Perception

NOTE: This post was originally written as a guest post for Jim Kukral, whose book Attention: This Book Will Make You Money features a prominent excerpt from my blog post “Stop Trying to Monetize What Isn’t Interesting.” You have a product or a service to sell.  Maybe it’s a widget.  Maybe it’s a cause. Maybe [...]

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Justin on August 27th, 2010

I recently had an epiphany: the busier I am, the happier I am. That’s not just because more work = more profit.  It’s because I’m slowly understanding an element of my own personality that I’ve never taken seriously. I’m a lazy workaholic. What I mean by that is: I multitask. I procrastinate. I love collaboration. [...]

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Whether you blog for fun or profit, you may want to rethink your motives before your elected officials start doing your thinking for you. According to the Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia bloggers are being charged a $300 business license tax, regardless of whether or not their blogs are profitable.  This means even Philadelphia’s casual blogs [...]

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Last week, I shared what I learned by blogging weekly instead of daily.  Judging by the high volume of traffic, retweets and comments that post generated, people are very interested in what makes someone else’s blog tick. One comment that caught my eye was from Virginia Nussey, who said: I shared your findings with my [...]

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Justin on August 16th, 2010

Every Thursday at 8 PM EST, David Spinks and Lauren Fernandez host a Twitter chat called #u30pro.  Its focus is to create a network of young (aka “under-30″) professionals, but participants of all ages are invited to join the discussion and share their relevant wisdom. Last week, the topic involved offices — namely, do we [...]

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