We’re that distinctive breed of worker, hardly seen but easily identified by our ever-presence in booths at restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, and delicatessens. We are the portable freelancer, the free agent, the microbusiness, the stringer, the independent contractor, the small business owner … whatever you call yourself. Like any stereotype, we have their own.
Maybe this [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, May 17, 2010
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What does your pen say about you? Seems like everything about us tells our secrets. Now you’re going to learn what your pen says about you? Are you a red BIC person? A blue fancy-shmancy pen person. Or the classic black gel ink? Let’s take a look into your psyche.
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Posted by: Sarah Snyder, May 12, 2010
Comments: 15
With small business all abuzz, technology companies in particular are racing to win our hearts. Today is a better time than ever to be a small business owner, especially with features such as smart phone apps and portable scanners making our lives easier than ever.
Not only are printers and scanners being developed with us in [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 22, 2010
For some reason, when I first heard about SCORE, I was skeptical. You mean an organization exists to help me with my small business? And its services are absolutely free? There has to be a catch. But when I had a particularly vexing tax question and nowhere to turn outside of paying a CPA, I [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 30, 2009
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Is it ever okay to work for free? If lawyers, doctors, and nurses do it, might there be something to this gratis phenomenon?
morePosted by: Akilah Richards, November 23, 2009
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It’s a strange time to be a telephone user. While some people are sticking to the tried and true landline, at least 20% of all U.S. households use cell phones exclusively. While some people prefer to be communicated with via text and only text, others feel that texting is impersonal and draws out an interaction [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 17, 2009
Comments: 1
In an ideal world – at least from Mother Nature’s point of view – we’d all do our business on computer screens, with faxes and printouts few and far between. But for now, at least until everybody adopts and recognizes electronic signatures, faxes are still almost essential to the modern office For instance, there are [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 5, 2009
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You’re an unintentional entrepreneur just getting your business off the ground. As with any small business, the clients have probably been a little slower in coming to your liking, and your bank account is looking limp and starved for greenbacks. Then a new client comes along. They have a proposition for you, but something isn’t [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, October 27, 2009
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In my last post, I discussed ways to make your home office work for you. But working at home isn't for everyone. You may not have a suitable space, you may have too much ruckus around the house to focus on work, you may need to meet with clients, or you may just get lonely [...]
morePosted by: Dustin Wax, October 26, 2009
I received an email the other day from a nonprofit I recently volunteered with asking me to hold a canned food drive in my office. As much as I want to help, a canned food drive in my home office would consist of me, and only me, occasionally dropping an extra can of corn chowder [...]
morePosted by: Jennifer Escalona, October 22, 2009
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