Goodbye Corporate World

Sitting in an office is for the birds.

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Recent freelance convert Chris Phin gives an insight into going it alone – some of this may surprise you...

Yep, all of these. 

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Meditation Can Rebuild Your Brain's Gray Matter

Good for the soul; good for your brain.

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These 2 startups want to pay you for your content

Major Internet companies like Facebook and Twitter make a profit off your photos, life moments, and other shared content. But a new wave of startups want to let you earn a commission on your thoughts.

More places that want your content. 

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SEO in 2015 - new methods in optimizing content

Sean Jackson of Copyblogger recently said, SEO is dead. He continued, “not the practice, but the term.” Jackson felt, rightly so, that in recent years SEO had come to stand for the spammy, often unethical practices of sneaky “black-hat” SEO practitioners.

It’s all about content, content, content.

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Improved Benefits for Facebook Contractors | Facebook Newsroom

We're implementing a new set of standards on benefits for contractors and vendors who support Facebook.

Benefits for contractors? Yes, please.

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The 15 Best Freelance Websites to Find Jobs

Need extra cash? Let these sites know you're available -- and hungry.

I post from entrepreneur.com too much, but this is actually a good list.

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Tiny Music Royalties Add Up, Unexpectedly

The Internet is full of music, but not all of it generates income for composers and songwriters. Services that specialize in "micro-licensing" are helping to fix that.

Interesting service, Rumblefish, helps musicians and other artists collect and monetize.

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This Tool Calculates an Hourly Rate for Freelancers

A while back, we featured a handy online tool that will generate invoices for your freelance projects. Now, the company behind that tool has added another one to its repertoire: an hourly rate calculator.

This might be too number-y for me, but it could be a good way to figure out your rate. 

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Mindfulness Slashes Stress Levels In ICU By 40 Percent, Study Finds

It's hard to imagine a more stressful environment than a surgical intensive care unit, where events happen fast and decisions are literally a matter of life or death. Yet even in the ICU, new research

Mindfulness. Might be one of the most important elements of a happy, healthy life.

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The Art Of Self-Promotion: 6 Tips For Getting Your Work Discovered

Writer and author Austin Kleon shares some guidelines for promoting your work without spamming from his new book, Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share...

Mostly? Have a network and communicate, communicate, communicate.

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How to Find the Perfect Remote Working Setup for You

Since I started working remotely I’ve become more productive, learned to complete my work faster, and become better at prioritizing what I work on. I’ve also learned more about how I work, and when I work best.

Tips for remote working

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Do Not Go Into Advertising

Advertising is the industry that people who were not lucky enough to get actual "creative" jobs end up in. These people—creative people whose artistic or literary dreams did not work out, often due to economic forces far beyond their control—find themselves in a position in which they are obliged to use their creative talents for purely commercial ends. Selling soap, so to speak. This causes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. These people therefore expend quite a bit of time and effort justifying the position they find themselves in, in life. (As do we all!) Having justified their position to themselves, they seek to bolster their justification by attracting others like themselves into their same field. The more creative artists who do advertising for a living, the more of a real, justifiable, creative career it must be. They therefore use their considerable creative talents to sell the field of advertising itself, to their peers.

This.

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If You Want Greatness, Take Responsibility

Stop blaming outside factors for things that you mostly have control over.

This is the single most important thing I’m trying to do to move my life forward. It’s much harder than you might think. Everyone’s life is certainly affected by what has happened in the past. But at the end of the day, we need to take responsibility for the choices we make despite our past or external influences.

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#photooftheday #strong #life #friday #quote #quotes #quoteoftheday #business #branding #brand #leadership #leader (at Strategic Revolution)

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3 Reasons Customers Don't Care About Your Content

You'll have a much easier time engaging your customers if you recognize the following mistakes that many brands make.

In my opinion, the most important thing about content is that it’s relevant and useful. 

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The Daily Word Counts of 39 Famous Authors

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OneLiners.co is Like 99designs for Company Taglines

When you spend days and nights working on a startup, it can be hard to condense the core of your product down to a handful of words. For frustrated entrepreneurs…

Hmm. Not sure I’d do this. Crowdsource my tagline? What if someone stole it?