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11 Essential Tips for Working From Home
Reading Time: 5 minutes Working from home can be a challenging transition. Here are our top tips for staying healthy and productive while working remotely.
Freelance Career Advice
9 writing resources from advice to jobs.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Just before National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), two aspiring authors met in a bookstore. One had written a full-length manuscript and was busy submitting to publishers. The other was focused on a steady diet of website blogs, magazine articles, and small presses. But what was most surprising was how little Read more…
Content Writing
How error free writing can improve your bottom line
Reading Time: 6 minutes If your content or blog has a lot of misspelled words, bad grammar, or other badly written elements, customers may think twice about whether or not they want to do business with you. One simple error can change the meaning of your message, distract your reader, and weaken the subject matter of your content.
Website Tips
Before You Hit Send: Grammar Mistakes to Watch for in Professional Emails
Reading Time: 6 minutes Like wearing a suit to an interview, you want to perfect your tone in professional emails and make sure there are no misspellings or grammar mistakes.
Freelance Career Advice
The Growing Freelance Market: What is a Virtual Assistant?
Reading Time: 6 minutes 1. What is a Virtual Assistant? A virtual assistant can be any type of remote assistant who provides administrative, creative, or technical support services for online or brick-and-mortar businesses. Generally, as a Virtual Assistant you start your very own business. There are a few exceptions to this. You could work Read more…
Website Tips
How Much is Your Website Worth?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Whether you want to create a new website or refresh your old one, the most important question you can ask yourself right now is this. How much is your website worth? Your first instinct may be to think in dollars, but what if it’s more than that? When you think Read more…
Freelance Career Advice
START WORKING ONLINE. (Here’s How I Did It!)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Always been interested in working online? Before you get ahead of yourself here, listen up. I’m going to reveal the most important secret you’ll learn before you begin your journey working online. NOTHING HAPPENS OVER NIGHT. There is no instant success button – be it in the traditional workplace or Read more…
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Fast Lane Digital Officially launches
Reading Time: 2 minutes Writing in the Fast Lane and Virtual Barber have merged to form Fast Lane Digital U.S./South Africa – January , 2020 In mid -2019 , Writing in the Fast Lane and Virtual Barber joined forces to form Fast Lane Digital, a full-service digital media and PR Agency… with a twist. Read more…
Freelance Career Advice
Adaptability: the simple secret to survival.
Reading Time: 3 minutes How Adaptable are You? Adaptability. The world of freelancing, the gig economy, the makerspace economy, and the best-laid plans of synergistic offline and online businesses, services, and retailers all have one thing in common: adaptability. It is the link holding this whole crazy chain together. Because, to quote Ferris Bueller, Read more…