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Working From Home? Here's How to Stay Active!. Top Story - December 2018.
Whether you are self employed or working for an organization that has a work from home option, it is very easy to feel like a couch potato while you sit at home all day. The walk from your bedroom to your desk isn't very long and that seems to be the majority of your daily exercise.
By Annie Pilon7 years ago in Journal
How to Rock Your Freelance Portfolio When You Have Zero Experience
Let me start this by telling you that my entire "so-called career" was shaped by the oddly adequate relationship I have with the people I work with. I never had to show my portfolio to a stranger inside some cold and distant office that took me three hours of insane traffic to reach for a chance to ghost write an op-ed for an adult magazine that nobody actually reads. I also never had to have drinks with the editors at some night club to talk about a feature I thought had a decent chance to be featured on the front page of a newspaper.
By Lovelli Fuad7 years ago in Journal
How to Replace Your Job Earnings with an Equivalent Work-from-home Writing Income
Assuming, of course, that you are reading this article with the intent of learning how to earn a respectable income as a writer, either part-time or full-time, designing a writer’s life should be your first step.
By Joel Eisenberg7 years ago in Journal
Writing: Blood, Sweat, and Tears for Ink
HOOK: Let's get something straight: I hate writing, because it's the best thing ever. INTRO: But as much as I love the process, we can't just publish our word vomit and call it good writing. Because that's stupid. I wish I could say it with any other word, but for our little chat today, you and I need to call it what it is. Our words, spoken or written, carry more gravity than we realize, and even when we write anonymously, they still carry our identity with them.
By Ben Rawlings7 years ago in Journal
That's Enough Critique Already
Music blaring in my ears, I glare at my painting as I work it to death. How dare it not be perfect! Going back to my post two weeks ago, I've really gotten caught on the idea of judgment, especially creatively. As the idea hit me harder than I ever expected, I started to notice myself judging others, not deeming anything as bad, but instantly getting into the head space of critiquing. Not only others though, probably even more aggressively, I was critiquing myself.
By 'Toto' (Aleksina Teto)7 years ago in Journal
Yes, Someday We May Be Saying the Same Things About Amazon, Google, and Walmart!
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." —George Santayana “History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.” —Mark Twain "It's like deja-vu, all over again." —Yogi Berra
By David Wyld7 years ago in Journal
Where to Start? Being a Writer Turned Vlogger
As a writer, it's important to harness every aspect of content creation and digital marketing. If you can do it and learn how to do it well, it'll benefit you in the long run. Since I did a fair bit of video editing in my student days for fun, I decided to give vlogging a whirl. I'm still pretty new to it and learning along the way, but I do have a few beginner tips to share.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA7 years ago in Journal
11 Best Online Proofreading Tools For Writing Correct Blog Content
There’s literary no blogger or marketer out there who doesn’t share one grand goal—to post sharable content that people love. With great content, user satisfaction is on the rise, people finally start visiting your website and generating leads goes swiftly and without any extra efforts. It is the dream come true—and it all begins with creating the correct blog content.
By Tiffany Harper7 years ago in Journal
What Does It Take to Be the "Best" of Companies Today?
As a management professor and consultant, one of the questions that is inevitably posed - whether in a class or in a company’s conference room - is a simple one: How do we - as a company - become better? Now better - in this context - is a word with literally a thousand different possible meanings and interpretations. From a management perspective, you have to ask yourself specifically what do you want to achieve by getting better:
By David Wyld7 years ago in Journal
