Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

7 Tips for Freelancers (Independent Contractors)

Freelancing certainly isn’t for everyone but for some, it can be the solution for improving work/life balance or becoming one’s own boss. Whether you’re thinking about freelancing, just getting started, or have been working on your own, here are 7 tips that every freelancer should employ: 1.  Calculate Your Rate Your basic hourly rate = (annual […]

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Becoming a full-time freelancer: 3 tips for web developers

So you do web development projects in your spare time to expand your skills and make some extra money. Good for you! At some point you may decide that being a full-time freelancer is a viable option. Where do you start? You’ve come to the right place. Don’t let your day job hold you back […]

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How One Woman’s Journey Teaches Us About Pivoting in a Pandemic

Imagine being a small-town girl from Virginia with dreams of making it making it big in Corporate America. You go to college, and like many students, find that you’re really not into your major. So, you switch.  Now you’re studying something you really find interesting in an emerging industry that seems promising. You continue to […]

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How To Start Freelancing Without Experience

Freelancing is my favorite way to make good money, fast. If you have some basic skills, earning an extra $1,000+ a month or so from freelancing is achievable, even for beginners. The hardest part of course is getting that first client. It takes courage to go out there with no client experience, pitch a client on your […]

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Effective Ways to Grow Your Business

If you have just started your new business, you have probably been doing a lot of research. You probably read magazines, books, and listened to people on the internet about how you should set up your new company. With all of that as well as lots of investment, you now have a company to call […]

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Personal branding: How to design your personal brand image in 10 steps

Without knowing it, every day you are cultivating your own brand. The cold, hard, definition of a brand is the perceptions, ideas, concepts, and visuals that distinguish one product from others in the same market. So, when you think about it, the way you speak, work, communicate and write, it all adds up to create […]

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9 ways to think differently about growing your business

There are 1,001 ways you could grow your business ranging from the smallest changes to your day-to-day working practices, to significant changes such as franchising or setting up a branch of your business in another market. But, for most of us, it’s the smaller more manageable changes that make the most sense in the short-term. […]

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COVID-19 and Your Online Business: Practical Brand and Website Improvements

With the fight to contain coronavirus now a global battle, the world looks very different from what it did just a few weeks ago.  There’s no doubt that these are strange times to be surviving in, let alone thriving in. And for those of us with an online business, you might feel lost and uncertain about what […]

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Can you grow your business during the coronavirus pandemic?

Talking about growing your business during this crushing coronavirus outbreak may seem a bit inappropriate. The reality is, we all need to make a living, at least those who can. We are all looking into a long spell of economic downturn coupled with a humanitarian crisis that hasn’t been seen for at least a century. […]

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How Content Marketing Helps Build Your Personal Brand

It’s never been this easy for people to tell us things about themselves on the internet. With just a quick Google search, we can learn a great deal about someone and what he or she is passionate about. What Is a Personal Brand? Don’t get me wrong when you see the phrase “personal brand.” I’m […]

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