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STRIVING FOR SUCCESS - GOALS AND INNER DRIVE
GENERAL FREELANCING AND BUSINESS
FREELANCE PRICINGS / RATES/ COSTS
TIME MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTIVITY
FREELANCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT / PROPOSALS
CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS AND CLIENT RETENTION
Ten Tips for Effective Meetings - Here are ten things that you can do to hold more effective meetings.
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Difficult People - How To Deal With Them - These notes are primarily designed to help deal with difficult people when we have made a mistake. We often have to deal with other people where we have not made a mistake however the people we're dealing with often prove to be difficult and unwilling to accept what we say.
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10 Tips For Long Term Client Retention - Attracting and retaining long-term clients is a powerful strategy for growing your business. Long-term clients are likely to feel more satisfied, are more likely to refer others, and are more likely to purchase additional services from you. The savvy solo professional or small business owner gains big from focusing on these 10 sound strategies for long term client retention.
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Caring for Your Customers - I have many philosophies when dealing with customers, but I definitely do not believe that the customer is always right. However, when the customer is wrong, you must handle the situation delicately.
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A Happy Professional Chooses Clients - Many professionals do not refuse clients out of fear of losing money. However, there is another side to the coin -- the high price of the negative effect of accepting everyone who walks in the door.
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Eight Questions to Ask a Potential Client: Closing B2B Sales When someone interested in your product or service contacts you, closing the sale should be easy, right? They’re interested. They took the initiative. But all too often, for some reason, the sale falls through.
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Building A Business Relationship - Since the majority of your business transactions are online, you’re not out meeting people one-on-one developing business relationships. So you need to focus on building these relationships via the Internet. You need to communicate and establish trust with your customers or business associates, as it is a vital step to your business success.
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How To Calculate the Lifetime Value of A Client The concept of client value requires a bit of guessing and new thinking. Especially for people who are running a new business.
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7 Bits Of Critical Information You Can't Afford NOT To Know About Your Customers It's about really knowing them as individuals, knowing what they mean to your business, and most of all, knowing what you need to do to keep their business.
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Mastering Getting And Using Testimonials - Perhaps no single element can perk up the response rate on a web page more than hard-hitting, credible testimonials. They work because somebody other than the seller is telling prospects how great, and useful the product is.
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How to Convert Prospects into Paying Customers Getting lots of enquiries from potential customers is great. It means that you are well known in your chosen market. But all this popularity won’t do you much good if it doesn’t generate sales.
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How To Get the Right Clients and Avoid the Wrong Ones - If you are like most service professionals and small business owners one of your primary concerns is generating as many leads as possible. And that may be your biggest mistake, resulting in wasting time on unqualified prospects and working with to many clients you wish you didn't have to.
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How To Recover Your *Almost Customers* Use these four simple procedures to convert those "almost customers" into paying customers.
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Words Your Customers Want to Hear and They Aren't - There is a different feeling in the air and I look forward to September like a "New Year's" day. Starting fresh, having an open mind and ready to take on new and exciting challenges. I hope you feel like that in your business. If you do, sharpen your pencils and let's look at a grammar lesson that could help you increase your business by just using a few extra words when you speak to your customers.
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Top Ten Strategies for Adding Value and Creating Customer Loyalty - Adding value is key to business success, and these ten strategies will make your customers love you and will keep them coming back for more.
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The Top 10 Ways of Thinking That Will Get You New Clients - Once you adopt a certain MINDSET, you begin attracting new clients. The following will help you develop and sustain the mindset that will have you consistently filling your practice or business with new clients.
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What Do Your Customers Really Want? Ask Your Competition Many marketing pieces such as brochures, sales letters, or Web sites include testimonials. I’ve found over the years that this is an untapped source for “customer intelligence.”
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Losing Angry Customers - This article offers five ways to help you deal with angry customers.
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10 Ways to Attract Higher Paying Clients Some people have little difficulty attracting and maintaining clients who have higher discretionary funds to spend for solutions. Others can't get to first base.
