It’s not what you think! — Like many people out there, my phone is full of apps that can help my budget by saving me money or adding a few drops into the overall bucket that is my household budget. There’s the receipt apps, the rewards apps for places I frequently buy things (like the local…

Asthma trivia for Asthma Awareness Month — May is Asthma Awareness Month. In the spirit of the month, I have compiled some asthma trivia. In America, roughly 25 million people (or about 1 in 13) have asthma. (I am one of them.) It is one of the most common chronic illnesses in children. The word “asthma” comes…

How to use LinkedIn to gain greater success as a writer — LinkedIn is a fantastic place for business professionals to network. For those seeking full-time jobs, it’s an important place to be so you can connect with recruiters and hiring managers and search job postings. But for a full-time freelance writer, does LinkedIn have value? The answer is yes! Here are…

LinkedIn has revolutionized professional networking, and I would not have had some of the career successes I have with the platform. Here are four reasons I love it. It’s Free When I first entered the business world, the only way to network was at in-person events. These could get expensive…

Data is an essential part of managing a fundraising program. There are some key quantitative measures that should always be tracked, including donor acquisition rate, retention rate, and lifetime value. Quantitative data is data that is measured in numbers. As a manager, reviewing quantitative data is valuable to me. It…

How strangers heard my asthma before I did — It was 2012. I had been fighting a cough for about a week. During my short evening shift at my second job, multiple customers heard it and commented. That wasn’t surprising; I worked in a bookstore that had a really friendly atmosphere where customers always had lots of conversations while…

Here are the most entertaining results I got — I recently learned about a nifty free tool that will generate ideas for a title or headline for your blog posts. (Check it out here!) It’s super simple, you just tell it the general topic you are writing about and it gives you TONS of ideas for titles. The first…

Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence fundraising efforts? According to my recent research, it does. You’ve likely noticed that an effective mission statement draws supporters and donors in and gets them excited about helping you achieve that mission. I wanted to explain how that works. As part of my graduate…

Medium is full of publications, and the advice is often given that to be a top-earning writer it is important to get your articles into publications. One very popular and successful writer on Medium is Tim Denning. So where does he publish on Medium? And can you publish there too? …