As a freelancer and blogger I often find that typical budgets and business documents don’t work for me. I end up creating my own custom Excel sheets and small business printables that I use throughout the year to keep my business organized. Learn more: How To Survive A Sick Day When You Have To Work […]
Miranda Marquit Knows Money
When you start writing in a new niche one of the first, most important steps you can take is to look around the blogosphere and get to know the community within your niche. When I started writing in the finance niche, I took this step, and one of the first things I noticed is that […]
Starting a Business: My Story
In 2009 when I started my blog I thought someday I might be able to build my love of writing into a career. Someday came much sooner than I expected, and now in my fourth year of blogging I can say I have a bonafide business that I grew from my own hard work. Whether […]
Should you work for free?
While I’m away healing from some horrible virus that hit me, and taking care of offline business you should read this awesome flowchart I found via Budgets are Sexy. If you ever thought about working for free (no matter what the field) you should read this blog post and look at this flowchart. It will […]
Blogger Gifts List
My kids are all old enough to make their own lists, and have taken to adopting catalogs when they come in the mall and painstakingly writing down exactly what they want from each one. Editing, and changing happens frequently which I love. I still remember getting the Sears catalog as a child and circling-oh just […]
How Much Money do Mom Bloggers Make?
In the morning I’m heading to Bloggy Boot Camp to speak on a panel with Shannon and Julie about PR. My topic will be PR and Monetization. After the conference I’ll share all the info from my portion of the presentation here. I’m also excited to experience Bloggy Boot Camp, and see and meet bloggers […]
How to Spot a Social Media Geek
I was struggling last night with all the things I either need to, or want to do. Or maybe it was the things I want to do, but also need to do? Anyway… Instead of doing anything productive I was on twitter. I meet a lot of people who either tool their eyes or stare […]
On ticks, balance, and Lyme Disease
To say May was a busy month is an understatement. I’ve been managing to only slightly fall behind on blogging, secured a sponsor to BlogHer, spent several days in NYC, and of course juggled my jobs (writer, blogger, social media consultant) with my duties as a mom, wife, friend, daughter, and sister. I was hoping […]
Dine out for Hunger at Cosi in Exton 5/17
If you’re in the Philadelphia area I’d love if you’d join me for Dine out for Hunger, an event I’m hosting to raise funds and awareness about childhood hunger. My co-host Julie Pron of Just-Precious and I will be there with amazing raffle prizes, and eating Cosi’s delicious food. Cosi has affordable meal options for […]
2009 in review
Whew. I’m sure glad that year is over. It was busy, eventful, and tough. It was also amazing, wonderful, and so…fulfilling. I know it’s a contradiction, but go with it. We are paying off debt (more than $10K so far), we have so very much to be thankful for. We are on a path to […]
