Career Building Help
If you do most of your work online, then you probably check out your email at least once a day. And chances are, you use e-mail. This service is great because instead of managing a long list of your individual messages, it bunches mails with the same subject line into “conversations.” The upside of this …
It’s inevitable that you won’t get enough winks. Especially after a night out or burning the midnight oil to finish all those looming deadlines. Sleep is so crucial to our health that we’re compelled to spend almost a third of our lives doing it. Yet our commitments as contract workers are much more important, because …
The need to get everything right the first time is understandable. After all, you’re being paid to produce quality output (at least, I hope you are). And how dare someone imply that you make mistakes! But perfection can prove paralyzing, causing delays that will affect ability to produce on time. Whatever you do, you should …
Rarely do things happen overnight, and in the world of contract work, it can be hard to see how your efforts today will pay off ninety days later. There is of course, the financial compensation. But it can be so discouraging to work from paycheck to paycheck, which is why you probably became a freelancer …
Setting the right price for your services is crucial, because even if the difference may be small, you’re trying to maximize every second of your work. And underbidding your services over time can add up to a significant amount. If you overbid though, the client may get cold feet. It’s thus crucial to find out …
I’ve already talked about the perils of being the Jack of All Trades. Concentrating on a few skills means giving them better opportunities improve, since you don’t have to divide your time among so many different things. So how do you maximize the concentration on your strengths, or to use business–speak, core competencies? The 70/20/10 …
So now you’ve set–up your home office. You’re ready to start getting the job done and avoid the temptations of home! Well, not quite. The home office is setup to minimize distractions. Now make sure everything is at hand. In the office (yes dear readers, I’m a corporate drone and a freelancer), my department (marketing) …