How to Become A Daily Writer There’s this common bit of wisdom that haunts a lot of writers. We’re supposed to become daily writers in order to improve our craft a little bit every day. When you write daily, not only do you give yourself hundreds of ‘at bats’ to improve your best work, but …
Adopt a Publisher’s Model for Your Creative Business It’s time to shut the gate. While we’ve been trained to share our content and interact all over social media, the best gift we can give our creative business, is to build our own ecosystem and win our reader’s attention. The new economy is all about attention. …
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How to Market without Sounding Like a Marketer As any creative business owner knows, if you don’t tell the others you won’t sell your work. While being the best is important, it’s not enough. ‘The best’ is a baseline—the starting gate. You can be the best in the world l, standing in an empty room. …
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5 Ways to Sell More of Your Side-Hustle When sales are down many entrepreneurs think they have a traffic problem. “If I could just get more traffic, I’ll sell more stuff.” However, this isn’t usually the case. Sure, we need a steady stream of new traffic if we want to grow our business, but there …
How to Get Your Emails Opened More-Often There are few things more frustrating than building an entire email infrastructure and having no one get your stuff. I mean, what’s the point of building an email campaign if your readers don’t open (or don’t see) your emails? You spend all this time writing, gathering subscribers, then …
How to Find Unlimited Content Marketing Ideas If you’ve got a side-hustle, you know the importance of content marketing. Articles, stories, and long-form copy are some of the most-evergreen ways to drive free traffic to your business. Social posts are temporary. But people will always search for answers. When you create specific answers to niche …
Grow Your Hustle During a Downturn There’s no avoiding it. We’re all in this together. The entire world is now facing a stay-at-home economic shift. While there’s nothing we can do about many of the things facing our small businesses, there are many components we can control. You can grow your side-hustle during this Covid-19 …
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How Writers and Creators Can Ride the Economic Downturn If you’re a freelance writer, you’ve got a digital side-hustle, or you own a business where you provide digital content, the upcoming economic downturn may be a boon for your business. As with the movie theaters during the Great Depression (they thrived, with attendance of 90 …
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