Tickets -- Timing is Everything

"Tickets -- Timing is Everything""Sometimes, waiting pays. Other times, it ends up costing your more and losing your shot at the first row! It’s all a matter of timing - and a little luck.  Whenever you decide to purchase the tickets, make sure you buy them from an...

Finding Cheap Airline Tickets

"Considering the small amount of time it requires to “shop around,” there’s no reason to assume you won’t have better luck finding cheap airline tickets at another site.  Fourth, learn from the experts. People within the travel industry know a great...

Save Money at Disney World

"It isn’t always cheap. In fact, a Disney vacation can be downright expensive. That’s why anyone planning a trip to Orlando should think about learning how to save money at Disney World.  Saving money is usually a pretty easy proposition. You look for the...

Cheapest Hotel Room Rates Go to Agents

"One expert argues that the travel and tourism industry treats travel agents like “royalty.” The industry relies upon agents for a significant share of its overall business and does its very best to keep agents on its good side. Treating an agent like a VIP improves...

Johnson County Speaker's Bureau

"Carson Brackney is happy to announce his affiliation with the Johnson County Speaker's Bureau. Carson is an accomplished public speaker and writer who heads Content Done Better, a full-service freelance copywriting firm specializing in online materials."

Ed Bradley...Thanks, Ed...

"There are many other reasons to like Ed Bradley. Here's my own personal favorite... A little over a decade ago, I was living in Colorado and I happened to flip on the radio one evening while making supper. I heard this organ and a saxaphone playing off on one another. It...

Help a brother out...Tell WhitePaperSource how much you love the CDB blog...N...

"If you have ever wondered what it would be like to stumble upon a true case of Shameless Self Promotion, you need not wonder any longer! Stelzner Consulting (you may have noticed the link on my sidebar at some point) produces the WhitePaperSource Newsletter, which is a great...

You're a writer...You're doomed...

"No matter how good it is, people will despise your work. I'm sure some of the writers in the audience are shaking their heads in disbelief after reading that. You are a GOOD writer. People LOVE the things you write. You don't write like THESE people. You have TALENT. Trust...

Google landing page quality update underscores need for quality content...

"Google is adjusting its landing page quality guidelines and that may have an impact on some webmasters' needs for content. The theory is simple. Google is raising the quality bar in order to shove subpar sites out of the Adwords mix."

Article marketing and landing page quality...

" Yesterday, I mentioned Google's recent tightening of landing page quality standards. It looks like one of the major players in the article directory business is moving in that same direction. Christopher Knight, who heads the popular article repository EzineArticles.com,...

CONTENT DONE BETTER BLOG

"I am going to send out the next issue of the Content Done Better Report the day before Thanksgiving instead of right after the holiday.  However, in order to send out a great edition, I would love a few more brand-spanking-new and insightful articles about the content...

Freelance content writers--why be a traveler when you can be a destination? P...

"Like many content writers, I started by hunting down jobs. After landing a few, I decided it wasn't my cup of tea. I wanted to create a situation where people would start hunting me down. After reading a Tom Peters article and some similar material, I decided to make...

Democracy of an irrational mob

"The most serious problem in American politics is that frank and intelligent discussion of important problems almost always gets drowned out by meaningless palaver, as David Nimmo and John Combs called it in their brilliant book on the subject, The New Propaganda: The...

Joe Nye, least possible necessary aggression, and non-proliferation after Nor...

"Joe Nye, the University Distinguised Service Professor at Harvard's JFK School of Government and international policy scholar renowned for his work around soft power, has an very good column in today's Washington Post. Nonproliferation After North Korea Joe brings a wealth...