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With all the things on your to-do list, writing a business blog never seems to be the priority. But if you’re struggling to keep clients coming to you, then a business blog could be the answer you need to let your content do some legwork for you. To attract people to you and your services or products, you have to be producing content online that draws them in, helps them out and keeps you top of mind.
It’s December of 2019, it’s not the end of the world. I think we all learned about how silly we could be in 1999, when we thought all computers would just stop working and the economy would come to a grinding halt at midnight.
Newsflash: The only difference between December 31, 2019 and January 1, 2020? A few hours.
I actually found myself a bit embarrassed as I was explaining how I shifted gears and became an editor and then a writer, before deciding to do more technical work. I felt like admitting that I enjoyed something creative was a chink in my technical expert armour.
There’s something heavy on my heart this week that I want to share. I realized and felt what it was like to have mentors in my corner, cheering for my success and pushing me out of my comfort zone, up-levelling to where I belong, with the help of people who have known me for over a decade.
Do you ever start a piece of work and then after an hour or two get stuck and start to think - I can’t do this? Self-sabotage sets in and, for me, I begin saying to myself: “What made me think that someone like ME could actually accomplish this?”
I only realized how underpaid I was after I left my 9-to-5 job and started to open up with people about what they make, what their experience level was, and what the industry standard dictated. Now, I’m in a position, as a freelancer, to start asking for what I’m worth and choosing to work for and with people that respect what I bring to the table.
There’s only one way to do that: start talking shop with your freelancing colleagues.
Addictive behaviours take you away from pain and give you a superficial dose of dopamine to make you feel better. Some people drink, some people gamble, others scroll mindlessly in Facebook and Instagram.
One day a week to stay off social media has been totally doable and easy to fit into my schedule without serious FOMO. Yes, social media is necessary for my job - I literally write social media content for others and I share about what I’m doing in my business. But, I do not have to be on it all the time to see the benefits of sharing what I’m up to.
Unless you’re a copywriter, like me, the last thing you want to do as your editing your podcast is write the show notes. To make the process much less painful for you, I’ve come up with a framework that you can run with.
Life is a funny thing. You can work and work and work. But your health isn’t something you can control, and often if forces you to shift gears and suddenly look at things in a different light.
Instead of spending as much time as I did in the planning and research phase, you can use this template to launch your podcast quickly and with very minimal investment.
On this week’s podcast I talked with my friend Karen Calder about what I means to be employed by someone else. We both spent years as employees, and then branched out on our own. So we’ve experienced both sides of the coin (pun intended).
This week was a trial run at focusing solely on writing and ditching the editing. I decided to do this because I was feeling stretched too thin, and I was frustrated that I didn’t have the mental capacity to focus on my own creative projects.
Before you sit down at your laptop to update your resumé, you should know that a few things have changed. Besides modernizing the format of your resumé and including all your latest achievements, you should first remove 3 things.
Here’s the top 3 things that you need to ditch in your resumé update and why.
The personal statement is a key piece of your university application, and one that often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This piece of writing is your chance to sell yourself to the university of your dreams. It’s your only real opportunity to talk yourself up and explain why you are such a catch on your university application.
So here are my top three tips for a rocking personal statement to get your university application to the top of the pile!
It’s a little bit like solving a mystery. There’s always a reason why there are issues in correlation. You may not figure it out for months after the project, but it’s always there and it’s always logical. The trick is that you have to be open-minded enough to find that piece of information.
This blog will help you to avoid multiple rounds of edits between you and your supervisor. It will also prevent your paper from rejected by the engineering journal, again. By ensuring that you correct these technical writing mistakes, your document will be more polished and much more likely to be read, accepted and published.
