Not a lot of people graduate college and set out to start a freelance business immediately. More often, freelancers get a start because we're looking for something to tide us over between jobs, someone offers us some after-hours work or we flat out find ourselves in a position where we need to make money [...]
morePosted by: Thursday Bram, August 25, 2010
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Does the success of your small business hinge on securing ample credit? As big business expects to report booming second quarter earnings, the red-headed stepchild of commerce is scrambling just to survive, and banks aren’t making it easier. Neither is the Senate’s failure to enact the Obama administration’s bill to incentivize small business lending.
Banks contend [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, August 2, 2010
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For every trade out there, there are a variety of names you may be called. Maybe you use a different name for your friends and another for more professional climates. Are you a CEO? An owner? A freelancer? What do you use in your elevator speech? Or a cocktail party? While some take this professional [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, July 5, 2010
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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.
(Disclaimer: This is solely meant for [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, May 12, 2010
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Do you ever get that feeling you’re on the computer too much and not living enough? I do, so I bought a sewing machine yesterday and took a drive out to see the wildflowers today. Problem solved? Not so much, because I know it’s going to take some work to be more involved in doing [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, May 4, 2010
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As a home based business owner, have you ever found yourself guiltily checking your iPhone or Blackberry during dinner with your significant other? Or spending “quality time” with the family with a laptop in your face? To some, it’s just the life of the self employed, but when is it over the line?
Aside from time [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 30, 2010
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Let me start by making one thing clear: Small business and small-minded are NOT synonyms. As a matter of fact, having a big business/big picture mentality is arguably one of the most important elements of growing your small business. In order to attain longevity, financial success, and a solid reputation as a sound business, I’m [...]
morePosted by: Akilah Richards, April 29, 2010
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I had somebody tell me that, with all the advice I give my self employed friends, I should start charging for consulting. No way, and here’s why: My career has been the result of a collection of people who spend their extra time helping, advising and encouraging me, and they didn’t get a dime for [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, April 27, 2010
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Are you an expert in your home based business and/or your craft yet? According to Malcom Gladwell, author of Outliers, expertise takes 10,000 hours. Where do you stand?
So where did Gladwell get this zany idea? Well, for one if you look at the 75 wealthiest people in the world in history, 14 of them were [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, April 26, 2010
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