Freelancer Tips
The Results of the $20,000 Passive Income Challenge
Monday, February 23rd, 2009Last February, Dave Navarro and I put each other to a challenge… he put my ebook on how to start a freelance business to the test in a Freelance Smackdown to see if he could make an extra $1,000-$2000 per month in his spare time. Within a month, he had made that goal. Then I […]
How I Dug Myself Out Of The Lowest Pits in My Life
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008There was a time when I was so broke that I actually ate donuts out of a trash bin behind a store that my boyfriend and I found while walking back to our squat (homeless camp) at the beach. Not joking. To my credit, they were double bagged in a clear garbage bag. (Though this […]
Challenge: Stop Existing And Start Living An Amazing Life
Monday, February 25th, 2008We have one single chance to live our lives - just one. Why should we waste even a single moment heading down a path that isn’t what we truly desire?
For much of my life, I’ve been so preoccupied with just making ends meet, that I haven’t had a lot of leftover energy to spend on […]
How I Ditched My Job and Never Had To Come Crawling Back
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008The relationship I had with my job before I ditched it was bittersweet. I loved my job, but it was sucking the life out of me. There was one time where I actually fell asleep sitting up at my desk while in the middle of a face to face conversation with someone! […]
How I Stopped Listening To Experts And Started Making Money
Monday, January 14th, 2008When I first started in business for myself, I was utterly depressed when reading all of the “how to” information out there about what it takes to start a business. The common knowledge about what it would take to become successful seemed like it would take much more time and money than I had.
I […]
5 Things I Had to Unlearn to Become Self Made
Monday, December 31st, 2007When I went into business for myself, I knew there would be an ‘unlearning’ process - and I was excited to discover just how deep the rabbit hole would go. To find out, I decided to take things to the extreme.
I relocated from my very fast-paced world in downtown San Diego to an extremely […]
9 Ways to Drastically Increase Your Perceived Value
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007I wouldn’t be surprised if many people reading this can deliver the same or better result as ‘experts’ in their industry that command a much higher price. Are you one of them?
You May Be More of An Expert Than You Realize…
You may be thinking… ‘but I’m not at expert level yet…’ I beg to differ. […]
How to Get What You’re Worth
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007One problem I faced when I first started in business for myself (and still struggle with), and that most new freelancers and consultants face, is charging less than they are worth for their products and services.
Why is asking for what we’re worth so difficult? The answer, I believe is rooted very deep in our […]
How to Achieve Ridiculous Goals
Friday, November 30th, 2007Soon after being hired as an Operation Manager for an internet start-up company, I took a risk that could have gotten me fired, but instead elevated me to near rock star status. I applied the same formula many more times at this company which resulted in a kinship with the CEO and founding management […]
How To Generate More Clients and More Sales Than You Can Handle
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007“If You Throw Enough Spaghetti at the Wall, Some of It Is Bound to Stick”
This was the motto of the CEO of the last company that I worked for and I must admit that the amount that “stuck to the wall” generated a ridiculous amount of profit for this company.
With a custom built email engine […]