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14 Ways To Boost Customer Response In A Tough Economy Today, you must step up your tactics to keep your customers buying and away from the competition next door on the cyberspace highway.
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Communicate The Problem...Get The Client Positioning revolves around your core marketing message that clearly states who you work with, what problems you solve, what solutions you provide, what benefits you offer, what results you produce, what guarantee you give and what is unique and special about your particular service.
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Knowing Your Customers; Closing the Sale Just because your business is based in your home that doesn't mean you can afford to ignore the most important element of your success: sales.
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WHO ARE YOUR IDEAL CLIENTS? AND WHAT DO THEY WANT? the best way to get your new business off to a great start is to create a service that supports a clearly defined and reachable client base
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Get The Inside Scoop on Your Competition
Replacing the simple decoder badge is the Internet: a powerful tool in our discovery of competitor information. Using the simple four-step system outlined in this article, you'll use your detective skills to uncover bits and pieces of vital details=======================
How To Fire a Customer It must be Tax Season. How do I know? I'm swamped with work. And I just fired a client. Again.
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Dealing with Disgruntled Customers Unhappy customers who receive satisfaction can become your biggest allies. The trick, of course, is discovering how to satisfy their needs so efficiently that they'll forget whatever caused their disappointment in the first place.
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When Clients Don't Pay, Pay Late, and other Anomalies of Freelancing It's something that freelance writers don't like to talk about or hear about, but it happens more often than we like to admit.
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Bridging the Chasm from Lead to Loyal Customer It is as ludicrous to expect a potential customer to reach a purchase decision in one step as it would be to expect a Mount Everest adventurer to cross a chasm in one step. So how can you begin to move your potential customers across the purchase chasm?
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How To Know Your Customers In and Out It is common knowledge that customers are the lifeblood of businesses. Let's face it, if you don't have customers, you don't have a business.
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Managing Client Relationships Means Managing the Gap
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Why You Must Build a Client List to Prosper If you run (or plan to run) an online business, it’s especially important that you maintain and add to a customer/prospect list.
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Your Ideal Client - Have you ever had a client/customer that was more trouble than they were worth? Whatever the situation, chances are you had an inkling when you first met that client...a tiny voice that you didn't listen to, that was probably overshadowed by the bigger voice that said, "Hey, it's business; I'll take it!"
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How to Get Your Customers to Respond to Your E-Campaign If you've ever done an e-campaign and received no response, maybe you overlooked one of the top four elements: timeliness, consistency, benefits and a call to action.
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8 Building Blocks to Attracting Customers Are you frustrated by the lack of return from your promotional efforts? It may be that your plan for attracting customers is built on a foundation of sand.
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How To Handle Criticism- The inevitable criticisms that come with the prestige of being called an author could very well be thought as an author's worse nightmare.
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STRIVING FOR SUCCESS - GOALS AND INNER DRIVE
Business Goal Setting and Then Following Through - Your business can't go according to plan if you have no plan. No matter what it is you are shooting for, goal setting is one of the most important things that you will do in the New Year. I’ve got a few tips to help you get there.
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Setting Goals that Sizzle - Do you start the year off with phenomenal intentions and suddenly find yourself facing December 31st with little to show for it? Do you have a mental wish list of things to do, places to visit, or home improvements to make that’s a mile long and getting longer? Are you feeling kind of ho hum about your career?
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8 Ways to Develop Confidence in New Situations - Very few people are at ease striking up a conversation in a room full of strangers. Here are some simple ways to make network meetings more productive and more fun.
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Rejuvenate & Re-Fuel Your Inner Drive - Each step brings us to a higher level. Perhaps by reading these strategies we can replenish our passion and reinvigorate our inner drive. So let’s focus on a few ideas that I have found to be helpful.
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Five Steps to An Effective Business Plan You have an idea for a business. You know what you want to sell, who you can sell it to, and how much you stand to earn from it. There's just one more thing you need: a business plan.
