TweetShareBossholes. Lol. After a near panic attack a couple of weeks ago, I realized that I am seriously slacking on the side business. Granted, this is not completely my fault. I work at my day job…a lot. It was to the point where I had no control over my time and it was driving me [...] Read more »
Top 7 Helpful Interviews for Jumping Into Entrepreneurship
TweetShareSo I never actually shared this information, but I received my first official business cards in the mail a few weeks ago. At that moment it set in the my side hustle was for real. I had spent months building a portfolio and learning the ropes, and although I did eventually take a plunge into [...] Read more »
The Smart College Grad: 5 Ways to Make Extra Money in Your 20s
TweetShare The Bad News Whether we like it or not, we have to come to terms with the fact that our generation is being faced with multi-faceted financial problems. We are being forced to tackle a horrible job market, non-paying internships have replaced entry level jobs, entry level jobs don’t pay enough to meet our [...] Read more »
5 Ways to Be a Blogging Rock Star
TweetShareImage via ~C4Chaos This is a guest post by Dain Lewis from The Smart College Grad. A very cool blogger with some big ideas. There seems to be a common frustration that occurs with many bloggers just starting out. Bloggers are saddened and sometimes frustrated that they don’t have people commenting or following their blogs. [...] Read more »
7 Tips for Starting Your Own Freelance Business
TweetShareI received an email from Mahriana over at the Unclammed Black Pearl telling me that she wants to start her own freelance green home staging business (Congrats, girl!). She then asked me for some advice on how to run a freelance business and I immediately wrote a very long email with some things I have [...] Read more »
Intro to Freelancing Part 3: How to Deal With Clients
TweetShareThis is a guest post from Phillip over at The Lazy Pixel. Phillip is not only a creative 20-something blogger, he is also an entrepreneur who runs his own his own IT business Invisibility.net. The customer is always right… sometimes. When you are providing a service, be it freelance writing, public relations or IT technical, [...] Read more »
Why I Am Not Made for Cubicles and Resources for Avoiding Them
TweetShareImage via ste3ve I have never liked cubicles. Ever since I was a little girl and would go with my mom to her government job I have had an absolute abhorrence toward cubicles. The entire building looked like a depressing lab rat maze and the workers all looked like equally unhappy zombies. In fact, although [...] Read more »
The Book Every Freelancer, Part-Timer, and the Self Employed Individual Should Read
TweetShareWhen I started freelance writing a few months ago I had no idea what I was doing. The only thing I had was my laptop and the written word. Eventually I started to get the hang of things like managing my time, how to do research quickly and efficiently, and figuring out which websites actually [...] Read more »
Intro to Freelancing Part 2: How (and where) to Start
TweetShareIn Part 1 of this series, I discussed some of the things you should know before embarking on a freelancing journey, now I’m actually going to talk to you about how and where to start. If you are cool with what to expect and have set up a plan, then you are ready to actually [...] Read more »
Intro to Freelancing Part 1: 10 Things You Need to Know Before Starting a Freelancing Career (and a free template!)
TweetShare Image via Ed Yourdon I have been getting inquiries over at 20sb and on this blog about how I started writing for money and keep promising that I will share. Well, I’m going to start answering some of your questions…RIGHT NOW. I am going to start off by saying that although I have encountered [...] Read more »
