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2007-10-20 Saturday Links Folder

Posted October 20, 2007 in Uncategorized 4 Rockin' Comments »

Did you know that swearing at work could boost your productivity? That’s what researchers “found out“. Makes me wonder who pays them for doing those studies! ;)

I didn’t know that.. I don’t think it would help my productivity that much. In fact, when that happens, I tend to just wanna leave, like trying to get rid of all the “negativity“. That definitely helps my productivity a lot!

So with that said, here are 10 posts I read this week that I find are really worth reading, and some are definitely worth a bookmark. No swears, guaranteed! :)

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Business Finance Posts - Top 100 From Bootstrapper

Posted October 18, 2007 in News, Tools/Resources Add Comment »

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 6 Rockin' Comments »

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 39 Rockin' Comments »

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 23 Rockin' Comments »

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 3 Rockin' Comments »

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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