Journalism Monetization: How to Make Money with Your J-Skills

September 8, 2009

This is part two of my series about diversifying your income streams. See part 1 if you missed it.
If you read my last post in this series, you’ve likely put together a list of your skills and a few other lists as well. If you didn’t, go back to post 1 and write your lists. [...]

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It’s Furlough/Layoff/Paycut Time, What Are You Going To Do?

September 4, 2009

This is part 1 of my series about diversifying your income streams. Make sure to see Part 2.
It’s time to stop asking “are we at the end of newspaper times” and start preparing yourself for other options.
The writing on the wall is as clear as it can be – diversify yourself.
If your job at a [...]

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How To Think About the New News? Listen to Best Buy

June 9, 2009

Watch this video, and while you’re doing it, substitute Best Buy’s products for news and it’s brand/stores with a news organization.
Everything Best Buy CMO Barry Judge talks about Best Buy doing this or that, think about how a news organization can do or think similarly.

What did you think?
Related PostsMove around to get the most out [...]

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The Rumors are True! Shawn Smith Now Unemployed!

June 5, 2009

Well, not exactly unemployed. Starting today, I’m self-employed :-P
Today is my last day serving as senior producer for MLive.com.
My video explainer (turn your volume all the way up – sorry about that)

WHERE I’M GOING
Since 2007 I’ve been working on my own internet marketing group with three others. We started by building websites for small and [...]

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