8 posts for internet professionals, Weekly Buzzslot #2

9 Unsexy Truths about Making Money Online

Fast Luxury Cars, Parties with Sexy People, Dream Homes, Lavish Meals, World Travel, Book Deals and Pictures of massive Checks…. making money online is sexy!
-by problogger.net

Business plan, business planning and goal setting

As I discussed last week, a business plan is a written document that lists a company’s goals, how they will achieve those goals, and the guidelines and standards it will use to measure success and achievements.
-by bloggingtips.com

Confused About the Fastest Way to Grow Your Business?

I’ve been scouring the Internet for over a year getting to know who the best writers are and working out which products are worth buying. It took me about 12 months to get that sorted out.
-by getinthehotspot.com

9 Ways To Improve Your Writing

Does a blank page scare you? It doesn’t matter if it is created by a word processing application, sitting in a typewriter or resting under your pen. Can you fill that void?
-by workawesome.com

Why Funnel Marketing Doesn’t Work

It is easy to see why “the marketing funnel” is such a popular concept. Marketing is a process we use to extract a small stream of prospects and clients from a vast sea of strangers. So many writers and speakers use the funnel model to describe the process: that large crowd of potential customers at the wide end, and those select few, our actual customers, at the narrow end.
-by freelanceswitch.com

Dealing With “The Impossible” At Work

The novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a “satirical critique of bureaucratic operation and reasoning.” The book is famous, unique and hilarious, but the term “Catch-22″ itself has become more popular than the book it came from. The phrase may seem old and obscure, but it’s still part of the English lexicon, and it’s been used most recently in popular TV shows like Lost and The Office.
-by workawesome.com

Reevaluating yourself

I recently attended a teleconference about treating your business like a hobby. The presenter asked some tough questions that made me stop and think about some things. Some times you have to reevaluate yourself and your business ventures.
-by bloggingtips.com

How Writing Can Be Like Great Sex: 17 Hot Tips

Perhaps the title seems a bit gratuitous, but there is definitely truth to it. As a writer, you have likely experienced various levels of intensity and pleasure in the process of working on your craft. There’s writing when you are just slopping words on paper. And there’s writing that is slow and laborious and painfully tedious.
-by writetodone.com