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Create a Blueprint for Success Having a strong foundation enables you to build a thriving, profitable life and business. A simple method to create this foundation is with Discovery, Vision, Planning and Benchmarking, the four cornerstones of your life as well as your business.
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8 Steps to Creating a Simple Business Plan for 2004 It gives you a clear direction where your business is heading. Many business owners just jump into creating a business without researching and making a concrete plan.
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Setting Your Professionals Standards and Boundaries Guidelines help us keep our focus! Use these ideas to create your own professional standards and boundaries.
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Putting a Spin on Rejection - We’ve all experienced it, receiving the dreaded rejection letter. Writers don’t like them, but in this field it is as inevitable as a breakfast cook receiving an order for pancakes.
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3 Ways to Tell If You're Playing At, or Serious About, Your Biz - Many small business owners fool themselves into thinking that they are "in business", when what they are really doing is playing at a hobby. Listed here are three indicators that will let you know which road you're on.
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How To Balance A Job, A Life and A Home Business! - With financial and/or family commitments a priority it is hard work to get a home business off the ground and nurture it into a successful money making venture.
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Ten ways to Sharpen your Business Edge These ten tips will help you update your business planning and give you a fresh look at your business.
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5 Steps To Help Fail-Proof Your Growing Service Business - Here are 5 tips you can use to take the power back and begin "fail proofing" your growing business today.
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The Art of Business Gift-Giving Spend more time taking care of your current customer base and your business will be rewarded with a continuous stream of increasing revenue.
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How To Cope With Tough Times In Business How do you cope with the tough times? You've tried everything that other marketers have recommended, but unlike them, you are not making thousands of dollars. In fact, you are not even breaking even; You are showing a great big loss.
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Know Your Business from Top to Bottom - Every business environment has its own special technique of operating and to know all aspects of the key elements is what makes it successful or is what makes it more difficult to survive.
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GENERAL FREELANCING AND BUSINESS
JOIN THE OUTSOURCE REVOLUTION - While it’s probably not true to say that the traditional 9-5 job is on its way out, it IS true that more and more businesses these days are starting to see the value of outsourcing the jobs they can’t cover themselves. Things like copywriting, PR, programming – even secretarial and admin support - are being outsourced to freelancers working from home or running their own business. But why? Well, if you’re a small business owner, outsourcing makes a lot of sense.
COMMUNICATE WITH OFFSITE WORKERS -How do you, or would you, communicate with employees who work offsite?
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Blogging for Business - Don’t have a blog for your business yet? No problem! Here is how you can start blogging in just five easy steps.
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet - More and more people are working from home on the Internet, and there are two things you should know about your office when you work on the Internet.
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Home Business is All About Knowledge - The information is there, and the rewards can be lucrative, but you NEED the right information and you need to know how to use it. It's well worth your while to get the information you need before you jump in headfirst.
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10 Habits of Highly Unsuccessful Business Owners - Do you spend every waking minute at work? Do you find it difficult to take time out for you? Are you constantly working in a mess?
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How to Keep Your Business Healthy - Can you imagine you're ninety years old and still hiking up mountains with your grandchildren, bench pressing more than most twenty year olds, and making millions of dollars?
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Improve Your Self Image – Improve your Business - Self Image This is a generally neglected area in people’s life. It is closely connected to the success or failure of any undertaking. Self-image is your true opinion of yourself.
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Vacationing Away from Your Freelance Business
If you are a full-time freelancer then you probably have problems finding time to relax and get away from it all. However, getting away every now and then is essential for the long-term success of your business. Does taking a vacation sound impossible to you? Leaving home and your business doesn't have to be a disaster. FULL STORY
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Should You Take That Freelance Gig?
Turning down work is probably the hardest decision you will need to make when running your business, but sometimes turning down a gig is necessary. In this article I will explain to you the details that you need to consider when you aren't sure which route to take. Consider the following...FULL STORY=======================
How Can You Tell Which Jobs are Scams?
