Good To Great: Why Some Blogs Succeed and Others Don't

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Good to Great, Why some Blogs Succeed and Others Don’t

Have you ever wondered why some blogs engender the success that they do? Why Techcrunch has 1/2 of a million subscribers and charges $10,000 a month for a 125×125px ad? Or why more than 20,000 blogs have chosen to link to BoingBoing and 1,500 people have listed it as a Technorati favourite? Why the DailyKos received more than half a million visits... [Read more]

Announcement: FreelancerMagazine and NorthxEast.com to Merge

I am pleased to announce that NorthxEast.com and FreelancerMagazine.com will soon be merging and operating as one site. Our combination unites two complementary resources, with NxE aimed at providing advice and resources for independent bloggers, and FM providing additional resources on marketing, productivity, self-management, and more. [Read more]  Read More →

Review: Seo-semantic-xhtml.com

Due to a recent project time crunch, I decided to outsource some XHTML/CSS work and hired Seo-semantic-xhtml.com to convert designs into XHTML. Here’s a quick run-down of how it went. Why I Chose Seo-semantic-xhtml.com: I was quite impressed by their client list, which includes Sony Pictures, Columbia, and Mobile Illumination. Equally as impressive... [Read more]

Brighton Entrepreneur Launches UK’s First Online Accounting System Dedicated to Freelancers

Brighton-based entrepreneur Darren Fell has launched www.Crunch.co.uk; the UK’s first online accounting system aimed solely at freelancers. Fell, who previously built and sold email marketing firm Pure for $7.8m last year, has been working on his latest project for the past 18 months. Crunch.co.uk allows freelancers to manage their entire accounts,... [Read more]

List Your Services in Our New Business Directory

We’re glad to announce a new Freelance Business Directory on our site, where individuals and businesses are free to list their webite, description and contact information on FreelancerMagazine.com/business-directory.   All links are of the “dofollow” variety.  All that we ask in return for a listing is a backlink to our site, with... [Read more]

Open thread: How to get things done?!

We previously chatted about finding inspiration. Now we shall talk about getting things done. Not the actual book, but about what all of us do in order to move forward in our projects. I am a mac user, and I use calendar app a lot. I have a couple (7 actually) different calendars, ranging from business tasks, to deadlines and personal plans. This has... [Read more]

Open thread: What do you do when you’re out of inspiration?

This doesn’t usually happen to me, but tonight it did. Perhaps there are some of you who have hit the brick wall before. What am I referring to? I am referring to those moments when you’re in the middle of a project, but you hit a dead end. You may have been extremly excited when you first started it, but as you go deeper and deeper, you... [Read more]

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