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I woke yesterday morning to find an email in my Inbox saying an article I wrote a while back was about to be published in a magazine. This is good news, because when it gets published I get paid, and I’d been waiting a few months for them to slot it into an issue. I […]

The NY Times is reporting that consumers are starting to shop online for clothes more often than physically going to the store. I just can’t understand such a trend. Why would anyone want to avoid long queues for the hot, unflatteringly lit changing rooms, and the underpaid salespeople cooing, “Have you got the right size […]

Subtitle: “You like me, you really, really like me!” - Sally Field
“What would happen if you crossed Sarah Silverman + Rich Woman + Making Money Online and then started a blog? You’d get posts like: How to Make 4c a Week From Your Blog. — Jon from Art of Money
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(Instructions: Sing to the tune of Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind while softly strumming a guitar.)
How many Diggs must a blogger get
before he makes the top 10?
How many impressions must an ad unit get
before it reaches CPM?
(1000)
Yes and how much authority must a website have
before Technorati looks again?
The answer my friend
is in the Blogosphere.
The […]

Yesterday Cracked.com posted the funny-yet-serious article Welcome to Hell: A Real-World Guide for Graduates, which announces: “…unfortunately, contrary to what your self-important professors would have you believe, there isn’t exactly a huge demand for people with a degree in 17th century Dutch artists in the real world.” It then goes on to welcome the unsuspecting […]

Lots of ‘money’ bloggers write about Google AdSense but not too many tackle AdWords (nod to Art of Money for getting me started on this topic). I’ve been using AdWords for years, managing my own campaigns and other people’s to generate more traffic, so below are some tips from me to you.
What is AdWords?
AdWords is […]

My Open Wallet has just hosted the latest blog carnival and linked to a hundred very useful articles from other blogs/sites (me included, hooray!). I’ve already bookmarked a bunch of them. Not only is it great link love for newbies like me, it’s a fantastic collection of information which took her the entire weekend to […]

Carrie in Sex and the City sure had a dream job: she got to write one newspaper column a week about her sexy social life and her friends, and made enough money from it to live alone in a decent one-bedroom apartment in New York, attend glitzy soirees every second night in a new outfit, […]

The first money lesson my mum taught me was to save for the things I wanted. When I was six, the thing I wanted the most was a Strawberry Shortcake doll (those wishing to investigate the ’80s Strawberry Shortcake phenomenon further may do so via Wikipedia’s alarmingly thorough entry). So my mum agreed to match […]