Today on CalTrain I met another interesting person who I had a great conversation with on the ride up to San Francisco. Her name is Ann Crady and she is the Senior Vice President of Consumer Experience over at Johnson & Johnson’s super popular website BabyCenter.com. It’s a place where any mother (or expecting mother)…
Read MoreHow Gary Vaynerchuk Sets His Audience’s Expectations
As I mentioned in this post, I headed down to the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX, which is one of the best places to meet some really amazing and innovative people when it comes to tech and the social web. Well, one of those people that I was lucky enough to meet was Gary…
Read MoreA Big YEEE HAW! From SXSW Interactive In Austin, TX
This entire past week I was lucky enough to go experience one of the best technology events that the world has to offer — the South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference in Austin, TX. For 6 days some of of the most well-known names in the technology, mobile and web space all descended upon Texas…
Read MoreThe Benefits Of Working Above A Bar
As I rode into work this morning I noticed a huge semi-truck parked in the alley next to our office and as I wheeled in closer to it (I ride a bike into work), I noticed that it was a big, blue truck filled with the always delicious and San Francisco-brewed Anchor Steam Beer. With…
Read MoreHubPages Earning Methods And Revenue Splits, Explained
For some reason that I’m not really aware of, I’ve been getting a lot more emails from new Hubbers than I have in the past. Although it tends to take up some of my time during the day to answer each one of them, I actually really enjoy helping out newbies when they take the…
Read MoreHubPages: Giving Love To Long Content For 2 Years And Counting…
You know, everywhere I look these days the buzz all abut making content shorter and shrter and shrtr. I’m not sure why this trend was started and where this trend of hatred for longer, full-bodied and information-rich content came from, but I can tell you one thing — me and the rest of the HubPages…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: Lisa HW Exceeds Her Own Expectations With A Monthly Payout
Yes, my friends, it’s time for another exciting installment of The Payout Chronicles, where I interview a Hubber who tells us all about reaching their first $100 payout from Google and how they’re doing since hitting the much-anticipated milestone. Last week I interviewed Dorsi, who told us all about how she hit her first payout…
Read MoreThe Idea Bank Gets An Upgrade
For several months now, we’ve had a fairly unknown section of our site that you’ve potentially never seen before — the Idea Bank. The Idea Bank is a tool that looks somewhat similar to the Requests section, but is actually something that was first added to HubPages for a completely different reason. You see, Requests…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: Dorsi talks about persistence, consistency and getting her second payout
Here at HubPages we love helping people make money by writing about the things they’re passionate about. Whether it’s writing about finding the best travel coffee mug or the fastest 50 cars, you can honestly be successful writing on HubPages as long as you are publishing quality, original and informative content. You publish it and…
Read MoreSphinx Search comes to HubPages
This week, HubPages upgraded its search features to use a popular indexing technology knowns as Sphinx Search. This is the same search technology used by Craigslist and it has enabled HubPages to add the following new capabilities to our search: Matching search terms in bold letters Exact phrase search Ability to exclude search terms from…
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