Oppenheimer Group Support, Author at Dawn Mentzer, Freelance Marketing Content Writer

Fortune Cookie Friday: “Good news will come to you by mai...

The first Friday in June has arrived – and with it, another Fortune Cookie Friday! Time to explore the wisdom within… “Good news will...

Thrill Ride: Adrenaline Rush of Being a Solopreneur

Earlier this week, I experienced a blast from the past. This video on Facebook is particularly nostalgic for me because I’ve always lived less than...

Making Summer Work for the Home-based Solopreneur: 4 tips ...

In just two weeks, I’ll have my third go as the “school’s out for summer insatiable solopreneur.” As all of you home-based...

United We Stand: Small Business Week and the Solopreneur

It’s Small Business Week! What better time to reflect on the many wonderful aspects of being a solopreneur and to offer insight to people who are...

Fortune Cookie Friday: “Your principles mean more to ...

Friday at last! And time for another Fortune Cookie Friday interpretation of a folded confection’s inner wisdom. “Your principles mean more to...

Volunteering: Your good works can be good for you professio...

In one of my first posts here on The Insatiable Solopreneur, I shared about the give and take aspects of volunteerism. I’m passionate about...

Tending to Business (and all else): The grass is always gre...

Given the undeniable truth within this particular quote by some wise but unknown person, I can’t believe I had never seen it until just recently!...

Fortune Cookie Friday: “You always bring others happiness

Another Friday…another interpretation of a fortune cookie’s inner wisdom. “You always bring others happiness.” As I think about it, I...

Your Inner Critic: When to listen; When to ignore

Last night at my daughter’s Girl Scout troop’s meeting, the leader challenged the girls to think about their “inner critic”. What does it...

Evernote Epiphanies: To Do List Efficiency

Professionals of all sorts have been raving about the web-based productivity tool Evernote. I, too, have been using it, but pretty much only as a...

3 Things Solopreneurs Need to Market Themselves

Overwhelming is an understatement when describing the amount of marketing tips and best practices that are available online, in books, at...

Patience: The Ultimate Entrepreneurial Virtue

As an entrepreneur launching and operating a business, you need a lot of things. Among them: a solid business concept, funds, a marketing plan,...

Keeping Up With Connections: Looking for Best Practices!

The Ultimate Challenge It’s what I find most challenging to stay on top of on social media (especially on Twitter and Google+)…reviewing the...

The Best Prophet of the Future is the Past? Not always!

Another Fortune Cookie Friday is upon us! For those of you not yet familiar, every other Friday or so, I take the profound wisdom found within a...

Quality is a Habit

I Saw the Sign (Yes, as a matter of fact; that Ace of Base song is playing in my head!) Driving home from a business meeting yesterday, I saw a sign...

It’s the Little Things That Matter, But Don’t Sweat the...

Time and time again, we hear, “It’s the little things that matter.” And that’s a beautiful thing…well, usually anyway! As a solopreneur,...

What’s Behind Your Brand? Ask Yourself These 6 Key Questi

One of the most difficult things about starting a business is to gain clarity about the basics behind your brand. It seems like it should be the...

2 Rules of Business Communications: Mind your “p”s and ...

When running your own solo business, communication is at the foundation of building and maintaining client relationships and referral opportunities....

Don’t Give Up! – Fortune Cookie Friday Post

It wasn’t too long ago that one of my Fortune Cookie Friday posts focused on persistence as a key characteristic of solopreneurs and small business...

Using Linkedin for Local, Face-to-Face Connections Leads to...

Linkedin is what I consider the unsung hero of social media. I’ve met business owners who push it aside because Linkedin users don’t appear...

3 Simple Ways to Make YOU a Preferred Professional Services...

Clients have options. It’s one of the most wonderful things about our business environment; however, it can also pose a challenge to those of us...

Change is Good: Don’t resist it!

As a solopreneur, changing aspects of your business (and your attitude toward change itself) to keep up with the current competitive environment and...

Be nice! It’s Good For Business.

When you run a business, you need to be tough. You often need to take a stand. You need to be persistent. You also need to be nice. While chilling...

“Take a Chance” – Fortune Cookie Friday B...

Not less frequently than every other Friday, I drive to one of our local Asian cuisine eateries, order some takeout, and get my hands on a fortune...

Struggles of Solopreneurship – Prepare!

Along with the opportunities and professional flexibility that come with being a solopreneur, so do struggles. Call them challenges, hurdles, or...

How to Use Hootsuite and Buffer Symbiotically to Improve Yo...

The time it takes to actively engage on social media reigns as one of the top challenges facing entrepreneurs. Besides my own Facebook Page, Twitter...

4 Tips to Help Non-Writers Become Better Writers

Not everyone is a writer. There are plenty of intelligent, amazingly brilliant people who just don’t have the knack for it – just as there...

Your Way or the Highway is No Way to Do Business

Part of growing as an entrepreneur is to listen and learn from others who have – or are – walking the walk. You have your ideas about what works...

