Clearsite Multimedia

How sad that it’s become common practice to start emails without a proper salutation and to end it with a trailing history of forwards and spam text. (Clean up your forwarded email, man!) That, I can except just for knowing that we are all in a hurry and it’s so easy to hit reply and shoot out some answer especially if it’s been an ongoing conversation. So now that we agree that email is easy, we can also label non-reply as quite rude, downright lazy, and extremely bad business. Click to Continue »

Wow! In any given month, owning your own business means coming in early on a Monday to vacuum the leased space so you don’t make too much noise for your fellow leasers downstairs, filling the fridge with 4 o’clock a.m and p.m munchies, negotiating an employee’s vacation time, checking to see where that freelancer is at 9:30 a.m., fighting bogus charges from your last landlord, estimating on a job you know you won’t get, educating a client on the differences between vector and bitmap and sitting on Lynda.com to brush up on the software you will never get good at because you own your own business and crap has to get done. Click to Continue »

Deciding to start your own business is often thought up right after you fight with your boss, you get fired, or you are exhausted or unhappy with your career. Just as in any whirlwind rebound relationship, this is not a good time to make a decision to get married—a marriage to your career that can alter your life more than you could ever imagine. Sure, the rewards are awesome—just pick the 70 hours you want to work. Click to Continue »