Work From Home
Multiple Income Streams
I am often asked the question: What is the single most important reason for exploring the gig economy? My response has evolved to this: The gig economy is a great enabler for those who desire more freedom in the manner in which they work and/or the ability to develop...
Tips For Upwork Success
Upwork is an online platform that connects businesses with freelancers for various projects and tasks. Amidst the sea of opportunities provided by Upwork, many find themselves adrift, struggling to navigate the currents of success. Fear not, for within this article...
How To Build A Successful Career As A Freelancer
Are you seeking a job that allows you to work on your own terms? Freelancing can provide an excellent opportunity for you to enjoy a flexible schedule, work from any location, and pursue projects that match your interests and passions. However, you must understand...
Elevate Your Workspace: Creative Home Office Ideas for Maximum Productivity
With millions of remote workers now operating out of their homes, the home office has become the hub of productivity. Having an inspiring workspace requires turning your area into an efficient and motivating one. Here we will help make your home office a space where...
High Paying Jobs for Entrepreneurs
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we work has undergone a profound transformation. Traditional 9-to-5 jobs are no longer the only path to financial success. Entrepreneurs and gig workers have seized the opportunity to tap into the world of...
Harmonizing Your Home Office with Feng Shui: Enhance Productivity and Well-Being
As we continue to embrace the flexibility of working from home, creating a harmonious and inspiring environment in our home office has become paramount. One approach that has gained popularity for promoting balance and positive energy is the ancient art of Feng Shui....
How To Be More Productive When Working From Home
When you work from home, it's crucial that you remain productive in your work. And while there are many perks involved with working from home, such as giving you the freedom and flexibility to manage your work schedule and the fact you get to skip the headache of...
How To Make Money From Home – Jobs That Don’t Require Experience
These days there are plenty of ways for you to earn a living working from home. And not to worry, there's something for everyone, even those with little to no experience. The pandemic in 2020 brought about a new way for people to work remotely, and since then, more...
Stay Connected With These Top-Rated Headsets For Remote Work
With more people working from home than ever before, it's important to have the right equipment to maintain productivity and communication. A good headset is essential for clear and uninterrupted communication with colleagues and clients. In this article, we'll cover...
Home Office Ideas – Building Your Dream Space
You can come up with many ideas to build your dream home office. And when you consider how much time you will spend there each day, you should want this space to be a place you enjoy and will feel comfortable in. Doing so will make you more productive and better able...
10 Home Business Ideas To Start Today
In recent years, more and more people have been looking for ways to start their own businesses and work from home. The rise of the internet and the gig economy have made it easier than ever to launch a successful home-based business. In this article, we will explore...
Americans Decreasing Work-Commutes Post-Pandemic
It seems Americans are following suit of other countries and are beginning to decrease the hours spent working in the office. Recent polls show a 20% decrease in work commutes post COVID-19 pandemic. This is shown in many major corporations, such as Apple, JP Morgan,...
Find the Best Coffee Shops to Work From. Here’s How!
I know that if I am not comfortable then I cannot work effectively. Sometimes it can be hard to find the right place to work, my workspace is my local coffee shop. The trick is finding the right coffee shop for you. It is super simple to find local coffee shops...
How To Remain Focused Working From Home
As the number of people working from home continues to increase, men and women with remote jobs are faced with a whole new set of distractions while they work. Interruptions that were once unnecessarily long meetings and loud coworkers are now barking dogs, crying...
3 Tips to Become Successful Business Partners With Your Spouse
Fewer things are as rewarding than building a life together with our partners — usually that means starting a family, but it can also mean forming a business. Couples can often work harder together, so it’s no surprise many channel that energy into their careers....
Bust the Metabolism Myths: 3 Simple Steps to Burn More Calories at Work or Home
Your body is a big part of your ability to focus and live your best life, so it’s no surprise that many business owners want to stay on top of their weight goals. Unfortunately, the convenience of certain products, like supplements that promise to improve your...
Upgrade Your Home Office at Costco
As a business owner, you’re always looking for ways to get the most for your buck. As a family of entrepreneurs at AFEUSA, we know that feeling very well. That’s why we were so thrilled to partner with Costco Wholesale and bring you exclusive Costco membership...
Music to Keep You Going
Working on your computer all day long can be draining and exhausting, a way to solve this is by creating your own playlist to keep you motivated. Classical MusicClassical music has been shown to be one of the best genres to listen to when you need to be productive...
5 Important Work-From-Home Cyber Security Tips
Unfortunately, you often never know what unsafe cyber habits you have until it’s too late. That’s why, especially with so many Americans working online, it’s important to understand the best practices to keep your personal and work information safe. No. 1: Secure your...
