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- <b>How To Promote</b> Your <b>Blog</b> Through Networking | Making Sense Of <b>...</b>
- Freelance Writing Tips and <b>How to Promote</b> Your Work | Scoop.it <b>Blog</b>
- Risking lives to <b>promote</b> climate change hype | Watts Up With That?
- Five Ways Not To <b>Promote</b> Your Business: My Biggest Lessons <b>...</b>
- 'Archer' nude pics <b>promote</b> 'Vice,' Season 5 of the animated FX <b>...</b>
| <b>How To Promote</b> Your <b>Blog</b> Through Networking | Making Sense Of <b>...</b> Posted: 09 Jan 2014 12:00 AM PST
Whenever I publish my newest income update, I always receive many questions about how to start a blog. Read this post if you haven't yet - How To Start A Blog – Tips for a Beginner. Also, if you are still on Blogger, I made a post about why you should switch to WordPress.
A question that I am often asked is how a blogger should promote and network with their blog. I'm no expert in this area, but I do think that I know enough about it to write a blog post about it. Networking with your blog is a great thing. Without it, my blog would literally have zero readers. Without networking through my blog, I never would have started a side job, I never would have quit my job to freelance full-time. And I never would have 1,000 other things. Networking is what has helped me and my blog grow. Read further on Diversified Finances.
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| Freelance Writing Tips and <b>How to Promote</b> Your Work | Scoop.it <b>Blog</b> Posted: 06 Jan 2014 10:26 AM PST Freelance writing is an incredibly rich and fulfilling career, especially if you're passionate about writing on a particular subject or niche. It's entirely possible to make money if you decide to become a freelance writer; in fact, it can easily become a full-time job. The only trick is that you have to treat it like one: honing your skills, dedicating set times to do your job, and promoting it. Create a Blog/Digital PortfolioMost clients will want to see some sort of work that you've done in the past. This will help assure them that you are highly capable of completing projects and that you have the skillset you are promoting. You will want to upload your works from the most recent first to least recent. When creating a blog or digital portfolio it is imperative that you also create an SEO value for yourself so that your work is searchable in general search engines. You can do this by creating keywords that are relevant to your work and adding them within the individual posts or pieces as anchor texts. Be sure that the keywords are, indeed, relevant to avoid any kind of penalty. If you're simply hyperlinking for the sake of hyperlinking, you may come off as lacking in professionalism. Having a blog/digital portfolio is just as important as having a resume. It makes it easy for potential clients to access your skills and reduces the need for the extra step of uploading your current resume and trying to email it out. Your blog/portfolio should have a URL that it is linked to. This will give you the ability to attach it to forums, job boards, and other various modes of digital transportation. Create a Writing Contract for Your WorkImage via Flickr by Marc van der Chijs Experts strongly advise all freelance writers to put together a contract as soon as they begin working. Make it binding and send it out to every client with whom you work. Doing this can help promote your work and protect you in several ways:
In short, a worthwhile contract can keep you from wasting your time. You will know exactly which skills to offer as a writer based on the contract you've created. This can help you keep yourself grounded and on pace with your scheduled projects. If you set your boundaries and guidelines from the start, you also reduce the risk of any type of misunderstandings and garner yourself as a professional which will follow you through your freelance career. Do Research on Your ClientsJust as most of your clients will look at your resume, you will want to do a little research on them before you begin working with them. By investigating potential clients you can see exactly what it is they are looking for in your writing based on previous pieces of content created for them, making it easier for you to curtail your work to their benefit. This is an excellent way to gain the "word of mouth" that many freelancers and companies alike are after. Tailoring your skills more to your client adds a unique value that many others may not be so ready and willing to demonstrate, which gives you a leg up in the competition category. Before applying for or accepting contracting jobs, do a quick Google search and pay attention to the company's blog and other blogs about the company, specifically, their content. This will help you get a firm grasp in what it is they're looking for and help you come out on top at the end of the project. Become an Expert WriterImage via Flickr by Cas Companies and businesses of every imaginable type have blogs, article bases, websites, and social media profiles. The only catch is that if the content available in these places