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"I have been asked by my work place to provide my passport." Not just employers; looks like it's becoming standard practice for recruiters to ask even if trading as a limited company. Something to do with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
Via scrubadub.
- THE FEATURED ARTISTS COALITION featuredartistscoalition.com
The Featured Artists' Coalition campaigns for the protection of performers' and musicians' rights. We want all artists to have more control of their music and a much fairer share of the profits it generates in the digital age.
- Present.ly - The Constant Awareness Communication Tool presentlyapp.com
Twitter revolutionized public communication by creating organic networks for one-to-many updates. Present.ly brings this revolution to your business with tools and features custom tailored for a work environment.
What would I do if my business allowed me to do in a downturn? Keep ahead of the curve. Get myself to any and every relevant show, event and conference, meeting and networking opportunity. Get up to speed with what’s coming down the pipe from all of the technologies. Understand their priorities and where they think we will be in the coming months and years.
- Make Money Online: 101 Top Ways of Doing It experienced-people.co.uk
For PH.
- FT.com | Tech Blog | Silicon Roundabout: Is this the heart of the UK’s new dotcom boom? blogs.ft.com
Heh, funny.
Merlin is a non-profit organisation charged with representing independent music companies in enhancing the commercial exploitation of their copyrights on a global basis.
- Web Worker Daily » Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive « webworkerdaily.com
"The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement, strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy, enabled by the Web, works on innovation, flat knowledge networks, and discontinuous product
- Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed businessweek.com
As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?
- Trouble at eBay - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
eBay's business is still booming [...] but there are signs that trouble may loom in the core business.
Enables social entrepreneurs, socially-minded people and socially-driven organisations to share, shape and use social insight to generate greater positive impact in the real world.
Bottom line? As an entrepreneur you have to follow your nose and don't worry if you dump or change your original model. Evolution is the revolution. However, it you don't start you can't iterate.
- Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor discussionleader.hbsp.com
Looks like Zappos is doing things right.
- ongoing · Multi-Inflection-Point Alert tbray.org
We’re simultaneously at inflection points in programming languages and databases and network programming and processor architectures and Web development and IT business models and desktop environments. Did I miss anything?
- Be Good paulgraham.com
Either businesses aren't supposed to be like charities, and we've proven by reductio ad absurdum that one or both of the principles we began with is false. Or we have a new idea.
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
"I have been researching new business models for artists working in the low end of the long tail. How can one make a living in a micro-niche? Is it even possible, particularly in this realm of no-cost copies?" Great, if dispiriting feedback from Robert Ri
Coudal used to generate revenues almost exclusively from client work. Anyone who’s done client work knows the inherent frustrations that come along with that. But instead of merely accepting these frustrations [...], Coudal searched for another path.
Startups that hire incorrectly fail. They don’t probably fail, or maybe fail. They just plain fail.
Some good, some bad.
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.
"The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster."
A small article on making the leap to working for yourself
- russell davies: the magnificent seven and the double-deckers russelldavies.typepad.com
I think there are two ways to start / be a great creative business - 'the group of experts' (which I think of as The Magnificent Seven) and 'the group of friends' (which always makes me think of The Double-Deckers.)
- YoungEntrepreneur.com Blog » The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Starting A Business youngentrepreneur.com · Archived on
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied?
- Logic+Emotion: Innovation + The "Un-Agency" darmano.typepad.com
I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
- How To Raise Your Rates Without Losing Clients - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog freelanceswitch.com · Archived on
If the fear of losing clients is holding you back from raising your rates, here are some pointers to help you broach the thorny subject of asking for more…
After six years big business still has no idea what to do with this blog thing.
- FreeAgent Central - Money Management for UK Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants freeagentcentral.co.uk
A streamlined Money Management application for UK Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants who want to escape spreadsheet hell.
- The Invoice Machine | Create Invoices Easily And Free invoicemachine.com
Create free and beautiful PDF invoices in a snap.
Mostly obvious but always good to be reminded.
The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can” policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free — but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track.
The digital skills that job seekers must have and that hiring organizations demand are varied, nuanced and cutting-edge.
Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.
- Does Accessibility Cost More? - Accessites.org accessites.org
But why not charge more? Accessible, standards-complaint sites are quality sites, and quality sites, like quality cars, quality watches, and quality everything else, tend to be more expensive.
- advertising practitioner: angry blogging, finger wagging, happy happy joy joy russelldavies.typepad.com
Eventually, once every efficiency has been wrung from the web, they'll start to need those skills of imagination, craft and intuition that our funny little industry has so painstakingly acquired.
Some personal observations, reasons I probably would click away, not hire someone, not call back.
- Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing cambrianhouse.com
Crowdsourcing ideas, business, opinions & more...
Despite waves of consolidation across the ad-agency business, there remains a healthy bunch of independent digital shops doing everything from search optimization to building web interfaces to simply doing damn good creative.
- A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey alistapart.com
The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.