Creating a Style Guide For Your Documents
Tweet Here is my latest video stressing the importance of having a style guide for your company’s documentation. A style guide makes it easier to start writing and editing your documents before giving it to your team and clients. Tomorrow, I am going to follow up and go in-depth on how to actually go about it. The video provides a high-level overview of how go about it. Question is do you have a style guide for your...
Read MoreStarting a Business Is About Taking Risks
Tweet Yesterday, I decided to update my writing goals. I made them more short-term than I usually do because I am thinking about January 2010. It’s the day that I go from being a part-time freelance writer to a full-time one. Last week, I told my boss that I had to follow my heart, be true to myself, so I was leaving at the end of January. He asked me to stay and told me that he will give me time to reconsider, but I don’t...
Read MoreGetting to Know Your Clients is Always a Plus
Tweet Everyone has good or bad stories to tell about people they have worked with or for. It’s a fact of life that everyone has different personalities and quirks, and not everyone is going to get along. Currently, I am one of the experts who is helping a client gather requirements for a new system that will help collaborate a bunch of legacy systems into one. During this process, I am working for two months in a conference room,...
Read More5 Tips to Make Clients Like You During Meetings
Tweet Freelancers are constantly having to meet with clients. It’s different than if you work for a company because they usually have everything set in place to conduct a successful meeting. One thing that a company doesn’t have, and you do, is YOU. You are the deciding factor for a client to make his/her final decision to work with you or not. Last week, while in Tampa, I met with over 20 different clients. I had a...
Read MoreHow to Make Your Business Trip Feel Like Home
Tweet I’m in Tampa for the week on business and just found out that I will be returning next week. Traveling for work is always a disruption of every day life. It’s even worse because I have to leave the kids behind. Next week I am going to do things in a different ways. Kids Will Come With Me – I am going to have the kids come with me this time. While I have to go to these meetings during the week, I will have my mother...
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