Plainly written, free to read.

Meridian Journal publishes practical writing about building a business online: finding something to sell, working out whether anyone wants it, pricing it, and getting the first people to notice. Every article is open. There is no account, no email wall, no paid tier and nothing that unlocks later.

The writing assumes you have not done this before and does not pretend the work is easy. Where something commonly goes wrong, the article says so. Where a number depends on your situation, it says that too instead of inventing one.

What is here, and what is not

There are 135 articles, and they form one sequence about starting out. They can be read in any order, but they were written to follow on from each other.

No authors, no numbers

You will not find bylines, reader counts, testimonials or success stories here. None of those would be real yet, and an invented one is worse than none. If that changes, it will change because something true happened.