It doesn’t really matter why you chose the non-traditional way of making money by freelancing. If you’re still doing it, you’ve definitely found out it’s a tough business. And one of the reasons is that employers often expect to find cheap services from people in need of money and with a lot of time on their hands – which is almost never the case.
Here are some of the reasons why you should never accept less than what your work is worth from an employer and never compromise. [Read more…]
It has been a longstanding debate: to use an Oxford comma or not. Personally, I don’t, but that’s the reporter in me. Many grammar experts would disagree and say the Oxford comma should always be used in formal writing.
Asking if you should create a blog for your business is a little like asking Walt Disney, if he were alive today, if any money can be made by drawing a cartoon mouse.
There’s a reason why blogs went from 0 to 150 million in 20 years.
In fact, here are at least five solid reasons: [Read more…]
Working from home. It’s the dream, right? Never again will you have to wake up and drag yourself to the office. Since you’re around the house all the time, your family obligations will be a cinch to take care of. When you work remotely as a freelancer, it’s much easier to manage your work/life balance, right?
The unfortunate reality is that working from home is hard work, indeed. Sure, you don’t have to wake up and drag yourself to the office—but that convenience comes with a price. In our quest to be successful, sometimes we create the inverse scenario: the office never leaves us. As it turns out, your work/life balance may actually be more difficult to manage when your workplace and home are one and the same. It’s hard to keep up with things when you work all hours of the day and night, only sometimes finding time to eat and sleep. [Read more…]
“There is no such thing as bad publicity,” as the saying goes.
However, there is such a thing as a PR nightmare.
This bad dream is the type that, even after years have passed, remains in your memory like carpet stain. Try as you might scrub it out from your mind, it will always be there as a reminder of this one terrible thing that happened a long time ago.
In this post, we shall return to PR mishaps that have left an indelible mark in PR history.
Keeping up with the theme of the site, we will feature PR nightmares that took place in this strange social networking site called Twitter.
