We have good days and bad days. Sometimes, our bad days at home translates to bad days at the office. Besides, emotional factors, there are others that impair our workplace productivity. Emotional factors are obvious and can be controlled if you put your mind to it. Other factors may not be as apparent; they leave [...]

Since last year, a buzz phrase has, well, been buzzing around but hasn’t really gotten noticed that much. The buzz phrase: idea extraction.

If you’ve been following the blog for a while now, then you should know that we not only review various invoicing apps like our own BeachCandy but we also feature a lot of things that could be helpful to some readers out there – mostly about business. This post is no exception. I bring you [...]

As you all know, we’re big fans of inspirational stories. Two of the best inspirations we have are Freshbooks, with its message to users a few months ago, and Basecamp/37Signals pricing principles. I recently read

While fiddling around with the absolute amazing mailchimp software (just looking at it in the backend i felt quite kinda overwhelmed),  I stumbled across this article Mailchimp-launches-1-million-integration-fund where Ben, the founder of mailchimp, announced the above fund.

As you may already know, this blog is that of BeachCandy. However, instead of focusing on our own products, we mix things up a bit and try to write about other invoicing applications, SEO, and whatnot. Pretty much, this is how I feel what a blog is. Content should be varied, but not too different [...]

Roughly two months ago, I wrote something about posting to multiple social networks. It was through the use of Ping.fm, a very nice tool that allows you to post to all social sites of your choice with a single click. We here at Beach Candy used Ping.fm. However, a couple of weeks ago, I wrote [...]

Going self-employed doesn’t mean you have to work alone. Sometimes, you will need help starting a business. You may need to employ someone’s services, or you can simply find a business partner. Getting a business partner is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you get more leeway from work; and even some business startup help. [...]

I wrote about the different types of blogs yesterday and provided a few examples as to how blogs make money. For more types of blogs that you may want to put up, head over and read this post. You may have noticed that despite the variety of blogs on the internet, each niche has its [...]

I’ve written about making money with blogs or articles and have provided some insights as to how we do it. But looking back at our posts, we never really wrote about how a blog can make you money. Blogging is simple. Making money with blogs isn’t. The first thing you should think about when trying [...]