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Five Tips for Freelancers Expanding Their Customer Base
One of the top challenges for freelancers, consultants and entrepreneurs is finding and keeping good customers. Growing a strong customer base can help you improve profitability and achieve your business goals. To build successful client relationships that will last, you’ll …
July 19, 2018 | Insights | Denise Gifford
For Serial Entrepreneurs, Success is About Adaptability
the key to repeated success is an openness to learn from mistakes
Serial entrepreneurs repeatedly begin new companies and are willing to take on the risk of new ventures. They are often thought of as successful, but just because they have a history of startups, does that really improve their chance of …
June 28, 2018 | Knowledge | Denise Gifford
Six Strategies Successful Businesspeople Use to Solve Problems
Problem-solving is about embracing complexity and understanding the problem
In business, as in life in general, problems crop up everywhere. Those who know how to think about problems proactively have an advantage, and problem-solving is arguably one of the most important skills a businessperson can learn. That’s true no …
June 14, 2018 | Insights | Helen S. Cooke
The Creative Process for Managing Projects
6 surprising similarities between project management and art
Sometimes people assume a project manager is simply an administrator who tracks the progress of a project team’s work against an established schedule. But that’s the role of a schedule administrator, not a project manager. Project management is actually, in …
May 17, 2018 | Insights | Denise Gifford
The Future of Work: Freelancers Need Specialized Skills
specialization paired with brand identity will help you compete
If you had just a few minutes to convince a potential customer that you’re the perfect person for their freelance opportunity, what would you say? Which skills make you unique? Do you know your own value, and can you express …