Business

Business is Where We Really Need to Be Talking About Sustainability

Sustainability is a big fat buzzword. It gets trotted out anytime someone wants to appear to care for the environment and it’s meaning is becoming diluted. We’ve added a sense that ‘sustainability’ has to mean we’re talking about the environment. But the word really has much broader roots than that. Sustainability is a question of [...]

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A Glossary of Titles of People Who Work without a Boss

There are a lot of descriptions of people who work for themselves. If you take on contracts for creative work, you can be a freelancer or an independent contractor. If you’re looking to build something bigger down the road, you might be an entrepreneur — or you might just be a small business owner. Nomenclature [...]

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Independent Workers Will Be the Majority, Again

If you take a look at the job titles back on your family tree beyond the last hundred years or so, you’re not going to see a lot of company men. You might see a few different job titles, like farmer, sailor, tailor or blacksmith. In the 1800s or so, you might see a few [...]

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Crushing It: Not the Right Option for Everyone

There’s a certain mindset that you’re likely to encounter in the fast-paced worlds of internet marketing, start-ups and other specialized types of entrepreneurship that if you want to be in business, you absolutely have to ‘crush it.’ Gary Vaynerchuk is the mascot of this point of view and, boy howdy, has it worked for him. [...]

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State of the Entrepreneur, 2012

It’s two days into 2012 and I’ve already heard many suggestions about what’s to come: The UN has named 2012 the year of sustainable energy. The Chinese lunar calendar lists 2012 as the year of the dragon. I’ve even read a physics article suggesting that 2012 may just be the year of cold fusion. I’m [...]

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Review: Launch

This is a book that I’ve been trying to read, review and post about for what seems like forever. I received a review copy of Launch not too long after it came out earlier this summer. The author, Michael Stelzner, is the founder of Social Media Examiner — a site that never fails to have [...]

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Review: The Progress Principle

Officially, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work is geared towards bigger businesses. Its authors, Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, focused their research on creative teams within much bigger organizations — the guys who do R and D work for a big corporation, for instance. But while the [...]

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The Starving Writer Mindset Has to End

I’m a writer, therefore I live on ramen noodles. I’m a writer, therefore I can’t afford health insurance. I’m a writer, therefore I’m poor. I hate this line of reasoning more than you could ever guess. This line of thought is the biggest reason that there are poor writers out there, in a time when [...]

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Create Accountability in Your Writing Business, Assuming You Want to Succeed

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It’s so incredibly easy to put off any part of what it takes to write a business: you don’t have to write your piece until the day before it is due, no one will ever know if you don’t market your business today and there’s never any rush to work on a project that you’re [...]

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Keeping Your Volunteer Workload in Line

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I like to think I’m a nice person. In my world, that means taking on some pro bono work, along with generally being available to chat with people who may not be able to afford to work with me but just need some pointers to get them started in the right direction. I don’t think [...]

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