TaffeyLewis

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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
Pretty cool list, and all three look like things you could expand your earnings on with some moderate extra work. Just out of curiosity, What subjects do your non fiction books cover?
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
Really simple, an easy way of buying and selling them on the fly at almost any time and with minimal to no hassle worldwide. Bitcoin ATMs would be a great way of doing this but i'm thinking fo something as easy as walking into a curren
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
This makes a lot of sense in fact, if for nothing else than the simple reason that most people really don't want to be sick or pretend to be sick so bad that they actually spend a lot of time at a hospital.. They have better things to
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
"And yet at the same time it is a city notoriously plagued by poverty, crime, and political gridlock, all of which, like all problems, can be solved by the application of sufficient quantities of VC-funded smartphone apps and responsiv
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
There are actually studies being done around implementing exactly that with antibiotics... However there is also the fun danger of your skin turning incurably silvery blue thanks to the silver component in the antibiotics... No really.
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
Think along the lines of simple business services for midsize and larger companies in Guatemala and the surrounding central American states in my opinion. If you can create a good pitch and show that you know what you're talking about,
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
Whatever locational disadvantages your startup has, they are (I think) more than made up for by the fact that you're working from a location with very low costs of living and a very undeveloped frontier market. Now, Im not sure if you&
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
Thanks for the advice guys, Baliw, i'll be sending you a message shortly. My impression is that a lot of the advice which can be applied to freelance coders (but not all) can also be used across the board as applied to writers, so I&#x
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Advice on marketing/advertising myself as a freelancer
6 points by TaffeyLewis 13y ago|3 comments
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
I second that opinion. Were yo expecting the muscle mass to simply grow forth from the shimmering air?
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
Your reply is downright silly and it seems youre someone who really doesn't travel much or know many people who do. Not every place outside the USA is automatically a totalitarian, xenophobic shithole where foreigners are so rare that
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
As someone who went through this very question a while ago, I'll give you the advice that worked for me. First off, your best source of solid information is going to be a large dose of good old fashioned book reading. Youtube documenta
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
Hah.. not too much, it was not as dramatic as seemed with my initial post. Mainly full of lots of stress and working fast to keep from starving... and to learn the language quickly.
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
In my case, I had something like 2,500 saved up before quitting my construction industry related job, moving to Mexico and giving myself 2 months to become a freelance writer. Worked out after all, though it was nerve wracking
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by TaffeyLewis 13y ago
"I'm dying in the snow" hahaha.... Good enough reason, had to comment because it made me laugh right out loud..