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  • A Good Story and Storytelling Captivate and Create Magic for the Listeners

     Everyone, no matter what age, loves a good story. Stories have been around as long as humans could communicate with each other. Our great books of wisdom are filled with stories.More

  • Attention: Entrepreneurs -- Is Your Business Name Working?

     During the past decade, I have noticed the prevalence of name changing, as I am sure you have also. Several of the organizations with which I am involved have chosen new and different names that they feel represent them and their missions more descriptively. Companies who were ready for a new start have changed names to reflect a new attitude, direction and/or focus.More

  • Your Free Agent Career -- It's the Perfect Time to Apply Some CPR

     This is always a good time of year in which to reflect on where we've been and where we are going. It is also the perfect opportunity to plan ways to infuse our careers as free agents with extra "life." So, let's give them some CPR.More

  • A "Portfolio Career" - Is It for You?

     It is believed by career forecasters that before long people who work one full-time job will be in the minority. As management guru Peter Drucker put it, "Corporations once built to last like pyramids are now more like tents - You can't design your life around a temporary structure." In this article I discuss "Portfolio Careers" -- what they are, the pros and cons, where to find one, and when to start building one.More

  • A Freelance Lifestyle - The Cons that Should Be Considered

     If you are dissatisfied with your current career, you may be considering pursuing a freelance lifestyle. I love my life of a free agent and independent professional, but I would be remiss if I didn’t share some of the cons.Taking the Risk.More

  • A Freelance Lifestyle - The Pros of Pursuing One

     A freelance lifestyle isn’t for everyone. But, if you are dissatisfied with your current career, you might want to try it. Here are some of the pros that work for me in my freelance lifestyle:Flexibility and Autonomy (being in control).More

  • Is Volunteering Valuable for Furthering Your Career?

     Because one of the free agent’s biggest challenges is finding enough work, I decided to write about the incredible value of volunteering. I thought back, and can confirm that close to 90% of the work I do and have done in the past has come my way because of a volunteer connection. Start by joining a group or organization in the field of your interest and then volunteer your talents.More

  • Free Agents -- Feedback is Important If You Want Success and Happy Clients

     Even if we don’t always want to hear it, feedback can strengthen our businesses. In this article I discuss the value of feedback, how to get it and act on it, and when to give it.I learned the value of feedback while working in the restaurant business.More

  • Attention Entrepreneurs -- Let's Discuss the Value of Feedback

     As entrepreneurs, we have to go above and beyond satisfaction-- so we need to find out what our customers' perceptions of us and our business actually are. Then, we must change their perceptions from dissatisfaction or mere satisfaction to pure loyalty. We have to ask them for feedback.More

  • Attention Free Agents -- Is It Time to Get Rid of Your Superstitions?

     One of my favorite writers, Seth Godin, wrote, “A superstition is ‘a compulsion to take an action that has no influence on the desired outcome.’ … we don't want to change our behavior, regardless of how much data we see to support a new and better alternative. It's easier to be superstitious …"Reading that, I realized that in this tricky and, sometimes, disappointing economy, it is important for free agents to do away with their superstitions by becoming more flexibleLet's examine our modus operandi.More