With fewer projects available, the pressure to drop prices is high, but it comes with a cost. — Whole sectors, such as travel, tourism, and hospitality are not hiring marketing researchers, ad agencies, and consultants. In the few cases where they are seeking this kind of help, they are squeezing budgets tightly. The result is that the number of projects available to freelancers, consultants and independent professionals of…

It’s so simple and brilliant you will never go back to alphabetized again — Last week I was cleaning up my office and files (as so many of us are in this time of isolation!) and thought it would be a great time to share this system with you. To be effective as an independent professional, you have to be efficient managing information: client…

You’ve done the immediate things you need to do to get yourself and your enterprise through the next few weeks. Now think about the next year. Here are nine ideas to help. — My purpose in writing is to help you think about strategies to get through the next year. That’s right, I said the next year. …