Growing up in the U.S., we hear about the stresses that people encounter during certain holiday seasons – Xmas, New Years, Valentine’s Day. People experience social anxiety from dysfunctional family relationships or loneliness. But in an adult Jew’s life, the month of Tishrei, laden with Holidays and fasts, immerses us into a G-d conscious existence, …
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How to Close the Deal
An interested JobShuker is struggling with selling his products and just can’t get visitors beyond the HERE I AM phase.He writes: My question to you – if you can help – is how does one move from people reading your article to actually making them contact one? I find that people are reading the articles. …
Lessons from 1978
Taken from http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/1978-11-01/Mother-Types-at-Home.aspx Marsha’s Home Typing Service enables her to spend time with her family (and save babysitting fees!) as she earns a living doing clerical work. You, too, can be a successful mother, wife, businesswoman, and breadwinner … without ever leaving your home! -MARSHA K. STRONG – If you’re a young mother who’s struggling …
Unexpected rewards through “Good Deeds”
Do you know who Nobel, of the Nobel Prize, is? Well I didn’t. Until I came across this article Doing good can lead to rewards you never considered. It’s an interesting article, but I don’t think it even touches the surface of the subject. I hope to make a few points to illustrate how you …
Getting through the hard times
There are times is an entrepreneur’s life when the emotions build up. His waking and sleeping hours are full of anxiety, stress, desperation, doubt, fear, and so on. Of course, these emotions under control can be useful to motivate the entrepreneur to succeed. But when they take over, it becomes hard to both focus on …
Projects you can Outsource
Elance, another general project outsourcing, produced some fine articles that I’d like to share with anyone who thinks they might have work to outsource, but isn’t sure. Top 100 Projects You Can Outsource Everyone seems to be talking about Everyday Outsourcing these days. Here’s a list of 100 projects to help you get started. 25 …
Israel as a viable outsourcing option: barriers to entry
I had an unpleasant e-mail exchange with a remote employer recently. Unprovoked, she told me all about the woes she had gone through trying to fill some phone sales from home positions. Here are some of he complaints she had. I’m listing these here in an attempt to educate future applicants for any position with …
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Interesting Reads
I simply don’t have time to write up on each of these articles, so here’s my 1 minute run-down. Brazil sees piracy as marketing tool rather than property theft This article doesn’t say much besides pointing to a section of the documentary, Good Copy Bad Copy. It’s relevant to the latest Radiohead Internet-only release, which …
Should I list prices on my profile?
I can’t remember how I came to Blake Snow’s blog, Smooth Harold. While taking some time to read and comment on some blogs on my watch list, I noticed a few great recent posts by Blake. The first is about pricing. Without making pricing a separate and required field on the "Edit Profile" form, something I’ve …
Yet more Freelancing Advice
Taken from FreelanceSwitch. Collected freelance advice from their forums: Unnikrishna Whether it is a small job or a big project, before i start working on it i realised i have to get a written creative brief approved (bullet points will do). If the client does not know how to brief me then after the first …