Articles by Freelance Switch from May 2017

For small business owners and freelancers, redesigning your website can be both an overwhelming and exciting project. The workload might be heavy but, with a strategic plan, your new website can get a...

Opening an online store is a great way to start selling your products or expand your existing customer base. In the world of eCommerce platforms, BigCommerce is one of the popular ones that will allow...

People love MailChimp because of its ease-of-use and beautiful designs. The problem is, it’s often cumbersome to try and use your own customized templates if they’re not specifically optimized for...

When it comes time to send your Excel spreadsheet, it's important to protect the data that you're sharing. You might want to share your data, but that doesn't mean it should be changed by someone else...

People love MailChimp because of its ease-of-use and beautiful designs. The problem is, it’s often cumbersome to try and use your own customized templates if they’re not specifically optimized for...

Do you have you have a business presentation coming up really soon? The closer your presentation date approaches, the more pressure you're under to design a compelling presentation fast. You need to:...

Your website redesign project doesn’t start when you sketch out what you want the site to look, when your designer starts drawing the first pixel, or when you buy a pre-made website template. Even f...

Does your small business have an exit strategy?You may be thinking you don't need one right now—perhaps your intention is to keep running your company successfully for many years to come. But things...

Do you have you have a business presentation coming up? Are you struggling with designing Keynote slide layouts on your Mac? Do you need to design a compelling presentation that will move an audience?...

Slicers make it easy to change your views inside of a pivot table with a clickable menu. In this tutorial, learn how to quickly add slicers to pivot tables in Excel to better control your unique sprea...

Passive income is the goal for a lot of want-to-be-entrepreneurs (sometimes called by the godawful name, wantrepreneurs). Instead of slaving away for someone else, trading your precious time for a few...

One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is the sheer amount of themes available for almost any niche imaginable. Whether need a small business website or a personal blog, you’re bound to find a t...

Some of today’s most successful businesses started with a brilliant idea. Consider Art Fry, the inventor of Post-it notes, or Kevin Plank, the brain behind Under Armour’s quick-drying workout gear...

An online store is a great way to expand your customer base and double your revenue. But, before you set up your eCommerce website, it’s important to choose the right platform. Aside from an attract...

Today’s article shows the impact of good diction and grammar in resume writing. Yawn.I know, but stay with me. Learning the correct use of action verbs and active voice can save a bland resume from ...

If you think currencies and exchange rates are things that only bankers and traders need to worry about, think again. Many small businesses are subject to exchange rate risk, whether they realize it o...

While it’s common for businesses to update their website regularly—whether it’s to update their product offering, change a few photos or graphics, or redo their logo—in some cases, a complete ...

Gmail Labs lets you try new Gmail features as they become available. You can find what is new in Gmail and add the latest capabilities to Gmail—even as Gmail tests them.  Many Gmail users ...

In this tutorial, I'll show how to create web forms that log responses to a spreadsheet in Google Sheets. You don't have to be a programmer or know how to build websites to follow along.Here's a super...

Opening an online business is as easy as a few clicks, which is why the Internet has been flooded with aspiring retailers in recent years.But launching a successful store is a whole different story. T...

In Microsoft PowerPoint, you can add a YouTube video to really bring some variety to your presentation. Let's look at how to do that in just a few steps.Note: In this tutorial we use the popular Mar...

One of Google Docs best features is its forms, which are a free way to survey your users and gather information. The survey data is then automatically saved into a Google Sheets spreadsheet, where you...

Imagine, you walk to the front of the room. Fire up PowerPoint. Get ready to start your presentation, and it dawns on you:You made your presentation design with a default template that came installed ...

Creating a resume can be daunting, especially for people in visual arts. It’s hard to know what to include, what to leave out, or how to lay it all out to best effect. Even those who specialize in t...

When you're working in a large Excel spreadsheet, it can really help to freeze a row or column so that it's always in a view. In this quick tutorial, learn how to freeze panes in Microsoft Excel.How t...

Over the past few tutorials in this series, we’ve dived deep into how to get started making passive income:  We began by looking at what passive income is, how it works and why you might want to ea...

Google Drive makes it painless to go paperless. Its collaborative documents, spreadsheets, and presentations already help curtail paper usage, but its OCR feature helps curb the paper mess even more.�...

Are you really making the most of your email system in 2017? For most professionals, email is one of the tools they use most often. Processing email probably takes up a good part of your day. Yet, man...

Frequently, I'll reuse slides for presentations or talks that I give, and it's helpful to be able to copy and paste slides from one PowerPoint presentation to another. Let's look at how to do just tha...

Mention the terms "public speaking" or "presentation", and you're likely to evoke an emotional response from anyone nearby.That strong response is usually rooted in our personal horror stories, like ...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome to the Building Your Startup With PHP series, guiding readers through the launch of an actual startup, Meeting Planner. Each episode details different cod...

A recruiter receives 250 resume applications for every job posting. After reading hundreds of applications, I wouldn’t be surprised if the resumes all start looking the same to them.How can you make...

There is no shortage of bright and beautiful WordPress themes that catch the visitor’s attention. But sometimes, a colorful website loaded with animations is not the right choice. In those cases, ...

Email. No matter who you are it likely plays a big role in your life. But managing email properly takes effort. And you're busy. Very busy. Let's be honest. Managing your email is cutting into your pr...

PowerPoint presentations can easily increase in size over time. As you're adding more video, images, audio, and slides, the file size  will increase as well. In many cases, I've found myself hitting...