Archive for September, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Oct 1st is a brand new start.
A friend of mine sent me an email saying that for the first time in months she reviewed her goals. She breaks them into 8 catagories(!!!): Mental, Physical, Spiritual, Family, Financial, Occupation, Social, Other.
After a disappointing September, I’m going to concentrate on 3 of those: Occupation, Physical and Financial.
Occupation: [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Quitting The Day Job is having a small contest to celebrate Oktoberfest. In an effort to grow the blog, we are offering cold hard cash, well, Paypal, to some lucky readers. Contest pool will be $25, but there are also a ton of chances to win bonus prizes.
All you need to do to enter is [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
How do you as a blogger engage readers? The easiest way to answer this question is to figure out how other bloggers engage you. If you want to turn visitors into readers, you need to think about what turns you from a visitor of a blog into a reader. You need to think about [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Wake me up when September ends…
Seriously! What a month! Financial ruin and economic despair! Partisan politics and election turmoil! If only I could see Russia from my house instead of that stupid double-wide!
Last month as Quitting the Day Job was getting off the ground, I decided to use September as “bust my butt” month. My [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
If you don’t take your business seriously, no one else will. I haven’t been taking my business seriously. Even though I don’t run a traditional business, I consider Internet Marketing a business. I don’t sell my own products, but I spend money on promoting other products in order to make money. I would call [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
This is a question of a book on career changes that I partially read.
At the time I was eating my lunch, alone, in my car. My answer was a resounding yes.
The question was asked in the context of “Should you quit your job?”
I went down the usual list of yes/no type of questions but stopped [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Here’s something you may have never thought to do, but you probably should. Do you subscribe to your own feed? I have never been into RSS Feeds, but I am looking for more ways to make my life easier. I figure just going to my feed reader to see new posts is A LOT easier [...]