How to Become an Entrepreneur

The Best Of 20 Crowdsourced Solutions To Save Your Dysfunctional Organization

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ March 3, 2012 ⋅ 5 comments

A reader hit the ‘Contact Us’ button and asked a question about change management and organizational behavior. What Suzanne Whang asked was: The problem I see with us “over-40-ers” is […]

Believing In Yourself: How a 70-Year-Old Woman Came to Conquer The Retail World

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ January 5, 2012 ⋅ 23 comments

I draw huge inspiration from Jennifer Hudson’s weight loss. But my guy friend didn’t recognize her story. Instead, he said Charles Barkley was an inspiration for losing weight. So I […]

Homeward Bound vs. Cannot Go Home Anytime Soon

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ November 22, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Admit it: if you don’t recall sitting by the stereo (decades ago) with a Simon & Garfunkel album, playing and singing to tracks, then you’re not in my target market. […]

A Crown Jewel of Technical Writing Jobs: Freelance Medical Writer

By Diane Dolinsky-Pickar ⋅ November 11, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

You already know that as a freelancer you’re asked to do the work that on-staff people can’t or won’t do—the impossible assignments, in record time, completed with the grace of […]

The Fastest Way to Rise to Greatness

By Jonathan Mead ⋅ November 1, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

I always marvel at the way some people seem to rise from ground zero, to leading and dominating their market in a short amount of time. It seems as if […]

Got Initiative? Take More Initiative

By Jennifer Gresham ⋅ October 21, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Career changers and job seekers worry about getting their foot in the door. Freelancers wonder how they’ll get more clients. And ordinary workers everywhere are asking themselves: what can I […]

Desperately Seeking Funding? Ask Your Crowd

By Mrinalini Kamath ⋅ October 7, 2011 ⋅ One comment

When Regan Wann of Shelbyville, KY, decided that she wanted to expand her business Through the Looking Glass Tea Shop by moving to a larger location, she didn’t apply to […]

The 4 Best Online Business Solutions You’re Not Using Yet

By Glenn Geiger ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

There are 3,294,1097 online business services available to save you time and money. Here are the 4 best ones you haven’t heard of. And they’re free.

6 Big Ways Teaching for Free Pays Off

By Will Bachman ⋅ July 14, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Teaching for free can help you get everything from client leads and public speaking experience to a MacArthur Fellowship and having every parent in the world love you. Our guest poster, Will Bachman, explains how to get started with uber practical advice.

Stuck in the Past? 10 Advice Tips from the Ghost Whisperer

By Jessica Sitomer ⋅ June 10, 2011 ⋅ 6 comments

Melinda Gordon, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Ghost Whisperer, communicates with ghosts who can’t move on because of unfinished business from their past. The obvious message for those of us who don’t get the opportunity to communicate with spirits, is: If you don’t learn from the mistakes of your past, your future will give you more of what you don’t like in your present.