Category Archives: Ass-Kicking Tips

Interview with Award-Winning Food Critic Besha Rodell of Creative Loafing

Besha Rodell is the the award winning food writer and restaurant critic for Creative Loafing. She is regularly published in national magazines such as Maxim, Every Day With Rachael Ray, and Time Out New York. She has won numerous awards from the Association of Food Journalists (including first place for food feature writing last year), [...]

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Trailer Trashed by Hollis Gillespie

Hey, all, here’s my third book, titled Trailer Trashed; My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility. Buy yourself a signed copy, it will do wonders toward allaying your fears that the world is devolving into a big wad of wasted potential

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Your Audience is Valuable, Don’t Give It Away

I got an email the other day from a marketing wank working the worst kind of “grass roots” angle that is so popular now among freelance marketing suckups hoping to horn-dog free publicity off the backs of media people like us who are already working WAY TOO HARD to salvage our income during the internet [...]

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20 Hit-Boosting Headline Tips

Hollis Gillespie’s 20 Hit-Boosting Headline Tips! In the web world, your headline not only has to appeal to human eyes, but to search engines as well. The more clicks you get, the higher you rank on Google, the more you make with whatever it is you’re selling (cupcakes? books? custom underwear?)  Below are 20 tips [...]

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The Internet Changes Everything

“The internet is like Ice 9. It changes what it touches, probably forever . . .”

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A Boost for Starving (aka All) Writers

The economy has hit few professions harder than it has hit writers and journalists. It takes time (lean times) to build your own platform in order to stay above extinction. If not for local discount vendors like ScoutMob, I probably wouldn’t leave the house. ScoutMob is a free service that gives you up to 60% [...]

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Techtard Special: How to Upload a Video on YouTube

How to up load a video on Youtube

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The Social Media Revolution

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Lessons from the Cockroach

The world is evolving fast — time to stay above extinction. Because the web is shaking up not just publishing but everything. Just as bloggers have successfully

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Writers, Don’t Freak Out

Writers, don’t freak out just because that’s what all the traditional publishers are doing, what with how they consider the onslaught of new media kind of like a plague. They are the big huge tree, and bloggers and other independents are each a locust, which,

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