Since I started my freelance business, I’ve loved the freedom, but it also comes at a high cost, which is why most people don’t start their own businesses. I’ve struggled with the transition to working from home, social isolation, difficulty prioritizing for myself, lack of motivation, the slowing economy, and more. It’s not easy, but if I succeed, it will [...]

Ever since I discovered Google Custom Search, I’ve been using it to pinpoint the exact kind of awesome articles, tips and tricks I’m looking for much quicker, and to increase my efficiency and decrease the time it takes me to find answers or write up blog posts. Personally, I’m a big fan of productivity lists, how-to’s, and life hacks, so [...]

Ladies, do you hope to find a millionaire husband? Do you want to marry rich? That’s what my friend Alicia Dunams set out to do in her mid-20′s, but she instead found herself on a journey of personal growth and self-actualization. Alicia is the author of Amazon best-selling book Goal Digger: Lessons Learned from the Rich Men I Dated, a [...]

Over at CodyMcKibben.com in November, I wrote about my experiments with freelancing, and about my desire to shift my career so that my work is not just means to pay the bills, but more of a way to express my passions and continue to increase my personal growth. See the post here. In response to my thoughts on career development, [...]

Dan Schawbel is a marketing consultant, entrepreneur, and personal branding spokesman. He is a strong self-marketer who has made a name for himself first by writing the Personal Branding Blog, then administering the Personal Brand Awards and publishing Personal Branding Magazine, and was recently featured in an article for the Fast Company Expert Blogs called “The Young Turks of Personal [...]

I came across an awesome article about innovative partnerships and strategic alliances in Business 2.0 the other day. Melanie Haiken talks about the need for medium-growth companies stuck between buzzing startups and huge corporations to build strong relationships not only with their employees (although very important), but also with their competitors and with the community. This is becoming a necessity! [...]

Anyone who was present for Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at this year’s Macworld conference in San Francisco (or anyone who watched online), in which he introduced the iPhone as a groundbreaking new product, knows how captivating a speaker the Apple CEO is. And anyone who saw the long lines in anticipation of the iPhone’s release date knows how effective the [...]

Part three in Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship series at IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com: Alexandra Levit is the author of They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World, and a regular corporate and university speaker on Gen-Y employees. She is the founder and president of Inspiration@Work career consultancy and also serves as a VP at Edelman public [...]