If you’ve ever tried your hand at outsourcing then you’d be forgiven for wondering what the fuss is about. Although it’s often described as a productivity solution that will free up your time for more important things, the reality is usually a time sucking headache as you struggle to find r...
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Elance and the like are full of people who want to hire English-speaking, University-educated, highly-verbose, lightning-fast, professional writers… for $0.01 per word. Writers, who preferably, also have hands-on experience in some niche skill, with which they could earn hundreds of thousands o...
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Sometimes you have no choice but to do jobs that you don't enjoy, but if you have a choice you're far better doing what you love. Some will argue that, first and foremost, you should do what you're good at, but most of the time that's the same thing. If we're good at something it's often becaus...
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It's a long-standing stereotype that British people love to queue. It's not so much that we love it - we moan about it as much as anyone else - more that we accept the polite conventions of queuing, such as maintaining a healthy distance from the person in front of you, tutting quietly (while inw...
Continue reading ...Why is my blog about Internet Marketing and Narcolepsy? Simply because these are two elements that have a huge impact on my life. Internet Marketing is how I, my wife and my younger sister earn a living. Narcolepsy, which I developed at the age of 18, does its best to negatively impact on my Inte...
Continue reading ...Pointing an accusing finger at the successful internet marketers - commonly referred to as the “Gurus” (it’s more accurate to use the label of “celebrity” but, for the sake of simplicity, I’ll stick with “Guru”) - is not exactly an original topic, but I’ve got a fresh angle from wh...
Continue reading ...Since I’m about to brand myself as an Internet Marketing heretic, I can’t exclude the possibility that I may shortly find myself bundled into an unmarked van, never to be heard from again. In case this does turn out to be the last article that I ever write, I hope you’ll take what you’re abo...
Continue reading ...“But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.” The above verse marks the point at which W.H. Auden’s poem abandons sentiment and proclaims the inevitable, destructive, march of time. This is something which internet mar...
Continue reading ...You can couple the title with “Facts are sacred…” or “Truth prevails where…” whichever you prefer. Either way, everyone should be free to share their opinion, as long as they don’t object to having their ideas challenged and they have the humility to be willing to change their position...
Continue reading ...In this article I’m turning my attention to the peddlers of the pseudo-scientific, quasi-religious, quantum quackery, that is The Law of Attraction. Clearly I’m not going to be making any attempt to be of objective in this discussion but, to be fair, since a recent film raised awareness of th...
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