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92Hey Hubbers! Are you undervaluing the commercial potential of your Hubs? You probably are!
I’ve been on Hub Pages for a couple of years now, and I’ve had the chance to have a look around. I’m a professional commercial writer, and what I see is that a lot of Hubs are excellent but apparently commercially underrated as portfolio...
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86Ground covers as problem solvers
Ground covers are tough, self reliant plants, and good territorial defenders. Most ground covers are zero maintenance plants. They don’t need weed killers, because they do it themselves. Ironically,...
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87Seaweed mulch and fertilizer
Seaweed is one of the great unsung heroes of gardening. It’s a cheap and highly effective way of mulching and it’s a good problem solver for troublesome patches in the garden. As a fertilizer it’s just plain brilliant. Seaweed is...
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86Workaholism-Not an asset, a sickness
I write on sites in the US and Europe on employment issues. Overwork is a major problem around the world. It’s an easily avoidable situation, and there are much better career approaches. This is an analysis of basic issues. In the 80s, being...
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84Growing Geraniums
Geraniums are usually the toughest, most enduring, plants in any garden. In one place I was living, we had a geranium actually growing through the concrete around the house. A bit of local knowledge research discovered that it was a remnant of a...
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82Wet areas in gardens
Wet areas in gardens can be expensive, and particularly thankless places to do any form of landscaping. They can easily create problems in the forms of wasted labor, failed plants and disruptions to local...
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81How to learn your way around the commercial writing environment
The first thing you need to know about commercial writing is that it is as much about business as about writing. The actual types of writing vary enormously, but the big difference is that you are really providing business materials for other...
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82Publishing on Lulu.com
Lulu.com is the biggest self publishing business on Earth. They’re an American company, with links to Amazon. I’ve published 12 books on Lulu.com . I can honestly say if you’re looking for a simple way to publish your books or other...
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80Jerome K Jerome- The most underrated of English writers
Jerome K Jerome is famous for the classic Three Men in a Boat and the play/movie Passing of the Third Floor Back. What’s not generally recognized is that his style clearly influenced a lot of later writers. Jerome was a late 19th century and turn...
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80Revenge of the Dandelions
Revenge of the Dandelions Dandelions, (Taraxacum officinale) are described as “weeds” by suburbia, the enemies of featureless lawns. In practice they’re edible herbs, used for centuries as food, and...
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