isn't knowledgeable and relevant, people won't read it. As a freelancer, that works in your favor. Once upon a time, the successful freelancer was a jack of all trades and a master of none. While that's still helpful, especially if you're working with several different clients, you should do all you can to become an expert in a specific areas. If you clearly know what you're talking about and present that information in an interesting and attention-grabbing way, you'll get more jobs. This isn't to say that you don't need to know a lot or that you should abandon the ability to do concise and comprehensive research. But every business has its specialty, and you should too. Protect the Work You DoProtecting your work shows that you are thoroughly invested in it and that you aren't doing it halfheartedly which is incredibly beneficial when a potential client looks into your professionalism. Some freelancers will write for free, as long as they get published. Others write for pay but expect their own byline. Still, others are comfortable to work as ghostwriters as long as they get paid. With the former two choices, you need to make sure you look into copyright so you can keep your rights as an author. This is especially important if you spot someone copying or plagiarizing your work. Most freelancers work from home, so your home essentially becomes your office. To that end, it's important that you protect your home with more than just insurance. To keep your expensive equipment – computers, laptops, cell phones, printers – safe and to protect even your intellectual property, you should look into Security Choice. It'll give you peace of mind to know that your office, with all its valuable tools and files, is in the right hands. After all, you cannot promote yourself if all of your equipment is missing or has been destroyed. Never Sell Yourself ShortImage via Flickr by Infusionsoft Sales & Marketing Software for Small Businesses You need to get paid what you're worth. You work hard; you spend time crafting thought-provoking and relevant content; and you're supporting yourself through freelancing. Do some research to discover what freelancers in your niche receive. Don't sell yourself short by accepting awful jobs for a few dollars an article. You'll go broke that way, and the contacts aren't really worthwhile. It's sometimes better to set your rates from the start, leaving yourself room for negotiating. When promoting yourself on your blog or digital resume, also make sure to explain each and every skill that you have. Don't bolster them with false statements, but do make sure that you give yourself enough credit to make you desirable by clients. If you've thought about freelancing, it's time to take the leap. The benefits of being your own boss and doing something you love are well worth it, as long as you take care of yourself. . Bookmark the .  |
| Risking lives to <b>promote</b> climate change hype | Watts Up With That? Posted: 09 Jan 2014 09:00 PM PST Yet another global warming expedition gets trapped in icebound ideology Guest opinion by Paul Driessen Will global warming alarmists ever set aside their hypotheses, hyperbole, models and ideologies long enough to acknowledge what is actually happening in the real world outside their windows? Will they at least do so before setting off on another misguided adventure? Before persuading like-minded or naïve people to join them? Before forcing others to risk life and limb to transport – and rescue – them? If history is any guide, the answer is: Not likely. The absurd misadventures of University of New South Wales climate professor Chris Turney is but the latest example. He and 51 co-believers set out on the (diesel-powered) Russian charter ship Akademik Shokalskiy to prove manmade global warming is destroying the East Antarctic ice sheet. Perhaps they'd been reading Dr. Turney's website, which claims "an increasing body of evidence" shows "melting and collapse" across the area. (It is, after all, summer in Antarctica, albeit a rather cold, icy one thus far.) Instead of finding open water, they wound up trapped in record volumes of unforgiving ice, from Christmas Eve until January 2 – ensnared by Mother Nature's sense of humor and their own hubris. The 52 climate tourists were finally rescued by a helicopter sent from Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, which itself became locked in the ice. The misadventurers were transferred to Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis, but the Shokalskiy remains entombed, awaiting the arrival of US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star. (Meanwhile, Tourney hopes to get more grants to study manmade global warming, to help him make more money from his Carbonscape company, which makes "green" products from CO2 recovered from the atmosphere.) As to his expertise, Dr. Tourney couldn't even gauge the ice conditions the 74 crewmen and passengers were about to sail into. And yet we are supposed to believe his alarmist forecasts about Earth's climate. NASA reports that Antarctic sea ice is now the largest expanse since scientists began measuring its extent in 1979: 19.5 