A constantly updated & filtered reading list for Non-9-to-5′ers

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• Unconventional Ways To Earn A Location Independent Income: Part 2
  Published: May 26, 2009
  Source: Location Independent | Live and Work Anywhere You Choose
  Image by Andresit@ This post is a follow-up to the first interview, in a series in which we profile some of the more creative ways of earning a location independent income. The posts in this series are not intended as “How To…” guides but are...
• Scan to Evernote: Fujitsu ScanSnap
  Published: May 7, 2009
  Source: Evernote Blogcast
  Some time ago we published a post explaining how to scan directly into Evernote for Mac. In this post, I’ll explain how to set up the Fujitsu ScanSnap to work with Evernote for Windows. Fujitsu ScanSnap We’re big fans of the Fujitsu ScanSnap for...
• The Growing Feedback Fiasco
  Published: May 13, 2009
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Written by Aliza Sherman. What is the obligation that companies have to their customers to listen to — and act on — the feedback they receive from customers? Well, if you are in the Social Media Age of 2009, the obligation is high, the pressure...
• Fill Revenue Gaps With Alternative Income Streams
  Published: May 13, 2009
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Written by Dawn Foster. Photo by: borman818 As a freelance online community consultant, I spend a lot of time thinking about ways to stabilize my income to reduce the ups and downs that come with having my own business. The most obvious solution is...
• Severa: Easy One-click CRM, Project Management and Invoicing
  Published: May 13, 2009
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Written by Meryl Evans. Though CRM, project management and invoicing are often separate applications, more companies are producing software that does more than one of these tasks by combining them into one package. Severa is web-based software that...
• Selling the Multi-Skilled Freelancer: Single or Separate Storefronts?
  Published: May 12, 2009
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Written by Celine Roque. In a previous post, I explored the differences between freelancers who monetize just one professional skill and those who sell multiple skills. If you’re the latter kind, and market yourself as a copywriter/designer/consul...
• Start-up Strategy: To Change the Game, Change the Economics of How It’s Played
  Published: May 13, 2009
  Source: The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
  (photo: laffy4k) Several weeks ago, I found myself in the passenger seat of a car going nowhere fast. My friend, Peter Sims, who had earlier introduced me to the Stanford D.School, was leading the charge into the unknown, hurtling us (hopefully) t...
• For Biz Branding, Think ‘Community’ - Not Social Media
  Published: May 6, 2009
  Source: Chief Home Officer Home Office, Home-Based Business, Remote Work, Telework & Cloud Computing
  Whether you run a home office, a home-based business or any other entrepreneurial shop, social media means many things. Here’s one take… By Jim Blasingame “Social media” is a new term for one of the oldest of human activities: communication....
• Location Independence: What’s In It For You (Yes - You, You & Even You!)
  Published: May 21, 2009
  Source: Location Independent | Live and Work Anywhere You Choose
  Image by Daniel H. Agostini Many people have asked where the term “location independent” came from. It’s the phrase I’ve used to describe our nomadic, work-from-anywhere lifestyle ever since we first started doing this in 2007. Since then, i...
• Google Trends on your website
  Published: May 6, 2009
  Source: The Official Google Blog
  One thing we've noticed here at Google over the years is that the more popular something becomes, the more people search for it online. Our annual zeitgeist catalogs some of the more interesting trends we've seen in a year's worth of web search data....