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How to Fall in Love with the Long Tail of Success

How many of your ideas have been overnight successes? Oh. Sorry to hear that. But hey, don’t give up. You might just be on a lifetime odyssey toward unimaginable success. You just have to get there. Instant Karma Is Probably Not Going to Get You Maybe you’ve heard the story Read more…

By Justin, 10 yearsJune 29, 2015 ago
Armchair Sociology

The Only Three Ways to Succeed

You want to succeed at whatever you’re doing, right? Then stop making it harder than it is. Life and business are deceptively simple: make more than you spend, and give more than you take. Everything else is just variety. Inherently, we all know this. But we trip ourselves up by Read more…

By Justin, 10 yearsJune 2, 2015 ago
Armchair Sociology

How to Succeed While Actually Trying

“I wasn’t even intending to take that picture.” That’s what Devin Allen, 26, said about the photo he took that wound up on the cover of TIME magazine. The city of Baltimore was caught in a zeitgeist of peaceful protests, police brutality, and riots, and Allen was an amateur photographer Read more…

By Justin, 10 yearsMay 18, 2015 ago
Armchair Sociology

The 4 Stages of Business Pricing, as Indicated by Your Dress Code

1. When you’re a hot new startup, you wear jeans. 2. When you want to raise your rates, you wear business casual. 3. When you want to charge premium rates, you wear a suit. 4. When you want to charge what you’re really worth because you actually know what you’re Read more…

By Justin, 10 yearsMay 15, 2015 ago
Freelance Tips

10 Things Every Freelancer Needs

Some people dream of quitting their day jobs in order to freelance, but the fear of “what could go wrong” keeps them from making the jump. If you want to make a living freelancing but you’re worried about all the risks, these 13 tips for starting a freelance career by Read more…

By Justin, 11 yearsMarch 3, 2015 ago
Freelance Tips

How to Build the Audience You Want (or, There’s Nothing Wrong with Redheads)

Lately, I’ve become aware that the audience I most easily attract isn’t necessarily the audience I’m writing for. Not that I don’t appreciate every blog reader or Twitter follower who considers me worthy of their time. But what I want and what I’m attracting may be different things. In my Read more…

By Justin, 16 yearsAugust 7, 2009 ago

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