Archive for December, 2009
Wordpreneur Revisited @ Teachpreneur
To get things rolling over at Teachpreneur, I quickly sifted through a number of older Wordpreneur posts I wrote and started reprinting the still useful ones. Lightbulb: If they’re still useful over there, then by golly they’re still useful over here.
Released: Ka-ching!³
The Teachpreneur project has released its latest free ebook: Ka-ching!³, an Adobe Acrobat PDF ebook that quickly details three legit and consistent ways to make money online.
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How to Avoid Getting Burned by Online “Freelance Writer” Scams
There’s something about wanting to get one’s foot in the proverbial door, particularly in a highly competitive field like freelance writing, that seems to make one’s good sense go kablooey.
Adobe Reader & Acrobat Vulnerable: Disable JavaScript Now!
According to a report I read on ZDNet today, Adobe has confirmed that it’s ubiquitous Adobe PDF Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier software are vulnerable to exploitation from malicious hackers who can “hijack data from compromised computers.”
This is not a drill.
Released: Insider Internet Copywriting
The Teachpreneur project has just released its second free ebook title: Insider Internet Copywriting, a collection of “real world professional tips & techniques” from some of the top copywriters on the Net today.
Released: P/T Ezine Publishing Profits @ Teachpreneur
The first Teachpreneur project free ebook has now been released: Part-Time Ezine Publising Profits. Yup, free. I’ve decided to make all ebooks released at Teachpreneur absolutely free. If you know any teachers, tell them about it (heck, nothing’s really stopping you from getting and using the info in the ebook yourself!).
I’m hoping to release a couple more titles by this weekend. Stay tuned!
A More Positive Nook Experience and Review
In the previous hands-on Nook review I read and shared with you, the Barnes & Noble Nook didn’t come out looking so good. Well, here’s one that just came out — a more technically detailed one at that — from ZDNet where the Nook comes out tops in the field. To that reviewer anyway.
Read Hands-on: B&N Nook is the king of connectivity and content »
Nook vs. Kindle – A Useful Review
Lessons From “Clients From Hell”
Yesterday, I brought a funny “user contributed” blog to your attention: Clients From Hell. Although it is indeed full of stories of real world hellish clients, much of which produces head shaking chuckles, a good number of the posts are more of the “business tips and lessons” type. Three come to mind:
TweetBookz
Under my personal “really cool business idea” — or even “why the heck didn’t I think of this” — category, TweetBookz produces high quality coffee table-type books that feature up to 200 of your Twitter tweets. Or anybody else’s for that matter, making them excellent gifts for any Twitter users on your list.
WillMaster Discounts End Tomorrow
I almost forgot to mention this!
My friend, master programmer William Bontrager — who I partnered with years ago to develop and market ProLinkz (now free) — is seriously “holiday” discounting a bunch of the popular server software products he developed and sells through his site.
Self-Publishing Question: Print or eBook?
Just thinking out loud in this relatively short post.
After observing the consumer ebook market with the seeming success of the Amazon Kindle and the upcoming Barnes & Noble Nook, I think this brings up an interesting question for self-publishers. Namely…