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How to Plan a Business Trip – Part II

I wrote a post sometime back on how to plan a business trip. I had mentioned in passing that I would soon be writing a post that dealt with how to plan various events to attend during the course of the trip. So how do you really go places(excuse the mild pun) during a business [...]

Bidding strategy: If you hire yourself for a project, a buyer may hire you

Assume you want to hire a professional. You post a project on p2w2. You get responses. But you can smell from a bid that the professional did not read what you want. She just has a personal rant about herself that she ‘copy pasted’ it into the bid. What do you think about the bid? [...]

Building a Winner’s Online Profile on p2w2

Among all the marketing tools available to a freelancer, a profile is by far the most important. Done carefully and with forethought, it can be the main engine of your business growth.

Clients and Service Providers: Partners or Arch-enemies?

Have you ever finished a meal at a restaurant and found the experience not worth your time and money? The waiter was not attentive enough, the food was stale, options were limited and finally you got the overall feeling that the management did not really appreciate your business as your attempts to request better [...]

YOU INC: Freelancer Essentials

The World is Flat. Take advantage of it
If you ask me, the biggest boon of the 21 century is how the Internet had made us masters of our time. Connecting with people from distant parts of the globe is so easy, inspiring and empowering, that you can earn in dollars, on work that is interesting [...]