Looking for work - from Chris Brogan

I Create Work

" . . . . Today, I deposited two checks, one from Amazon and one from Google. These represent my two lowest paying affiliate sources, and so the checks weren’t for much. They totaled a few hundred dollars short of my mortgage. My affiliate check from Genesis (affiliate link) this month will be quite a different matter. That check will pay 3 to 4 times my mortgage. That means that all my years of hard work of building an audience, building great content, and earning your trust now pays for my family’s home every month, which means that I have a lot more opportunity to say no to work, if it’s a bad fit or if I can’t do it, timing-wise.

"I created that work. I built something. In fact, I created all my last few years of work. I don’t have an employer. . . ." From Chris Brogan - Read More

One-person companies living job to job

One-person companies = microenterprise

"If we are going to solve our current economic problems, our president needs to get first hand information on the impact his proposed policies will have on real Joe the Plumbers. People who are 1-person companies living job to job, hoping they get paid on time. We need to know what the impact of his policies will be on the individually owned Chrysler Dealership in Iowa. The bodega in Manhattan. The mobile phone software startup out of Carnegie Mellon. The event planner in Dallas. The barbershop in L.A. The restaurant in Boston."

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Investing in people

With little fanfare, Grameen America opened up shop in the United States about a year ago. Grameen America is a microfinance lending company that serves poor, aspiring entrepreneurs. Microfinance is for micro-enterprises, which are generally defined by governments as a business having 5 or fewer employees and seed capital of less than $35,000. Micro-enterprises have no access to the commercial banking sector, and typically they are single individuals with no capital at all. Grameen America offers loan amounts from $500 to $3,000 coupled with training and peer circle to maximize the chance of business success and loan repayment. Grameen America is built upon the success and experienced staff of Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, which was created by Dr. Muhammad Yunus. They were the joint recipients of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering work in mircofinance as a tool to fight poverty. A March 10, 2008 Washington Post article gives an interesting view of the progress that has been made by Grameen America in New York City during its first year of operation there. Small Loans, Significant Impact Read more about it: Microcredit Summit Campaign Wikipedia - Grameen Bank Defeating Global Poverty - Grameen comes to the USA