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
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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People have built small businesses and sole-proprietorships around everything from baking cookies to hunting ghosts. But one class of small business owner, the freelancer, does things a little differently. While some small businesses are location sensitive, many freelancers are like guns for hire, roaming the world (usually via the internet, of course) and providing [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, September 13, 2009
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If you are a small business owner or sole-proprietor who finds work via online job sites boards like Craigslist, chances are you have run into a scam or two in the normal course of bidding on jobs. Experience is generally the best teacher when it comes to avoiding online job scams, but below we [...]
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Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, September 10, 2009
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Happy Mother's Day, a little belated but no less affectionate (mom). Since we're here to support the mother's with a home based business, the "part-time" Mom, the working Mom (though what Mom isn't working??), I wanted to share as you go back to work, how much you mean to us every day. [...]
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Posted by: Paul O'Brien, May 11, 2009