Erica Martin

Ideas to Enhance Productivity and Efficiency When Working from Home

March 9, 2021 by Erica Martin Leave a Comment

Guest Post by Howie Bick of The Analyst Handbook

Working from home is a phenomenon that has infiltrated many different companies and industries across the world. Ranging far and wide, many of the world’s employees and teams have moved to a work-from-home setting. Shifting to working from home is a process that takes time, it takes learning, and it most likely takes some adjustments along the way. Figuring out a solution that works best for you, and allows you to continue to produce at a high level might take some experimenting, and some trial and error. While far from perfect, here are a few ideas, and strategies that we’ve found to be successful for us while working from home.

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Commit to Writing Blog Posts with Post or Pay

November 23, 2020 by Erica Martin 1 Comment

Have you ever found it hard to sit down and write a blog post? As someone who owns three websites, two which have blogs on them, I know how hard it can be to sit down and commit yourself to write. There are a few different websites that provide incentives people to complete different goals every week, like Beeminder, but those websites can be used for more than just blog posts. Also, they don’t require any proof that you accomplished your goal. Recently, I found out about a new website where you can set goals to write blog posts for your website, called Post or Pay. I’ll talk more about it in this post.

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Utilizing Your Time at Home Effectively

September 8, 2020 by Erica Martin Leave a Comment

A guest post by Howie Bick of The Analyst Handbook

As many companies and businesses have shifted to working from home, employees have had more time to spend at home, and more time on their hands. The shift to working from home has created an opportunity for people to explore new areas, learn new skills, and better their crafts. Utilizing the abundance of time people have been given, can be beneficial in a variety of different ways, whether it’s improving the work product they produce, finding new interests or areas to pursue, or further developing their skills, utilizing the newfound time can be beneficial in many different ways.

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Mange Multiple Websites in One Place With MainWP

July 1, 2020 by Erica Martin Leave a Comment

If you own or manage a few domains, and especially if your domains have subdomains, it can be difficult to manage all those sites at once. Luckily, there’s a plugin that can help you with that – MainWP. It’s a website manager that keeps track of all your WordPress websites and the updates that are available for them, and even allows you to see posts you’ve written. In this post I’ll explain what MainWP is, how to download it, install it and set it up.

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Freelancers: Set Aside Money for Taxes, Time Off and Retirement with Catch

August 22, 2019 by Erica Martin Leave a Comment

If you work as a freelancer, you know how important it is to save money out of your pay for taxes, as well as time off and retirement. But how do you do this? You may have an accountant helping you with this task, but accountants can be expensive. Luckily, there’s an easy way to figure out how much you should be saving for taxes, time off and retirement, and set aside these amounts out of your pay – use the website Catch.

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