Tag: entrepreneurship
Freelance Business: The Fear Never Goes Away
Striking it out on your own involves taking a monumental leap of faith. It doesn’t matter...
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What the Car Rental Industry Taught Me About Being a Successful Freelancer
When you go into business for yourself, one of the first lessons you’ll learn is that you...
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The Confused Identity of the Freelance Writer
When you’re in a certain kind in profession, you naturally identify with other people who...
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What Freelancers Can Learn from Enoch Thompson
One of the better shows on TV is Boardwalk Empire. It has a similar kind of “gangster”...
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How I Went From Food To Finance
This is the story of how I made the incomprehensible leap from cooking to finance. The year was...
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How Do You Handle Working Alone at Home?
When it comes to most of my immediate peers, I’m the anomaly. The vast majority of my...
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How to Know When to Quit Your Day Job and Pursue Freelancing Full-Time
As Freelance Camp was wrapping up last weekend, I was pulled aside by a couple of attendees who...
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Business Factors Outside of My Control
Part of the reason that I started my freelance writing business several years ago was that I...
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What’s Up Wednesdays: The Online Business
Once upon a time, starting your own online business was largely an unconventional move. Today,...
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How to Choose a Home Office Location
Let me preface this by saying that what I consider to be the “ideal” (or even a...
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Smart Advice for New Freelance Writers
Now that I’ve been a professional freelance writer for a number of years, I find that I get...
Read MoreWhat’s Up Wednesdays: Monkeys in the Brain
Every Wednesday, I collect a number of blog posts that caught my interest in the preceding week. Some weeks, the posts come together from a single theme and other weeks, the collection can be pretty eclectic. This week falls...
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Hi, I'm Michael. By day, I'm a writer and editor. By night, I'm still a writer and editor. I'm also an engaged work-at-home dad, a voracious foodie, an avid traveler, and a thinker who thinks he might be thinking too much. Beyond the Rhetoric is a reflection of my eclectic life, fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi.
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