Month: December 2013
Recapping 2013
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Tomorrow is 2014 so today I’m doing a recap on my goals of 2013. Recapping 2013 You can see my 2013 goals here. At the beginning of the year I was doing monthly income reports but they stopped after a couple months. Truth is, it takes a long time to get them done and I…
Another opinion on specializing
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One of my favourite podcasts is 48 Days to the Work you Love. Just as I have been talking about specializing to earn more, Dan just talked about it on his podcast. It’s worth your time to listen to him every week but if you can’t get another podcast in Listen to this episode about…
The path to becoming a 6 figure specialist
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This is our 4th post talking about 6 figure consulting. So far we’ve covered the real numbers it takes to bring home 6 figures, then we took a bit deeper dive in to my expenses using real numbers. Yesterday we took a look at 2 tips for becoming a 6 figure WordPress consultant. Today we’re…
2 Tips to help you become a 6 figure WordPress consultant
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I’ve already written about one of the kickback points from my 6 Figure WordPress Consulting post when I broke down my expenses. The second push back I got was that someone doing WordPress could even make $60k let alone invoice over $100k. I’ve done it. I can think of many people that invoice over $150k…
Pushing through when freelancing is just another job
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News this week in the cycling world is the retirement of former US Champion Timmy Duggan. At 31 Timmy in theory had many years left racing. In they eyes of so many he had a dream job. Get up and ride your bike and get money for it. But it wasn’t fun anymore. The passion…
6 Figure Business Expenses
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I had a bit of push back on my article last week about 6 Figure Consulting. Specifically around my expenses. In that article I said that I pay about 25% in taxes and save 5% for a rainy day. Then about 20% goes to business expenses. For me that’s tracked for the last 3 years…
Supporting Women in WordPress
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Yesterday Post Status turned out another awesome edition of it’s Who’s Hiring series. I know that series has helped companies find great people and great people find great work. Post Status is awesome and I love that they give back to the community. Unfortunately yesterday we saw the terrible beast of objectifying women raise it’s…
Which Project Management and Time Tracking Sofware
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Today a secret listener asks what project management and timer software I use. Trello FreeAgent
6 Figure WordPress Consulting
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There is a perception out there that WordPress is easy and a quick way to make money. Here is a summary of a question I got recently. I work at a 6 figure job doing Windows coding. I want to get out on my own but need a similar income. I always thought that I’d…
What’s the purpose of your productivity?
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If you’re reading this site it’s probably because you want to learn to run a better business and be more productive. But to what end? When you can get more done in less time are you just going to add more to the schedule so that you work the same amount of hours? When you…