Wayne W Walls

 People who are new to online business are usually looking for ways to increase the number of viewers or readers they can get to their content. They are looking for ways to make more money from their business. The basic thinking is that the more people you can get to your content (whether that be a website or a podcast or videos), the more people will end up buying products from you or viewing your display ads, and the more money you will make. All sorts of articles are written online to try to share tips that will bring you online business success. They talk about all sorts of things. Writing catchier headlines for your blog posts can encourage more people to click on your content in search engines. Doing keyword research so that you can write about things that get lots of searches each month can increase how many people find you. Becoming skilled in persuasive writing and copywriting can help you keep people on your pages for longer. There are a nearly endless list of potential h...

 I am a huge fan of the Making Sense podcast which is hosted by Sam Harris . It is consistently ranked as one of the top 100 podcasts in the world. The podcast is mostly interviews that Sam Harris has with interesting people. Interview might be the wrong word, because it makes it seem like the majority of the talking is done by the guest. It makes it seem like all Sam does is ask questions. It is much more of a conversation where both Sam and his guest get the chance to speak at length about their thoughts on any given topic.  And the conversations had in the podcast are on topics of consequence. Some podcasts merely talk about entertaining anecdotes with the intent of amusing listeners. Making Sense is an educational podcast that talks about science, religion, psychology, politics, and current events. Sam Harris is one of the smartest people I have ever listened to or read. His vocabulary is immense and his ability to enunciate concepts is incredible. The guests he brings ...

 Target is my favorite big chain store. It might even be my favorite store overall. The atmosphere of the place just feels so much nicer than Walmart or other budget brand chains. I go to Target at least once per week to get the regular household essentials. I always love my trips to Target. Target is a brand I associate with quality.  It isn't always the cheapest. Some people I have talked to call Target the "Rich Man's Walmart". They have mentioned that they rarely go to Target because everything is so much more expensive than other stores. I haven't really noticed stuff being that much more expensive at Target. If you went around with a list of prices from competing stores on the items you were there to buy, I would bet most items wouldn't be more than a dollar more than anywhere else. And when you consider than Target pays their employees a minimum of $15 per hour , an industry leading wage for retail workers, it makes paying a little more much more palata...

 I love looking back at stuff I did when I was a little kid. I have a desk at my old room at my parent's house that is filled with stuff I worked on as a youngster. There are notebooks filled with drawings. The drawings I made as a kid were very bad. I had little skill as an artist . I'm still not a great illustrator, but I have definitely gotten better when I look back at what I used to be capable of. I would draw people that looked more like octopuses than anyone you've ever seen. I would draw houses that would likely collapse if actually built. All sorts of stuff. Other notebooks filled with things I wrote. I would write tiny, one sentence thoughts. I would practice spelling by writing the same words over and over again in a column. Sometimes I wrote short stories. I would make lists of things . Random things. I never had a consistent diary like some people had, but I would occasionally write a single page that seems like it would fit well in a diary. It would describe s...

 Do you need a copy made of one of your keys? Getting your key duplicated can be a pain. I used to live in an apartment, and the landlord there only gave me one key to the place. I asked about getting a second copy of the key from them, but they refused. They would only give me the one copy. The reasoning behind that was because they only wanted me to have access to the unit. I was the only person on the lease, and I was the only person they knew, so I was the only person they wanted in there regularly. I was welcome to invite people over to my place, but they only wanted other people there while I was there. They explained that if I had multiple sets of keys to the door, I might offer a copy of the key to a friend of mine who I might let use the apartment even if I were at work or away for the weekend. They didn't want me to have a spare key for fear that I would let people they didn't know come and go without me there to supervise them. That reasoning is sound, and it makes s...

 Back when blogging was brand new (and when blogs were still called web logs) people wrote extremely short posts. Very short posts were the norm. Lots of people would regularly publish blog posts that were under 300 words long. Sometimes people would just post a few sentences that would make up a thought they were having. Now, people would consider content of that length to be "micro-blogging". Those would be the sorts of posts left to sites like Twitter and Tumblr. Over time, as blogging has grown to be a more widely practiced activity, people have generally moved to longer posts. Bloggers write posts that contain more information and which achieve larger word counts. There could be a few different reasons why this has been the direction of the trend. It might just be that people are writing different types of content for their blogs. Blogs used to be online diaries. They were just a place to share brief stories of the things that were happening in the author's life , a...

 I am currently writing this blog as my main online business. I am choosing to not write exclusively in a single niche or even a cluster of niches. I am just writing about what I want to write about in the moment. I write about what interests me . My aim in this is to attract readers who have overlapping interests with me. I believe that if I write enough articles that I will attract a large enough audience to build a sustainable business . I have read that, especially in online businesses, a key to success is persistence. Whatever it is you are doing online, you have to do a lot of it and for a long time. You cannot just pump out five videos or posts in a week and expect success. You've got to put out work regularly for months or years. And sticking with a business for months or years is difficult if you are not interested in the kind of content you are producing. You have to pick a subject you care about so that you can actually stick with it. I wrote a few articles on a couple ...