How to Write a Pitch

When you start to blog or have a business, you find yourself in need of a pitch letter. You may want to begin writing reviews or pitching for advertising, if you are a blogger. As a business owner, you may need to write a pitch letter to get your product in the press or to offer it for review. Don’t be intimidated, writing a pitch letter is easier then you may think. Successful pitch letters are short and to the point. I receive pitches all the time, and I can tell you that I skim the long ones because I … Continue reading

Insurance Blog Week in Review – July 8 – 14, 2012

Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review brings you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on the blogs that have been posted here in the past seven days. There could be anywhere between twelve and fourteen blogs that appear. Which ones did you miss? Jan Brewer Wants to Take Away Health Insurance Benefits Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wants the Supreme Court to allow her to terminate health insurance coverage for the same-sex partners of state workers. An appeals court would not allow her to do that. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on July 9, 2012. This time, … Continue reading

Setting it Aside for the Moment

A partnership comes with challenges as with any relationship. They say when you marry your spouse you are also marrying a family. The same is true on some level in business. If your business partner is having any family or personal issues it may have an effect on your business. Your business may suffer a time when one partner is working alone due to the other partner’s life situation. You will have to decide if that does occur if you are willing to hold down the fort or close up shop if just for a season. In addition a time … Continue reading

Are Your Skills in Demand in the Freelance Marketplace?

Perhaps you are thinking about becoming a home-based professional. That is a wonderful and exciting thing. You may be wondering whether the job skills that you have are things that employers are hiring home-based workers to do. According to Elance, a website where freelance workers can search for and bid on freelance jobs, there are over a hundred skills that people are hiring freelancers for. This means that if you take a good look at your resume, you will find that you can do one of these hundred things if not more than one. What are these skills? Well, if … Continue reading

Internet Malfunctions Do Not Have To Ruin Your Day

For home-based professionals who work online or use the internet to submit their work to clients, a reliable internet connection is an essential piece of business equipment. However, internet connections can and do fail to work properly from time to time. Sometimes, there is nothing that you can do to get through an internet outage except for finding things that you can do offline until connectivity is restored. Even though it may be a bit upsetting at first to have to set the work that you had planned on doing aside because you cannot get online, the very act of … Continue reading

Could your business benefit from blog reviews?

What is a blog review? A blog review is when a blogger tests a product and then posts his or her impressions of said product on his or her blog. How does a blog review work? Either a company or public relations person will contact the blogger or a blogger will contact a company and request a review of a particular product. The company sends a complimentary product to the blogger. The blogger has no financial obligation for the product or shipping. The blogger is under no obligation to write a positive review, send the product back or review the … Continue reading