Getting started with online marketing means deciding between two types of business. Will you offer a service that helps others? In other words, will you get paid for doing work and interacting with clients? Or will you create products and sell them to others? Today we will explore getting started by offering a service. For […]
Career Advice and Opinions
Career Coaching Article: Ten things to do When You Really, Really Hate your Job
Do you dread getting up and going to work every day? 1. Begin focusing on what you want instead of how much you want to escape. When you find yourself sharing the latest horror story, stop in mid-sentence and say, “What I want to have is…” 2. Create an image that describes you in your […]
Work-Life Balance: Realistic?
Recently I came across someone else’s blog post on the topic of life balance. The author emphasized the need to be sure all areas of your life are working, using the analogy of a car: if one part of the car isn’t working, eventually the whole car dies. For instance, you’ll soon be having problems […]
Age Discrimination? Not this time.
Yesterday’s New York Times included its popular section, The Workologist. This time the Workologist tackles a reader’s question that appear age-related. It’s not. Read the original here. I have long been passionate about age-discrimination. I can sniff it out like an energetic bloodhound. But I also believe we need to stop defining ourselves by age. […]
Making Changes, One Step At A Time
I’ve been working out for a long time – most of my adult life. In fact, most people who meet me today assume I was a tomboy as a child. Today it’s rare to hear words like “tomboy.” Girls who play sports are athletically inclined, just like boys who play sports. But that doesn’t matter because, […]
Your LinkedIn Profile: Be a human being!
A really good article from Forbes – click here for more. Excerpt: “If you write your LinkedIn profile in the language I call Corporate Speak Zombie language, you’re going to sound like every other battle drone in the Empire’s battalion. You won’t sound like yourself.” I don’t agree with all the examples – for instance, […]