Personal finance tips from a money expert
Deciding you’re ready to buy a house is one of the bigger life decisions you’ll make. It’s a big commitment financially, and emotionally. When you buy a home, you’re basically deciding that a particular lifestyle a home provides you with now is one you’ll still be happy with years later. If you want to avoid…
LinkedIn can prove a simple place to stay in touch with former colleagues, connect with others in your industry, find opportunities and stay on pulse with the hot topics relevant to your profession–but it probably has a few norms you don’t know, that can beef up LinkedIn presence. I sought the advice of several LinkedIn…
Your high school years may be well behind your, but in the world of office politics, the dynamics of popularity are still alive and well. Though the rules of engagement have changed (having a pair of designer jeans or boyfriend who is captain of the football team doesn’t mean much in the working world), the…
Remember that career test your high school guidance counselor provided to help guide you in choosing the right college major, and potential career path? It likely asked a series of questions about your interests, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses to determine where you’d likely be best suited in the working world. Regardless of whether…
Remember that career test your high school guidance counselor provided to help guide you in choosing the right college major, and potential career path? It likely asked a series of questions about your interests, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses to determine where you’d likely be best suited in the working world. Regardless of whether…
I’m not a just a freelance writer. I’m a small business owner, too. Like you, I’m working the hustle, and trying to find enough hours in the week to manage the business needs of my clients, while growing my own businesses. Though you may think I have a bit of a leg up when it…
As a freelance writer, my challenge is to write content that leads to real results for my clients, whether that means simply boosting search engine relevance, increasing engagement on social media, or producing work that gets published in industry trades, and potentially, syndicated on major media outlets. When you’ve got a compelling topic or really…
Blogs are the great conundrum of web marketing. They can be established in minutes, yet they take real commitment, and habitual behavior, to build in a way that is truly effective. Most of us experience those days when you have an energy overdrive that makes you want to write, write, and write some more. But…
Like anyone who has a website that shows up in search, I’m constantly sent solicitations from self-proclaimed “SEO experts” promising to improve my site’s search engine rankings. While there are certainly some SEO experts out there, I’m of the belief that anyone who sends you an unsolicited email claiming to be one of them, isn’t!…
Getty Images recently announced an Embedded Viewer feature that gives bloggers — and anyone who runs a site for “editorial, noncommercial uses” — legal access to publish millions of its images, free of charge. Since the announcement some sites have widely (and incorrectly) reported j how the feature can be legally used, and by whom.…