This post was originally written in 2017. However, most of the information dealing with a 1099 from your clients or for other freelancers and small business owners is still the same. If you have questions about a 1099 you’ve received, or whether you need to issue a 1099 to someone you’ve paid for freelance or […]
My 3 Favorite Business Tools to Help with Productivity
One of the biggest hurdles to overcome when running your own business is finding the time to do all the stuff that it takes to run your business. The day-to-day work can be overwhelming. Fortunately, there are a lot of companies that create business tools to make it easier for us small business owners to […]
How to Stay Focused When You’re Having a Distracted Work Day
A distracted work day. You know the kind of day I mean. You sit down to get some work done, but the mojo just isn’t flowing. You can’t produce whatever it is you’re supposed to be producing. (In my case, it’s writing.) It’s not that you’re blocked or you don’t know what you’re doing. You […]
Why You, as a Business Owner, Need to Take a Vacation
This is both an apology for not having a post last week and an advice post. You see, I spent most of last week running around a hotel in Bloomington, MN with 6,000 of my closest personal friends at a fan-run science fiction/fantasy convention called CONvergence. I help run the Guests of Honor department at […]
Time is Short – Follow Your Dreams
I was going to write something lofty and important about being a full-time freelance copywriter or small business person this week. Something that should have helped others to start or run their own small businesses. But yesterday morning, a Minnesota Icon died. Out of the blue. Just in case you haven’t turned on the news […]