Top 3 Unique SiriusXM Stations You Won’t Want to Miss
If you have SiriusXM Satellite Radio or suddenly noticed it’s working in your car because of a free trial, then you might be wondering — what are the best, most unique channels you should be listening to? We’ve got a few ideas. Channel 111 — Business Radio Brush up on...
How to Best Mentor Your Entrepreneur Child
It can be scary when your child wants to follow your footsteps as an entrepreneur. You know just how risky it can be and the sacrifices they’ll have to make. However, it can be just as exciting to know that you — in some small or big way — have inspired them to follow...
Looking at a Screen All Day? 3 Easy Ways to Give Your Eyes a Break
Working from home isn’t easy, but looking at a computer screen all day has never been easy no matter where you are. In 2020, computer use just might be the most common cause of eyestrain. Here are a few self-care tips to help give your eyes a break. First, blink...
Working From Home: 9 Ergonomic Tips for Laptop Use
Employees working from home due to social distancing? Smart policy — but without a proper workstation, there’s a big potential for back, neck and eye strain. Employees working from home due to social distancing? Smart policy — but without a proper workstation, there’s...
How To Avoid The Mental Health Risks of Working From Home
In order to curb the public health effects of the ongoing pandemic, one of the things most, if not all, of the governments around the world have done was to implement universal social distancing protocols. As a consequence, many companies have been left with no choice...
The Office Tools to Boost Productivity
As we’re adjusting to a new home office, our surroundings may create an assortment of distractions. Think about the little things that eat away at your day, like attempting to find hard copies of documents and charging your phone, Here are some of the best tools to...
Protect Yourself With General Liability Insurance
While many businesses and properties are well-maintained, people can still be injured on-site. As a result, a business where the injury took place may be liable when someone is injured on the premises — but it’s not always clear-cut. An individual can fall under three...
How to Manage Parenting and Working
Right now, you’re probably trying to manage the changing demands of your market. But if you’re a parent, you’re likely also dealing with a new work/life balance. Here are some tricks to help you stay on top of both your work duties and your parental duties. Keep Your...
How Shipping Entities Are Handling Setbacks
As we adjust to the new business landscape, brick and mortar stores are taking the brunt of this pandemic. If you're revamping your business plan to emphasize eCommerce during this situation, then shipping companies are your best friends. To ensure your company is...
Homebound Family Bonding
Right now, as we’re all homebound, many families are looking for new forms of entertainment to bring everyone together. If you’re looking for some fun ways to bond with your family while at home, here are a couple of fun ideas that will surely lift everyone’s spirits....
Why Every Small Business Owner Should Take a Summer Vacation in 2020
Summer is just around the corner, and if you haven’t started planning for a scheduled time to step back from your business and recharge, now is the time to start. Not only will taking time away from the office help you recharge and come back sharper and ready to...
How to Avoid Unhealthy Holiday Habits
Regardless of where you reside in the United States, sickness seems almost unavoidable during the winter season. But when you’re an entrepreneur, even a minor distraction from your work can be devastating. To avoid missing any work days during one of the busiest times...
A Layout for Workspace Success
Over the years, the “ideal office” has gone through several changes. The early 2000s tried a transition from cubicles to open floor plans, with the inclusion of ping-pong and foosball tables following soon after. But what truly makes a productive workspace? Here are a...
Pros & Cons of Consolidating Your Social Media Accounts
As an entrepreneur with an assortment of tasks that you need to manage daily, social media is often just one more headache. You may find it useful to consolidate your social media profiles into one personal account per channel. Before you do so, however, there are...
Is Working From Home More Productive?
If you work in an office, there’s a good chance you’ve daydreamed about what it might be like to do your job from home. Those fantasies might including curling up with your laptop while still wearing your pajamas, cuddling with your dog when you take a business call,...
Top 3 Advices From Business Owners
When you decide to be an entrepreneur, it is easy to lose track of where you should start or which way is the best way of going about the job. For some people, the path appears to them as natural as day and night - they learn along the way and use the best practices...
Best Ways to Stay Active From Home
One of the unintended downsides of working from home is the impact it can have on your overall health. While you’d think staying out of the office and having more freedom would allow you to make time to take better care of yourself, it’s normally the opposite. Getting...
Remote Work Solutions
Working from home can present some serious hazards. That newfound sense of freedom is a double edged sword, as it can be much harder to provide a consistent work environment with decentralized employees. That’s why it’s so important to identify potential risks and...
Trends in Working From Home
The life of the modern entrepreneur, and the modern businessperson for that matter, is constantly shifting. The days of punching in at dawn to sit behind a typewriter for 12 hours are long gone. Today, we enjoy the convenience and accessibility of working remotely....