The internet and newspapers are filled with scams. In fact, sometimes it is hard for me to even market AllFreelance.com - because many people see "Work at Home" and they instantly think that I am trying to sell them a "scam job". This article will outline how to tell which jobs are scams before you invest your time and heart into any venture. FULL STORY
=======================How Free Agents Handle Slow Times - Here are 5 ways to cope with slow business times.
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Getting Past the Tough Times
Stop. Take another deep breath and begin to think clearly. No one ever said freelancing was going to be easy. All businesses face tough times but you have to be a survivor. Remember all the advice that you've given your clients and remember all the great work that you've created. It's time to put all of your talent into yourself. FULL STORY=======================
Making Supplemental Cash While Freelancing - You Can Do It!- While you're looking for freelancing work, it may be difficult to find money to pay the bills. With the information in this article, you may be able to find additional sources of income!
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10 Keys to Powerful First Impressions - For Freelancers- To create a Powerful First Impression, you must create a positive visual impact. Contact Dianne directly at ddaniels@imageandcolor.com.
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Creating a Professional ImageFor Your Home Based Business- Nothing screams "PROFESSIONAL!" to Potential Client as an honest-to- goodness corporate or business name on your letterhead and business cards.
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How to Spot a Scam a Mile Off- In this article we look at several main scams and how to recognize them.
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Freed to Succeed at High Speed- Your possibilities as a virtual contract writer or "e-lancer" are limited only by the kind of professional work you can perform
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The Moonlighting Time Crunch and How to Beat It! - It's tough being a moonlighter, as many of you reading this know only too well. Here are some ideas to help you beat the time crunch.
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Virtual Teamwork - How Freelancers CanGet Together to Offer More Services - By joining forces with other freelancers who offer complementary skills, you'll be able to offer a more complete service to your clients.
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Go Offline and Increase Your Traffic- Do not forget to promote offline as well. There are many ways to spread the word offline about your business.
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How To Make The Most of Your Down Time While You Commute - Some helpful tips for freelancers who have to commute.
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Freelancing Scams Exposed- Things to look for when searching for legitimate work from home.
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How to have more money at the end of the month - A very helpful and informative article on how to tighten your money belt when work is not coming in.
FREELANCE PRICINGS / RATES/ COSTS
10 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Business Costs - A list of 10 Effective Ways To Reduce Your Business Costs
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Cutting Costs can significantly increase your income - As a work at home Mother, I know the value of a deal. Any smart business person knows that the best way to make money is to SAVE money.
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How to Eliminate Objections to Price - Have you ever stepped your way through the sales process only to be disappointed by your prospect's objection to your price? This situation unfolds all too regularly for many small business owners.
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Freelance Pricing Part 3 - Quoting To Win! - Some people call it a bid and others call it a quote or proposal. But no matter what you call this process, make sure that the document is concise, powerful, and easy to understand.
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Pricing Your Projects Part 2- Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you charge too much you won't get hired and if you charge too little you'll starve. Take the time to read this article and you will figure out what you need to charge to thrive.
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Overcoming Objections to Price - How much more could you earn if your prospects didn't object to your prices? You'd close more sales and be more successful.
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How Do You Know Your Clients Can't Pay More? - "My clients can't afford higher rates." When more than 330 business owners and self-employed professionals checked off reasons why their income was not going through the roof, this statement was chosen more often than any other.
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Raising Your Rates Can *Increase* Your Business At some point, the "conversation" always turns to price. That’s where I find a lot of online business people making their mistakes.
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Setting Your Hourly Rates
Determining how much to charge for your services is often one of the biggest challenges for a new freelancer. If you are a new freelancer, you have probably searched the Internet trying to look for average rates of professionals in your field. FULL STORY
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When Clients Don't Pay, Pay Late, and Other Anomalies of Freelancing, It's something that freelance writers don't like to talk about or hear about, but it happens more often than we like to admit.
