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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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How to make a living blogging

One of the most promising avenues to make money is the internet, which is being widely used by millions of people all over the world. There is no better way to earn money than to make money blogging online. If you want to make money online, there is virtually no shortage of ideas. Entrepreneurs and gurus vouch for the fact that the internet is one of the best arenas to make a lot of money.  A lot of time is spent by people on the internet, so why not use that time to achieve your own monetary gains!

Write a lot on commercial subjects: One word that that can describe fascination for the internet is called blogging. A web log is called a blog that is very much similar to a diary. There could be no better definition for a blog than that of a diary. There are many types of blogs, for example personal blogs, sports blogs, food blogs, political blogs, etc. However, the question that arises is whether bloggers are able to make any money from these blogs after selecting a niche.

Choosing commercial subjects: If as a blogger you are able to write a lot on different commercial subjects you can make money blogging online. Depending on the choice of subject matter for the blogs, you can make money accordingly. Your potential for making money on subjects like stock market can be more in comparison to a subject like politics or sports.

Ads and banner write-ups: Readers can be recommended with products from commercial blogs. Commercial blogs help in attracting a lot of readers with topics of their interest. This can be achieved by developing Google ads, writing for guest posts, selling links related to the product being written about, selling banner ads and also simply extending expertise in the way of advice.

Selling blog space: You can even sell to the advertisers advertising space from a blog, which is another opportunity for you to make money blogging online. Whether the advertisers make sales or not, they will keep giving you the advertisements for displaying on the blog. All you have to make sure is that your traffic is in some way converted into sales to evade discontinuation of advertisers after some time. You can bring in a lot of money if you have popular blogs that sell direct advertising and impact affiliate marketing. At minimal level of traffic has to be maintained if you have to sell direct advertising on the blog.

Recommend products: Blogs can be basically about any subject under the sun. Some bloggers do make a lot of money – five figures! As a blogger you can also earn money by recommending products. Limited amount are sometimes available from advertisers. If a blogger takes extra efforts to pitch the products to the readers then there is no limit to the income that can be earned.

Effective use of tech-developed tools: When it comes to the task of making money blogging online the blogger has to have at his disposal several tools. With the company that is selling a particular product a blogger can maintain an affiliate relationship which can be most appropriate for its readers. Google adsense is a contextual program extensively advertised in a way that bloggers are able to make a lot of money. Blog posts can be read and along with this advertisements which most appropriate to the content are also displayed. Many people have been successful in making significant income from Google adsense.

The Real Deal Neal owns HUNTSVILLE PR, a Huntsville Web design and web development company helping people do business online