“To brand” — by its ancient roots — means to burn. Marking livestock with a red-hot iron has been around for centuries. Some suggest the word ‘brand’ comes from Old Norse.

In recent years, especially in digital creation, digital writing, and online influencers the phrase “personal branding” gets vomited out all over the place. However, it has little conn…

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What are many people’s two biggest fears?

Death and Public Speaking.

Is there a new contender in the Digital Age: The fear of writing online?

Maybe it feels like stepping onto a virtual stage… with an unseen audience?

Are you waking up in a cold sweat thinking that publishing your writing is like standing on stage in your ginch?

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Are you looking to escape the meet-grinder? Endless mindless meetings, daily commutes, holiday requests denied, and unreasonable bosses?

The Entrepreneur-Ship is one of the few professional vehicles in life where you can build full autonomy and step away from ladder-climbing meeting grinders. This may be getting driven faster by workplace toxicity and ra…

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What is the Medium Writers Club? It’s a group that is writing stories about growth on Medium and improving one’s writing.

The Club ran a writing contest focussed on these two exact things:

• Growing on Medium, and

• Improving your writing

This is a story about exactly those 2 things, specifically how it took me 6 months (June-December) to get 50 Followers on Me…

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Have you ever wondered why some digital writers building businesses thrive in the digital writing world while others seem to struggle endlessly? Or simply disappear off the digital grid?

I am now exactly one year since walking away from a good-paying career in the corporate public sector — after more than a decade. I was a senior healthcare administrator…

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Could digital writing be as transformational as oil, or, is this hype, hyperbole and pipe dreams?

In a recent webinar, a big online influencer suggested digital writing is the new oil. It left me thinking and I came up with some comparisons.

Oil ignited the Industrial Revolution transforming the world and now digital writing and Artificial Intelligence ar…

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Want to make a living as a writer without spending years building a platform? Ghostwriting can get you there. 👻

Ghostwriting has been around for a long time. It has become increasingly popular in the Digital Age. It’s no longer the realm of writing books for famous folks.

[This story was originally published on Medium. You can check it out here.]

As the d…

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As a digital writer, crafting compelling content is only half the battle and process.

The other half? Building systems, workflows, and strategies to streamline your processes, manage your time effectively, and ultimately grow your business. This goes whether you are full-time or side hustling.

For almost a year, I’ve been building a d…

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Are you a regular writer? An aspiring writer? A digital writer operating a business or a side hustle?

As a digital writer, one of the most crucial things you can do is establish a consistent writing routine. Without one, it’s easy to lose focus, procrastinate, and struggle to hit deadlines.

I base this on my experience of building a solopreneur digital wr…

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Are you thinking about leaving the traditional office environment behind and building a solopreneur business?

Or, maybe you are simply looking to make a few changes in your life.

There is a secret sauce to taking this on, which I will share in this story.

I’ve been asked recently how I keep so many plates spinning, and so m…

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Are you looking to expand your reach and build a bigger following on Medium? Are you interested in building a digital writing business?

I had to look twice at my statistics on Medium. This past month I tripled my followers and tripled my earnings.

Last month I wrote an article sharing 5 strategies that have rocketed my growth on Medium in recent months. I…

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Are you looking to expand your reach and build a bigger following on Medium?

I started on Medium in mid-June 2022. Those first few months were SLOWWW. Look at these numbers. Those go with posting about 2–3x per week.

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I have been posting on LinkedIn daily for 10 months, and this past week I posted 10 things I’ve learned. I added more to the post and published it as a Medium story in the Synergy Publication. It got a lot of traffic.

I’ve now published that article here on .

With 10 reasons already outlined, you might think that’s al…

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With so many social media platforms available, it’s hard to know which one to focus on. Hands down, I recommend LinkedIn. Here’s why.

I’ve been on LinkedIn since 2014. I didn’t discover the sheer power of this platform until about 10 months ago. That was when I left a six-figure salary as a senior leader in public sector admin and started building a solo…

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