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How Do You Set Consulting Fees? The ways of billing clients are numerous. There are hourly rates, by-the-job fixed rates, contingency or performance arrangements, flat fee plus expenses, daily fee plus expenses, and many other methods of charging for your consulting services. Which one is best?
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How To Use Leverage to Negotiate - Learning how to negotiate can help you to win projects and to get the rates that you are qualified for.
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Pricing Your Service or Product : Things to Ponder Part 2 - Life is all about making choices and growing. The same hold true with pricing your product or service.
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Pricing Your Service or Product : Things to Ponder - Part 1 of 2" How does someone price a product or service?"
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Top 3 Secrets to More Billable Time - As self-employed professionals, were in business to make money doing what we love. And that means we need enough billable hours to cover our expenses, our salary, upgrades in our skills and technology, and our profit.
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HOW TO START A FREELANCE BUSINESS
How To Start an Online Business - Are you are finally ready to join the elite group of people making money on the net? Great! It’s easier than you think and I’m here to help you learn as you go.
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Turn Your Hobby Into A Home Business - Each year many people earn a living from their hobbies. Hobbies are one of the most under used income opportunities around. Many people have realized that their passion about their hobbies are invaluable to those that are seeking these skilled, imaginative people.
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How to Break the Cycle of Postponing Your Dreams - Do you have a dream, but keep postponing it because you feel trapped by the responsibilities of your life? Want to be a writer, work from home, own your own business? First, we will examine how your dream got deferred. Then, we will outline definitive steps to get you back on track.
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How to Start a Biz While Working Full-Time Oftentimes, the only way to realize your dreams as an entrepreneur is to begin while working full-time.
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Finding Your Niche as a Web Designer To make it in the web design world nowadays you have to have a niche.
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He Who Dies With The Most "Niches" Wins Niche marketing is the opposite of mass (general) marketing. It targets specific people with special needs.
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How To Find A (Kick Butt) Niche -And Grow Rich Niche marketing is the opposite of mass (general) marketing. It targets specific people with specialized needs.
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Working to Stay-At-Home! If you and your spouse decide that it would be better for you to become a one income household, you can.
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Is A Home Business For You? - Part One You better apply the brakes and proceed with caution. Running a home-based business might not be all you think it is.
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Is A Home Business For You? - Part Two Part 2 of the successful article published last week about whether or not you should start a home business.
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Today's Entrepreneur - Designing the Image of Your Business - How can you make your business cards and your company standout in the crowd? You design an image for your business that distinguishes your business from other companies. This can be accomplished by employing one or all of the following methods of company branding.
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The 10 Key Questions to Ask Before Developing a Lucrative Hobby - Finding it harder to make ends meet? You're not alone. If you are thinking of turning an interest or hobby into a vehicle for earning a little extra cash, here are some questions to get you started.
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Want to work at home but don't want to leave your job? Telecommute! It is possible in many cases to work at least part of the time from home with many businesses, even if they don't yet have a formal program. You just have to talk your boss into it.
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Get Stinkin Rich With Your Niche More focus equals more profits and less work. When picking a market to target online though, the smaller market is the most profitable way to go.
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Are You Missing Your Chance to Work at Home?- Have you missed the turnoff that leads to your dream of working at home? Wouldn't that be disappointing? No one likes to think that they have wasted their chance, missed their opportunity. But that's exactly what happens to many.
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Before You Jump Into The FreeAgent Pool With the change in our economy and the survival mode that companies have switched to, a vast number of people have entered the arena of free agents.
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Moving From A Weekend Hobby To Career In The Arts I’ve heard people say that you’re a sell-out if you are distracted by tasks unrelated to creating your art. That may be true, but if you want to create your art, and put food on your table you will quickly understand that beautiful art does not sell itself.
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The Game Plan - The Difference Between Small Business Success and Failure - A business plan gets you in the game. A game plan keeps you in the game. To use the sports analogy, it’s easy to see how you are going to win the game in from the locker room. Most businesses don’t have a working plan that takes into account what actually happens on the field once play starts.
