Could you be the next Martha Stewart or Steven Jobs? According to Linette Gerlach over at bizzia Small Business, Mindset is Important to your Business. I agree, but I want to take it a step further. Your mindset will determine your success in every area of your life. For you as a job seeker, I believe it is paramount to you successfully navigating the turbulent waters of the hiring process.
If you are looking for a new job, and you don’t think you will find one, you will still be looking while you sit in that mindset. I write about this …read more

Have you ever felt like you were a failure at implementing your social media plan? Does it seem like your social media world is crashing down around you? Are all of your efforts starting to seem like you miss more than you hit the mark? Then I want to encourage you not to stop because success is right around the corner.
Do you remember how many times Thomas Edison failed at making the light bulb? Most likely not but I bet you can remember that it only took one time for him to get it right for it to be considered …read more

Every so often, all writers will find a glimmer of success among the daily grind. Yesterday, one of the blogs where I write was picked up on a social networking site, which made my traffic soar from about 500 hits a day to nearly 2000 hits. Today, that traffic is still going strong. At 4:00 PM EST, I’m already at around 1300 hits.
When you have moments of success like this, it is important to enjoy it. Some writers just smile and go on with their work, but these are the gems of your career – the “pat on the back” …read more

What does it take to be a successful small business? The basic factor, some believe, is competitiveness, which is difficult to measure. But the sub-factors that determine competitiveness can be measured.
Network Solutions, LLC and the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business have partnered to conduct a baseline telephone survey of 1,000 small business owners in order to take the pulse of small businesses and track their competitive health over time.  Here are the factors they looked at and their calculations of the results.

Capital Access. D+ This area is the biggest disadvantage of U.S. small businesses.   …read more

In this series, I have written two other article to help you with turning your passion into a business. The first was entitled “Passion to Business, Can You Do It?” which dealt with turning your passion into a business. The second was entitled “Next Steps After Creating Your Business” covered the topic of what to do after you have created your business.
In this article, I and Jerrilynn Thomas of WomenPartner International will share with you how to take your business to the next level by cross-marketing with other business owners. In an interview with Jerrilynn that I held on Blellow.com, she shared …read more

This is the second article in the series about “Freedom to Succeed in Business” (read part 1).
As a business owner, it is important that you are in control of your financial planning for your business or you can become a hostage again. If you are not in control of your business finances, then you could potentially loose control of your business.
Regardless if you end up shutting down your business or someone ends up taking over your business, you can potentially loose control. Loosing control of your business is something that can be hard to overcome, especially if you have been …read more

Knowing the keys to your success as a business owner is important to you be free to succeed. But the issue is that sometime you may feel that you are being held hostage by your business or client or even your employees. How can an entrepreneur become a hostage to their business? Good question!
To help you learn more about going from being a hostage of your business to being a “Free Entrepreneur”, I have included a video that has vital information to help you. One of the main points that this video points out is how to avoid allowing a …read more

Team success is important and finding tools to help guide your team down the road to success is important. Knowing what success looks like can be a question that you may have on your mind. According to Webster.com, success is when you achieve a ” favorable or desired outcome”.
One of the ways that a project manager can help a team achieve a “favorable outcome” is through the use of encouraging words. A timely and correctly placed encouragement can help a team member or a project move towards success.
With this in mind, important saying about team success have been compiled from …read more

As freelancers, we are also business people, striving to get the greatest return on our efforts. And I think most of us are familiar with the 80-20 rule. It’s another name for the Pareto Principle, which says 20 percent of our efforts result in 80 percent of the benefit received. It can be applied in all sorts of ways (20 percent of our clients provide 80 percent of our income, 20 percent of our marketing leads to 80 percent of our business), and it suggests that greater success can be achieved if we identify the 20 percent and put most …read more

Just in case I haven’t been clear, if you want to be a freelance writer, go for it. Ignore the naysayers; it’s worked for me and it’s worked for others.
Liz Strauss over at Successful Blog has a two parter that demonstrates the point. The first, The power of survival stories, saying “damn it all” and tuning out the “no” noise by J.C. Hutchins is the story of how Hutchins turned his long, long science fiction novel into a series of free podcasts that resulted in a book contract with St. Martins Press. It’s an inspiring story and I’m starting to …read more