Got Accountability? Love It or Hate It; It’s Good for Business
We self-employed professionals are graced with mixed blessings around getting stuff done. No one is looking over our shoulder making us do the things we know we should. Hooray, there's no boss breathing down our necks! But also... Uh oh, that means we've got only...
To Get More Clients, Get REAL
For the past several years, I've been helping self-employed professionals build business with writing: articles, blog posts, ebooks, and more. To explain to them the type of editorial content that professionals need to write in order to attract and land clients, I...
Self-Employed Folks, You Can Do This
I often hear from self-employed professionals that they are struggling. Running a business is hard work. Marketing and sales can be uncomfortable or even scary. You frequently don't know where your next client is coming from. It can make you feel pessimistic, or even...
5 Steps to Build Your Business with Writing
To get clients as a self-employed professional, you must build the know-like-and-trust factor that makes people want to buy from you. You can increase their knowing with any sort of contact, exposure, or follow-up. When their exposure to you is positive, they start to...
Financial Relief for Self-Employed Professionals Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic
There's been plenty of media coverage about the widespread benefits provided by the American Rescue Plan (ARP). But many self-employed professionals and other small business owners don't realize how many new sources of relief they may be eligible for. Plus, there are...
Writing Can Be Hard — So What?
Before she wrote her memoir Wild, Cheryl Strayed penned an advice column under the pseudonym "Sugar." In answer to a letter from a self-described "writer who can't write," Cheryl replied, "Writing is hard for every last one of us... Coal mining is harder. Do you think...
Creating a Profit and Loss Forecast as a Self-Employed Professional (with Template)
You'll often hear or see the advice that you should create a profit and loss forecast for your business. In fact, you may have heard it from me. Forecasting how much you will earn and what expenses will be necessary is an essential step to set appropriate prices for...
Develop a Writing “Habit Trigger”
"I write every morning between 6-7 a.m.," says Honorée Corder, the author of You Must Write a Book and Prosperity for Writers. "There's an alarm to remind me at 5:58 a.m. (in case I need more coffee), and I set a second alarm for 7 a.m. I write until the second alarm...
Should You Stand Out or Fit In?
When you were growing up, it's a good bet that one or more of the adults in your life advised you not to stand out. Standing out, like showing off, causing trouble, or breaking the rules, was something that good boys and girls didn't do. Now that you're a business...
Deadlines Help You Write
Caitlin Moran is an English journalist and author who writes three columns per week and has published seven books -- so far. Her columns and books have won multiple awards. She's married, has two teenage children, and appears to post on Twitter 24/7. How the heck does...
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