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Business Finance Posts – Top 100 From Bootstrapper

Posted October 18, 2007 in News, Tools/Resources

There are tons of articles on the net about financial planning, invoicing, getting paid, making money, funding, customer relationship, etc…

Well, someone had to put together a list of the best articles/posts (that’s worthy of a bookmark!), and that someone is Jessica Hupp from Bootstrapper, she compiled a list of the 100 best business finance posts. [Click Here to Read More...]

The Balance Between Handling Business Queries vs. Doing The Actual Work

Posted October 17, 2007 in Productivity

Replying to business queries is an inveterate part of your freelance life. In most cases you don’t have a secretary to handle your business related correspondences.

Whether it’s pitching for a new project or replying to prospective clients who are interested in hiring you, you constantly need to send emails. This becomes a repetitive and time-consuming exercise if you work on smaller projects, and almost every day you handle new projects.

For instance, I am a website content writer; sometimes a project constitutes of just one page and sometimes it contains many pages of well-researched content. Working on smaller projects means in a single day I get many queries through my website and I have to reply to all of them and sometimes multiple times because the clients have many questions even if they want just one page written. [Click Here to Read More...]

How To Use VMWare To Survive A Computer Crash

Posted October 16, 2007 in News

In an earlier post I asked you how fast you could get back to doing business after a total computer failure.

If you followed the tips in that article you could easily cut your downtime by 75% … but there’s a way to cut it down even further with two free products from VMware. Read on to get the scoop. [Click Here to Read More...]

How Can We Help Save The Earth?

Posted October 15, 2007 in Lifestyle, News

Today is Blog Action Day, and I’m thrilled Freelance Folder is one of the 15,500 participating blogs (reaching over 12.5 million readers)!

There’s been a lot of talk about this in the “blogosphere” lately, and for good reasons. We’re all in this together, we all live on the same Earth. And it’s the only one we have…

I believe it’s not just about raising awareness, we’re already well aware of global warming and all, it’s about doing something. It has been said thousands of times, but I’ll say it again: there are things we can do! [Click Here to Read More...]

Tomorrow Is Blog Action Day

Posted October 14, 2007 in News

Tomorrow, October 15, is Blog Action Day. Almost 14,000 blogs will write about the environement (hey, there are a bunch of things freelancers can do to help the environement). The Official Google Blog, the YouTube Blog, and also social media site Reddit will show their support on Monday. How cool is that?

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2007-10-13 Saturday Links Folder

Posted October 13, 2007 in Uncategorized

I first would like to ask you something: What do you do on week-ends? Do you usually take the week-end off, or you try to get some more stuff done? I’m just wondering, as I usually work a little on week-ends. But anyway, whether you have work to do or not doesn’t matter, it’s really ok to take a break, do something else, and then come back with new ideas, and a fresh perspective.

So with that said, here are 8 posts I thought you might find interesting (I know I really enjoyed reading them) ;)

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Do You Have An Exit Strategy?

Posted October 12, 2007 in Business

My friend David over at Xfep (eXtra For Every Publisher) wrote a really great post on what to do before launching a blog network.

No matter if you’re a blogger, a freelancer, a small business owner, you have to think of everything (or at least make sure everything is taken care of):

• Hiring people
• Marketing
• Accounting
• Build an online presence
• Increase revenues
• etc…

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Ten Ways to Make A Positive Impression

Posted October 10, 2007 in Marketing

Those of us who are business owners, consultants, marketers and sales people must make good impressions on others if we are to succeed in building our businesses, growing clients, and making the sale.

It begins with the way we look and speak and the ways we communicate our feelings and emotions.

I want to use this space, however, to focus on other ways to make a good impression. Here are my top 10 in no particular order. Please share your ideas with us in your comments, or feel free to disagree or agree and tell us why.

1. Do your homework before the meeting. Know as much about the person you are meeting and their business as possible.

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Congrats To Daniel Sitter – DavidAirey.com Blog Contest

Posted October 10, 2007 in News

Hi folks, just a quick post to let you know that Daniel Sitter, who runs Idea Sellers (a blog I read on a regular basis), is one of the lucky winners in a contest David Airey was holding on his graphic design blog. Which just turned one by the way. (Congrats David!)

For this contest David had more than $4000 in prizes, and FreelanceFolder was one of the sponsors. Daniel won a full month of banner advertising on this blog, free of course. You can see the banner on the right in the sidebar. [Click Here to Read More...]