How Much Should You Pay a Freelancer?

How Much Should You Pay a Freelancer?

When outsourcing work for the first time, one of the most important aspects is deciding on how much to pay your freelancer.  As this might be unfamiliar territory, the aim of this article is to provide some practical advice in addressing this decision. Why Do We Hire Freelancers? Generally there are 3 reasons why we [...]

Five Simple Things You Can Do Right Now to Avoid Being Overwhelmed in Your Business

Avoid Being Overwhelmed

Everyone feels overwhelmed at times. It can be a combination of deadlines, stress, fatigue, and a huge pile of laundry. Give it a few days, and it passes. But if you find yourself feeling continually overwhelmed in your business efforts, it may be time to implement a few changes… 1. Adjust Your Expectations You’re an [...]

Are You Aware of These Small Business Marketing Mistakes (That May Be Hurting Your Business)?

Marketing Mistakes

When you’re running a small business and trying to make everything work like it’s supposed to, you often pick up bad habits that can have disastrous consequences in the long-term. Sometimes the mistakes we make with our marketing and business connections are simply the result of trying to save some time and money. It’s a [...]

Tick Tock, Tick Tock. Try These Time Management Tips to Control the Clock

Time Management Tips

If you’ve attended any time-management seminars, you’ve heard the old saw “everyone has the same twenty-four hours,” and been made to feel guilty that Thomas Edison spent his inventing 70 bazillion things, while you can’t get one stupid presentation done. You start work every morning positive you’ll accomplish great things–only to find, when five o’clock [...]

Stop Procrastinating… Now!

Career Advice: Stop Procrastinating

It’s easy to spot a procrastinator. The day after, anyway. They’re red-eyed, irritable, and anxious, having subsisted on coffee for the last 36 hours while they worked frantically to get that presentation done. Their voices are raw from screaming at the printer, then the copier. They sport a bump on the forehead, where the desk [...]

Five Basic Mistakes Most People Make While Picking Keywords (and End Up Crippling Their Income Significantly)

Money Making Ideas: Keyword Research Mistakes

So you’ve picked out your niche based on fantastic money making ideas. You’re sure it will attract swarms of traffic and catapult you to the top of Google in no time. All you need to do is throw in some content, put up some ads and wait for the cash to roll in, right? Well, [...]

The Four P’s of Dealing with “Clients from Hell”

Money Making Ideas: Dealing with Clients from Hell

Money making ideas without proper implementation are like cars without an engine; they look good on paper, but won’t get you anywhere. Just like any good engine, implementing an idea requires that you deal with many different moving parts. One of the most complicated parts of this engine, one that you absolutely cannot do without, [...]

Knock it Down! How to Destroy the Writer’s Block Once and For All

Money Making Ideas: Writer's Block Remedies

(This article is a part of the series on writer’s block. Start at the very beginning by reading this introduction or understanding the causes of a writer’s block) If you’ve read the previous article, you may realize that, by understanding the causes behind your writer’s block, you can begin to figure out methods of curing [...]

All Booted Up and No Place to Go: Understanding Writer’s Block

Money Making Ideas: Writer's Block Causes

(This article is a part of the series on writer’s block. Start at the very beginning by reading this introduction or skip directly to the remedies for writer’s block) You may be reading this series, foot tapping impatiently, wondering, “Why are you wasting my time with this? I need to get this article in tomorrow! Just [...]

The Only Guide You Will Ever Need to Bust the Dreaded Writer’s Block

Money Making Ideas: Writer's Block

(Editor’s Note: This is a guest article by Danica Sorber. I’ve worked with Danica on several writing projects and no matter how demanding a writing project I sent her way, she always came through. While we were discussing one of the projects, the topic of writer’s block came up and Danica gave me some excellent [...]