After I have created my fortune online, I think I will start my own country in which to enjoy it. Like the Republic of Molossia (photo of Molossia’s president at right). Or, I just might move back to my native homeland, the Dominion of British West Florida. Want inspiration for starting your own micronation? How about [...]

What do Denny Waldarmo, Sarah Sandori, H.Tim Sevets and Jer Bosky have in common? Answer: They are all clients of mine, and they are all being robbed. Those four individuals are part of a writers consortium that I helped form.  They write articles that are posted to article directories, most notably ezineArticles. Per ezineArticles’s terms, they [...]

Couple of posts ago I talked about BlogRush (or is that Blog Rush, two words?). It’s a new program to help you generate lots of traffic to your blog. This commenter offers food for thought about how you can screw up with Blog Rush–and by implication, what you should do to make sure you gain [...]

… at least that’s my opinion — and I’m sticking to it! I’m talking about a nifty little word processor called RoughDraft. I talked earlier about Yeah Write, which I love, but personally YW suits me more as a note taker/storer application. For sheer ease of opening up a screen and writing, I give [...]

If you’re using the Blogging to the Bank method of making money online (or any other income generating program based on blogging), there is one thing you absolutely need for success–traffic. There’s a clever new system out that there that can generate a serious amount of blog traffic for you. It’s called BlogRush. BlogRush works like [...]

Google Blogger has unveiled a hypnotically fascinating little toy, Blogger Play. All it does is flash up the photographs that people are uploading to their Blogger blogs right now. It sounded “so what?” when I read it announced on Blogger Buzz (”Blogger Play: Watch the blogs go by”), but three minutes with it [...]

As a writer, I am always looking for cool word processing alternatives to programs such as Microsoft Word and its clones. MS Word is great for corporate-level document management and complicated secretarial-type tasks. Not so great for those of us who just like to pop open a simple screen and get down to [...]

For some reason lately, whenever I see or hear mention of spiders, I start singing the “Spider Pig” song from the Simpsons movie. Heres’ a nifty free tool you can use to see your site as a search engine spider sees it: Pingoat’s spidering simulator (scroll down to below the goat’s-head logo to find it). Just type [...]

Did you know you can get paid for blogging about other people’s products, services and companies? This is a widely discussed phenomenon generally known as paid blogging or pay-per-post blogging. The usual model is that you agree to write about a company or its products in your blog, and receive compensation for doing so. Some bloggers [...]

Trading foreign currencies is a great adjunct to blogging for money and other activities aimed at making a living online. For the past couple of years, I’ve been developing my own forex trading system that seems to be working pretty well as a get-rich-slowly alternative to the usual frenzied ups-and-downs associated with this market. To briefly describe [...]