Solopreneurs: You ARE Your Business – Like it or not!

When you run a micro-business, there’s no separating your personal self from your brand. I don’t mean that you can’t – or shouldn’t –...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Business Advice in an edible wrapper...

Another Friday, another fortune cookie with insight that I’ll apply to being a solopreneur and small business owner. This week’s fortune… “Be...

For the Good of Your Business: Develop a Mentoring Mentalit

I’m passionate about mentoring. As a volunteer with SCORE, I’d better be…but my enthusiasm about helping other solopreneurs and small business...

The Value of Value: Don’t underestimate the worth of ...

As entrepreneurs, one of the keys to survival and success is to provide value to our clients. But the word “value” is often tossed around without...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Business Advice in an edible wrapper...

This Friday’s bit of business wisdom straight from a fortune cookie … “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”...

The Social Advantage of Being Small: Why Solopreneurs &...

My husband, a Facebook neophyte, recently shared that he’s disappointed with some of his favorite brands’ (e.g. the TV show “Survivor”) pages...

Best Small Business Practice – Handwritten Note Cards

I’m amazed at the breadth of best practices and tips that I pick up from listening to what my fellow entrepreneurs and business professionals have...

Don’t Blame Marketing: 3 Things It Can’t Fix

There’s a pattern of thought that I observed during my time as a corporate employee. When a company is failing to meet its business goals, the...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Business Advice in an edible wrapper...

Fortune Cookie Friday is here again with a new bit of business wisdom: “Be receptive to new ideas from all fronts.” It’s easy to be open-minded...

3 Reasons It’s Good for Business To Go Beyond Your Co...

Although it’s comfy to be settled into a space in time where you have everything under control and nothing’s upsetting the proverbial apple...

2 Small Things That Can Make a Big Difference For Your Face...

There’s no shortage of blog posts with lists of do’s and don’ts for using social media in business marketing. While the “right” approach...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Business Advice in an edible wrapper...

Today’s business wisdom within the fortune cookie that accompanied my take-out hot & sour soup… “Your ingenuity and imagination will get...

Not Enough Time? 5 Steps To Finding Out If You’re As Str...

Not too terribly long ago, I wrote a post about how to avoid becoming overwhelmed by the many responsibilities that come with being a small business...

Starting Your Own Business – What’s Love Got To Do With

Thinking about starting and running a business is a romantic notion. You’re the captain of your own destiny. You set the course. It’s easy to...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Small Business Advice in an Edible W...

Once again, it’s Friday and time again for more business insight from the confines of a fortune cookie. This week’s fortune, courtesy of my hot...

3 Ways Building a Business and Bodybuilding Are The Same

Some years ago, I was big into competitive bodybuilding. Not only was I a fan, I was also one of the peeps on stage flexing and posing to impress the...

12-Step Program to Overcome Social Media Addiction (humor)

I’m worried. According to this article on Fox News today, “…preliminary data provided to The Guardian suggests the highest rate of...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Small Business Advice in an Edible W...

Fortune Cookie Friday is here again! This week’s fortune translated into advice for solopreneurs… “You are sociable and entertaining.” An...

3 Tips to Avoid Becoming Overwhelmed as a Solopreneur: Be g...

Running your own business can be exhausting – especially if you’re a solopreneur. You wear ALL the hats – marketer, sales manager, customer...

Over-Analyzing Your Social Media Game Plan: Part 2 of 2 –...

My last post hit on how to be flexible in your social media strategy. Being rigid and too “canned” can make your presence stale. Another trap...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Small Business Advice in an Edible W...

And the weekly tradition continues…What incredibly useful business insight and advice for solopreneurs and small business owners might I glean from...

Over-Analyzing Your Social Media Game Plan: Part 1 of 2 –...

Giving serious thought about how you want to approach social media as a solopreneur is important. Getting too caught up in analyzing what you’re...

3 Ways an All Or Nothing Business Mentality Can Sabotage a ...

All or nothing. As a solopreneur, that mentality can be detrimental to your business – and your self-esteem. An all or nothing approach will have...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Advice In An Edible Wrapper – ...

In case you didn’t see my post from last Friday, I started a new end of week tradition: extracting pearls of wisdom from the confines of a fortune...

Reclaiming Your Crayons as a Solopreneur: Adding Color to y...

One of my Google Plus connections made a really rather poignant statement when responding to one of my posts yesterday… “After kindergarten,...

4 Ways Emulating Tupperware Can Seal In Success for Solopre

In general, I have an aversion to in-home product demonstration gatherings, but last night I went to a Tupperware party. Why? Because the hostess...

Fortune Cookie Friday: Small Business Advice in an Edible W...

It seems such a waste. Fortune cookies are the grand finale to our Moo Shoo Chicken and Vegetable Lo Mein dinners, and yet we toss their little slips...

Business Endurance – What Your Solopreneurial Conditi...

Inspired by thoughts of my personal goals for the July 2012 Philadelphia Mud Run… The parallels between successful athletes and successful business...

