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Hello, friends and colleagues: I’ve been updating the festivals, fairs and holidays portion of the CultureMob Philadelphia blog with events and activities surrounding True Blood, discount tickets to area amusement parks, gay pride, local LARP events and more! You can view a list of my recent articles here on my CultureMob author page. Please feel  [ Read More ]

Dear friends and colleagues: Thanks so much for reading my articles over at Hello Metro. You’ll find more suburban content over on the Philadelphia site, especially in the South Jersey and Glenside areas. I’ll resume Center City coverage early next week. I look forward to taking some photos and video in the city as I  [ Read More ]

Over the past few years, I’ve encountered multiple instances of others republishing my work. Sometimes foreign companies republished SEO-friendly content overseas to avoid legal trouble. Most of the time, the person infringing on my copyright or that of the company I represent just did not understand the copyright rules. Here are some tips for bloggers  [ Read More ]

As a paid blogger at Today.com, I have been building a source of content about costumes and costuming for over a year. During Halloween, my costuming blog experienced a large amount of traffic. The top traffic entries demonstrate a mix of timeless, evergreen content as well as my ability to stay ahead of the trends.  [ Read More ]

Please note that this is a referral link and I do receive compensation for your signup. I make my living in writing and publishing, and this contributes to that income. Tired of a very low ‘paid per view’ rate? Would you like to write for a more professional, nationally recognized organization? Do you have experience  [ Read More ]

Check out this interesting blog post on social media detox. One thing that has helped me is honestly to blog less. It’s too much pressure to submit 3 different blog articles to all of those search sites and social networking. Now, I just post the pertinent stuff to this blog, which updates a feed on  [ Read More ]

Hey, writers! Just reminding you of a phenomenal write for pay opportunity. You can now write for The Examiner.

My friend Michelle and I have been working on a little project, and now it’s out! The site is called Writing Prompts, and it’s a blog providing at least one writing prompt per day for our readers. Join in! Check out Writing Prompts.

I admit it. I’m still pretty much a WordPress n00b. However, this blog doesn’t require that much upkeep–just updating, which is what I wanted it for. Anyhow, I’m embarking on a new project involving a different WordPress blog and it requires some more advanced knowledge of WordPress. I stumbled across this cool Guide for Newbies  [ Read More ]

I am now blogging over at today.com. At first glance, it doesn’t look like the job pays too much, but posts on your given topic are required to be 100 words. That takes less than two minutes for me to write and post, and it pays $1. Why not? It’s also something I would do  [ Read More ]