Archive for April, 2008

Guest posting: What It’s *Really* Like

A common strategy used by bloggers looking to generate a bigger audience for their own blog is guest posting. Study the progression of bloggers like Leo and Skellie and you’ll notice that one of the key strategies they used (at least in the beginning) to drive traffic to their own blogs and grow their readership […]


LinkedIn Recommendations: What People Say And What They Really Mean!

Are you on LinkedIn? Do you have any recommendations in your profile from clients, colleagues or co-workers?
I joined ages ago and had the common reaction: “Now what?” but I’ve recently been using LinkedIn rather a lot and have found it an excellent tool. So far…

I’ve been interviewed as a blogging expert by Monique Carradine in […]


How To Outsource If You’re A Control Freak (Like Me)

My latest article on Freelance Switch - which talks about outsourcing for freelancers - was one I was hesitant to publish. Why?
Because I suspected the somewhat volatile commenting community might just shoot it down in flames and hurl personal insults at me. But with the exception of just one commenter who noted…
“The author sounds like […]


Do You Have The Confidence To Live Your Own Life?

I look around me on my blogs, in my online networks, in my inbox and amongst my friends and family and notice that…

People often don’t live their own lives - they live the lives their parents mapped out for them, or the lives they think they *should* be living or the lives that their friends […]