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My Best Article Ever, Is Honey Good For You?

Post by on Sep 04, 2010

Back when I was living in Kenora, Ontario in the spring of 2007, I was looking for new ways to make money online, and I explored writing articles on spec. When I changed hats and became a ‘web writer’ that spring, I dumped a lot of old TV proposals and strange pieces of original content into different article directories on the web. The content was already created, it was what was left over from a career as a screenwriter, documentary TV researcher.  Because I could see the potential online, I was incentivized by very small returns at first…  So I repurposed word files on an old writing computer and dumped them on the net under the user name ‘Roberrific’.  If you do a search on that name today, you can see a massive database of content, a legacy of Grandpa’s secrets, Dumpdiggers, and ethanol and foam footware articles.  There are… Read more »


Teaching at HumberPR, learning at SproutUpTO

Post by on Apr 15, 2010

On Weds 14 April 2010, Rob Campbell gained thirty new twitter followers @roberrific after I journeyed to Humber College and put on two ninety minute presentations for two groups of eager Public Relations students. My speeches spelled out exactly how Smojoe uses social networks to rank higher for keywords in search engines. There is no deck or paper program for this show, it’s all performed live.   I try to make it as entertaining as possible by asking questions and telling funny stories as I project screengrabs and spreadsheets, and visit the URLs of my articles, blogs and discussion forum posts. These Humber PR graduates are web savvy scholars who paid nothing for my presentation, and so they got no sympathy from me as I spewed forth anecdotes and talked too fast – I packed their heads with too much information all at once and deliberately bounced from concept to… Read more »