million square miles (12,461,000,000 acres) – 5.5 times the size of the entire United States. Another report says ocean melting of western Antarctica's huge Pine Island Glacier ice shelf is at the lowest level ever recorded, and less than half of what it was in 2010. Reminding us of Monty Python's pet store clerk, Turney nonetheless insists that the sea ice is actually melting, and his communications director says the record sea ice is due to … global warming! (As they say, fiction has to make sense.) Equally amazing, the Shokalskiy was apparently not equipped with adequate wind and weather monitoring and forecasting capabilities. The expedition had to contact climate realists John Coleman, Anthony Watts and Joe D'Aleo for information that would allow them to plan their helicopter rescue. All of this raises serious questions that most media have ignored. How could Tourney put so many lives and vessels at risk – people he persuaded to join this expedition, the ship and crew they hired, the ships and helicopter and crews that came to their rescue? How did he talk the Russian captain into sailing into these dangerous waters? Who will pay for the rescue ships and their fuel and crews? What if one of the ships sinks – or someone dies? What is Tourney's personal liability? This may be the most glaring example of climate foolishness. But it is hardly the first. In 2007, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen set off across the Arctic in the dead of winter, "to raise awareness about global warming," by showcasing the wide expanses of open water they were certain they would encounter. Instead, temperatures inside their tent plummeted to -58 F (-50 C), while outside the nighttime air plunged to -103 F (-75 C). Facing frostbite, amputated fingers and toes or even death, the two were airlifted out a bare 18 miles into their 530-mile expedition. The next winter it was British swimmer and ecologist Lewis Gordon Pugh, who planned to breast-stroke across open Arctic seas. Same story. Then fellow Brit Pen Hadow tried, and failed. In 2010 Aussie Tom Smitheringale set off to demonstrate "the effect that global warming is having on the polar ice caps." He was rescued and flown out, after coming "very close to the grave," he confessed. Hopefully, all these rescue helicopters were solar-powered. Hardcore climate disaster adventurers should not be relegated to choppers fueled by evil fossil fuels. They may be guilty of believing their own alarmist press releases – but losing digits or ideological purity is a high price to pay. All these intrepid explorers tried to put the best spin on their failures. "One of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability," Bancroft-Arnesen expedition coordinator Anne Atwood insisted. "But global warming is real, and with it can come extreme unpredictable changes in temperature," added Arnesen. "Global warming can mean colder. It can mean wetter. It can mean drier. That's what we're talking about," Greenpeace activist Stephen Guilbeault chimed in. It's been said insanity is hitting your thumb repeatedly with a hammer, expecting it won't hurt the next time. It's also believing hype, models and delusions, instead of real world observations. Or thinking taxpayers are happy to pay for all the junk science behind claims that the world faces dangerous manmade global warming. Or that they are delighted that the EPA and IPCC are increasingly regulating our lives, livelihoods, liberties, living standards and life spans, in the name of preventing climate change. The fact is, Antarctic ice shelves have broken up many times over the millennia. Arctic ice has rebounded since its latest low ebb around September 2007. Despite steadily rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, average global temperatures have been stable or declining since 1997. Seas are rising at barely seven inches per century. And periods of warmer or colder global and polar climates are nothing new. Vikings built homes, grew crops and raised cattle in Greenland between 950 and 1300, before they were frozen out by the Little Ice Age and encroaching pack ice and glaciers. Many warm periods followed, marked by open seas and minimal southward extent of Arctic sea ice, as noted in ships' logs and discussed in scientific papers by Torgny Vinje and other experts. But warm periods of 1690-1710, 1750-1780 and 1918-1940, for instance, were often preceded and followed by colder temperatures, severe ice conditions and maximum southward ice packs, as during 1630-1660 and 1790-1830. "Not only in the summer, but in the winter the ocean [in the Bering Sea region] was free of ice, sometimes with a wide strip of water up to at least 200 miles away from the shore," Swedish explorer Oscar Nordkvist reported in 1822, in a document rediscovered by astrophysicist Willie Soon. "We were astonished by the total absence of ice in the Barrow Strait," Francis McClintock, captain of the Fox, wrote in 1860. "I was here at this time in 1854 – still frozen up – and doubts were entertained as to the possibility of escape." In 1903, during the first year of his three-year crossing of the Northwest Passage, Roald Amundsen