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Thriving as a Solo Expert: 4 Counter-Intuitive Strategies You Haven’t Tried

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 at 03:43 PM 

Being an independent consultant can feel isolating, especially as technology and AI rapidly reshape our profession. Without the resources of large organizations, solo experts must develop a new form of strategic leverage.

Categories : Growing Your Business, Industry Partners, Networking, Tools of the Trade
Tags : business growth, collaboration, community, networking, running an info business, shared resources

Real Information – Artificial Intelligence: Prompting AI, Part 2

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 at 12:07 PM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools.  In the last post, I gave a guide to the basic principles of prompting – knowing your objective and recognizing how prompts can bias responses. This time, we explore… Read More »

Categories : Hot Topic, Information Skills, Tools of the Trade
Tags : AI Prompting

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

AI Scams – AIIP Series on Artificial Intelligence, Part 4

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 at 10:26 AM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This is part of a series covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools.  When I started this blog, my aim was twofold: 

Categories : Information Skills, Tools of the Trade
Tags : AI

Real Information – Artificial Intelligence: the AIIP AI blog – March 2025

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 at 11:00 AM 

By Arthur Weiss Editor’s note: This will be the first in a series of blog posts – covering what’s new and, more importantly, how infopreneurs can maximize the benefits of AI tools. I wrote a blog post on AI apps for Infopreneurs a couple of months ago. Since then, multiple announcements have come from the… Read More »

Categories : Tools of the Trade
Tags : AI, Generative AI

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

AI Apps for Infopreneurs

Posted by AIIP 
· Thursday, October 31st, 2024 at 01:01 PM 

By Arthur Weiss Every 25-30 years, a new technology emerges that transforms infopreneurship. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, online databases such as Dialog, LexisNexis, and CompuServe emerged. Twenty-five years later, in the late 1990s, the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, transformed the landscape – and to be successful, infopreneurs had to become… Read More »

Categories : Information Skills, Tools of the Trade
Tags : AI, infopreneur

Running a virtual event for a client

Posted by AIIP 
· Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 at 11:00 AM 

By Denise Carter What do you do when a client requests your help to run a virtual event?  First things first – create a checklist. A checklist helps you communicate with your client and with speakers and makes sure everyone has all the information they need at the right time.

Categories : Business 101, Tools of the Trade
Tags : running an info business, virtual events
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