Are you thinking about starting your own blog to make money from home? While you probably won’t get rich overnight, blogging is a great way to build community around an issue you are passionate about, while also earning income from advertising and affiliate linking. If you’d like to try your hand at writing a blog, [...]
Freelance Writing Jobs
Sometimes traveling abroad is about just that – traveling. People don’t always decide to live abroad because they are looking for a cultural experience at work, but rather because they enjoy travel. Picking up work along the way may be easy for some, and more challenging for others. For those with a proclivity for writing and some expertise about a certain topic, freelance writing jobs provide a means of income that you can do from anywhere with an Internet connection.
Back in the early days of blogging — circa 2004 — blogs were mostly online journals. Moms wrote about their new babies, college kids wrote about their love life angst. Today, however, blogs are part personal catharsis, part PR and part income stream. Every major brand has a blog, and most non-profits communicate with donors [...]
With the April 15th deadline for filing your personal income taxes right around the corner, it’s time for those of you who are self-employed to get serious about your 1040s. Whether you hire a tax professional to do your taxes for you, or you plan to go it on your own with software like TurboTax, [...]
Do you want to pursue a career in freelance writing, but think you can’t make it work because of lack of experience? One way to break into freelance writing is by bidding on writing jobs at contract sites such as Elance, Guru, RentACoder or GetAFreelancer. These jobs probably won’t be the highest paying you will [...]
I haven’t shared any job searching link love with you in a while, but there are a few things I’ve found this week that are really “must reads”. We’re in for a rainy weekend, so hopefully you can curl up with a good URL (ah, how times have changed!). How to become America’s next top [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s Mark Penn published a column this week about the growing number of professional bloggers — and their growing earning potential. Penn says that 1% of American adults are now earning some income from blogging. That translates into 20 million blogging Americas, with 1.7 million profiting from their work in some way [...]
