Category: Everything Else

Email Marketing: How To (Still) Enjoy This Relevant Tool

When it comes to the relevancy of the major content marketing platforms, there’s enough information supporting each platform to make your head explode! If you’ve been paying attention to all of the hype, then you might have read that email marketing is dead. But there’s plenty of reasons why email marketing is just as relevant […]

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The P.T. Barnum School of Self Promotion

Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum was one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs. His strategies might be exactly what you need to grow your business. Barnum was a master at advertising and self promotion – so much so that modern business schools continue to study his techniques. He was one of the first adapters of many aspects of […]

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7 Ways How to Write Faster (and Why You Should)

Writing. Does just thinking about it make you want to pull your teeth out? Sometimes just sitting down at your desk to churn out words – not just any words, but good stuff people will want to read and share – is all it takes to bring on nightmare flashbacks to bad teachers and late-night […]

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8 Ways to Stop Being Afraid of Success

Have you ever been right on the verge of a major success and found that everything starts to go wrong? Mistakes suddenly happen out of nowhere, you procrastinate or make decisions you know are bad, or perhaps you say or do something stupid and eminently avoidable. And then, when your plans finally crash and burn, you feel […]

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The Scott Adams Guide to Business Success

The characters in the comic strip Dilbert are hardly a picture of happiness and success. They’re cynical and miserable, stuck in dead-end careers with no end in sight. So it might seem a surprise that the comic’s creator, Scott Adams, is a goldmine of advice when it comes to business success. A lot of his […]

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6 Winning Productivity Tips (Even If You Don’t Have Much Discipline)

Want to be more productive? Who doesn’t? That means focusing on the work that matters and finishing it without all the distractions most of us struggle with now. But there’s a big challenge to overcome: without the self discipline of a monk, even the most elegant productivity systems and strategies seem out of reach. If […]

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How to Build Credibility As a Freelancer (Even If You’re Just Starting Out)

If you want to freelance, you need clients to hire you. Simple, right? But many clients aren’t willing to do that unless you’ve proven yourself by working with other clients. This catch-22 scenario trips up a lot of budding freelancers. They apply for projects far and wide, spending a lot of time and energy without […]

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