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• Links: 2008-08-29

  August 29th, 2008 | Tags: comics, English, gadgets, humor, pencils
  

  100 Most Common English Words: How many can you get in five minutes? I only got 55. Pooh. [Link: Dawn] How to Feed the Innovation Pipeline. Digital Image Resources on the Deep Web: Hard to find digital images… The Secrets of Storytelling [...]

• Six Easy Ways to Keep Your Clients Happy

  August 26th, 2008 | Tags: freelance, PR
  

  You’ve probably read or heard many experts say that keeping your clients costs less than obtaining new ones. A Bain and Company study reports that boosting customer loyalty by 5 percent improves your profits by 25 percent at the very least and can go up to 95 percent. You can’t ask for better numbers than [...]

• Links: 2008-08-22

  August 22nd, 2008 | Tags: gadgets, newsletter, school, target market
  

  42 HTML email design resources: Trying to get a newsletter to look the same in all email clients is a lost cause (more in this post) — but you can at least make them appear decent. Community Mottos and Nicknames. Sure, most of us know Philly is the [...]

• Dealing with Freelancer’s Stress

  August 18th, 2008 | Tags: kids, organization, time
  

  I mentioned that my son’s medical program would interfere with my business because it required a big time investment on my part along with other things. Add to that managing the usual stuff like the other kids, work (or lack thereof), household responsibilities, on and on. After two weeks of the program, I reached a breaking [...]

• Button Placement on Forms and Popup Windows

  August 12th, 2008 | Tags: Apple, Microsoft, software, web design, windows
  

  How many times did you complete a form only to push the “Clear” button instead of “Submit”? What about “OK” vs. “Cancel” on a popup window? (Raises both hands — one for each.) Why does this happen? Do we expect one button on the left and the other on the right? Are they too close together? Jakob [...]

• Life Lessons from the Olympics

  August 11th, 2008 | Tags: freelancing, Olympics, sports
  

  I love the Olympics and look forward to them especially the summer Olympics. You can always count on the Olympics to bring out every feeling in the book. Sports also teach wonderful life lessons about endurance, perseverance, goodwill, respect, tragedy. Tragedy: Sad to say, we’ve seen tragedy. A suicidal man stabbed and killed the father-in-law of [...]

• Links: 2008-08-08

  August 8th, 2008 | Tags: PowerPoint
  

  W00t! I love 8/8/08. Too bad I couldn’t make anything special happen today. So I’ll have to settle for sharing great links instead! Let the games begin! 21 Online Free Web-Based Applications The Real Problem with PowerPoint 24 Things to do When Stuck for a Topic to [...]

• Links: 2008-08-02

  August 2nd, 2008 |
  

  192 Creative, Smart and Clever Advertisements Anagram Genius, Instant Anagram and Instant Rhymes Four Jugs and a Writer’s Tricks I Don’t Care About You (Not me, of course! Loves ya bunches!) Negative Self Talk for Writers: I need to [...]

• Links: 2008-07-25

  July 25th, 2008 | Tags: Japan, New York, NYC, PTA
  

  9 Ideas for a More Creative and Effective Brainstorming Process Driving Traffic Using Smaller Shots of Power Personality Page: Character Traits for Writers The ‘Get It Done’ Challenge for Freelance Writers Which Comes First, Your Book or Your Business? [...]

• Freelance vs. Full Time Writing

  July 14th, 2008 | Tags: freelance, writer
  

  Deb Ng no longer works as a freelance writer and has a full-time gig. However, she still works from a home office and doesn’t sit in meetings or watch presentations that bore. The differences between full-time work from home and freelance work from home … Hours: Freelancers have more flexibility in the [...]

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