How Price Trapping Yourself Can Destroy Your Confidence
Jul12

How Price Trapping Yourself Can Destroy Your Confidence

When you’re first starting out on your own and don’t have much of a customer base your first thought is to probably lower your prices to reel in more customers. While this may seem logical at first, it actually may be revealing a large hole in your confidence. You Don’t Know How Much You’re Really Worth Back when I first started out on my own I was doing everything I could to bring in new clients. Putting bids in on freelance...

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How to Effectively Manage Your Virtual Team
Jul10

How to Effectively Manage Your Virtual Team

If you’re anything like me, sometimes it can be a little difficult to keep your employees on task without physically overseeing their work. While email may be sufficient for most small projects and a small numbers of employees many of us need to incorporate other tools that can keep our team productive. Organize Project Activities A great tool to keep projects organized and on track is Trello. It allows you and your team to delegate...

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3 Ways That Working From Home Can Kill Your Productivity
Jul10

3 Ways That Working From Home Can Kill Your Productivity

If you work from your home you know how difficult staying on task throughout the day can be. Children, spouses, and video games can all be distractions, leaving you with not much to report on at the end of the day. Losing Focus When working from home you are likely to face much more distractions than you would in an office setting. Picking up after the kids, doing the laundry, running errands and cooking for your family are all...

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Reports of Falling Entrepreneurship in the US Not as Bad as They Seem
Jun24

Reports of Falling Entrepreneurship in the US Not as Bad as They Seem

Recently, there have been numerous reports floating around the internet that are showing the decline of entrepreneurship in the United States, mainly within the technology sector. While these reports may be some cause for alarm, how credible are they really? Being Vigilant About the Data In February of 2014, the Ewig Marion Kauffman Foundation published a report stating decline of job creation within the tech sector as a whole. While...

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