How to Evolve from Contractor to Consultant

What’s interesting about freelancing or running a professional services business is that as you work more and learn more about your trade, you start to gain expertise in your field and people start asking you questions. For example, for my web design business, people often end up asking me about internet marketing and designing for conversion and usability.

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Tips for Getting More Reviews for Your Local Business

Customer reviews can make or break your local business and with the growth of online review sites like Yelp, it is easier than ever for people to share their opinions about your business.

Most businesses don’t really do anything to proactively get more reviews, but there are some things you can do to get more positive reviews. At the same time, you should also be aware of some guidelines.

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How to Get a Complete SEO Analysis for Your Local Business

When I was learning about local SEO, I learned about a free online tool that basically tells you what you need to do to get more search engine traffic for your local business.

The Bright Local SEO tool creates and easy to read report with visual elements that tells you your strengths and weaknesses and where you can put more effort if you want to get more traffic from Google.

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Residual Income Idea – Selling Web Hosting

One idea that I got about making passive recurring income was selling web hosting. I purchased reseller hosting from Hostgator awhile back because I have a bunch of websites, so I figured I could just get that instead of individual hosting for each site.

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Free Places to Post Your Online Portfolio

If you are a web designer, graphic designer, or artist, then here is a list of websites where you can post a free online portfolio. Even if you are in a different profession, if you have images to upload that can represent your work skills, then check out these sites:

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