There’s a truism I’ve noticed throughout my observations of the business world, and it applies to every industry - movies, real estate, medicine, all of it: hype can take you to dizzying heights, but the air’s much richer where the quality is.
Transactions are both Vulcan and Human.
Business transactions have two components: the quality of the [...]

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Most of us have experienced that moment at one time or another, in which we look around and it seems like everyone but you is making thousands a month online and you’re the only idiot making $300. (Hey, I’m still there.) But consider this from Yaro Starak’s Sometimes You Have To Reinvent The Wheel:
We can [...]

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I’ve been observing different people’s work styles lately in the hopes of improving my own. One thing I’ve noticed is that when problems happen, some people tend to want to revamp the system in which they happened, and others just want to fix that item and go on. For example, your team has trouble finding [...]

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I worked out my dilemma about whether to build content or work on monetizing and other stuff.
Content will be priority, but I’m being more selective about it. For example, ChillyCool will be getting a minimum of 4 posts per week instead of 12, because I just don’t get that domain. I can’t see the longterm [...]

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I believe the longterm solution to my making a full time living online is to produce tons of great content that people want to link to. I believe from there I can launch sites that will sell them stuff.
But as I mentioned last night, in the meantime my earnings are dropping, which makes me want [...]

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A lot of successful blogs don’t offer anything of real value. They’ll take a problem everyone’s trying to solve, say they have a solution, and:

Write a post that just rehashes all the solutions we’ve already tried that didn’t work.
Write a post that sounds like it has the solution, if only you could figure out what [...]

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I’ve gotten rid of CPM (BlogHer) on one of my sites. I was pleased with how BlogHer was performing, at least compared to other CPM networks, but that site just didn’t have the pageviews to justify having a large ad load on every page. It was bringing in about $10/month, and I don’t have another [...]

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I’ve been ridiculously busy lately:

I’m gradually replacing all the “free with link” articles on my “library sites” with PLR articles. These are not unique articles, but they’re generally better written and they don’t have the links that might be spammy. This has led, oddly enough, to some really positive feedback from visitors. Eventually, I hope [...]

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I’ve found a very quick way to get through my feedreader these days. When I look at a post’s title or first paragraph and figure out what it’s promising to reveal to me, I ask myself:
“Does anyone really know this, and if they did would they tell me?”
I almost always get the answer “no”, so [...]

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I’ve finally found a to do system that inspires my creativity, keeps me on track, and makes me feel like I’m getting stuff done - all of which reduces my stress. I got the idea from reading about Zen to Done, but I never finished reading the article (because stress gives me a severe [...]

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