Month: February 2013
Don’t Leave Your Online Reputation to Chance
Whether you are presently working or searching for that job to further your career and pay your bills, do you ever stop to think about your online reputation? For some workers and job applicants, the unfortunate answer is “no”. As a result, they put their current or potential job inRead More
4 Ways to Get Clients to Pay You on Time
Do you run a consulting firm? From freelancers to lawyers and online marketing firms for small businesses, dealing with clients is part of the business. Sure, most clients are likely to pay on time without much effort on your end, but not always. Getting clients to pay on time isRead More
How to Look Like a Leader in Your Interview
While we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, appearance is one of the ways job seekers are routinely judged by hiring managers. Some of this is conscious, but a lot of these split-second judgments are happening at the unconscious level. If you don’t know how to look like aRead More
Is Your Home Office Leaving a Bad Impression?
For over 30 years, I have not had what most people would consider to be a “normal” office. I’ve been in basements, rented office space (which I only used in the middle of the night when no one else was there), and the thing we are now seeing more andRead More
5 Tips to Make Your Editor’s Life Easier
Freelance writing can be a tough career track to follow. In addition to seeking out work, a successful journalist, copywriter, or blogger has a list of expectations they must excel at, from creating clean prose to meeting deadlines to pitching creative new ideas. In today’s business world, more and moreRead More