noted that his party "had made headway with ease," because ice conditions had been "unusually favorable." The 1918-1940 warming also resulted in Atlantic cod increasing in population and expanding their range some 800 miles, to the Upernavik area of Greenland, fisheries biologist Ken Drinkwater has reported. Climate change is certainly real. It's been real throughout Earth and human history – including the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, Little Ice Age and Dust Bowl, and through countless other cycles of warming and cooling, flood and drought, storm and calm, open polar seas and impassable ice. Humans clearly influence weather and climate on a local scale – through heat and emissions from cities and cars, our clearing of forests and grasslands, our diversion of rivers. But that is not the issue. Nor is it enough to say – as President Obama has – that the climate is changing and mankind is contributing to it. The fundamental issue is this: Are humans causing imminent, unprecedented, global climate change disasters? And can we prevent those alleged disasters, by drastically curtailing hydrocarbon use, slashing living standards, and imposing government control over industries and people's lives? If you look at actual evidence – instead of computer model forecasts and "scenarios" – the answer is clearly: No. ______________ Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power – Black death.  |
| Five Ways Not To <b>Promote</b> Your Business: My Biggest Lessons <b>...</b> Posted: 08 Jan 2014 12:33 PM PST Dear Readers: January is a great time to review how to promote your business. Before I begin, let me get the bad news out: Self-promotion is not an exact science. There are things you are sure will work that don't, things that have worked in the past that won't, and things that you never expected that will. The wonderful thing about being in business is that you can learn more as each year passes and I certainly do. The most obvious to me are the things not to do again. In today's blog, I would like to share my don'ts for promotion. Don't: Get Comfortable: If you want to fulfill your dreams, get out of your comfort zone. Feeling "uncomfortable" is never something we want to do, but it might be just what you need to reignite old passions and discover new ones. Now, I can hear all of my friends snickering as I tend to be a creature of habit. Quiet! Tell People How Great You Are: Nothing turns off like a pompous show-off. This is especially true of potential clients. If you are the best, keep quiet and show them. Try To Be Two Things At Once: Make a conscious choice to be a leader or a follower. There is no right or wrong choice, but you need to know where you stand. Clients will follow you if you are leading them to something new and different, but if you choose to go that route, worry about setting trends by way of great work, not by following them. Take, Take, Take: Givers are winners. Learn to be a giver of success. If you don't believe me ask my friend, Marcy Blum, as she is one of the biggest givers I know.Whether it's more of your service, advice, time, counsel or a kind word to someone who needs it, make giving a part of your daily practice. Give your clients all of the attention and service you can and they will come back, trust me. Get off Your "But": This word allows us to lie to ourselves over and over again without even knowing it. You say, "I want to start that new project…but." Anything after that "but" is nothing but an excuse. I find that anytime we project our dreams into a positive future, the universe gives it back to us many times over. I am very open to learning from you. What are the lessons you use to promote your own business? Share it with me and other readers. Blessings, Preston (Photo Courtesy of Pinterest)   |
| 'Archer' nude pics <b>promote</b> 'Vice,' Season 5 of the animated FX <b>...</b> Posted: 08 Jan 2014 11:45 AM PST To promote the upcoming fifth season of "Archer," the show has placed some revealing new ads on the Reddit forum titled "gonewild," which is where users go to show off their nude bodies in exchange for forum "karma." The ads link to the FX site advertising Season 5, subtitled "Vice," which Zap2it can confirm takes its inspiration from "Miami Vice," the 1980s cop drama starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. It's also a bit of a reboot for the animated FX comedy. H. Jon Benjamin, who voices the title character for "Archer," cracks that he thinks it all came about when creator Adam Reed went on a bender. "There's a lot of changes and a lot that stays the same obviously, but I think Adam Reed probably got very drunk one night while he was writing on his computer," Benjamin says in a conference call with the press. "I assume he's of the age where he grew up on ['Miami Vice']," adds Benjamin. "But the good thing is the characters are pretty much the same dynamics. They're the same. It's just more confusion, more of the same confusion." "Archer Vice" premieres Monday, Jan. 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX. Photo/Video credit: FX  |
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