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Thursday
Feb112010

Weighing Opportunity

Comic contests, solicitations to have your comic reprinted in a magazine, offers to run your comics on other sites...

It would be nice if opportunity actually knocked.

But let's face it, sometimes opportunity stands outside the door and kinda... waits. Or maybe sulks out by the shrubs.

Most of the time, it's hard to tell if it's opportunity at all.

So how do you know when to open the door?

Here's a few things on my own checklist.

This post discusses ways to judge different opportunities based on bullet-list-style breakdowns that help separate the good ones from the scams. Log in for the entire post.