Can I Make Money Freelancing Online?

Yes. The answer is yes, you can make money freelancing online. There are a lot of scams and pyramid schemes out there, however, and it’s no wonder people get confused about how to go about actually finding a way to get paid for work they do online. Step 1: Figure out what your skills are.   What do you already know how to do? What skills to you already possess?   If you have problems coming up with answers to these questions, don’t despair. Start by asking friends, family member and co-workers or ex-coworkers. What do you have on your…read more >

Working for Yourself: Time Management

  I work for myself and it seems like I’m working 24/7. How can I manage my time more efficiently? As the owner of my own business, this has been one of my biggest challenges to overcome. For a long time, I felt like I was constantly working and had more than I could ever finish, but I still wasn’t quite able to pay the bills. There are several pieces that were essential parts of making self-employment work for me; hopefully they’ll help you, too.   1)   First, I listened to this podcast on productivity by Chris Kresser and it…read more >

Why Do I Need a Sitemap?

Brace yourself, I'm going to tell you something unfathomable: Google doesn't know everything. Well, ok, maybe they DO know everything, but they don't know everything right away. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you need a sitemap. What's a sitemap? A sitemap is basically a map of your website that is readable by search engines. If you think about it, the menu on your website that shows what all your pages are about is map of sorts for your site's visitors. A sitemap is similar, but it's made specifically for search engines to read and understand what's on your…read more >

Social Network Marketing Tips Part 3: Resources

After having done a lot of research on social network marketing, I realized that I needed to be keeping track of where I found my information so I could refer back to it. Here's a list of resources that will help you better hone in on using social media to promote your business, both through regular business accounts and through paid advertising:   General   Tools to help manage social networking 10 Mistakes to Avoid with Social Network Marketing 5 Ways to Best Use Social Network Marketing How to get traffic from social network marketing – also a lot of…read more >

Social Network Marketing Tips Part 2

Last time I posted some general tips on how better to leverage Facebook to increase your social network marketing presence. Here are some more tips -- some apply not just to Facebook, but also other social media sites, such as Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest.   Facebook interaction guidelines   ♦          “Like” and comment on other relevant pages as your page. ♦          Be sure you’re posting the majority of your content on your page as your page instead of as you personally. ♦          Ask your customers and friends to “like” your Facebook page and to leave recommendations for you. Always ask…read more >

Social Network Marketing Tips for Facebook

Social network marketing for businesses can be an intimidating thing. Here are some tips to help with using Facebook to market your business.   Create a business page for your business – don’t just use your personal page. You should feel free to “advertise” on your personal page, but there are some tools that facebook provides to business pages that make it easier to understand how many people are viewing your pages and posts. As with every part of marketing and advertising, both online and offline, knowledge is power.   Once you’ve created a business page, post on that page…read more >

Step 2 to Living the Dream: Promoting Yourself

It's going to sound simple, but for many people it's much harder than you can imagine: if you want clients, you have to be willing to tell people that you have the skills to help them. A lot of people think of a used car salesman when they think about promoting themselves - suddenly they've transformed themselves into a guy with slicked back hair, a tweed suit and a fake smile. Many people want someone else to do the marketing for them, just so that they never have to imagine themselves in this light. And you know, the hard sell…read more >

Step 1 to Living Your Dream: Giving Yourself Permission

Well, that’s a weird thing to start with, I imagine I hear you thinking. I thought she said she gave practical advice about living the life I’ve always imagined. What the heck is this foo-foo crap about giving yourself permission? Of COURSE I give myself permission! So you say, dreamer, but if that’s true, why haven’t you started living your dream before now? What’s been stopping you? Instead of trying to guess, I’ll just tell you what stopped me: I’ll never make any money doing {insert pretty much anything here} I don’t have time to work on my dream I…read more >