10.31: Put on sunglasses to avoid looking at the haters. — We’ve all been there: It’s a calm Sunday, you’re freshly showered, enjoying a steaming cup of coffee, indulging in the fluffy decadence that is your head-to-toe-length bathrobe. Now, your well-meaning husband reminds you that you have plans to meet the couple that lives in the apartment below (who you’re desperately…

From someone who has been there in the trenches. — So you want to know how to earn from content writing. I don’t blame you — I’m a professional content writer and I make my living by writing. It’s a dream come true for me — I love writing, but I also love working from home, not working 40+ hours…

Billions of marketing dollars sometimes aren’t enough to cause a vibe shift. — Last year, just pre-crypto crash, everyone* was talking about Web3. Some people even skipped an era and made slides about Web5. And I’ll be honest: I did not get the hype. Now, I consider myself a smart person. But I’m not omniscient. With other hyped-up things, like Clubhouse and crypto…

In short: a specific SEO tool, consistency, quality, and learning how to do keyword research. — Around November of last year, I was chatting with my friend Nik Goeke, complaining about the difficulty of SEO. “I write stuff, I try to optimize it, and then sometimes it ranks and sometimes it doesn’t,” I said. “There’s no rhyme or reason to it.” “Hm. How many articles have…

Plus a lot of background, screenshots, expert quotes, and predictions for the future. — Can you use AI for SEO? Or is AI going to kill search engine optimization? Or neither? Let me start by pasting a very illustrative disclaimer that Alli AI, a website that calls itself “the best AI-driven SEO tool,” has at the bottom of its homepage: “*Performance, traffic and ranking…

In today’s modern age, there’s no escaping the AI scourge. — Recently I took on part-editorship of a large publication. One of my favorite parts of the new job is to headhunt: I look for good stories and try to convince the people writing them to send their awesome articles over to me and the publication I help run, instead of…

I have seen untold AI horrors along the journey, so, you’re welcome. — In the dawn of the online AI era, there were tons of free image generator options to create AI generated images for free. Now, most of us have run out of our free 25 Midjourney credits. It’s harder to find places to make free AI art. Luckily, I have trawled…

“Hey, can you follow me back on Instagram? I’m trying to become a micro-influencer.” — I haven’t worked with a human coworker since 2020. Since then, the only employees I share office space with are my two furballs. But I can still vividly recall the social oddities of workplace relationships. They are inevitable: You spend eight hours a day, five days a week, with the…

Breaking down typical writing coach rates, what you get for that, and whether it’s a good financial choice. — Necessary disclosure: I’m a writing coach, so a lot of this article will talk about the benefits of writing coaches. No surprises there. But I will also be honest. I think most writers don’t need coaches. All writing advice boils down to write often, and write well. Keep at it…