Starting out in the blogging world is exciting, challenging, fun and exhausting at times.  The key points to remember is that everybody struggles as they “learn the ropes” and it is important that you make sure to setup up your site and your actions as if the blog has already reached the goals that you’ve set for it.  By creating a business and laying out all the pieces that you need to run your blogging […]

For any business to succeed, it is crucial that its employees are hardworking and self-motivated individuals. According to the statistics of the U.S. department of labor, the average tenure of an employee in the Unites States is just 1.5 years. This figure indicates two things, Business owners are not paying their current employees well enough and they are looking for new jobs. Business owners are not satisfied with their current employees and are firing them […]

No matter what job you do it always helps to know a bit about project management. Even if you never plan to be a proper project manager we all need some PM skills from time to time to help us with our daily jobs. Whether you are a sales person who has attended all the latest sales training courses to improve your selling skills, an entrepreneur starting up a business, or just a blogger, work will go more smoothly if you have some basic project management knowledge. You don’t need any fancy tools – just a spreadsheet will do.

The most imprtant bit of advice is to manage the expectations of your customers and clients. You don’t need to attend project management training courses if you are only using project management to streamline your work in another role. But something you can learn from basic project management principles is to manage the expectations of those around you. Don’t promise something you can’t deliver and if something goes wrong make sure you tell people before it becomes an unmanageable problem.

No matter what job you do it always helps to know a bit about project management. Even if you never plan to be a proper project manager we all need some PM skills from time to time to help us with our daily jobs or home projects. Even starting up a business (or just a blog!) will go more smoothly if you have some basic project management knowledge. You don’t need any fancy tools – […]

So you’ve set up your blog and starting to fill it with fun, engaging content. If you’re anything like me you love writing – giving people your advice or just telling them a bit about your life (or even a lot about your life!). But even though it is fun just blogging you now want to take it to the next stage and make money from your blog. Making money from your blog might seem […]