Slate: A faded starlet dancing at an oligarch’s birthday bash. A chef preparing a dinner party in a stranger’s kitchen. A best-selling author entertaining a conference hall filled with oil executives. Reputation has always been another form of income, and successful people have long found innumerable creative ways to monetize their time. Now a start-up […]
If you are an expert in something, you can offer your advice online – and turn that expertise into dollars. Mashable reports that small business owners are especially good candidates to become online experts, because they know their industries inside and out. Michele Gorham, owner of the Andover, Mass.-based Cookie Central bakery, is one small
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Slate: A faded starlet dancing at an oligarch’s birthday bash. A chef preparing a dinner party in a stranger’s kitchen. A best-selling author entertaining a conference hall filled with oil executives. Reputation has always been another form of income, and successful people have long found innumerable creative ways to monetize their time. Now a start-up
In the book Outliers by Malcom Gladwell there’s a theory that posits that if you do anything for 10,000 hours, you’ll be an expert. A former commercial photographer named Dan McLaughlin has decided to put the theory to the test. Although he’d never golfed before, could he become a professional golfer in 10,000 hours? That
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He may not have the power that Ben Bernanke wields or the kind of money that Donald Trump has, but the advice Bill McKown shares with business owners can mean the difference between surviving the recession and closing their doors forever, says Tampa Bay Online. “Due to current economic conditions, many businesses are looking for
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According to the SmallBizTechnology blog there are hundreds of “specialist” programs, setup by vendors that, to help you get the most out of technology products and services. Cisco certified network consultants, Symantec security specialists are gurus in security and I could go on. Email marketing is such an important part of marketing to customers and
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ReadWriteWeb: GuruStorms, a new twist on the brainstorming concept which connects you with subject-matter experts instead of with the general public. The new site lets anyone post a question along with a monetary “reward” for answers. Then all you have to do is wait for the experts to weigh in. And don’t worry – unlike
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NPR: Somewhere beneath the rubble of the housing market collapse, there’s a man trying to dig out and build a clientele. And he’s doing it one question at a time. After getting laid off from an architecture firm for the second time last year, John Morefield had a choice to make: either scratch around for
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Fast Company: Mark Anderson, one of the tech industry’s favorite prognosticators, offered at least a glimmer of hopeful news at his annual “Predictions” dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. 1.) It will be a big year for applications that can play on big screens. We’ve already got our plasma TVs, he said. In 2009, we’ll spend
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