Hillary Clinton’s big idea for the week is to give every U.S. baby a $5,000 “baby bond” the day they are born. The idea is to have it pay for future college tuition or buying a home.
She says it will help Americans get back into the swing of “savings”. I think it will get Americans back into the swing of abusing government funds. We all know there’s enough of that going on already.
I’m interested to hear your thoughts on this. Spill it in the comments.
While they say “no risk, no reward”, I’d like to change that a bit for the purpose of this article. How bout, “some risk, no immediate reward”?
In almost every industry, service providers work on a per project, per milestone, or per hour basis. The tasks are determined before the assignment begins, by yourself and your client. An amount and method of payment is agreed upon. And you begin your process, whether that be creative, financial, manufacturing, etc…
That model appears to be going through a process of evolution in the creative world and migrating across numerous markets. The new approach takes from the entrepreneurial notion of banking on equity. If you’re a sole proprietor, the entire equity of your business is in your hands. Your actions determine your earnings (or losses) and your lifestyle is molded by the outcome of those actions (no sales, no rent).
NOTE: This post came from a conversation Eric and I were having at 3:00 am EST.
Followers are just as important, if not more important than the big name bloggers. Without them, those powerhouses wouldn’t exist. They are a metric of pop culture in our community. We need them. But I don’t think any of us like to be labeled as a follower.
In every single industry, in management positions, there’s been individuals making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. That’s nothing new. When you can count the amount of bloggers making such an amount on your fingers and toes, it doesn’t look like the most promising industry to be in.
Guest post by Dan Schawbel, owner of the Personal Branding Blog and publisher of the Personal Branding Magazine.
Personal Branding applies to everyone throughout the world, but who really benefits most? As a youth, you have the flexibility and lack of responsibilities necessary to focus on your brand and improve it. The faster you can discover who you are in your youth, the more prone you are to a successful career. As you age, your responsibilities increase, such as leasing an apartment, purchasing a car, marrying your fiancé or having your first child. When these milestones in your life occur, they force you into making decisions outside of the “branding realm.”
They make it easy to introduce yourself to strangers, help them remember your name, make you look bigger than you actually are, and certify the fact that you own your own business. These are business cards of course, an essential part of every entrepreneur’s toolkit.
From the dozens, hundreds, or thousands of cards that have passed through your hands over the years, chances are you can only recall several at most. If they weren’t your standard one-sided logo/text templates from Kinko’s, they may resemble the awful era of bevel and gradient madness from back in 2000.
It could be worse, I guess. You could have no business cards at all. Scribbling on napkins at events gets tired after a while.
Whether your cards are an eyesore, or are running low, or you don’t have any, this is where YGG and Orange32 step in, with our first official contest.
We’ve partnered with Orange32, the nicest creative and print shop we’ve ever met, to give away a prize pack worth over $400. This package includes:
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