New Writing Gig….and a Great Site
By theprofessionalhobo ~ August 21st, 2007. Filed under: Alberta.
Life in Edmonton has settled into a sort of groove. Grooves aren’t bad – they can be comforting at times. It’s when the groove becomes a rut that you need to get movin’.
So grooving away, I have been writing furiously. I write for a smattering of websites and papers, and I love every minute of it. I sell articles to web publications, I write “Point Of Interest” pieces for travel sites, and I am part of an active writing and reading community at Helium.
In my web travels, I happened upon a very entertaining and enlightening site called Wisebread. It features frugal living, personal finance, consumer tips, and career advice. A team of 20 writers posts articles to this glorified blog, and it has an active readership with over 5,000 subscribers, and over 400,000 hits since their start-up January.
Well, I’m the 21st on their team of writers!
After scouring the site for a few days and lapping up the informative and often humourous articles, I decided that I would be a great fit and could have a blast writing for it. With a background as a CFP and my current frugal path as a Hobo, I figured this was the place to write. And they apparently thought so too!
I’m already travelling up the initially steep learning curve of web-isms……blogging, clicking, keywords, SEOs, text link this, page rank that, and so on. I plan to submit a post at least once every other day to develop a repertoire of articles and dedicated readership too.
So if you’re ever wanting to know what Nora is doing and haven’t seen any Life Happens updates, check out Wisebread! You’ll be glad you did.
PS – One of the most entertaining posts I have found to date on the site is about Hustling Free Drinks. I’ve actually hustled a few drinks of my own since watching the embedded video – all in good fun, and amazing tricks!
I won’t tell you where it is on the site though……visit Wisebread and find it yourself! When you do, post a comment here (or on one of my articles on the site) to let me know what you think.
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September 11th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Ok, the tip on hitchhiking on airlines was pretty lame, but the hustling drinks was funny. Of course the best way to hustle drinks is to be a hot woman, but that isn’t going to happen (to me) anytime soon.
September 11th, 2007 at 8:27 am
Lame? Lame?!?!
I guess if getting a plane ticket for cheap is lame, then….well….
(kidding)! Thanks for the comment!