About the Author
Ian Welsh has been a baker, bike courier, mover, writer, editor and worked at a small multinational financial corporation as a grunt. Starting in 2003, he wrote for and edited a series of political blogs (back when they mattered), including BOPNews, The Agonist and FireDogLake. Since then, he’s made his living as a writer, editor, and consultant. Among the two million or so words Ian wrote was a prediction of the year and month of the financial crisis, lots of warnings about the housing bubble and a prediction that the next President
after Obama would be a right-wing populist.
You can find Ian’s blog at ianwelsh.net, follow him on twitter as @iwelsh, sign up for emails whenever he writes a new post, or, if you want him to write more books and posts, please subscribe or donate.
You can contact Ian at admin-at-ianwelsh-dot-NET
Services
Meditation And Spirituality
If you need guidance on how to meditate or achieve spiritual goals and you are between beginner and beginner-intermediate, I may be able to help. My standard rate $150/hour, less if you’re poor, more if you’re wealthy.
Thought Partnership and Intellectual Consulting
I have a model of the world, and the world economy, which works.
I predicted the financial collapse in advance, including the timing of the stock market collapse and the approximate bottom of the market. I was talking about housing and oil long before they were sexy, discussed the consequences of the fracking boom, and spoke to the stagnation of wages and employment the Obama administration has overseen in early 2009.
I understand how ideologies and ideas interact with economic reality and what the consequences are. If you want to understand the long and short sweep of history and what it will mean to you or your business, I can apply my knowledge to your circumstances, giving you a competitive advantage.
And if you need an intellectual mentor, I can help with that too. My model of the world and of intellectual history is broad, multidisciplinary and shared by almost no one else. I can use it to help you, or I can coach you to create your own models in whatever interests you.
This mentor services requires that you be willing to read at least a book a week, think about it and write about it. If you aren’t, I would be largely wasting your time if I took your money. You cannot become a good thinker in intellectual matters without reading and thinking about what you read.
Rates vary, but start at $150/hour.
To get started, e-mail me at iwelsh-at-ianwelsh-dot-net.
Website, Blog and Social Media Consulting
As managing editor at Firedoglake I doubled traffic. At The Agonist, I increased traffic by over 60%. I helped launch and run Charles H. Green’s Trusted Advisor site. As an A-List blogger from 2003 to 2009 I wrote articles read by millions of people, and helped shape the politics and economics of the time. I know how to create blogs, and write articles and posts which drive the conversation: articles which answer the question “why is this important to me?”
If you want to learn how to make your blog or website important; if you want to write articles and posts which matter, I can teach you how to do that: how to position your site as a must read in your area, and how to own your subject matter.
To discuss how I can help you, e-mail me at admin-at-ianwelsh-dot-NET.
Writing and Editing
If you need an editor for your publication, or even for a specific piece, I may be available. If you need a writer: for a regular beat, a series of articles, or a one-off article, get in touch with me at iwelsh-at-ianwelsh-dot-net.