Posted in New Business Issues, Resources to Check Out, The Writing Life, tagged entrepreneur, starting a business, writing on October 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Since I quit my job this summer to start writing professionally, one of the coolest things I’ve landed is a gig as a columnist for a local San Diego monthly newspaper.
The Espresso is distributed for free in coffee houses and the like in San Diego. I’m not getting paid, but it’s got a circulation of [...]
Posted in Avoid My Mistakes, Resources to Check Out, The Writing Life, tagged blog, blogging, business on October 12, 2007 | 10 Comments »
I can’t figure out how to work a trackback.
Do I put code somewhere? Does it do it automatically? What the heck is a URI? The only “pingbacks” I seem to get are on the posts I write where I refer to my other posts. Isn’t that kind of incestuous?
I have no idea what CSS is. [...]
Posted in New Business Issues, Resources to Check Out, Tech Help for Small Businesses, Watching the budget, tagged business, free, technology on October 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Since leaving my jet-setting, executive-type sales/marketing position at a technology company, I’ve become ultra cheap.
Not just kind of cheap. I mean really, almost insanely cheap.
Example 1: at first I budgeted 3 trips a week to my favorite coffee shop, but then I discovered that I can buy 25 tea bags and make chai at home [...]
Posted in New Business Issues, Procrastination, Resources to Check Out, The Writing Life, tagged business, cold calling, Peter Bowerman on October 8, 2007 | 8 Comments »
This weekend, I spent time at my favorite coffee shop reading one of my favorite copywriting business gurus. Peter Bowerman’s The Well-Fed Writer is one of the best guides for becoming a freelance writer. I’ve gotten a handful of really good gigs from my first 50 days as a professional freelancer, plus I’ve got a [...]
Posted in Resources to Check Out, tagged business, finding a job, resumes on October 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I used to teach resume writing at a couple of colleges, and many of my friends ask me to look over their resumes as they start yet another job search. Here are the top comments I make on other people’s resumes.
Note: Keep in mind that I’m a woman who quit her job before having another [...]
Posted in Avoid My Mistakes, New Business Issues, Resources to Check Out, Watching the budget, tagged 4-hour workweek, books, business on October 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Last night I eschewed my blogging responsibilities (meaning I haven’t written back to the people who wrote kind comments lately). I had been in my house alone for two days, spending almost every hour in front of the computer.
I had to get outside for a while. No, really. I was scaring the cat.
I ended up, [...]
Posted in Avoid My Mistakes, New Business Issues, Resources to Check Out, The Writing Life, tagged blogging, blogs, business, personality on October 2, 2007 | 13 Comments »
I keep thinking about my former boss and company, trying to picture the president blogging, discussing how the company is growing or the challenges to meeting payroll or the desire to find the perfect video converter to make vodcasts.
Never. In a million years. Never.
Marketing Guru (and, of course, good friend here on Avenue Z — [...]
Posted in Procrastination, Resources to Check Out, Tech Help for Small Businesses, Watching the budget, tagged 2-minute timer, business, David Allen, productivity on October 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ok, so I did a search to see if I could download a 2-minute timer that didn’t cost $10 like the one from David Allen’s website. I found a couple that required .Net Framework, and since I couldn’t figure out what that is, I created my own little timer in PowerPoint. Then I downloaded a [...]
Posted in Avoid My Mistakes, Procrastination, Resources to Check Out, Tech Help for Small Businesses, tagged business, David Allen, productivity on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Another of my new business resolutions was to keep my Outlook Inbox crystal clean at all times. I told myself that I wouldn’t go to bed if I had not finished the things that had come in that day – either filing things or answering people or setting up tasks that couldn’t be done right [...]
Posted in New Business Issues, Resources to Check Out, The Writing Life, Watching the budget, tagged business, Well-Fed Writer, writing on September 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
It’s 8:14 p.m. here in San Diego, and I just sent my one-page companion flyer to my clients on the East Coast. That was the last thing on my To-Do List from this morning, except I didn’t get to planning the next marketing campaign.
What I did for 13 hours:, wrote two articles and a one-page [...]
