Archive for August, 2009

 
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Are you a freelancer who seems to hit a wall every avenue that you turn down? Does it seem like no matter what you do during your day something always goes wrong and you just don’t have the success that you think you should? Maybe your making one or more of the following mistakes that often times cripple your success. Visit Freelance Folder for the complete list of common mistakes made.

1. Not making the most of your time. Often as a freelancer people get into the mindset that they have all day and all night to complete a project, so they go about their business doing other things and before they know it they have 1 hour to complete the project at hand. Always plan your days in advance and make the most of the time you have.
2. Always looking for a shortcut to success. Don’t spend all of your free time looking for other successful freelancers shortcuts to success. Just because it worked for them does not mean it will work for you. Sometimes the best thing to do is to keep doing what you have been doing and maybe do a little tweaking here and there to boost your success.

Not Measuring What is Working. Just like it’s possible you may be casting your net too wide and still missing all the fish, there’s also a good chance you’re spending time on things which don’t benefit you at all. Possible examples of this could be writing blog posts, commenting on other sites, participating in forums and battling for jobs on freelance marketplaces.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Ebooks Threatening Publisher Profits.

No – not the Get Rich Quick ebooks, but the digital copies of books formerly in print according to the Financial Times. What’s especially being hit are the profits from hardback best sellers.

Google Books are a big culprit in this but Amazon’s Kindle is doing it’s damage too. (That’s why I’ve been writing about how almost anyone can become a Kindle Publisher [affiliate link] but I digress!)

Some publishers like Thomas Nelson are producing packages where the price includes a print and electronic version of the book, but Kindle is making things difficult because they want publishers to charge $9.99 or less for their Kindle editions.

But opportunity wise, this means that if you were to become a become a Kindle Publisher [affiliate link] and things sold well for you there, you’d be able to take the books that sell in that format and republish them on new readers as they become available. It’s their crisis, but it is still an opportunity for you.

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Penn-Olson:

According to a new research from Kamaron Research Institute, about 80% of the people use Twitter for business purposes. More than 8 in 10 listed “business” as the reason why they tweet.

This holds true for younger twitter-ers as well. Nearly half of those aged 25 and under gave “business” as the primary reason they tweet.

This Study, “Why Do You Tweet” was conducted online with a respondent group size of 280 Twitter Users.

Just 3 days ago, Biz Stone told Venturebeat that strategic statistic tools for businesses would soon be officially introduced on Twitter. Assuming the findings to be representative of the whole Twitter community, Biz Stone and co can very well expect a great sign up rate upon launch.

It seems like Twitter is doing all the right things to appeal to its users, helping it grow on the right track towards monetization.

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From Business Opportunities Weblog.