how to generate passive income

Your Passive Profit Pyramid to Prepare for PR

By Guest Blogger Christina Jandali (with a few PR comments from me). SUSAN’S INSIGHTS RE: PR + Passive Profits: Publicity is a vehicle to help you generate passive income as it drives organic traffic to your website through radio, TV, print, podcast and blog interviews / articles. Publicity is a vehicle to help you generate…

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Thank You For The Sh_tty Lesson

A quick note to say how much I appreciate each and every one of you. Some of you have been connected since my days teaching at the Learning Annex where my first product was a cassette tape that I duplicated, a cover/case that I hand-glued onto a piece of paper then printed from my computer.…

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How to Befriend Bloggers (Without Feeling Awkward or Stalkery!)

By Guest Blogger Sarah Von Bargen I thought, for a bit, that I should really title this post ‘How To Network With Bloggers’ – because, you know, SEO and what not. But the word ‘networking’ feels intimidating and overwhelming and slightly gross.  Eating subpar appetizers while someone shoves their business card in my face and shrieks…

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Verbal Aikido Skills

I Was Hit in Aikido—and it was an honor

I was hit repeatedly at an Aikido training over the weekend. And it was an honor. When I told a friend about this she said, “At the first hit, I’d be out of there. Off to get a latte and shopping for shoes.” Of course a part of me wanted out of there. The other part welcomed the opportunity to polish my spirit. As Rumi says, “Criticism polishes my mirror.” My work will be done when nothing can annoy, irritate, anger, or ruffle me. That is a long way off.

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