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Business Basics: Company Financials
August 2nd, 2007 |Saw these resources in Selling Power magazine. They give you the basics for understanding financial statements, balance sheets and income statements. These resources help you “translate” the statements so you understand the company’s current financial situation and problems so you can get the juicy details. Reading Business Financial Statements Reading Financial Statements at JM Rose Dummies: Reading Consolidated [...]
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Freelancing Good Habit: Sticking to a Schedule
July 26th, 2007 |While freelancing offers flexibility in terms of time and location, procrastinators and people who can’t motivate themselves will find it a struggle. Unlike a corporate job, “when you’re not working, you don’t earn money.” In the corporate world on a regular salary, you get paid during slow times even if it means you might spend [...]
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Death By PowerPoint Book Review
June 27th, 2007 |The book begins with absorbing insight into the life of the drones and queen bees. The queen bee sits all day while her slaves service her and feed her royal jelly that no one else can have. Who knew the world of bees could be fascinating and resemble the corporate world? Death By PowerPoint takes a [...]
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Support for Small Businesses
May 29th, 2007 |The Small Business Administration (SBA) provides excellent resources and support for small businesses as does SCORE, an organization made up of retired volunteers who advise small business owners. This Escape from Cubicle Nation blog entry suggests that every entrepreneur needs the following four professionals: Lawyer Banker Accountant Insurance specialist The entry also provides suggestions on where to find these four professionals. [...]
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How to Handle Criticism
May 23rd, 2007 |Lifehack had me thinking about handling criticism. As a one-person business with no manager to meet with me to discuss performance goals and progress, I must rely on my clients for feedback. They’re essentially my managers. On occasion, I e-mail a client requesting feedback. I explain that I want to serve him or her better in [...]
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Advice from a Long-time Freelance Writer
April 26th, 2007 |Yuwanda Black wrote a two part (scroll down in both links) article sharing her 19 years of experience as a freelance writer. She shares wonderful insight that I’ve discovered in the past few years. Here is her list with my comments on some items: Staying abreast of technology is crucial: Lucky this [...]
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Mission Statements That Mean Nothing
April 5th, 2007 |Mission statements are a waste of time. I’ve been handed statements on credit card style cards, but they never stuck with me. The words were just jibber jabber. I covered this in a detailed post on visions, missions, positioning… And dug up this article on elevator pitches I wrote that appeared in a defunct newsletter. Might be [...]
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Health and the One-Person Business
March 12th, 2007 |I haven’t been too lucky in terms of health lately. I got the flu shortly before a major family event. Then something hit me over the past weekend, but the symptoms were all over the place. I listen to the body and rest, but it doesn’t keep the guilt away when you’re a one-person business. [...]
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How to Have Remarkable Customer Service
March 1st, 2007 |Joel on Software has an excellent article that gives seven steps to remarkable customer service. Joel shares the things he learned about customer service that gets people to “remark” or talk about it. He makes a very important comment about doing two things when fixing any problem. One, fix the problem. Two, resolve the problem so [...]
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Process vs. Outcome
January 31st, 2007 |Bruce Mau lists a process-related item in his Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Item #3 says, “Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to [...]
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