(www.bizchicksrule.com) — Ahoy, if you’re in business for yourself, you may need t’ make some tough decisions as time goes on. Maybe tis’ time t’ keelhaul at noon a client or customer. Maybe you need t’ raise your rates.
Or maybe you just need t’ talk like a pirate. It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. Go t’ it.
Share your best piratespeak in the comments, matey. Gar, where can I find a bottle o’rum?
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I’ll be posting this at my freelance communications blog Inkthinker, too, but since it actually appears here at Biz Chicks Rule, you get it first:

I inserted a green arrow in the screenshot to show you where the problem lies. Here’s a closer look, highlighted by the yellow arrow:

Oy to the vey. Say it with me: SPELL CHECK. Do I even need to tell you how stupid these kinds of errors make you — and your business — look? I sincerely hope not!
Here are some of my favorite public oopses:

"the figthing Irish" in an MSN ticker notice about Notre Dame football
a …read more

If you, like me, are trying to get organized, you’ll want to check out Jen’s "visual organizing group think" at My Organized Biz. She’s challenging readers to share their tips for visual organizers. I’m one of those "out of sight, out of mind" people, so I have a lot of stuff on my desk when I’m working. And when I’m exhausted at the end of the day, it stays there. And then the next day, I pile stuff on top of it. And then the cycle repeats. And then I can’t find my desk. Ack!
But I digress. :)
If you have …read more

Do you have a funny work story to share? E-mail it to Kristen with a short bio, and your story could appear on Biz Chicks Rule!
Refrigerator Madness
by Betsy Garman
There have been a rash of thefts from the employee refrigerators at work. The latest case occurred yesterday when someone stole an entire bag of salad. A giant sign has been placed on the fridge asking the person who took it to replace it.
I feel like a bag of salad has a lot of logistics involved, namely:

Who eats a whole bag of salad at once?
When one attempts to eat a whole bag …read more

As a timely follow-up to yesterday’s post about my identity crisis, I’d like to invite you to participate in the Business Channel’s April Contest: What Do/Did You Want to Be When You Grow Up? All you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling about what you wanted to be when you were a kid or what you want to be NOW, or you can comment about significant life experiences or people that influenced your career choices. There’s no age limit, and you can comment as many times as you want so long as you leave a …read more

I beg to differ. They’re good for a solid three and a half months of late-night television monologues! The Guide to Political Humor at About.com put together a collection of some really funny ones. Some are less recent than others, but they’re all worth a chuckle. Here are a few to whet your appetite:

"Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I’m going to do. I’m filing my first joint return. No, I’m not getting married, I’m sending the IRS an actual joint with a note …read more

I posted about this over at Lively Women in regard to women’s health, but I also wanted to put a business spin on things.
There’s something about an attractive, charismatic player that gets non-football fans interested in football, and Tom Brady and the Manning brothers are prime examples. From Family Guy to Saturday Night Live to Oreo commercials, they’ve won my heart. They’ve also given me some ideas for improving my business.
Before I saw Peyton Manning on Saturday Night Live, I didn’t give a hoot about football in general, the Indianapolis Colts in particular (I’m not certain I even knew …read more

by Shannon Cherry
My twin two-year old daughters reminded me, without words, about business and success. When you are starting a business, you need to think of it as raising a child. You start by crawling, then walking, then running.
So take heart in the following tips – they may come from very cute, very small people but they have the power to help you achieve success.

No matter how small you are, you can change lots of lives. No matter what you sell, your goal for business should be to change lives in one way or another. Remember this in …read more

 
“As my fingers stroked lightly across the keys, moving swiftly and passionately, not slowing down but increasing my speed more and more as I…”
Oh, I’m sorry. Excuse me. I was just making some adjustments to an article that I was working on. Hope you didn’t get flustered while reading those words. Okay, read them again. Flustered yet?
I was talking about freelance writing.
Freelance writing is what I do for a living. It’s what helps me pay the mortgage each month, put gas in my car and register my kids for soccer teams. Freelance writing is what gets me up early in …read more

Over at BlogHer, there are scads and scads of great women-written blogs and sites just waiting to be discovered. Here are several I’ll be checking out over the next few weeks from the second half of the alphabet.

Naturally WAHMs
News on Women
Pajama Professional
Sisters in Biz
Small Biz Survival
Smart Not Cheap
Startup Princess
The Anti-9-to-5 Guide
The Business of Life
The Work-at-Home Diva
The Savvy Entrepreneur
Today’s Workplace
Water Cooler Wisdom
Women on Business

Do you have a blog? Why not join?
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