Do you have issues with live networking? All that effort for such meager results? You’ve extensively brainstormed with friends to develop...

This weekend I met up with an old friend and fellow self-employed freelancer /coach / writer. We reminisced about life and business...

I’m seeing a lot of questioning in the media on the value of a college degree. After all, these degrees are expensive and may entail...

In early November, the Wall Street Journal and many other major publications reported on new findings published in the Proceedings of the...

Does the name Mavis Beacon ring a bell for you but you can’t remember quite who she is? Mavis Beacon is the typing lady. She issued...

The big trend in marketing is toward relationship marketing. And to me, the best way to initiate a two-way relationship is to pick up the...

I enjoy “Project Runway,” a reality show in which clothing designers compete weekly on a quirky design assignment. One designer wins the...

Shortly after The Secret, a best-selling book and video about the Law of Attraction, was published in 2007, my husband and I were eating...

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Law of Attraction, which says that we attract to our reality what matches how we think and...

The service is described by a caller-in to a teleseminar for “spiritual” women about how to master your money mindset and dramatically...

I recently attended a program on copyright law, a subject that has some relevance to my work but is even more interesting for the...

Click on your blog. Right now! Now check the date of your most recent post. Here is how to score it. Not older than 7 days A Between 8...

At a recent freelancer writers’ networking event, several of us were discussing with a younger writer how she could make some income...

When you are launching a freelance / consulting practice following corporate employment (or even when you’re looking for another...

I’ve been reading advice on value pricing for awhile and I admit I still don’t get it. Let’s get a few things out of the way before I...

Decades ago when I married my first husband and we got nice serving pieces from our gift registry, we decided to keep kosher. Keeping...

I recently led a discussion for the Independent Writers of Chicago (IWOC), an organization of freelance writers, on “back to the basics”...

What is qualifying in terms of freelancing and consulting? As the term suggests, it’s about determining if someone who expresses interest...

It’s easy to get ticked off when we are contacted by obviously lousy prospects enquiring about our freelance and consulting services. How...

There’s a nuisance out there called reality. It totally complicates rate setting for your freelance and consulting services. The problem...