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Monday
Jun142010

The Wind-up and the Pitch...

This thread about con pitches got me thinking about the subject.

I think the key to a good con pitch is to think like a reader -- not like a creator.

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Friday
Jun112010

Friday Archive Dive: Turbocharge Your Blog

(From March 26, 2009) Merlin Mann's and John Gruber's talk from SXSW - "HOWTO: 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility!" - has some great ideas about being a creative person on the Web that apply very much to webcomics.

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Thursday
Jun102010

Q&A with Robert Khoo (Part Two)

Last week we announced an open call for questions to be answered by Robert Khoo, Business Guy for Penny Arcade. Today, he's here with answers to roughly one metric ton of inquiries.

I split Robert's responses into two posts since he covered so much ground. This is the second half. The first updated yesterday.

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Wednesday
Jun092010

Q&A with Robert Khoo (Part One)

Last week we announced an open call for questions to be answered by Robert Khoo, Business Guy for Penny Arcade. Today, he's here with answers to roughly one metric ton of inquiries.

There's so much information here that I've decided to split this post into two parts, the second of which will update tomorrow.

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Tuesday
Jun082010

Shy About Retiring

Wanna see a webcartoonist sweat? Ask him about his retirement plans.

The fact of the matter is that so many of us are working so hard to simply grow our businesses that we can't even fathom putting away extra money for retirement.

But time marches on, and we're each going to be dealing with this issue sooner or later, so let's take a few seconds to tackle the subject.

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