Alfred is one of the most advanced and popular Mac applications that helps you accomplish tasks quickly and on the fly. It comes with a bunch of pre-installed plugins, which can perform quick actions ranging from searching the web, controlling your media, alerting you when you receive a new email and much more. Here’s a […]
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Freelancers: Should You Host Your Client’s Websites?
As a freelancer, I worked primarily with small and medium-sized businesses, many of whom needed web hosting or were already using low-quality hosting (Bluehost, anyone?). In some cases, I referred clients to a shared hosting platform (back in the day it was Siteground, now it’s Cloudways). In other cases, I put my client sites on […]
How Long Does It Take To Write A Blog Post?
Sorry to break it to you, but there’s no definitive answer to this question. As with most things in marketing, content creation, and blogging, the answer is, “it depends”. Quality content, the only thing that makes the cut these days, takes longer to produce than 500-word articles. And that’s a good thing: we get a […]
Chrome Extensions for Writers – Browser Apps To Supercharge Your Work
Chrome extension can improve your writing, speed up your workflow, and help you brainstorm topics and ideas for great content. Brainstorm new topics for content, improve your writing, or even edit an existing article to improve its quality. I am a big fan of Chrome extensions. They help me be more productive, write faster, and […]
Gifts For Writers
Writing is my main creative outlet these days. Putting words on paper (or blogs like this one) helps me communicate concepts to an audience sometimes better than I can verbally. Writing our thoughts can help us make sense of the ideas in our heads. Writing can help people make connections and expand their businesses. And it […]
How to Start a Graphic Design Side Hustle
It seems that everywhere you look in 2020, there’s talk of side hustles, entrepreneurship and starting your own business. With turmoil in the economy, employees forced to work from home, and uncertainty for the future, side hustles are one way to make money on the side. But there’s no reason you can’t turn your creative […]