I recently formed a partnership with a friend to launch Way More Living, a website designed to help people turn the second half of their lives into the best years yet. We’re just getting started,…
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Hiring Minors and Student Interns
Hiring students who are minors to work for you during the summer can be the perfect solution if you need extra help for the season. While it can be hard to find adults to fill…
Self-Employment and Microbusiness Statistics
Are you thinking about freelancing or some other type of full-time or part-time self-employment? Do you dream of owning a microbusiness that employees a few people in addition to yourself? Or do you have a…
How Content Marketing Became a Thing (and Why You Need to Be Doing It)
When I started working as a freelance writer many years ago, businesses and professionals never heard of content marketing. The term wasn’t coined until 1996. But today, the terms content and content marketing have become…
Content Creation and Marketing Guide: Tips and Strategies for Small Business
Your small business needs to create content and be a content marketer. This guide describes the role of content, the kind of content your business needs, and some ways to use content marketing to get…
How to Build a Personal Brand Without Being Too Self-Promotional
There’s no denying that personal branding is important in business. People like to do business with people they know, or who seem like people they know. That’s always been true. It’s why making one’s personal…
Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements for Small Businesses
If you are a small business owner with twenty or fewer full-time employees, and you are not a sole proprietorship, there are new federal reporting requirements that are likely to apply to you. The requirements…
How Many Businesses Use AI in 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic on social media, in business meetings, in classrooms, and even at some family gatherings this year. It’s been lauded as a boon to business productivity by some…
How To Fix Small Business Cash Flow Problems
How do you fix cash flow problems in a small business? Solving cash flow problems is a dilemma that many small business owners and self-employed face. Even when the rest of the economy seems OK,…
Timeless Startup Tips
I’ve been my own boss for more than 40 years. During those 40 years, I’ve written books for startups, built a small business content website that reached millions of people a year before another company…