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Planning an Unconventional Home Office Setup
I’ve had a home office for the past ten years. During that time, my wife and I have moved four times. Besides working full time at jobs we love, Lori and I also run our own side hustles: I write, and she creates art and jewelry. Juggling all that leaves little room for a social…
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Put the Sleeper Hold on Boring Meetings
Productivity gurus love to pick on lame meetings. But let’s be realistic…even top creative professionals have to endure meetings with clients or with project teams. Taking ownership of your work means taking responsibility… Read the whole article on WorkAwesome…
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Scams, Lies, and Credit Cards: Fraud Rings’ Five Favorite Schemes
Even if you’ve become religious about shredding your credit card statements before you toss them away, criminals can still find ways to cheat you out of time and money. Investigators want you to watch for five of the fastest growing sources of identity theft and credit card forgeries… Read the full article at CardRatings.com…
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Five Surprising Credit Card Bills
And no, they’re not mine. We’re still on a roll with some fun credit card lists over at the CardRatings Blog. This time, we wanted to find a few of the wildest things anyone had ever bought with a credit card. Our search turned up a historic dinner, a bargain wedding, and a fine art…
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Why Professional Writers Need a Blog
When Mario Batali comes home from a long day at the kitchen, does he cook for himself? If you’ve read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, you’ll know that professional cooks often end up at the same diners and dives that we like to haunt at 1am. That’s the dilemma whenever I talk to a writer about…
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Top 5 Things You Shouldn’t Do with Your Corporate Credit Card
We’re having a lot of fun over at the CardRatings.com blog, posting some Top 5 lists and looking at some of the unusual credit card news that’s cropping up. I tracked down five of the wildest corporate fraud cases involving credit cards, and came up with some stories of greed, ambition, and just plain cluelessness:…
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New “Music Management Skills” Series at spinme.com
As a compliment to the live Music Management Boot Camp series I’ve been running this spring, I’ve started posting a set of quick articles about “Music Management Skills” at spinme.com. Partly, the series reflects the shift in spinme.com’s core audience: I’m not just seeing musicians looking for music marketing advice anymore. Many of the site’s…
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Five Ways Credit Cards Can Save Your Marriage
Here’s another highlight from our CardRatings.com blog that I’ve been getting some great feedback about: A slumping economy, a soft job market, and rising credit card debt can strain relationships. If you didn’t manage to stun your spouse on Valentine’s Day, you may have to call for reinforcements to save your marriage. Fortunately, credit cards…
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Know Your Credit Card Foreign Transaction Fee BEFORE You Travel
Posted last week on CardRatings.com, here are some of my favorite tips for folks planning to travel outside the U.S. with a little cash and a lot of plastic: With new credit card rules squeezing profit margins at major banks, foreign travelers have become an even easier target for special fees and surcharges. Credit card…
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Tweets Going Live Tonight
For posterity, I’ll use the “Tweets” category to back up my daily tweet stream. This won’t appear on the home page.
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I’m a Ghost Blogger and I’m Proud of It
Sometimes, when I’m not griping about still having to pay down my student loan, I think about what I really got for my money when I attended Ithaca College. I may not be working in either of the two media mentioned in my major concentration (“radio” or “television”), but I sure do a heck of…
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Snow’s Melting
Almost two weeks later, and the snow still reminds me more of Ithaca than of anything I grew up with around here.