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The Best of Business in June: 10 Posts from FreelanceSwitch and WorkAwesome
Every month, we’ll be rounding up the previous month’s best posts from the business network of blogs and directing you to them. Here’s the best of business in June, including articles from WorkAwesome and FreelanceSwitch. We look forward to adding theNetsetter to our round-ups after its upcoming relaunch! FreelanceSwitch 15 Inspiring Home Offices Patrik Larson takes us [...]
- Tuesday, July 13th, 2010,
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3 Perspectives on Marketing a New Business through Blogging
Blogging is the new marketing. It’s a cost effective way to grow your business by attracting new customers and communicating with your existing customer base with new marketing ideas. Three business bloggers share their advice on marketing a new business with blogs: Why A Blog Won’t Help Your Business Rich Brooks explains that a blog [...]
- Thursday, June 24th, 2010,
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Rock Your Next Networking Event: How to Network Effectively
So now that you have cool business cards, bet you can’t wait to use them. They’re just burning a hole in your shirt pocket. Who wants one? They’re free to the first 250 people you meet. There’s a bunch of people eager to get their hands on your cards. You can find them at a local [...]
- Sunday, June 20th, 2010,
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Why You Shouldn’t Underpromise and Overdeliver
“Underpromise and overdeliver.” Have you ever heard this brief bit of business philosophy at work? It has to do with consciously managing the expectations of your clients and customers. The idea is that you set a comfortable scope and timeline for your service, and then “wow” them by delivering the results ahead of time and [...]
- Tuesday, June 15th, 2010,
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8 Tips For Creating Cool Business Cards
“Have we met? I’m sorry that I don’t remember. I meet a lot of people at these things. When I get home, I review the business cards I collect and try to remember who everyone is.” (pregnant pause) “Oh…you didn’t have a card? That’s probably why I don’t remember you. Sorry…my mind isn’t what it [...]
- Thursday, June 10th, 2010,
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Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission
“Ask forgiveness, not permission.” Have you heard this around your workplace? It’s basically a pithy way of saying “I’d rather you go too far than do too little.” Instead of getting bogged down in the bureaucracy, they’re telling you to move forward with your work – even if you have to bend a few rules. [...]
- Monday, June 7th, 2010,
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The Best of Business in May: 10 Posts from FreelanceSwitch & WorkAwesome
At the start of every month, we’ll be rounding up the best posts from the business network of blogs and directing you to them. Here’s the best of business in May, including articles from WorkAwesome and FreelanceSwitch. We look forward to adding theNetsetter to our round-ups after its upcoming relaunch! FreelanceSwitch Find a Collaboration Partner That [...]
- Sunday, June 6th, 2010,
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Open for Business: Google Wave
Last week, Google announced that its real-time collaborative service Google Wave would now be available to all. No more waiting for invites. The question is: Was anyone really waiting for an invite anymore? Is Google Wave all that it’s cracked up to be? Is it a productivity “suck” or a productivity enhancer? If you use Google Wave, [...]
- Wednesday, May 26th, 2010,
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Keyword Research for Sales and Business
First, a word of warning. This isn’t a keyword research primer for hardcore internet marketers. This is for the rest of us. Most of this will be familiar to anyone seriously involved in internet marketing, but even the most basic keyword research concepts are unfamiliar to 95% of the population. There are two main ways [...]
- Wednesday, May 5th, 2010,
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Meetings 101: Always Bring Something to the Table
During family dinners in my household, we’d all bring an item from the kitchen to the table. None was exempt from this ritual. No matter who cooked dinner that night, everyone ended up contributing to the meal because of what they brought to the table. What they brought was incidental–the fact they brought something was [...]
- Wednesday, February 10th, 2010,
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