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Want to Work from Home? Ever Given a Thought to Telecommuting? More and more people are able to perform their jobs from home. Now more than ever the business world is realizing the variety of benefits telecommuting can have on companies and their personnel.
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Advice from Successful Freelancers: Starting & Maintaining a Freelancer Career From the e-book, Advice from Successful Freelancers: How They Built Their Careers & How You Can Too!, I asked ten questions of freelancers who were living their dream life. Following are some of their answers.
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The Little Things You Need To Know If You're Self-Employed There are a million little things that you will learn as you progress with your business, but let me bring you up to speed on a few important ones.
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Five Myths and Five Tips for Breaking Into as a Fashion Designer - For many women, becoming a fashion designer is a lifelong dream. We all love to wear beautiful clothes and make ourselves feel good from the inside out.
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Brand Your Consulting Brilliance Brand your consulting brilliance because the future of your business depends on it.
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Editorial Freelancing: Five Steps to Getting Your Foot in the Door Publishers, editorial directors, human resource managers and editors, among others were a vocal lot regarding freelancers and what they should/should not do to get their foot in the door.
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How to Make Money from Internet Auctions If your business is not using eBay and other Internet auctions, you could be missing out. Here are just a few ways of generating additional income, profits and cash flow from online auctions.
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7 Steps to Writing for Magazines, for Money! If you have an itch, that only words can scratch, perhaps it is time to consider looking seriously at making money from the craft you so clearly love.
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Why Small Businesses Need Both a Logo and an Identity System To increase your chance of getting venture capital or selling a business: If you present a thorough business package, including marketing materials and graphics, your business will look more complete.
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What Makes Your Business Stand Out From The Competition? The type of business that you are in is by no means unique no matter how small your business niche is. The way you present and run your business is. Why does one business thrive while another fails?
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How to Create a Better Brochure Having a quality brochure makes a positive impression on a potential customer. It gives the appearance that you’re serious about your business. And it may give you an advantage over competitors who don’t use brochures.
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Why Every Small Biz Should Have a Web Site Outlined in this article are four ways a web site can contribute to the bottom line success of your business.
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Understanding the Corporate Buyer If you don't grasp the realities of the corporate environment, you may sabotage even a hot lead. Here are five important keys to working with the corporate buyer.
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How to choose a Website Designer Now that you have decided that it is time to create a website for your business there are many questions you must answer. One of the most important questions is "Who should create my website?"
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Maximizing the Effect of Your Freelancer's Bio Your freelancer's bio is a vital job-hunting tool. While traditional job hunters have CVs and resumes, independent writers and other independent professionals have biographies.
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Three Steps to a Professional Image One of the biggest reasons home-based business entrepreneurs often fail to attract customers is that they also fail to create a professional image.
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Dealing with Business Slowdowns When times are slow for your home-based business, chances are you won't have the luxury of waiting and seeing if things improve. You'll need to take steps quickly to get back on track.
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The Little Things You Need To Know If You're Self-Employed There are a million little things that you will learn as you progress with your business, but let me bring you up to speed on a few important ones.
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100+ Resources for Your BusinessThere are so many facets to this business and so many resources are needed
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Choosing a Reliable Business Partner A clever way to find out if your new business associate is one that you would like to deal with on a day to day basis is to put them to a simple test
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How Can a Virtual Assistant Help Your Business? Virtual Assistants are the right hands of on-line or home office business owners. Find out more...
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FREELANCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT / PROPOSALS
Keep Your Project Moving - This article explores what's happening when we can't finish a project, and what we can do to keep moving ahead.
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Steps of a Project for Web Builder
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Estimate Projects with a Little Less Precision - Always build in a cushion for yourself when giving an estimate.
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How To Write a Proposal to Get Freelance Work Want to get freelance work? Write a proposal.
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Managing your Print Project Every business needs to print something. What do you need to know to ensure success? Follow these simple steps from an insider with tips to get your project printed on time and within budget.
