My First Guest Post

I have guest posted on the #customerlove website and it went live on 21 November. This is my first experience of guest posting and I enjoyed it. The site is a Wordpress site like my professional blog and so it was really easy to upload my work in drafts for LaVonne to check before it went out. Unfortunately I was on a two post day, so my post didn't really get the full 24 hours' exposure, but I was pleased that I managed to do it.

I had such writers' block when preparing the post! I don't normally struggle with writing, but somehow the right tone just would not come on this! I must have started the post three times before finding the right voice! What broke it for me? This brilliant post by James Chartrand of Men with Pens explaining how he writes a post. It was great to read how one of the great post writers of the Internet was able to write so succinctly. I took his advice and worked out my three points and from there it got easier.

So, if you're interested, here's the post for #customerlove: Customer Focus is King.

Enjoy and I hope it's the first of many.

Finding Jobs

I've come close to getting two jobs this week but no!

Close isn't good enough - and yes I did apply for them properly this time! This freelance writing life isn't all roses that's for sure.

So, what am I going to do about it?

Well, I'm not going to do much today - there's house things to be done. But I'll be back next week and marketing harder than ever. Never give up!

Have You Any Hubs?

I had a bit of a Hubpages moment last week. I am now fully recovered, although I could have another attack any minute!

Hubpages is an article site which offers revenue sharing, mainly through Amazon and Ebay although there is Kontera too. Although I have been on Hubpages for about 10 months, I have not done a lot with it and have consequently not earned a lot either. Usually I ignore the weekly emails, but this week for some reason I chose to read it and found myself taking part in the Hubmob activity.

Hubmob chooses a subject about which Hubbers can choose to write about. The resulting Hubs are brought together on rss feed which hopefully raises your exposure a little and brings people to your hubs.

I wrote four on the Hubmob topic which was on the subject of top ten gift lists and added an extra one for good measure which was all linked in nicely. I also did some work on my existing Hubs, finding that some of the ads had not been working on them properly! No wonder I made no money from them! So I've decided to keep an eye out for the Hubmob activity this week and see if I fancy taking part in them again.

The Hubpages writing tools are relatively easy to use and you can add pictures, rss feed, comments and the ads as you wish. They send you regular emails on your stats and there are some very interesting people writing on there. There are people who use Hubpages regularly as a source of passive income. I am not one of them, but I may be writing a little more for them over the next few weeks if work continues to be slow.