The government has today launched a consultation process into its proposals to scrap the default retirement age in the UK. Currently, under Labours Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, employers can force staff to retire at the age of 65 without paying any financial compensation

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Past your Hey day? – Default Retirement Age to be Scrapped

Over the last year or so, we have been educating us heavily in internet and affiliate marketing. As we see it, the biggest and most valuable asset in your business is YOU, and therefore we use time and money to constantly educate and update ourselves on the latest in this industry – in order to MAKE

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REVIEW: Cambridge Business Academy

From the Pro Blogger Job Board … Please apply through ProBlogger’s links and use your due diligence when responding to such ads. Suite101 is a popular online magazine that offers authoritative articles, intelligent reviews and expert commentary to over 28 million readers each month.

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Bloggers Wanted For Suite 101

The good thing about affiliate marketing is that there is no rule that demands you have a website of your own because when it comes to dealing with customers, shipping or product creation this is all taken care of by the affiliate company. One of the easiest methods of starting an online business and making money is by becoming an internet affiliate marketer. If you are already working as an affiliate marketer what you want to do more than anything else is to increase the size of your commissions, the question though is how you are going to achieve that objective

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Great Ways to Increase Your Affiliate Commissions Rapidly

Non-native writers face discrimination online. Much of this negativity come for failing to write English “properly” – at least according to prospective clients. Looking been around various forums and markets, I’ve come across more than a few exclusionary advertisements about “native English speakers only” and such.

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ESL Discrimination: Real or Ridiculous?

It’s almost time to start another year! Parents and teachers know exactly what I’m talking about.

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One Writing Mom’s (Realistic) Goals for the New Year

It’s time for Part 4 of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand series here on Freelance Writing Jobs, and today, you’ll learn about manipulating search engine results and how to handle negative conversations about your brand online.  You can find links to Parts 1-3 of the series at the end of this post. First, it’s important to understand that this is not a lesson in search engine optimization, although some of the suggestions in Part 3 and Part 4 of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand series certainly do apply to SEO as well. With that said, here we go… What kind of results do you get when you Google your name or your freelance writing brand name (if it’s different from your personal name)?  Are they the results that you want people to find when they type your name into the Google search box?  If not, then you have some work to do if you want to build your online brand reputation and build your business.  Fortunately, writers are in the perfect position to do exactly that because we’re great at creating content!  With a bit of strategy, we’re positioned to be the best content marketers! The key to manipulating search engine results is to leverage the power of the compounding effect of blogging and content sharing as discussed in Part 3 of the Building Your Freelance Writing Brand series.  Generating incoming links to your own amazing content and getting others to write about you and your amazing content are the free and easy steps that you can take to begin the process of adjusting search engine results for your name.

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Building Your Freelance Writing Brand – Part 4

Most of us would dearly love to get 211,657 visitors to our site in a year. But what if a 6 word poll could start an avalanche  of visitors to your site? Could it be possible for you?

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211,657 amazing visitors to my site – from a 6 word poll?

In a shocking announcement, John Reese recently shared that he sold everything he owned and was off to travel the world. The only material possessions he had left fit into a backpack he carried with him as he set out on the journey.

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Getting Focused On What Really Matters…

Have you ever walked into an airport, seen that there is nobody in line at the check-in counter, but still made a bee-line for the self-service kiosk? Better yet, have you ever waited in line for an ATM machine even though there is nobody in line for the teller inside the bank? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, you’re not alone

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Why Your Customers Don’t Want to Talk to You

We needed to install one of those hand-held shower gadgets in the bathroom that my mother-in-law uses. We found a nice-looking Waterpik ® product, one that requires no tools for installation. It did, however, require several sharp implements to get the unit out of its plastic armor

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Around the house

I don’t talk about finances much here other than issues revolving around rates and making money. That’s an area where I know my stuff, but I leave the rest to our resident financial experts. Today though I want to talk about money — my money — with a personal look at how freelance success has, and hasn’t, changed how I spend

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Money and the Freelance Life (or Why I Drive a Really Old Car)

This Friday my guest will be Kathy Goughenour, who left a soul-sucking corporate job to run a successful business from her cabin in the woods! Kathy is an experienced, savvy marketer. From corporate marketing to direct sales to virtual assistant to internet marketer, she’s been there and done that professionally and personally. After taking the leap of

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Friday’s guest is Virtual Assistant expert Kathy Goughenour

In psychology, the term ” identified patient ” refers to a family member — often a child or a teenager — who gets scapegoated for behavior that is actually just a predictable response to dealing with an unhealthy family. Tony Hayward is BP’s identified patient.

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Tony Hayward Is a Scapegoat

Ideas are the bread and butter of the marketing business, if you will ignore the cliché. Every commercial, every direct mail letter, every single email, almost every word of any marketing piece came from an idea. Ideas are important.

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What is Marketing but Selling Ideas

Before turning the page on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s all-too-hasty firing of Shirley Sherrod, let’s consider what leaders in the private sector can learn from the episode. Yes, Vilsack rushed to judgment. But why?

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White Executives Should Head to the ‘Hood

One of the strengths of Affiliate Marketers is that they can move quickly.  When Michael Jackson died last year, it only took a matter of hours before affiliates were targeting people searching for news on the subject.  This ability to move quickly is what sets affiliates apart from big advertising agencies and old-school marketing firms.  However, it can also lead to a paralyzing condition that I like to call Affiliate Hyperactive Disorder . Monkey set up offers.

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Avoid Affiliate Hyperactive Disorder

Yesterday on Twitter I noted that I finally made a decision regarding the book I’m working on — The Query-Free Freelancer — and whether I would pursue a traditional publisher or opt to self-publish the book. I’ve chosen the latter

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Why I Won’t Pursue a Publisher for The Query-Free Freelancer

Last week, I published an article called 5 Online Tools Freelance Writers Can Use to Make Life and Business Easier , which offered my suggestions for free and cheap tools that any freelance writer can try.  One of the items on that list was Skype, which enables you to make free calls (including international calls) from your computer.  Skype is free and not only helps freelance writers manage client communication, but it’s also an incredible tool for conducting audio and video interviews. Want to see a sample of a video taken via a Skype call?  Check out the videos I took using Call Recorder for Mac (discussed later in this post) for Newstex.com .  The video recording feature in Call Recorder allows you to record both parties on the call (using a picture-in-picture feature) or just one party (which is great for those of us who work at home in our pajamas).  You control everything on your end.  The person on the other end of the call just needs a Skype account, a webcam, and a microphone

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Tools to Record Interviews Using Skype

Have you ever wondered whether you’re really making the best use of your time? Do you ever feel that too much of your day is spent on low-value activities that perhaps need to get done, but certainly don’t require your level of experience or training

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How to Give Time Back to Your Team