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.






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.
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 »
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 »
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:
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
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