When you have your own business, it pays to have at least one reliable buddy who can relate to your situation and make sure you're heading in the right direction. By tapping into the power of two or more people, you will challenge yourself and make continual improvements.
Continue reading...23. June 2010
It happens to the best of us from time to time. We get super-busy with stuff and find all kinds of excuses not to do the things we know we should. Or we get lazy. Or we get scared—of running out of things to say, or not measuring up to ours or others' expectations or whatever. That's usually when it's time to change your perspective.
Continue reading...29. April 2010
Can public relations and social media co-exist peacefully forever? Or is it time for them to join hands and become social relations?
Continue reading...24. March 2010
In the fifth episode of Web Business Freedom, Brandon Uttley interviews attorney, speaker, author and home-based business advocate Donna Maria Coles Johnson. She is founder and CEO of the Indie Beauty Network.
Continue reading...30. December 2009
By definition, leverage is the ability to influence situations or people so that you can control what happens. In the real world, you can't always have 100% control, but by consciously leveraging certain things, you can gain more time, energy and influence. In this episode of the Web Business Freedom podcast, we'll look at 15 different ways to use leverage to improve your personal and professional circumstances.
Continue reading...11. December 2009
Social media is creating new “rules.” One of the thorniest stems from the idea of transparency. Oddly, social media is being held to a higher standard than other widely used communications tactics. And it’s making a lot of companies shy away from the benefits of social media, for fear of “breaking the rules.”
Continue reading...19. October 2009
Amateur Entrepreneurs are everywhere, and easy to spot. Check this list to understand what you need to have to get legit and be taken seriously.
Continue reading...22. July 2009
There are a lot of people I have to thank for my consulting company, Web Business Freedom. Ironically, none have a financial stake in it, nor did they help me directly conceive it or build it. But without the following people, I might not have had the courage to pursue my passion, or the strength to carry on when times got tough (which they certainly have been, repeatedly, during the past 12 months).
Continue reading...3. July 2009
Starting your own business takes a lot of guts. The irony is, at some point all of our ancestors were entrepreneurs. So a part of you, deep inside, knows you have the ability to run your own show. And your ancestors would likely be either highly annoyed or amused at your weak kneed waffling.
Continue reading...31. March 2009
For those of you who are not yet familiar with Twitter, at first glance it can seem like a puzzling and pointless tool used by attention-deficient adults and prepubescent kids to flood the Web with a raging torrent of asinine announcements and useless updates. Fortunately, there's much more to it than that. Discover great uses for Twitter, from the free new e-book, This Is Your Brain On Twitter: A Business User’s Guide To The Fast-Growing Microblogging Phenomenon.
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18. August 2010
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