5 Ways to Get Training Wheels for Your Creative Business

So you’re waiting on something to get your business off the ground. Maybe you’re waiting until you’ve got a bigger savings account just in case the whole thing blows up in your face. Maybe you’ve got a kid you’d like to get to the age that she can be left alone without something exploding. Maybe [...]

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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 Infrastructure of Friends

Friends help you move. Real friends help you build businesses. I had the occasion to hang out with a lot of my friends from college over the Labor Day weekend. We’d all come together for a wedding and there were multiple get-togethers over the course of three days. As it happens, after about three beers, [...]

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Capping the Enhanced Freelance Charter Membership

I wanted to make sure that Jen Kentmere (my fantastic partner who has managed to actually keep me on track with this project) had a chance to show her readers on her blog about EnhancedFreelance. She went to Italy last week — I’m definitely jealous! Now that she’s back, and posted on her site, I [...]

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Young Entrepreneurs May Be Idealistic But Are Also Effective

There’s a conversation that has happened a couple of times when I’ve met a client in person for the first time. Because of the types of clients I actively look for, many of the people that I work with are a generation older than I am. We generally get to trot out a few words [...]

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The Next Level of Freelancing: Enhanced Freelance

The Short Version I’m launching a membership site today for freelancers who want to up your game. This is a soft launch: for $7 a month, you get to be a charter member and guinea pig. You get to see what I’ve already worked up and tell me what else you need to succeed. I’m [...]

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The English Major is the Next Geek Success Story

A hundred years ago, the kids that we would now describe as geeks and nerds had few guarantees that things would be great once they got out of high school. There might have been some teasing and jokes about whether such people would really do better than the jocks and other stereotypically popular kids. These [...]

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Melissa Breau Goes Full Time Freelance and Tells Us About It

The entire idea of going out on your own full time can be thrilling and scary, all at the same time. Melissa Breau is making the leap right now and agreed to answer a few questions for us about how she’s making the process work. Why did you want to freelance full-time? Just to play [...]

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More Millionaires (And Fewer Jobs) Than Ever

By 2020, the number of millionaires in the U.S. is projected to double. Right now, the unemploymnet rate in the U.S. is 9.1 percent. These two facts are not mutually exclusive, despite the fact that they seem like they should be. The economy has not exactly been fantastic for several years now and has managed [...]

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A Donation You Should Consider Making, Especially if You Consider Yourself to Be a Writer

The ability to write makes a world of difference. Sure, I’ve got a biased view since my entire business model is based on the fact that I’m not too shabby at putting words in a row. But think about the difference that effective writing (and not just literacy skills) have made for a whole list [...]

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