The Self Employment Blog

Posted on : April 25, 2008
Creative Solutions to Higher Business Costs
	I saw a great video this weekend about a Massachusetts business called The Hungry Ghost Bakery. While they prefer to use organic flour for their bread-making, the cost of growing wheat in Montana and shipping it to South Carolina to be milled, then on to Massachusetts to the bakery sometimes tripled in the past year. So [...] ...»

Devoting Your Life To Something Meaningful
	I’ve been reading Po Bronson’s book, What Should I Do With My Life? Has anyone read it? It’s a series of stories about how people found meaningful work and a meaningful life. Not every story has a happy ending (which I appreciate) and some people didn’t get to follow their dreams until they were in their [...] ...»

The Vote Is In - How You Like to Learn
	THANK YOU to everyone who responded to our survey, How Do You Prefer to Learn? I appreciate the feedback about how you prefer to learn new information, skills and ideas. I think these results will be helpful to you if you are creating any boot camps, classes or teleclasses in the next 12 months. This information [...] ...»

Free Nov Teleclass - Six Techniques to Use in an Economic Downturn
	Free November Teleclass 5+1: Six Top Techniques to Use in an Economic Downturn The economic news is worrying everyone. Even if your business hasn’t been hit by the slowing economy, it’s always good to know the best things to do when times are tough. In this 1-hour teleclass, we’ll be discussing six concrete, practical, and doable things that [...] ...»

Iâ€™m in the NY Times!
	I guess I’ve made it to the big times.Â See my mention in Paul Brown’s article, “How to Avoid Becoming a Failure Statistic” in NY Times from last week. ...»

If You Could Ask a Successful Small Business Owner One Questionâ€¦
	Several years ago I did a series of “Self-Employed Success” interviews. The purpose of these audio interviews was to ask successful small business owners how they defined success for themselves, as well as how they achieved it. While there certainly are some patterns among the interviewees, there are also some surprisingly dissimilar avenues to success. You [...] ...»

Ethical SEO
	If you’re new the world of search engine optimization (SEO), you may ask, “Is there really a difference between ethical SEO and unethical SEO?” Since the beginning of SEO we’ve divided SEO techniques into two camps: White Hat SEO (the good techniques) and Black Hat SEO (the bad techniques). Remember in old Western movies, the sheriff [...] ...»

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