogger

    It seems like almost another life time ago that I was writing full time online for various blog networks, but I’m hoping that reflecting on this will help you understand my history, knowledge and motives. I feel like I should start with something literary like, “It was a dark and stormy night…” 2002 I’ve already Read more

  • Curators – The Future of the Web

    With billions of pieces of content being added to the Internet each day, competing with large companies may seem like a near impossibility, but I, like many others, believe that curators are going to be a very important part of the web over the next few years. It is already happening with a variety of Read more

  • Ranking and Personality

    What if I told you that all you needed to do to rank better online was to express your inner personality? You might think the idea crazy, but I truly believe that how you rank can be greatly effected by how people feel about you. There are many sites I’ve launched where the key factor Read more

  • Failures at Flash Banner Advertising

    One of the many facets of my job is to help place banner ads online promoting a client’s campaign. When I first was hired for this job, I had limited experience in doing this, and the experience that I did have wasn’t anywhere near the same niche. At first, I took the shotgun approach, placing Read more

  • Upranked Begins!

    So for the last two years, I haven’t been as involved in content marketing, WordPress, or other facets of Internet Marketing in the same way that I was previously, but I’ve come to the realization that my current experiences working at a small company, mixed with what I learned before this position could make for Read more

  • Protected: Depression

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Read more

  • Laptop Cooling

    Why don’t laptop docks have included cooling fans/pads for the laptops? There are some HP laptops at work that keep randomly shutting down, and it appears to be from a heat issue, as both machines could easily fry an egg on the bottom of them after a day of use. I would like to get Read more

  • Quick Trip to Toronto

    So, last weekend, my cousin, Mark, and I went to Toronto for the weekend. The trip was really just to get away and take pictures somewhere other than Brockville or Kingston, and it worked out well. The weather might have been a bit cold, but we walked around all day Saturday, and a fair portion Read more