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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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
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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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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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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
I met a self employed app designer the other day at the pub. He sounds like he’s got it made, on the cutting edge of technology and chock full of clients. But lo and behold, he’s got the same problem I have; clients not paying up or not doing so soon enough.
There are a few [...]
Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 19, 2010
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Are you invoicing and giving out receipts on... [dramatic music here] ... paper? If you are looking for a simple way to change this, consider PayPal as a simple start-up tool not jingling with bells and whistles. Even if you're a pro, being overwhelmed with too many features or having to pay for an invoicing [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, April 9, 2010
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We’re portable, we can fit in airline seats, corners of pubs and hospital waiting rooms. We’re the very small business, known by our netbooks and our buzzing smart phones. You’ll never find us with paper, writing utensils or staplers; that’s so 2005. Even our products can be small, from resin jewelry to the smallest phones [...]
morePosted by: Sarah Snyder, April 8, 2010
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