eCommerce Series: How Use Product Feeds To Expand Your Business
This is the first of a series of guest posts I’ve written specifically for CoreCommerce’s blog. When you first set up your store at CoreCommerce, you may wonder how to get initial traffics and sales to your store. After all if you’re a new business, potential customers who need your product don’t even know you exist. You...
Read more…20 Things To Do When You’re Not Coding
There has been so much going on with my freelance for the past month that I’ve had little time to breathe. The lines between my work and personal life have blurred even more as I’ve been reading several great business books and listening to business podcasts on my downtime, as well as working on a...
Read more…Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
It’s not often that I get excited about a business book. It just doesn’t happen, ever. That’s until I read “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” by Seth Godin and got blown away. I was pretty disappointed with his Purple Cow book, so I figured this one wouldn’t be so great either. So much to my surprise,...
Read more…Working Well With Other Freelancers To Expand Your Business
There comes a time in every freelancer’s career where you might decide that you need to expand your clientele or services, while still staying a one person business. While I believing that niching yourself into a certain type of client, industry or service can greatly improve your clientele and revenue; it’s also important to make use of...
Read more…Do You Need To Be An LLC Or Corporation?
When I was working at my first full-time job out of school, it wasn’t long before I was getting requests for freelance. I quickly learned that if you make over $600 per year in the U.S., you are required to report it on your taxes. When you are at this stage, you or your accountant...
Read more…How To Keep Your Drive Going While Freelancing
Every freelancer hits a wall in his or her business at least once in their lifetime. The wall could be one of several: a financial wall; a loss of clients wall; or the worst wall of all – the loss of the initiative, drive or will to keep working. I hit the initiative wall about...
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