Freelance

Happiness and Health: Two of the Best Business Moves You Could Make

John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote that “happiness is a warm gun,” but I wouldn’t know about that because I’m not into firearms. That said, your well being can become an effective small business tool. As a home based business, I have become a little smarter about putting a premium on balance, and this is [...]

Posted by: Sarah Snyder, April 2, 2010

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Why Every Freelancer Needs a Whiteboard

Long story short, every freelancer needs a whiteboard because some ideas are just too big for a mere scrap of paper or computer monitor. But let's back up. That’s not the only reason that this freelancer, and many before me, have so thoroughly embraced the idea of an office whiteboard.  Here are just a few [...]

Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, February 11, 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. [...]

Posted by: Dustin Wax, January 25, 2010

Internet Faxing Solutions for the Office on a Shoestring Budget

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 [...]

Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, November 5, 2009

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Working the Home Office

One of the perks of freelancing -- maybe even the biggest perk -- is that you can work from home. Almost all of us embarked on our freelance journey with visions of bright-eyed pajama-clad mornings at our desk, a mug-full of our favorite fresh hot coffee or tea at our side, typing or sketching or [...]

Posted by: Dustin Wax, October 12, 2009

5 Ways to Green Your Office for a Black Bottom Line

“Going green” is all the rage these days as people realize that their individual actions can combine for eco-friendly results. If you’ve worked at a big company, you probably noticed some green policies like recycling and power conservation.
But when you become President, CEO, Admin and Chief Bottle Washer of your own small business, it can [...]

Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, August 17, 2009

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The Pros and Cons of Co-Working

In a previous post called A Small Business Owner’s Dilemma: Home or Office? we discussed the pros and cons of working from home versus renting office space. But, as a couple of you pointed out, there is a third way when it comes to office space– co-working. Co-working is where two or more entrepreneurs [...]

Posted by: Jennifer Escalona, July 29, 2009

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You’re not Still Using Software are You?

If one were to simplify the evolution of the internet, you could characterize changes as going from static websites, to interactive blogs and social networks, to web services and resources that increase productivity by moving tasks, projects, and work online. Web services are increasingly known as online applications extended from "Cloud Computing." Fancy parlance [...]

Posted by: Paul O'Brien, April 30, 2009