Regardless of the standard one follows, a good freelancer knows the ethical rules of the road and follows them at all times.
Flavor-of-the-week hype is great for bloggers and magazine writers — it pays their bills — but it merely enrages those of us who have grown weary of the overload.
Don’t just keep paying invoices for old providers. You probably aren’t getting the best deal, and there’s no reason to pay other people to provide you with nothing of any real value.
The community of journalists and assorted media types exploded last week after Arthur S. Brisbane, the public editor (ombudsman) for The New York Times, wrote a blog post titled “Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?”
A successful social strategy translates to dollars in your pocket, not in inflated Klout scores or vast hordes of Twitter followers who never read your tweets anyway. Focus on growing your business, one handshake at a time, and build the online infrastructure that works for you, not for your social media consultant.
Forrest Gump teaches us that life is like a box of chocolates. I disagree. Life is like a project, and holding fast to a clear PM methodology can mean the difference between success and failure in achieving your dreams.
Writing that presents concise ideas with authority trumps prose larded with passive constructions and weasel words. To give your own writing a shot of testosterone, avoid these six common weaknesses.
The future for newspapers, magazines and book publishers isn’t bright, but disaster is avoidable. If only the masters of the print domain summon the courage to change what they can, while they can.
Yeah, the market sucks. Ad reps still need to make a living. But deception and pressure tactics aren’t the way to go.
Few activities prompt vicious self-recriminations as readily as reading about the myriad successes of some hot young entrepreneur who’s made his first million by the age of 25 and remains happy, healthy and content as he trots the globe with a hottie draped on one arm and the boarding pass to his private jet clutched by the other. For an oh-so-recent example: Inc. Magazine’s November 2011 cover profile of Jared Heyman, the 33-year-old CEO of Infosurv who left for a year to amble around the world while others ran his business (Inc. helpfully provided several photos of Heyman’s chiseled shirtless torso, just to rub salt in the wound). Meanwhile, the 30- or 40-somethings among us, who sometimes worry whether we’ll be able to pay the rent at the end of the month, read these modern-day hagiographies and say: There, but for the indifference of God, should have gone I.
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