Linkswitch #84, Effective Portfolio, Selfish to Succeed, 25 Hours Days

Freelance Help, 100+ Tips on Creating an Effective Online Portfolio

We all have to start somewhere with displaying our work. Whether youre building your portfolio for the first time, or looking to improve your existing portfolio, some professional tips can save you loads of time and get you building in the right direction upwards.

Often the difference between a successful portfolio and one that falls flat is implementing some simple strategies, while not overdoing it, or loosing a targeted focus. Take a close look at 12 advice-filled articles for freelancers that will help you create an effective online portfolio, and assist you in making it the best it can be.

The 7 Essential Elements of Effective Social Media Marketing

So in the past few weeks, weve told you its a bad idea to be a digital sharecropper, building your business entirely on someone elses land (like Facebook, Tumblr, or any other third party you dont control). So you may be asking yourself OK, what should I be doing with social media marketing?

Are You Selfish Enough to Succeed?

When youre trying to change your life or pursue a dream, what you dont do is often as important as what you do. Were all given the same 24 hours each day. Its easy to feel like theres not enough time to do what you really want to be doing. After all the "have to dos theres barely any time left for the "want to dos. But how many of those things that you take for granted as being requirements each day actually dont have to be done at all?

9 New Productivity Tools to Simplify Your Online Life

After Google+ entered the social networking scene not so long ago, the number of online distractions hasnt really decreased. At the same time, innovations and smarter solutions to handle your actions online have fortunately continued to thrive too. Instead of the usual to-do lists, news readers, or sharing tools, they tackle things in new and more helpful ways.

8 iOS apps that make it easier to go paperless

Several factors are making us shift more toward going paperless: the need to be mobile and location-independent, greater speed and convenience, an increased awareness for going green, not to mention our need for pinching pennies in todays economic climate. Now, with the advent of things like smartphones, tablets, and the iPad, new applications designed for those devices are making it easier and more practical to go paperless.

4 Tips for Creating Link Bait

While link bait is frequently seen as more “fun”, and it’s definitely more creative, than doing things like guest blogging or emailing people asking for links, it has its challenges. I wanted to share a few things I’ve learned about creating link bait from my experiences. If you have other insights, I’d love to hear them in the comments.

Do You Need 25 Hours in a Day to Meet All of Your Writing Deadlines?

If youre like me, there never seems to be enough time in the day to get all your writing projects done. Having been a journalist for 22 years, I have literally written thousands (I lost count many years ago) of articles to this day. While some have been short projects, others have surpassed a couple thousand words each. So, while I work as a full-time content writer, I also freelance on the side.

How a Single Bullet Can Get a Customer To Buy

The bullets Im talking about are the bullets that you see in advertising. Bullets are the same thing that you see on the cover of magazines and newspaper mastheads. And if you want to sell more effectively heres how bullets can help you considerably. When youre writing copy or creating a speech or rehearsing a presentation or writing an article for that matter, dont sit down and write text or sales copy.

Fix Broken Meetings With Better Invites

When creative individuals convene for a meeting, the potential breakthroughs are limitless. Brilliant ideas can be born, intelligent decisions resolved, and complex solutions coordinated. Alas, this potential is rarely ever realized. Meeting mediocrity is spreading like the plague, and we’re missing an important ingredient: engagement.

Exposing Common Myths About Blogging

In this article Id like to present 8 myths that are commonly associated with blogging. If you have blogging experience of your own youve probably already disproved several of these myths. If you dont have experience blogging, maybe this information will be helpful to see things in a different light.