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Grow Your Business with Online Courses: An illustration of Instructional Design for Infopreneurs

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 at 03:30 AM 

Grow Your Business with Online Courses: An illustration of Instructional Design for Infopreneurs By Amy Ferguson Trying to turn your expertise into a marketable online course? As information professionals who curate knowledge for a living, building and selling online courses is a natural next step for many of us. But without a plan, creating an… Read More »

Categories : Growing Your Business, Independence, Tools of the Trade
Tags : instructional design; selling courses; residual income; running an info business

AIIP Blog – Retirement Series

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, June 17th, 2025 at 11:05 AM 

A couple of years ago, I mentioned to a client that I was starting to think about retirement, but I wasn’t sure how to approach it as an independent consultant.

Categories : Independence, Member News
Tags : retirement, solopreneur

AIIP 2025 – Proudly Independent and Globally Connected

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Heather Carine The theme for AIIP 2025 – Proudly Independent and Globally Connected – set the tone for the Association’s virtual Symposium held April 8-10, 2025. AIIP 2025 was hosted on Whova and seamlessly synced with Zoom. AIIP attendees always want plenty of time to meet and chat.   Each day started with an online… Read More »

Categories : Independence, Symposium
Tags : AIIP 2025

We are AIIP: Charles Costa

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 at 03:19 PM 

In your bio, you describe yourself as a content strategist who focuses on customer service knowledge management. In two sentences, what do content strategists do? Working as a content strategist in a customer service setting is analogous to being an air traffic controller who is focused on content development instead of planes. As the company… Read More »

Categories : Independence, Member News
Tags : We are AIIP

Slowing Down on the Path to Retirement

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Gillian Clinton Editors note: This is part of our “Retirement” series to address challenges and opportunities many of our members facing retirement are experiencing. My path to retirement has been a slow and gentle one.  I enjoy learning – I have degrees in Aerospace Engineering, History, and Information Studies – and, while I no… Read More »

Categories : Business 101, Independence
Tags : retirement

One Small Blogger’s Copytrack Story

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Susan Baerwald Editor’s Note: This is a great example of copyright issues we can all potentially face and a shining example of AIIP’s community coming to the rescue. I’d like to share the story of my recent experience with Copytrack, a Berlin-based company that enforces image rights, in hopes that it might benefit others… Read More »

Categories : Independence
Tags : copyright, member benefits

Nonprofits & Competitive Intelligence: A Good Combination

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Yvonne Davis Competitive intelligence is a process for evaluating your organization and its business position within a given industry.   Before there is a collective “throwing of hands in the air” and saying we are not Procter & Gamble or Nvidia (big companies familiar with their competitors), let’s take a look at some of… Read More »

Categories : Independence
Tags : clients, competitive intelligence, nonprofits

AIIP BLOG LEGACY CONTENT from January 2021

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

Editor’s note: Occasionally we post legacy content that is still relevant today. Enjoy this piece By Kelly Schrank. Before I get started, I want to offer this disclaimer: I know that lots of people like checklists! People have TO-DO lists for daily tasks, they have packing lists for travel, they use grocery lists. But Atul Gawande,… Read More »

Categories : Independence, Tools of the Trade
Tags : checklists, running an info business
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