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Adding value

Super searchers unite! Own your authority! - Comments (1)
Search ugly, deliver pretty - Comments (0)
What does a “value-added deliverable” look like? - Comments (0)

Deep web

Tips for finding hidden business resources - Comments (0)
Searching the Deep Web - Comments (0)

Factiva

Searching like the real pros - Comments (0)

Google

ChatGPT for researchers - Comments (17)
Why I don’t trust zero-click results - Comments (0)
Would you take a free taxi? - Comments (1)
Limiting Google News searches by time - Comments (5)
Is Google feeding confirmation bias? - Comments (0)
Mining the Ngram Viewer - Comments (0)
Do you trust that news? - Comments (2)
For Google, it’s location, location, location - Comments (3)
Super searching tips - Comments (0)
Using Google Trends for CI - Comments (0)

Libraries

Time for Librarians to Fight Dirty - Comments (0)
Libraries and digital content purchasing - Comments (0)

Nexis

Searching like the real pros - Comments (0)

Social media searching

Tapping into LinkedIn’s brain - Comments (0)
Facebook privacy - Comments (1)
Using Social Media For “Real” Research?!? - Comments (0)
Why Facebook Matters - Comments (0)

Super-searcher tips

ChatGPT for researchers - Comments (17)
When “close enough” is good enough - Comments (0)
Super searchers unite! Own your authority! - Comments (1)
Search ugly, deliver pretty - Comments (0)
The new free-vs-fee calculations - Comments (1)
Tips for finding hidden business resources - Comments (0)
It’s not what you know, it’s what you learn - Comments (0)
Searching like the real pros - Comments (0)
Super searching tips - Comments (0)
More super-searcher tips - Comments (0)

The Reluctant Entrepreneur blog

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Adding Value

Are you a flash in the pan or strategic? - Comments (0)
Simplify, simplify, simplify - Comments (4)
What does a “value-added deliverable” look like? - Comments (0)

Artificial Intelligence

Where will AI show up next? - Comments (0)

Brand "You"

Thriving as a small fish in a big pond - Comments (0)
The real power of word-of-mouth referral networks - Comments (0)
Client Dating 101 - Comments (0)
How to be a GREAT contractor or subcontractor - Comments (0)
“You’re charging WHAT?!?” - Comments (0)
Resumé or dog whistle? - Comments (0)
Being Radically Client-Focused - Comments (0)
What do your clients REALLY want? - Comments (0)
How to make yourself competition-proof - Comments (1)
Marketing Vignettes - Comments (0)

Business tools

Testing out transcription services - Comments (0)

Client relations

You’re not the boss of me… until you are - Comments (2)
Thriving as a small fish in a big pond - Comments (0)
How to attract and keep GREAT clients - Comments (1)
Help—I still don’t have any clients! - Comments (2)
How to be a GREAT contractor or subcontractor - Comments (0)
Getting to ‘Yes’ - Comments (0)
Getting something from nothing - Comments (3)
What does a “value-added deliverable” look like? - Comments (0)
Are you really hearing your client? - Comments (0)
Constantly reinventing ourselves - Comments (0)

Fear

Speaking for fun and profit - Comments (1)
What will it take to launch? - Comments (0)
The Public Speaker’s Secret Weapon - Comments (1)
Stability vs. steady income - Comments (0)
What I learned at summer camp - Comments (0)
How’s your solopreneur mindset? - Comments (1)
Does a 9-5 job look tempting? - Comments (0)

Managing yourself

You’re not the boss of me… until you are - Comments (2)
Meaningful Metrics: Measuring what matters - Comments (0)
How to attract and keep GREAT clients - Comments (1)
The New Year’s resolutions your business wants you to make - Comments (0)
What will it take to launch? - Comments (0)
The top 10 myths of starting a consulting business - Comments (1)
Doing what we don’t wanna do - Comments (4)
Seven Traits of Thought Leaders - Comments (0)
Are you really hearing your client? - Comments (0)
400 hours to profitability - Comments (1)

Marketing

The real power of word-of-mouth referral networks - Comments (0)
Client Dating 101 - Comments (0)
Speaking for fun and profit - Comments (1)
How to attract and keep GREAT clients - Comments (1)
Help—I still don’t have any clients! - Comments (2)
Getting to ‘Yes’ - Comments (0)
The top 10 myths of starting a consulting business - Comments (1)
Seven Traits of Thought Leaders - Comments (0)
Outcome-oriented taglines - Comments (0)
Learning about your unknown unknowns - Comments (1)

Negotiating

How CEOs negotiate – with a hug - Comments (0)
How to be a better listener - Comments (0)
Talking about prices with clients - Comments (0)

Pricing

“We’ll have more work later” and other pipe-dreams - Comments (0)
“You’re charging WHAT?!?” - Comments (0)
How to talk about price - Comments (1)
The 7 Deadly Sins of Pricing - Comments (0)
Adding a zero to your budget - Comments (0)
Mary Ellen’s Amazing Hourly-Rate Calculator - Comments (1)
Talking about prices with clients - Comments (0)

Social media

Why Facebook Matters - Comments (1)

Strategic planning

Meaningful Metrics: Measuring what matters - Comments (0)
The New Year’s resolutions your business wants you to make - Comments (0)
The top 10 myths of starting a consulting business - Comments (1)
400 hours to profitability - Comments (1)
Constantly reinventing ourselves - Comments (0)
Bus-proofing your business… because stuff happens - Comments (3)
What I learned at summer camp - Comments (0)
Specialist or generalist? – part 2 - Comments (1)
Specialist or generalist? – part 1 - Comments (0)
Steps for Starting Your Business - Comments (0)

Uncategorized

Making Yourself Irreplaceable - Comments (1)

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