A New Opportunity at Forbes Online

A few months ago I posted about my desire to make a part-time go of professional soccer writing. I had reached a point nearly two years into the life of my blog that the topics I wanted to cover would involve some modest expenses on my part. While I've never been into writing about soccer for the money, I am also unable to simply throw money at the topic given my family's other financial commitments. Thus, I made the decision to make the pivot towards the commercial side of the business in the hopes of providing enough income to offset the expenses for a few of the larger topics I wanted to cover.

Today I am very proud to announce that I have begun to realize that goal: I am now a contributor to Forbes Online. One of the editors of the site stumbled upon my blog at the beginning of the year, and contacted me about a month ago to see if I was interested in writing for them. After only a few emails and phone calls I was able to work out what seems to be a very fair contract, and found the entire process to be extremely easy and transparent. From what I can tell the online team at Forbes really gets the decentralized, writer-driven world that the new media environment has become. The whole process of setting everything up has been extremely easy, and the staff has been extremely helpful addressing any questions I have had along the way. I am very grateful for their trust in me, and I look forward to growing our relationship in the coming months.

My vision is to post at least five times a month at Forbes. I will continue to use my own blog and the Transfer Price Index as outlets for writing about far more complex modeling and the nitty-gritty details associated with it. I will post links to all of my Forbes articles here, with "On Forbes:" at the beginning of the post's title to denote it contains a link to such a story. You can still use this site's RSS feed as a way to maintain a one-stop-shop of all of my writing.

Lastly, I want to thank each and every one of the readers of my blog over the last two years. None of this would have happened without each of you emailing, commenting, linking, and generally raising this blog's visibility. I am deeply grateful for all of your feedback and support, and continue to value such interactions going forward. My writing is about a two-way conversation where we learn from each other. Thank you for being a part of this journey with me. I look forward to providing even more high value content with the resources that writing for Forbes will provide me.

Now it's time to begin work on my first post at Forbes! I'll let you know when it goes live. Thanks again, and enjoy today's "replay" of the FA Cup Final.