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Whip Up a Service-Based Business in a Weekend (in 4 steps!)

Looking for service based business ideas? Start here! You don't need fancy branding or an expensive website. This basic, incredibly helpful small business advice is great from bloggers and entrepreneurs! #startabusiness #biztips #servicebasedbusiness #howtostartabusiness #girlboss

What’s a service-based business? And how do you come up with ideas for one?

Well, I’m so glad you asked! A service-based business is a business where you work directly with clients (usually one-on-one) exchanging your talent/expertise/time for their $$$. If you’re a coach, a consultant, a designer or a photographer, you have a service-based business!

No matter your skill set, it’s hiiiiighly likely you could use those skills to create a service-based business. Today my friend Courtney (of The Rule Breaker’s Club fame) is helping you figure out how what type of business you could launch. Pop over and learn more about package up and sell your talents in a signature service!


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True Story: I Live With Hill Tribes in Thailand

True Story: I Live With Hill Tribes in Thailand

This is just one of many interviews that make up the True Story series. We talk to interesting people who are doing amazing/challenging/inspiring things. This is the story of my fantastic friends Amanda and Daniel. They're both working on their PhDs in Developmental Sociology - which means they get to live with hill tribes in Thailand! How jealous am I?! Living with Hill Tribes in Thailand Tell...

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9 Fun Activities That Also Happen To Be Exercise

9 Fun Activities That Also Happen To Be Exercise

Confession: I don't particularly enjoy trundling along on the stair climber at the Y or grunting my way through lunges while avoiding eye contact with frat boys. However. I also don't particularly enjoy grunting my way through zipping up my pants. You don't either? Weird! Now that it's summer I enjoy a good frolic much more than an aerobics class. There are heaps of things to do that are fun and...

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True Story: I Was Raised By Deaf Parents

True Story: I Was Raised By Deaf Parents

This is just one of our many True Story interviews, in which we talk to people who have been through interesting/challenging/amazing things. My fantastic friend Lovel (who I visited during Mardi Gras) has been kind enough to tell us about life growing up with two deaf parents. Amazing, no?How did your parents meet? They were both going to the deaf schools here in Louisiana. My dad was going to...

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31 New Things: Get A Piece of Freelance Writing Published

31 New Things: Get A Piece of Freelance Writing Published

When I was eight years old, I announced to my parents that I wanted to be a writer. Okay, I was actually aiming for some sort of writer/ballerina/lion-tamer hybrid, but I was pretty sure that I wanted the written word to be part of my future. And over the last few years I've edited my university's literary journal, interned at a newspaper, did my time at an ad agency writing press releases for...

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True Story: I’m a Female Wildfire Fighter

True Story: I’m a Female Wildfire Fighter

What would it be like to work as a hotshot, a wildfire fighter? It's an overwhelmingly male-dominated field; what would it be like to do it as a woman? This is Gina's story. How did you get into fire fighting? I always wanted to be a firefighter, it seemed exciting to me. I like to be outside, lift heavy things and sleep on the ground! In college, I got a job with the forest service working on...

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How To Plan A World Tour

How To Plan A World Tour

Planning to travel the world is a huge undertaking! I've traveled through a huge number of countries, lived abroad for extended periods of time, and know what it takes to make it on the road. Here's my advice for world travel! Dear Sarah Von, So I'm just sorta starting to plan a MEGA TRIP, my first mega trip,actually, and thus far its looking like I'm going to be travelling on my own. Which, I'm...

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