Category: Inside this Effort
Winning the Side Business Lottery
I like playing the lottery. I admit it. My mother will see me buy a ticket and say in her whiny Fran Drescher voice “Oh Michael, you have grandma’s gambling gene”. She’s right.
Can you use Piracy as a Marketing Tactic?
Here is a novel concept, how about the use of Piracy as a bonafide way to get new customers.
Tools Techniques and Teams – Audacity & freesound.org
Here are two of the most important tools for anyone who wants to put a podcast together on a shoestring budget.
Why Publishers Must Use Direct Sales | Digital Book World
Direct sales is how this effort will live or die.
Check this out!! I was on a Podcast.
I was the guest on this podcast. It came together well and has some great information on how to promote yourself. Mike Fazio, CEO of Workforce 180, shares insights about effective communication for the digital […]
HELP WANTED: Would you like to write for the blog?
Wanna write? Wanna help me write? This may be your chance…
Tools, Techniques and Teams – WordPress Themes
I’m ready to upgrade. I’ve spoken about it in the past, the idea that I’ll have additional contributors and a higher end more magazine like appearance for this website. As a matter of […]
Coming to Terms: Purple Squirrel or Never ending shades of violet
I’ve occasionally discussed the concept of the purple squirrel. But what is it? According to Wikipedia: Purple squirrel is a term used by employment recruiters to describe a job candidate with precisely the right education, […]
Thrifty Studio Time and Priceless Motivation
A few weeks back I reached out to a contact I had made at the North Carolina Writers Network who had said they knew somebody with a studio. As anybody reading this blog with regularity […]
The Write Community
Who would have thought that a community post and writers meet-up would inspire me so much?



