Category: Entrepreneur

Tips for Increasing Home Office Productivity

February 13, 2012 | By
Tips for Increasing Home Office Productivity

Operating a home-based business can be more exhausting than commuting to a job. Using a few of the readily available tools and services will increase productivity. Home-based Business Running a home-based business has its advantages and its drawbacks. It’s something akin to parenting. It’s fulfilling and rewarding, but also very difficult to take time off. [...]

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Make Money as a Blogger

November 18, 2011 | By
Make Money as a Blogger

If you’re new to blogging and don’t quite understand the ins and outs yet, you have two choices. You can either take the time to learn by trial and error or you can purchase a tool that explains blogging basics such as how to set one up a blog, gain traffic, and earn money. Either [...]

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Now is The Best Time for Online Writers

August 21, 2011 | By
Now is The Best Time for Online Writers

The internet is a ravenous content eating beast. If you’re a writer looking to earn money online, you could not have chosen a better time to get started. According to the Pingdom website , in 2010, there were 1.97 billion internet users (a 14% increase from the previous year) and 255 million websites. Of those [...]

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Freelance Writing Tax Tips

April 25, 2011 | By
Freelance Writing Tax Tips

Here’s a tidbit of information for freelance writers and small business owners. This information isn’t so much a tip on how to increase your writing speed or how to find new clients. It more has to do with the accounting end of the freelance writing business. Most freelance writers are in the writing business to [...]

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How to Populate Your New Niche Blog with Quality Content

March 27, 2011 | By
How to Populate Your New Niche Blog with Quality Content

Niche bloggers and webmasters alike run into the same problem of finding ways to populate the site with engaging content. There are a few solutions to this problem. If the site owner has online writing experience and is familiar with keywords, search engine optimization and writing tightly focused content, then she can write all of [...]

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How to Earn $100 a Day Writing Online

January 13, 2011 | By
How to Earn $100 a Day Writing Online

With a little pre planning and some hard work, you can earn $100 a day writing online. For some it happens quicker than others, but bottom line, it will happen as long as you plant the right online writing seeds, cultivate it and continue to water the seeds. Here’s how to work towards earning $100 [...]

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Becoming a Licensed Insurance Producer in Maine

January 7, 2011 | By
Becoming a Licensed Insurance Producer in Maine

The Maine Bureau of Insurance requires its insurance professionals to pass the state licensing exam in order to transact insurance business for a fee. Insurance professionals in Maine have an option of three different categories of insurance licenses; a producer license, consultant license and an adjuster’s license (there are subcategories therein). Maine Insurance Pre-Licensing Education [...]

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Steps for Becoming an Alaska Insurance Broker

October 6, 2010 | By
Steps for Becoming an Alaska Insurance Broker

In the state of Alaska, the Alaska Division of Insurance is a governing authority that determines the rules and regulations for licensing insurance agents. As such, they offer following types of insurance licenses: All Lines Property/Casualty Life Surety Independent Adjuster Surplus lines Viatical Settlement Broker Viatical Settlement Representative Completing the Insurance Application To begin the [...]

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Online Freelance Writing – So Many Sites, How do I Choose?

September 8, 2010 | By
Online Freelance Writing – So Many Sites, How do I Choose?

There has never been a better time than now to become an online freelance writer. Online writing opportunities are everywhere. As a matter of fact, with so many opportunities it’s very easy to get overwhelmed and do nothing. Fight Writing Analysis Paralysis There are several reasons why people fall into analysis paralysis. Here are just [...]

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Non Writing Qualities of Successful Online Writers

August 26, 2010 | By
Non Writing Qualities of Successful Online Writers

If you want to be successful as an online freelance writer, there are a few personality traits that you need to develop. The more that you develop these trades the better and easier it will be to earn money online as a freelance writer (by the way, these traits also work for off line publications [...]

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