eXtra For Every Publisher

Recently, I have been hit with something interesting when it comes to hiring entry level people to write some content for me on my blog: hiring a writer is better than hiring a blogger. Before anyone gets defensive about this, please let me explain my experiences, and understand that I have nothing against blogging as [...]

Maintaining a blog is not always sugar and spice, and everything nice. Making a living off of your online activities may seem glamorous to some, but every publisher knows that hard work is involved. There are times when you may not find the time to actually sit down to do some exhaustive thinking in order [...]

No, we will not be talking about the physical marker here that has been used to highlight a page or docment one is reading or has read. We are talking about markers punctuations, words, phrases and other useful things to make your post/article reader friendly. Please note this is not part of a style manual [...]

Brian Clark of Copyblogger writes some amazing posts, and in his most recent post, he talks about spicing up blog posts, something that some writers sorely need. Use Sensuous Language – use words to bring things to life ala “the fear crawled down my spine creating an all encompassing shiver.” Employ High Impact Wording – [...]

One of the hardest parts of my career has been the continual production of content in an almost conveyer belt style processing system removing a great deal of the creativity and enjoyment that goes into creating something. It can be hard to produce enough content to make it full time because if you are paid [...]