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The Delicate Work/Life Balance Dance: How NOT to feel overwhelmed when taking on the world

Ah, yes, you are self-employed.  What a bold move! You’re an army of one, and most days, you feel like it!  Even with help from a few trusted partners, you still feel that the weight of the world—cleverly disguised as your business—on your shoulders.
But wait…wasn’t the freedom of setting your own schedule and the chance [...]

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Posted by: Akilah Richards, February 5, 2010

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Google Voice Helps You Get Off the Phone and Back to Work

As a freelancers, I live and die by Google products. I use Gmail to aggregate all my disparate email accounts (including the professional one from my business domain), Google Docs to collaborate, Google Chrome for web browsing, Google Keywords to research keywords and SEO for my job as a pro blogger, Google Analytics to make [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, February 3, 2010

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Filing for Freelancers

There are few office tasks as dreaded as filing. When I was an administrative assistant during my grad school years, filing was always, without exception, my lowest priority. And so my to-file pile grew taller and taller, and less and less stable, until finally there was nothing for it but to file it all away. [...]

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Posted by: Dustin Wax, January 25, 2010

The Successful Entrepreneur: A definition in-progress

“Entrepreneurs take on risks and commit extensive energies to make dreams come true.”  John Crites, President/CEO Triangle Technology Executives Council
The context surrounding that quote can be read here, and it addresses the upsides, pitfalls, and definition of what it means to be an entrepreneur.
Since we can all look up the word to get a formalized definition, [...]

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Posted by: Akilah Richards, January 24, 2010

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4 Quick Writing Tips for Non-Writers

Everybody learns to write in first grade, but if you’ve ever read a novel that moved you to tears, a political speech that inspired you to take action, or a sales letter that motivated you to buy immediately then you know that some writing is more powerful than your average grocery list. While most people [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, January 7, 2010

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Your Small Business New Year’s Resolution

Many of us are entering into our first “New Year” as small business owners, so it’s time to make some resolutions! I’m sure you have a few resolutions already, but if you haven’t even had time to dig out from under your mounds of work, here are some tips to get that resolution list started:

Cut [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, January 5, 2010

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What to Do When You’re Not Working

For most freelancers, the period from Thanksgiving to the start of the new year is a slow period – clients are often too busy with the holidays to worry about marketing, publishers tend to close up as employees go on holidays, budgets are often dried up until the new fiscal year starts in January, and [...]

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Posted by: Dustin Wax, January 4, 2010

Diversification for Small Business Owners: Peeking Into the Bathroom Stall of Possibility

I heard on NPR once (okay, maybe it was one of those radio pop psychiatrists, but let’s say it was NPR), that when faced with an empty public restroom with multiple stalls, people will almost always bypass the first stall. Their reasoning? They assume that everyone chooses the first stall and therefore it will be [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, December 31, 2009

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To Sub-Contract or Not to Sub-Contract? The Freelancer’s Question

So you have enough work that you can afford to hire someone else. Wow, look at you stimulating the economy!
But seriously, in world of freelancing, whether you write, design, program or perform some other vital service, it’s common to get swamped with work, and sometimes rather than pass on a project and risk alienating a [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, December 11, 2009

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10 Ways to Use SCORE Small Business Services Absolutely Free

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 [...]

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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 30, 2009

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