I never receive snail mail these days, so it was with mild excitement that I opened the mailbox to find a leaflet that implored me to help save a 50-year-old local church (ancient by NZ standards) by donating towards its restoration. I’m not a church-goer so I can’t say I felt too strongly about it, […]
Last week I wrote a post lamenting the silly emails I receive. Then, lo and behold, I received a very polite email from Matt at Blogging Fingers. He even knew my name! Granted, I probably wasn’t the only person he emailed, but his friendly email prompted me to click the link to the free eBook […]
Phew! We’ve covered how to write an e-newsletter, how to build an e-newsletter and now we’re ready to hit send. Are you still with me? I know it’s a long lesson but it’ll help you make kick-ass newsletters.
Newletter pre-send checklist
Once you’ve written it and built it (if you have a template) you’re ready to click […]
Now we’ve covered how to write an e-newsletter, here’s how to build it.
Of course, the most basic way is just to paste your text into an email and send. But that’s not very pretty, and there are many free online email templates these days to make your job easier. You can also sign up for […]
Part one of a series on how to write, build and send an email newsletter.
For a few years I was responsible for creating at least one e-newsletter a week for a company I worked for. The database grew from nothing to tens of thousands by the time I left (no, that’s not the entire population […]
Daily Blog Tips has posted the final list of 113 entries for his Group Writing Project involving the number 3. The idea now is that finalists post their favorites from the list.
Below are my picks, partly based on my interests, but if you have time I recommend you click the link above and check out […]
This is an interview with Alex Geana, a blogger for hire, a playwright and soon-to-be-published novelist based in New York. He contributes to the Huffington Post, one of the world’s most-read blogs.
How did you become a ‘blogger for hire’?
I was asked and needed cash, so why not? I tried to monetize my first blog One […]
Running through the sites on my RSS reader this morning, my eyes began to glaze over.
“How to…” “10 Best…” “Why you should(n’t)…’
This is partly my fault for reading so many how-to-blog sites. These people are just doing their jobs and generally sharing very helpful tips. Plus, it’s more or less guaranteed that any headline with […]
Have you read Shoemoney’s blog? His writing is full of mistakes: typos, grammatical errors, spelling mistakes. Yet he is unrepentant: he reckons the errors just earn him more readers.
Really, Shoemoney?
But he is probably right, in that a lot of people will visit his site to learn how to earn that elusive Google AdSense $133,000 […]
The interestingly-named Make Your Nut website has contacted me about a personal finance haiku challenge, and since I’m such a budding Wordsworth I thought I’d have a crack (no pun with their site name intended). Here are the details:
We’re looking for the best haiku about personal finance, and we’re paying a cash prize of […]
