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Marketing 30 Minutes A Day!
Most writers I have seen are no good at marketing or scared of it. They are the type of person who wants to write. Writing is what they are passionate about. It’s all they want to do.
By Wendy6 years ago in Journal
How to Manage Your Side Hustle with a Full Time Job
Out here in Los Angeles, it’s strange if you don’t have a side hustle. Most people are musicians, actors, etc. and gig after work or spend their PTO on auditions and shooting movies and tv shows.
By Kristi Jacobsen6 years ago in Journal
How to Describe Yourself in a Job Interview
One of the most common questions asked during a job interview is, “How do you describe yourself?” There are many ways to answer this question. The best approach is to reply with the best qualities that align with the job.
By Janine Palatucci6 years ago in Journal
Cost-Effective Solutions to Participate In Professional Events
Managing the budget for the business future is very much effective and useful. All type of business prefers to save its cost on different things efficiently that can better utilize on other business purposes respectively. you can better achieve the targeted goals of the business with your efficiency. Business events are the secure platforms that can better provide you the best solutions through which everything will get set in a better way. you will definitely get the better opportunities for the future of the business in which everything will get set in a better way.
By michal clarke6 years ago in Journal
3 Steps to Booking Your First Voice Over Gig.
Voice acting is by far the best job I've ever had... period. Not only has it helped pay the bills for the last 15 years, but a career as a voice actor can also be extremely rewarding, creatively and financially, if you do it right.
By Tod Fennell6 years ago in Journal
The One Notebook Idea
The one notebook idea by Shaunta Grimes is a great idea. I have heard of so many writers say: “you need to keep a writing notebook.”
By Wendy6 years ago in Journal
Ways Bloggers Can Make Money
Blogging is a fulfilling hobby because it allows you to express your passion for various subjects. What you probably didn’t know is that you can use your blog to make money. But, there is a category of bloggers who ventured into blogging to make money because they heard that blogging is an easy way to make money. But they probably don’t know how to do it. The bottom line is that you can make money from blogging. But, before you get there, you have to prepare your blog by creating useful content and finding readers. You need to get off your blog and promote it by getting readers. Once you get readers, make sure you engage with them to start earning. Here are a few ways of earning money from a blog.
By Kevin6 years ago in Journal
Different Ways to View Microservices
This is often called developing a monolithic application. Such an application is personalized to the needs of your client and can hardly be used by any other client. By redesigning your application so that you can reuse sections of your code for your other clients, you will be able to provide a toolkit of shareable code. However, your software library is still constrained by the programming language you use. Microservice extends this view further by turning your shareable library into an independent standalone service. Here are different ways to view microservices.
By Kevin6 years ago in Journal
How to Write a Book
Writing a book is not difficult. All you need is to be passionate or knowledgable about something. You also need the willpower to take on a project that will take hundreds of hours over the course of weeks or months or more.
By Lance Von Prum6 years ago in Journal
7 Tips for Creating a Corporate Video That Amazes Customers
Humans are visual creatures, period. Ever since childhood, we’re taught to make mental maps to remember new information better, or to make a connection between certain subjects and colours to jump-start our memory easier later. Considering this, and the fact that our attention span has decreased drastically with all the new content just popping up left and right, a fast-paced, entertaining video is the way to go when advertising your product or services. Here are some tips for creating a video that will hold your potential customers’ attention and make them want to learn more about your company.
By Lucas H. Parker6 years ago in Journal
Finding the Time to Be a Writer!
You want to be a writer. Maybe you have always wanted to start a blog, or maybe you have novel swimming around in your head. But you say:
By Wendy6 years ago in Journal
5 Successful Team Building Typesets
Let’s start by saying that this is just one strategy and only a suggestion. This by no means is the only strategy that results in successful team building. There are many or any variation that could be just as successful. A successfully built team is not definitive of good writing or a good story. This is just a tool to help provide some insight on how to build a well balanced and successful team. Successful being effective or efficient. The five types mentioned here are not the only types there are. These five are just the ones I have chosen to talk about. That being said Let’s begin.
By Chace Alex V. Curtis6 years ago in Journal