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Five Ways to Kill It as a Freelancer
It used to be that if you described yourself as “freelance,” people didn’t take you seriously. Not anymore. A recent survey by the consulting firm MBO partners estimates that by 2020, at least half of the country’s workforce will have gone... ➡
How to Grow Your Business in 2013
What does it mean to grow your business in the 21st century? Entrepreneurs tend to spend a lot of time thinking about how to get started and how they want their companies to look when they're "successful"—whether that’s a big office or dozens of... ➡
Small Biz Does Good, Locally
As in most American towns, it’s hard to get around Cambridge, Maryland, without a car. But not everyone owns their own vehicle. So three years ago, LaAngela McCoy, 33, bought a cab with savings from her full-time job at a local bank, hired a... ➡
How She Rose to the Top
Whether you've started your own business or you’re part of a larger company, climbing the executive ladder requires both team spirit and certain entrepreneurial backbone. That’s what Anna Stern discovered when she decided to join Tri-North... ➡
The Mystique of the Mean Girl
Mean girls get ahead. Nice girls don’t get rich. The bitch in the corner office. All those old clichés about women with power: Do they hold a grain of truth? Certainly, über-successful, nasty women dominate TV (hello, Kelly Cutrone), and one... ➡
Breaking Free of My Golden Handcuffs
One survey found that more than two-thirds of workers have no plans to leave their job—yet nearly 60 percent say they're dissatisfied with it. I was at my job for 10 years, and over time, my company’s culture became abusive; harassment was a... ➡
Know Your Clients: A Gold Mine
Amanda Steinberg asks Ramit Sethi, founder of I Will Teach You to Be Rich, about creating a profitable customer base. Why don’t more people start businesses? Most people spend their time on fake business work, like creating a website, getting on... ➡
Document Your Agreements
If I can point to the one thing that probably led to over $1,000,000 worth of mistakes that I've made in my businesses (and I have the debt to prove it), it was that I spent little, if any, time documenting agreements. Documents, records, and... ➡
