Welcome to Part Two of my series on Online Portfolios. If you missed it, check out Online Portfolios Part 1: Using an Online Portfolio Service. In this article, I discuss seven “don’ts” for online portfolio creation. There are varying opinions on best practices for building portfolios online. I wrote this from personal experience and lots [...]

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One of the workers at the gas station/mini mart near my house is wasting her talents. For the sake of writing flow, I’m going to call her Sally. I want to tell Sally that she is wasting her talents working there, but I’m not sure how she’d take it. You see, Sally [...]

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Guess what? You’re an aspiring singer-songwriter. You have a killer demo in your pocket and Tommy Matola just stepped into the elevator with you. What do you do?

This is, of course, the prime situation for what is known as your “elevator speech.” An elevator speech is a fifteen to thirty second commercial [...]

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Happy Tax Day to everyone in the United States. If you haven’t filed yet, you still have a few hours to get today’s postmark. I am a master procrastinator. Last year I was at the post office near closing time on April 15th. This year I e-filed four days in advance. Quite [...]

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From the moment blogs became an accepted means of information-gathering and sharing, the comments section became a crucial piece of the success puzzle. Not only does it give bloggers a way to see who is reading their blogs, it gives readers a chance to make connections and voice their opinions. To this day, leaving quality [...]

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