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Lifestyle Lessons From across the Pond
Feeling a little burnt out from the crazy pace of your life? The Europeans may have the key to balancing work and a life. Go >
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Making Smart Software & Hardware Choices
Given the countless number of new computer models and capabilities, it's easy to see why many prospective computer buyers are overwhelmed. Jeff Berner offers tips on how to focus. Go >
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Living the Self-Employed Single Life
You're self-employed and are proud to be your own boss working from a home office. But you say you're starting to feel a little isolated? Go >
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How to Make Clients and Customers Want to Call You
Your professional image includes what people hear when they reach you, as well as from your voice mail. Jeff provides tips for making people really want to call your number. Go >
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Follow Your Bliss
Seize the opportunity to do what you really want to do, and the money will follow. Jeff Berner shows you how. Go >
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Mentoring: When You're Tired of Retirement
You've waited years for retirement, but now you find you're bored. Mentoring can be a valuable way of giving back to the community and yourself. Go >
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The Art of Concentration
Jeff Berner reveals the secret to balancing a successful professional and personal life: focus on just one or two things at a time. Go >
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4 Cardinal Rules for a Successful Home Office
Jeff Berner shares tips for a successful home office--based on 30 years' experience as an independent professional. Go >
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Do You Recognize My Voice?
Jeff Berner is bypassing his keyboard in favor of a voice recognition system. He explains how such a simple switch can go a long way to improving your efficiency. Go >
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Balancing Personal, Family, and Work Needs
Now that you're working from home, true, you don't have to deal with the boss peering over your shoulder, but you may need to learn the art of balancing your spouse's, kids' and even your own needs. Go >
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Reading Your Fortune After Forty
A recent article that claims a worker's value may start to wane at the age of 40 has Jeff Berner steaming mad. But he says there are ways you can fight back. Go >
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Working Independently in the Spirit of Community
Jeff Berner provides tips on how you can work independently and give back to your community. Go >
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Building a Virtual Team
Even if you're not working in a corporate office, most projects require teamwork. Find out from Jeff how to set up your Virtual Team. Go >
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The Telecommuting Option
For millions, the positive aspects of telecommuting far outweigh the disadvantages. Find out if it can work for you. Go >
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There's Big Business in Small Business
Don't overlook a huge market for your products--fellow home office workers. Jeff Berner provides tips for marketing to your peers. Go >
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Want to Build a Web Site?
Thinking of advertising your business online? Jeff offers five tips for building and running your own Web site. Go >
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12 Survival Tips for the Independent Professional
Being one's own boss poses many challenges. Follow these tips and thrive! Go >
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The Zen of Managing Your Time
Are you cash rich but time poor? Consult Jeff Berner's lesson on the Zen of managing your time. Go >
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How'm I Doing?
Assess your success! Insider Jeff Berner offers five tips for evaluating your business. Go >
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Business Owner's Escape Plan
Let's talk about the one thing many small business owners and self-employed professionals rarely plan for: vacations! Go >
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Marketing on the Internet
Review & Interview
Insider Jeff Berner interview Jan Zimmerman, author of Marketing on the Internet. Go >
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The Top 5 Home Office Gifts to Die For
Insider Jeff Berner reveals his five dream gifts for his home office. Go >
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The Zen of a Home Office Space
The Zen of Work is about balancing a vigorous sense of peace with easygoing determination to accomplish your tasks and reach some goals. Go >
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Successful Networking on the Net
Just because you're networked, doesn't always mean that you're connected. Get tips from Work Insider Jeff Berner. Go >
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Buyer Beware
Jeff Berner offers quick tips on how to be a wise buyer in this high tech world. Go >
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Seven Questions to Ask When Starting a Business
Before you launch your new business you'll want to answer at least seven questions, all of which will help you build a foundation for success. Go >
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Top Ten Tech Tools for Business
Read our Insiders' list of ten technologies that can make your home office a reality. These tools allow you to perform tasks more efficiently and professionally than ever before. Go >
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Dream Dilemma
Before you chase a career dream, be honest with yourself about what it takes to pursue it. Go >
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Jack/Jane of All Trades:
Master/Mistress of None?
You finally know what you want to do with your life--you want to work for yourself! But how do you cover all the bases on your own? Insider Jeff Berner tells you how to work solo and survive. Go >
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Technology Sucks, or Have We Become the Tool of Our Tools?
Does technology make your working life easier or harder? Don't let machines run your life, says Insider Jeff Berner. Go >
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Smashing Wage Slavery: The Self-Employment and Telecommuting Promise
Wipe out commuting--and while you're at it, the whole concept of a "job." Insider Jeff Berner shows you how to stop wage slavery and set up a successful home office. Go >
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Look, then Leap from Your Salaried Job
According to a 1997 Gallup Poll, about 13 percent of the people who leave corporate life every year do so to launch their own careers as self-employed professionals and entrepreneurs. Whether they succeed depends on how well they plot their escapes. Go >
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Money Isn't Everything
The American "can do" spirit has many entrepreneurs thinking that the sky's the limit. Trouble is, if the sky's the limit, you'll always feel earthbound! Go >
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No Earthquakes, Please: Strategies for the Right Lateral Move
Here's a career play that can be profoundly effective. If your chances of moving up seem hampered by your competition, or by a boss who isn't actively helping you climb the old corporate ladder, shoot for a lateral move. Imagine ways in which you can take on extra responsibilities and projects beyond your own box. Go >
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Curbed Career
Got your motor running, but still can't get out on the highway? Here's a look at what might be holding you back. Go >
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Go Hire Yourself: Survival Tips for Your Transition to Self-Employment
You don't have to hate your job to want more out of professional life--such as taking full credit for a successful project, shaping your own work, and arranging your own vacation time. But the tradeoffs required to launch a small business of your own can be daunting, such as losing the predictable salary that makes a budget possible--especially if you have a family, a mortgage, or other drum-beat expenses. Go >
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