Archive for September, 2008
To October! And BEYOND!
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: [...]
QTDJ Oktoberfest Contest
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 [...]
How Other Bloggers Engage Me
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 [...]
Lessons Learned in September
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 [...]
Starting to Take Your Business Seriously
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 [...]
Is Your Job Toxic?
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 [...]
Three Quick Tips to Get More RSS Subscribers
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 [...]
The Perfect Game To Describe My Job
So I am watching TV last night, and I see a commercial for this Internet game called:
5 Minutes to Kill Yourself
Basically you are at work and invited to another meeting. You have 5 minutes to walk around the office and kill yourself before you have to go to the meeting. It is a very funny [...]
Don’t Be That Guy
In attempting to make your blog more popular, one tried and true method is to comment on other blogs in your niche. It is an excellent way to increase readers and backlinks to your blog, if you do it correctly. There are plenty of different ways to comment on other blogs, but when done effectively [...]
48 Days To Creative Income
About three years ago, I was desperate to quit my day job.
To make matters worse, my wife was changing jobs and the prospects were not good for the job she was heading into.
Being a devotee of Dave Ramsey and listening to his radio show, The Money Game, I was familiar with is promotion of a [...]
