Shout Out To All The Bizzy Women Out There!

My “Trialing is Good For You & Me” post got picked up by Bizzy Women, a new site for “empowering professional women, business women, and career women.”
Be sure to check it out here. Especially love the home page montage of “The Office” with my words underneath. Somehow it just works.

Hooking Your Freelance Self Up With Some WOW

Below are a few things that could have saved me some major hassle, not to mention temporary insanity meltdowns, when I started on my home office-in-a-box/freelance business.
It’s my hope that these words of wisdom (WOW) will also benefit those of you adjusting to life as solo entrepreneurs:

Invest In Your Physical Space: Part of the reason [...]

Wading in the Calm

After a few busy, hectic weeks of wedding mania, I’ve now settling back into the mundane routine of my day-to-day.
I’m not good with down time.
I prefer keeping a maddeningly Olympic-speed frenzied professional pace. It suits my quasi-Type A personality and affords me the mental stimulation to keep my brain cells from dying off at an [...]

The Upside of Social Networking?

Quote of the day:
What ever happened to human contact and the kind of gut instinct first impressions that only come from true face time? Sure, there are upsides to cyber-connections. You save postage by not having to mail out hundreds of résumés. You save on gas by not having to drive to dozens of interviews, [...]

Even Olympic Athletes Aren’t Perfect

The closing ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics are just around the corner and already I’m experiencing a bit of choked-up nostalgia about the thought of having to say goodbye to all the star athletes whose faces I’ve come to know and respect over the past two weeks (and who will most likely will go [...]

The Twitter Bug

Recently, BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy wrote about using Facebook to “fire up” your career and employing social networking tools as a means to build out your professional network. She mentions Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn as ripe resources to unearth potentially untapped contacts and network your way to gainful employment.
Sites like Facebook and LinkedIn may make [...]

Trialing is Good For You & Me

I’ve been living la freelancing vida loca lately and enjoying the grind quite a bit. Between web copywriting gigs and generating entrepreneurship content, I’ve kept myself busy enough to feel productively sane.
I’ve also benefited from a bit of “trialing.” It’s a term endeared to consultants and employers who’ve taken on enough stringers in their [...]