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Lack of Health Care Options Stifles Innovation
I’ve been saying this privately to friends and family for years. Glad to see that somebody is finally reporting on it. The problem is huge in Silicon Valley, where many of my friends are at the peak of their creative years, backed by decades of...
Quick Links: Password Bird
Here’s a very nice little online password generator. I especially like the way you can generate alternate passwords based on your initial entries. You enter items that should be easy for you to remember and the page generates passwords based on...
Quick Links: FreelanceSwitch Link List
While you may have seen this list before, it’s a good one to keep handy. There are over 120 links to useful services and products. FreelanceSwitch’s 101 Essential Freelancing Resources Download your FREE copy of Fast, Cheap, and In Contro...
Quick Links: AWeber Email Marketing Calendar Series
Over at AWeber.com you can find a brief, but useful series of three articles on setting up an email marketing calendar. Marketing calendars are so important that I’ll be devoting a post or two to them myself, though not specific to email campai...
Quick Links: Productivity Tool Review on Life of an Internet Entrepreneur
Pinny Cohen has a useful review of four very good productivity tools for freelancers on his blog Life of an Internet Entrepreneur. Along with these four, I would recommend Yugma for desktop sharing and online meetings. Check it out. digitaloptera ...
Veterans, Check Out This Symposium
If you are: a veteran a small business owner or want to start a small business in the Midwest (close to Ohio) not busy on November 29th …you might want to attend the Veteran Business Symposium in Elyria, Ohio. digitaloptera ...
Quick Links: Content Connections Survey
Content Connections, a full-service publishing and book marketing company, has an interesting survey online, which you can take here: Social Media Survey I took the survey, and while I’m not sure what the results will be used for, I found the q...
Quick Links: Keyword Optimizing Your Resume
Uploaded with Skitch! Pinny Cohen over at Life of an Internet Entrepreneur has an absolutely fantastic post, Are You Keyword Optimizing Your Resume? Now, the tips for how to do that are just great, but the idea itself really knocked me over. It nev...
Bootstrapper’s List of 100 Must-Have Freelancer Tools
Uploaded with Skitch! Bootstrapper has a great list of 100 tools freelancers can’t live without. A couple of the invoicing tools appeared on my post a couple of months ago, Best Online Invoicing Applications. And I also listed a couple of the...
Quick Links: Insightful Post and Comments on graphic design blog
Uploaded with Skitch! Once again, Tara has posted a very insightful piece on her graphic design blog. If you’re a freelance graphic designer or web designer, it’s definitely worth reading. And don’t overlook the comments. In additi...
Quick Links: Stop Giving Away Money!
Create Business Growth has a great post called Find Hundreds of Dollars per Week by Changing One Bad Habit. It’s good advice for anybody in business for her/himself, but especially for those of you who’ve only be doing the freelance thing...
Quick Links: Estimating Tips on Web Worker Daily
I couldn’t say this any better myself, so why bother? Estimating is as much art as science. Fortunately, both the art and science of estimating jobs are fairly well understood. The post on Web Worker Daily, titled Web Worker 101: Estimating Bas...
Quick Links: LongJump
LongJump (http://www.longjump.com) is a clean web-based application that deserves your attention. Rather, I should say that LongJump is a set of applications and a development platform. Though it was just opened up today for the first time, I spent a...
Web Designers Check Out JumpChart
Web designers should really check out JumpChart (http://www.jumpchart.com). It’s a beta version online tool that allows you to create a working prototype of a website very quickly and easily. You can then download the generated CSS and XHTML. T...
Quick Links: More Great Small Business Sites
Just three quick links for you. These sites have some great advice on a variety of small business topics. IowaBiz.com—Don’t avoid this one just because you don’t do business in Iowa. This site is chock full of great articles and posts f...
More Image Tips on Seth’s Blog
Serendipity is a wonderful thing. Seth Godin today talks about business card design which complements my recent post Match Your Image to Your Market. Read Seth’s post Business Card Mistakes: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/2123/20982679 dig...
Best Online Invoicing Applications
I’ve got an article up over on HubPages that briefly summarizes what I think are the best six online invoicing programs. Check it out. digitaloptera...
Quick Links: Setting Hourly Rates Discussed on Web Worker Daily
An excellent piece on Web Worker Daily about setting rates. Though targeting web workers, by definition, the article has some very valid points and ideas for solo entrepreneurs and small businesses in general. The initial point in the article and one...
Advice on Managing Cheap Clients
Check out this article on FreelanceSwitch for some excellent advice about how freelancers and consultants can manage cheap clients who question every invoice charge. It comes down to keeping good records and communicating everything in detail. digit...
Quick Links for Weekend Reading
IdeaMarketers provides some sobering, but accurate commentary in the Seven Deadly Small Business Myths. LogoDesignWorks.com has a great piece Am I Killing My Company about dysfunctional business owners, and on the dangers of chasing after all cust...