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How To Use Leverage to Negotiate - Learning how to negotiate can help you to win projects and to get the rates that you are qualified for.
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Increased Effectiveness on Projects An article detailing how to increase your effectiveness on future gigs.=======================
Proposals 101- Writing proposals is both an art and a science. Contact Paul Bednar directly at http://www.free-agent-information.com.
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How To Follow Up a Consulting Proposal- Contacting the potential client more than once to ascertain the proposal's status is counterproductive. Also, it forces you to spend time and energy on what is now in the past. Contact Paul Bednar directly at http://www.free-agent-information.com.
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How To Write a Winning Proposal When a potential client approaches you to see if you can handle their projects, how do you prove yourself without resorting to creative output? The answer is to write an informative and insightful project proposal. Here's how...
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Winning Proposals: 10 Guidelines The concept of proposals has accompanied business-activities throughout the past few centuries. In recent years this concept has become a more integral part of how we conduct business.
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Are You An Expert At What You Do? - One of the most common refrains I hear from people is, “I can’t create information products...I’m not an expert!"
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Assessing the Unknown Factor on Freelance Projects When working on a new freelance project you will frequently find yourself in the situation that you already have experience developing part of it, and that there is other part that you have never worked with.
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FREELANCERES - HOW TO BUILD A PORTFOLIO SERIES
PORTFOLIO SERIES 1 - HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR ONLINE AND OFFLINE PORTFOLIO NEW!! First article in a series of many that will show you how to properly plan, layout, and market your portfolio.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - II - HOW TO BUILD UP YOUR SAMPLES WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE If you are in a situation where you don't have any professional samples to place into your portfolio, then you obviously have a lot of work to do.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - GATHER ALL OF YOUR SAMPLES TOGETHER (article 3) - Now it is time to put it all together. So how are you going to choose which samples to place in your portfolio?
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - SHOP SMART FOR A PORTFOLIO CASE (article 4) Fourth article in the portfolio series. Find out how to shop smart for a portfolio case.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR WORK ... MAKING SLIDES (article 5) Fifth article in the portfolio series. Find out how to photograph your samples for slides and your portfolio.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PREPARE YOUR PORTFOLIO FOR DROP-OFF OR SHIPPING (article 6) Sixth article in series. Many employers will not have time to see you in person, in this case many will ask for you to drop-off or mail your portfolio.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - GET PREPARED TO PLACE YOUR FOLIO ONLINE (article 7) Seventh article in series. It is important to have a portfolio online, findout why.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - DIGITIZE AND OPTIMIZE YOUR PORTFOLIO IMAGES FOR WEB USE (article 8) Eighth article in series. Learn how to get your images ready for the web.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - HOW TO PICK ONE IMAGE TO REPRESENT YOUR PORTFOLIO AND YOUR BIZ (article 9) Ninth article in series. This week we are going to discuss how to choose one image to represent your professional identity, more specifically how to design your logo.
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PORTFOLIO SERIES - ARTICLE 10 - GATHER INFO AND WRITE YOUR RESUME OR PROFILE This is the tenth article in The AFWork Portfolio Series. This article covers how to make the most of an online profile or resume.
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FREELANCER TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
HOW TO SET YOUR FREELANCE RATES - A GUIDE FOR FREELANCERS & CONSULTANTSThere are many factors which business owners must consider on a daily basis as it relates to the running of their business. Things such as how to find good help, where to acquire supplies and how much to pay one’s employees are all pertinent matters which must be addressed. There are a few ways to go about figuring out your rates when it comes to how much to charge the customers.5 Things You Need To Know Before Deciding On A Certification Training - Trainings vary a lot when it comes to quality. It's essential to choose your certification training provider based on things such as the quality of materials, trainers' competence and skills, counseling facilities, track record etc. A good trainer is essential because you can learn from his real life's experience. This article will help you decide ont he correct Certification training for you.
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