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THE MONSTER.COM INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL (IP) NEWSLETTER

THIS WEEK: Tech Guru Goes Solo, But He's Not Alone

Monster's IP zone is your online career home, whether you want to
start a new business, test out a new industry or strike out on your
own. What's up in the Independent Professional zone this week?

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IN THIS ISSUE: Week of December 3, 2000

-- FREE AGENT GUIDE: Tech Guru Goes Solo, But He's Not Alone
-- WEB FREEBIES AND FINDS: Swap Banner Ads for Free
-- HEARD ON THE BOARD: Healer Needs to Get Back in Touch
-- THE INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL ZONE POLL: What's your No. 1 New
   Millennium's Resolution?
-- MONSTER TALENT MARKET: "A Geek Who Can Communicate"

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FREE AGENT GUIDE:
Tech Guru Is a Virtual Boss and an Actual Success Story

Information technology guru Jeff Loyd went solo four years ago, but
that doesn't mean he always works alone. Project by project, Loyd
assembles a virtual team of custom-tailored, just-in-time talent.
Alyson Preston spoke with Loyd about his best-of-both-worlds approach
to the IT consulting business.

http://content.talentmarket.monster.com/weeklysuccess/

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WEB FREEBIES AND FINDS: Swap Banner Ads for Free

Want to advertise your business and drive traffic to your Web site
without making an expensive media buy? Try the free banner ad exchange
services offered by bCentral, SmartAge or HyperBanner. Your ad gets
placed on targeted Web sites around the world, and in exchange, you
place ads from other banner-exchange customers on your own site. The
catch? You may have to display two ads on your own site for every one
ad for your own business that gets placed on other sites.

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HEARD ON THE BOARD:
Healer Needs to Get in Touch with Marketing Network

Monster member Lynn recently asked: "Help! I'm among many who find
myself pushing 50 and starting over.... I've worked as an
administrator for 30 years and graduated a few years ago from two
well-known and established hands-on healing schools.... Any
suggestions regarding marketing, advertising, etc. are welcome."

The Free Agent Advisor answers: "The key to your initial marketing
campaign should probably be any and all connections that you've made
through the healing schools that you attended.... Alumni who live very
near you would presumably be in competition with you for clients. But
grads who work elsewhere should be interested in sharing tips and
experiences with you. See if the school can put you in touch with
them. If there's no online forum for other grads of your healing
schools, you might consider starting one yourself. Here are two portal
sites that let you do this easily and for free...."

Read the rest here:
http://forums.monster.com/viewmessage.asp?messageid=716136

Got your own question? Post it to one of our two Independent
Professional experts:

Ask the Free Agent Advisor
http://my.monster.com/forum.asp?forum=800

Ask the Work-from-Home Coach
http://my.monster.com/forum.asp?forum=801

Or chat live with the Free Agent Advisor Thursdays at 9 p.m. E.S.T. or
with the Work-from-Home Coach Tuesdays at 8 p.m. E.S.T.. For either
chat, log in to Monster.com Chats and join us in the
#Events room.

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THE MONSTER.COM INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL POLL: We Ask, You Answer

Last week we asked: What's your No. 1 New Millennium's Resolution?

You said:
-- Increase billings 33%
-- Save for retirement 29%
-- Clean off my desk 13%
-- Terminate nasty clients 12%
-- Reduce workload 11%

This week's question: How do you charge your clients?

Cast your vote here:
http://independentprofessional.monster.com

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MONSTER TALENT MARKET: A Geek Who Says (S)he Knows How to Speak

Here are three of the more than 34,000 auctions posted by over 122,000
independent professionals in the Monster Talent Market:

**WHIP CRACKER**
The talent: "Executive Construction Manager"
The target project: "Construction management of projects that are in
need of rapid infusion of leadership to get the project back on track
and keep it there."
The desired rate: $50 per hour

**THE EXECUTIVE'S FREUD**
The talent: "Consulting Psychologist"
The target project: "Human resource consulting work in the area of
selection, succession planning, executive assessment and coaching,
performance management, organization surveys, or training and
facilitation."
The desired rate: $175 per hour

**WONDER OF WONDERS**
The talent: "A Geek Who Can Communicate"
The target project: "Legacy systems (COBOL, CICS, IMS, DB2, SQL), SAS
DBA, Eztrieve reporting, web site development."
The desired rate: $45 per hour

Check out the Talent Market and build your own project or profile:
http://talentmarket.monster.com

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