It’s hard to believe that the spring gift-giving season is already upon us. With Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Graduation season quickly approaching, it’s time to plan ahead and adapt your business strategy for upcoming opportunities and challenges. Read the rest here: Spri...

Action action, we want action! A-C-T! (clapclapclap) I-O-N!  I'm soooo not a cheerleader. I admit, I tried out in sixth grade but just wasn't quite good enough to make the squad. Damn the pretty girls! (No worries, I got over it.) Today I am a cheerleader though, for my clients and anyone who w...

“To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent. The most effective way to manage change is to create it.” —Peter Drucker The creator and inventor of modern management had it right about change—the best way to manage change is to create it. Of...

Whether you are looking for a single web or database server to a comprehensive e-Commerce or collaboration cluster of multiple servers with load balancing and fail over, there are many options available to help you buy dedicated server hosting for your business. Why might you want a dedicated server...

When was the last time you had ink-stained fingers after reading an article? It’s been a while for me. As someone who grew up around newspapers, I am almost ashamed to say this: I can’t remember the last time I picked up and read an actual newspaper. These days, I read all my news online...

Have you ever hammered nails into a board with a banana? Me neither. But yesterday, a Minnesota news station demonstrated that cold weather has certain unlikely advantages. Apparently, when the mercury drops to -13 or below, a banana will freeze so solid that you can use it to hammer nails into a bo...

I know many freelancers who would love to skip over the marketing and self-promotion part of this business and simply write and edit all day long. And I’ll be the first to admit that I used to fall into that camp. But unless you get the word out there about your services and what you have to o...

I guess it’s a sign of the times, but more than a few freelance friends of mine are having problems collecting payment for stories they’ve already written and assignments they’ve already turned in to clients. I belong to a few online writers’ groups and there are a disturbing...

Small businesses have a hard time in this world. They have little capital and they are severely affected by small changes in the economy. They can literally loose everything overnight. Many of them have limited reputations or experience, meaning......

Wish you could score some assignments and gigs without having to spend all that time writing, researching, and tailoring queries? Well, sometimes you can do just that with an LOI, or letter of introduction. So what exactly is an LOI? It’s basically the written version of a cold call. It’...