monetizing

Would You Buy Happiness?

I’ve been thinking about a few ideas for the last couple of weeks, and rather than launch into what I think, I’d love to hear what you think. So, here we go: Let’s pretend that I developed a process that will make you happy if you walk through the steps. And, by happy, I don’t [...]

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Getting Help on Becoming Excellent

Update (September 17th): This class is still open and will remain open for the next five weeks. I’m SO glad I’m in it – I’ve met a lot of great people.) Yesterday I talked about the choice you have to make between being excellent and being comfortable. I gave a lot of general stuff to [...]

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When Selling Gets in the Way of Sharing

There has historically been a bias against money-makers among intellectuals. Being an academic, I inherited this bias without really thinking about it. It’s only recently that I began thinking about it again – and as normal I got there via a weird route. I’ll spare a lot of the historical details, but I’m not saying [...]

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Whose Blogspace Is This, Anyways?

I’m trying to save all of my metablogging posts ’til Friday, since if I wrote about all the stuff related to blogging that I’m thinking about, I’d probably write as much about blogging as I do anything else. That said, we’re off! Michelle at Bloggrrl wrote today about something that has been on my mind [...]

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10 Tips to Help You Fail at Monetizing Your Blog

[Abstract: This post provides tips to help you fail at monetizing your blog. It could also be seen as a list of things for you not to do if you want to succeed at blogging, but I have very little experience with that, so I'm sticking to what I know.) I really wish I had [...]

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