Is Force-feeding Tweets Leaving a Sour Taste With Your Link...

I’ve noticed that more and more LinkedIn users are adjusting their settings so that all their tweets automatically show up as LinkedIn status...

Pricing Your Freelance Services

When starting out as a freelancer, quoting your services to clients can cause you to question yourself. “Will they think it’s too much?” “Am...

Perks and Pitfalls of Working from a Home Office

Solopreneurs and other work-from-home professionals are often the envy of those who need to wake up extra early, pack their lunches and fight traffic...

Who You Know – And Who Knows You: Growing Both to Grow Yo...

As 2012 approaches, I’ve been thinking a lot about where my freelance writing business started and where it has taken me over these past two years....

What We Can Learn from Spammers: Turning our worst nightmar...

What…Learn from spam?? Have I lost my senses? In truth, spam is enough to make all of us a little crazy. But there are some lessons about...

5 Things a Freelance Writer Can Do to Make You Look Better ...

Occasionally, I run into a blank stare when I tell someone I’m a freelance writer. And in all fairness to the folks doing the staring, the job...

The Solopreneur Self-Assessment: Questions to Ask Yourself ...

Being a solopreneur takes more than a business idea, compliance with regulations, and cash to get things off the ground. It’s a state and style of...

How To Keep Up With Small Business Legislation That Could I...

Taxes, healthcare, legal reform, labor laws, the environment, energy, technology, transportation and infrastructure, education, campaign finance,...

On Twitter: No Sense in Following for the Sake of Getting o...

Frank Dickinson published a post a few months ago about engaging his audience on Twitter. Within it, mention of a clever hashtag he used in a tweet:...

New Year Resolutions for the Solopreneur: A More Motivating...

Setting goals and objectives isn’t one of the more glamorous aspects of running a business. But it’s a way to keep yourself motivated and...

Creating a social media strategy for the Solopreneur

Contributed by Ali Goldfield of ADR Social Media Development As a social media coach, I understand how critical social media can be to promoting your...

Don’t Dis Your Downtime: What to do during a wavering wor

It’s inevitable. As a solopreneur, especially one in the freelance professional services arena, there will be moments of “feast” and others of...

The Solopreneur’s Extended Circle of Thanks – Where...

The SCORE Small Business Success Blog just recently posted Giving Thanks by Jeanne Rossomme. It’s a wonderful article that reflects the things that...

Small Business Resources Every Start-Up Should Know About

As a solopreneur and SCORE mentor, I meet and interact with small business owners from a wide variety of industries. Although their business types...

As an Entrepreneur, You Reap What You Sow – And So Do Tho...

On Sunday, I traveled out of town for the day to witness my niece’s baptism. During the pastor’s sermon, she talked about taking responsibility...

Why I’m Not Setting Up a Google Plus Business Page –...

Available time wasn’t a luxury for me when Google made the announcement about the launch of Google Plus Pages. Initially, I felt like I was...

Klout is a Catch-22

I admit it – my Klout score worries me. It’s not my actual numeric score of 45 that concerns me -or the fact that it was previously a 51 before...

The Advantage of Being a Self-Motivated Solopreneur

Earlier in the week, I attended a networking/expo function that featured a keynote speaker who focused on “motivation” – specifically how...

Find It and Fix It – Getting to the Root Cause of You...

I’m known to be a bit of a holistic freak. When it comes to my health and well-being, I don’t believe in treating symptoms. A symptom is...

Your Brand: Know It Before You Show It

The National Audubon Society launched this really rather effective public awareness video. It got me thinking about the importance of branding to...

Your Emails: Bring It or Blow It – To Do’s and Taboos

It’s seems rather odd to me that so much is written about the do’s and don’ts of interacting on social media, but the one constant in...

How To Be a Caring Leader Without Getting Trampled

Working as a solopreneur and serving in leadership roles for community organizations are extremely gratifying, but in the process of putting myself...

20-Minute Tactical Plan for Tackling Social Media

Time. Finding enough of it is arguably the biggest hurdle facing solopreneurs and small business owners when it comes to their social media efforts....

The Networking Solopreneur – Patience Makes Perfect &...

So much of our communications and access to information is instantaneous. And we like it that way. We don’t have the patience to wait for much of...

4 Reasons to Get Over Twitter Intimidation

Twitter can be intimidating. It’s fast. It’s got its own secret language. There are people on there who have tens of thousands of followers…...

3 Low-Tech Planning Tools That Will Never Go Out of Style

Without argument, embracing technology is important for survival as a solopreneur. But there are a few low-tech tools that I can never see myself...

The Game of Chance Approach to Business

Although our annual downtown street fair came and went last week, it’s lingering on my mind. No, I’m not going through funnel cake and French fry...

The Solopreneur’s Work “Day” – 8 to...

I belong to a business roundtable group that is a wonderful source of inspiration, knowledge and usually good advice. The members are all small...

Strategic Volunteerism – Think “What’s In...

The terms “volunteerism” and “altruism” are considered synonymous by lots of people. And inherently there are the...

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