Gordon Hamilton, Writer And Marketer

Gordon Hamilton - An Introduction

I live in the United Kingdom and am a self-employed writer and marketer, though the marketing has very much tailed off in the present economic circumstances. In the last year, due to a variety of personal circumstances, I have moved about a fair bit. In 2008, I moved house four times - living alternately in Lanarkshire, Edinburgh and Middlesex, near London, before going full circle and returning to Lanarkshire and my old home town.

I write for a number of Web 2.0 hosting sites apart from Helium, including Squidoo (where I am a Giant Squid and member of the Giant Squid 100 Club) and Hub Pages. This means that I write upon a very wide and diverse number of subjects in a variety of different ways. The hours are long but certainly never boring and the reward when a site or article performs particularly well - from both an emotional and a financial perspective - makes the whole process more than worthwhile.

I have also recently launched a worldwide charity project with a bit of a difference, called, "The Five Dollar Vacation." This essentially involves taking and sending five single US dollar bills on vacation/holiday and trying to raise as much money for deserving charities in the process as is at all possible. I very much hope that you will check it out via the link in the first sentence of this paragraph.

What I Like to Write About

When I began writing as a child, fiction was all that I wrote. Indeed, up until my early twenties - at which point I abandoned writing completely for almost fifteen years - I had never made any serious attempt to write to any other genre.

It was only when I took up writing again, therefore, in 2007 that I began diversifying and indeed do not write fiction in any shape or form any longer. I began at this point writing upon chiefly food and drink and travel, in the form of both articles for Helium and Lenses for Squidoo or Hub Pages. Although I missed the fiction writing and may return to it at some future time, I found my new writing forms to be infinitely more successful and was soon diversifying to write upon ever more subjects.

I have made significant studies in such as SEO and Web marketing and although I am one hundred percent self-taught, it is a field in which I have known some considerable success. I have therefore written a number of "How to" articles and pages in this respect.

I therefore have a great many subjects to which I write and I love the variety this affords me. If I find myself toiling with a piece on one particular subject, I merely set it aside for a time and go on to something totally different. I believe very much in the maxim that, "A change is as good as a rest," and therefore find that this practise helps to keep both my mind and my writing fresh. 

Gordon Hamilton on Helium

I joined Helium in April 2007. I initially wrote to the site somewhat sporadically as I had so many sites to which I contributed. Over a period of time, however, I found which sites afforded me the best opportunities as a writer and needless to say, Helium was very high up that list!

I now write for Helium almost every day in life, to one extent or another, and I have recently become the Food and Drink Channel Steward upon the site. As food and drink are not only very important to me in life but together form a subject upon which I regularly write, the challenges and opportunities for me in this respect are profound.

How to Write Articles that Sell

Gordon Hamilton Loves to Travel

I have travelled very extensively throughout Scotland over the years but I also have a number of favourite travel destinations which lie further afield.

One such destination is Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. It is unfortunate that most people associate Munich only with Oktoberfest, its annual beer festival, as this beautiful city has a wealth of activities and attractions to please visitors all year round.

Munich, Bavaria, Germany - A Rough Guide

Hungry?

What Should I Have for Dinner Tonight? - Gordon's Food Blog

Need Further Dinner Ideas?

Scotland - My Homeland

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