Methods to Making Working From Home Work For You
Figuring out ways to more efficiently work from home can invigorate your career, and there’s no reason to believe it has to mean sacrificing profit for convenience. Some of the most successful businesses in history have been started from the comfort of the home, and...
How to be Effective When Working at Home
You may have heard how working from home is the best thing that ever happened to people who used to work in an office. Generally, this is true - working at the comfort of your house is great. However, it does not mean that you are going to be doing less tasks than...
The Woes of Working From Home (And How to Overcome Them)
The modern workplace is changing for the better. With the constant expansion of communication technology, we’re able to do our work on-the-go like never before. But the advantages of being able to do your work from the comfort of your own home come with the downsides...
Defeating Creative Block
If you are running your own business from home, it is likely that you are either creating hand-made products or offering services on a contractual basis – like copywriting or graphic design. This kind of entrepreneurship requires a steady flow of creativity. However,...
The Spoils of Working From Home
In today’s ever-changing marketplace, where technology and schedule flexibility are kings, it’s time to reckon with the writing on the wall. It’s never been more apparent than in the last decade that things are changing for the better for the modern entrepreneur. The...
The Art to Working From Home
There are endless possibilities for using technology to our advantage, especially within the domain media has allowed us to build around ourselves. And depending on your business, there’s a good chance that you, the modern entrepreneur, might find that you’re able to...
How To Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Opportunities to work from home can be both a blessing and a curse - something I am all too familiar with. Creating your own office space gives you much more freedom to work on your own and in your own way, but your own home can also be chock-full of distractions that...
3 Ways To Create Work-Life Balance For Entrepreneurs
A friend of mine recently shared a post on social media that read “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your li...work super hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally.” It hit me...
Bloggers Burnout – Four Fast Tips
Picture this: You’ve had your blog for a few months now. You were so excited to get started on it and you had about a billion ideas for what you want to do and where you want to go with it. You spent hours and hours designing the layout of the blog - making it look...
Questions Freelancers Should Ask Prospects
Working as a freelancer can be a tricky business. Sometimes, getting hired by a company means you’re in it for the long run. Other times, you might just be hired for a seasonal project. Whatever the case may be, sometimes freelancers can get a little eager to start a...
Freelancer Networking Boost
I knew when I was a sophomore in college that I wanted to be a freelancer after graduation. I wasn’t necessarily sure what that meant, and I wasn’t sure how I would get into that kind of work, but I hoped I would figure it out eventually. Not too long ago, networking...
Blogging For Your Day Job
The very first blog I ever followed was NieNie Dialogues. Its author is Stephanie Nielson, a Mommy Blogger who wrote her first blog post in 2006. Originally, she created the blog when she and her young family moved across the states. It was her way of keeping all of...
Blogging And Freelance Freedom
Blogging and Freelance Writing for a Laptop Lifestyle These days, more and more people are settling into a career with nothing more than a laptop and a Wifi connection. Thousands of people are opting out of an established workplace in favor of freelancing and blogging...
Affiliate Marketing Success Stories
Affiliate Marketing can really put people off for a few reasons, but stick with me. I once worked for an agency that had me write the occasional affiliate articles. Essentially, we would promote products from other companies, and my agency received a portion of...
Home Office Do’s & Don’ts
Working from home means you get the best of both worlds. You get an awesome job that allows you to do what you love, but you get to do it all on your own time and in the comfort of your own home. However, it can also be the worst of both worlds. Working in...
Fears And Home Business
One can’t read “The Fearless Mind”, by Dr. Craig L. Manning without learning a lot about fear, and Jodi Lybbert, the founder and owner of The Humble Chair has certainly had her fair share. As a Wife and a Mother of five children, (did I mention two of those being...
Radical Inclusion: How Burning Man is Helping Create a New Breed of Entrepreneur
Image credit: John Horsley | Photoshot | Getty Images Each entrepreneur’s journey is bound to be unique, yet there’s a disturbingly common thread of disassociation and loneliness. Stepping outside of what is available, accessible and seemingly stable to forge into the...
Entrepreneur in the Cloud Using Google Apps – G Suite
There are many cloud offerings these days, and getting an online presence is very easy. Most people purchase cloud offerings, but do not realize all the benefits they purchased. We often see people purchasing hardware solutions when they have already purchased a cloud...
Up Next: This Designer Turns Everyday Objects Into a ‘Good Thing’
Up Next By TIM McKEOUGH Name Jamie Wolfond Age 25 Hometown Toronto Now lives In a two-bedroom apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with his fiancée, the product designer Sam Anderson, and a roommate. Claim to fame In 2014, Mr. Wolfond founded Good Thing, a design...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Local Small Business Association
Build connections and make the most of small business association resources like NFIB's at the local level. Source: NFIB