29 Aug 10 What America Wants: Money, Health, or Knowledge?
Americans want to be richer more than they want to be wiser, and they want to be thinner more than they want to be younger. Americans have revealed this in a poll conducted by Adweek Media and Harris.
43% of the respondent, across the age group, said that given a chance they will want to be richer than anything else — anything being thinner, smarter, and younger. More than 50% Americans between 18 and 44 years of age favored riches to smartness.
Overall, 21% wants to be thinner, 14% smarter, and 12% said they want to be younger, whereas, 9% did not show any interest in any of them.
On the upside, people between 18 and 34 years of age said they want to be smarter (16%), and respondents between 35 and 44 years of age said they want to be thinner. 19% of 55+ people want to be richer, and 53% between 35 and 54 want to be richer. (See image for complete result).
The finding is strange in more than one respect. Despite the fetish for remaining young (at least assumed fetish), very few want to be young. And not many Americans want to be smart, which is sad.
Tags: Adweek, Age Group, Fetish, health, Knowledge, Money, Poll, Respondent, Respondents
07 May 10 What Kind of Blog should a Freelance Writer Start?
The question posed in the title is one the most common questions asked by a freelance writer jostling his way to stardom. Most of the freelance writers asking this question often get frustrated as they do not find any satisfactory answer to this question. They feel either people are hiding something, or there is nothing like one golden topic for a freelance writer to write about in order to attain success.
First part of their supposition is wrong, but the second part holds some merit. Indeed, there is not any golden topic for a freelance writer to write about. And indeed, writing for “freelance writing” or related niche will not bring you more clients then what you get while writing for another niche.
Why?
Because seldom you will get an offer to write for this niche.
What niche to write in?
The answer is any, as long as you enjoy writing in it. When a client asks for your samples or blog links, he has two goals in mind:
- He wants to see how well you write on the topic of your choosing.
- He wants to see your thought process.
He is least interested in knowing if you have guru’s knowledge about freelance writing or not, and he is more interested in knowing how well you can write and how you think. Because it is upon your thought process that your writing depends.
As long as you are writing well, therefore, you should not be worried about what niche to start a blog in. As a winning strategy, I would suggest you to write your heart out on the blog that you would show to your future client. Such blog will have both depth of thought, and colorful flair of writing. This is what your clients are looking for.
Tags: Asking This Question, blog, Flair, Freelance Writer, Freelance Writers, Freelance Writing, Guru, Heart, Knowledge, Niche, Satisfactory Answer, Stardom, Success, Supposition, Thought Process
