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Like many other freelancers, I have a hard time selling myself. It’s something I know I have to work on this year. But as a freelancer, we don’t have someone else out there selling our services for us. It’s up to us to land our own jobs.
I …
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Have you heard about the trend of standing room only meetings? Instead of having a team sit around a conference table, they’re made to stand up for short meetings instead.
The trend is becoming prevalent in tech companies, and is meant to elimi…
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Working in the creative field means you are an open target for criticism. Someone doesn’t like your photography work, they think you’re a bad writer, or your prices are unfair. And as freelancers, it can be hard not to take criticism—no matt…
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A new study from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science called “Who Gives a Tweet: Evaluating Microblogging Content Value” has unveiled what we like to read, and what we don’t like to read, on Twitter. I have to say, the results are…
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Reporters at The Washington Post are now actively engaging their readers by posting comments in streams on the paper’s news stories online, something they’ve never done in the past. The paper switched to a new website platform called Echo, wh…
Continue Reading "Grow Your Community by Asking Questions"Filed under Business, Commentary & Analysis, freelance work, office, productivity by FreelanceSwitch.com
There are a lot of stories written about home-based businesses—trust me, I just did a Google search. Working from home has changed drastically over the years, thanks to technology.
If you think back not even 20 years about home-based businesses…
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A recent story in The Australian caught my eye. The title of the piece is “Online magazine offers less than 2c a word to freelancers”. The name of the online magazine is Breathe Magazine Australia (BreatheMagazine.com) and it is scheduled to l…
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I love sleeping. Always have, always will. I was the kid whose parents had to wake up on Christmas morning. If I don’t get enough sleep—watch out.
Admittedly, sometimes I feel ashamed at getting nine hours of sleep at night. But when I read t…
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I love a good infographic, and this one created by Jobvite (view full infographic post or view it at full size) is really cool. It shows how Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter help people find work.
This research looks at how people are using social…
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Chris Brogan is the author of the new book, Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything.
As a Google+ skeptic (heck, I’m skeptical of all new social media) I was interested to learn more, so I sat down and watched thi…
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I have yet to adopt the new Facebook Timeline interface. I don’t want to. I’m comfortable with using Facebook the way it is, thank-you-very-much. When I found this post on mashable about how to revert back to Facebook classic, I knew I wasn??…
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It’s the beginning of the year and things are slow. You are hustling to get work and the work that comes your way you don’t feel you can turn down. By the time summer rolls around, you have been working your butt off and let things—like lif…
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Many freelancers are stuck in a rut. We don’t dare pass up work because we aren’t confident it will keep coming in.
We forgo weekend plans and even vacations because we are busy. But guess what? All work and no play leads to burnout.
It’s …
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Was your New Year’s resolution to start your own freelancing business? We’re five weeks in—how is it going? I found this article on Freelance: UK that got me thinking about financial issues to consider before taking the big freelance leap. …
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I had never heard of the freelance-writing online marketplace Contently until I stumbled across this piece of info from the Wall Street Journal:
Freelance-writing marketplace Contently has raised a $2 million Series A round led by Lightbank. Co-f…
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You are a creative person and you want a new look for your business—whether it’s a website, business cards, or whatever. Sure, you could do the work yourself—but should you?
For some odd reason, there seems to be a discrepancy of sorts wh…
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Did you happen to see the Google logo on the search engine’s homepage yesterday? If not, here’s what it looked like:
Did you try to look something up on Wikipedia only to see a black screen? You can thank SOPA for both of those blackouts.
SOP…
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The magazine I run is holding a contest, and we’ve been working hard with our PR consultant on creating the best press releases possible to advertise our event. It’s not as easy as one might think to craft a good press release—even if you ar…
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There is only so much you can learn from a textbook. And with technology changing at break neck speeds—there is only so much you can learn in school before, inevetibally, technology changes again.
Internships are a great way for students to get…
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It’s the beginning of a new year and you have decided to get serious about marketing yourself as a freelancer. Congratulations—that’s half the battle.
You have a lot of work ahead of you, and I found some tips in this article by Steve McKe…