Month: September 2018
Freelance Friday 023 – Sept 14 2018
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This week I started to plan out my next book. Yes I just finished and launched one, and I’m going to launch another one before US Thanksgiving. I can do it that fast because it’s an update of the first book I ever wrote and published. It was called “Don’t be an Idiot: Run a…
Adding to Favourites in Files iOS
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Being iOS first in my workflow means that I’m in the Files App regularly. Like multiple times a day. After 6 months of using Files I realized that I hadn’t ever used the favorites section in Files. Adding Folders to Files Favorites The first thing I wanted to do was add a location, like iCloud,…
Is Social Media Worth My Time?
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In my reading recently I came across the three articles linked below all of which have me thinking about the hamster wheel that we all participate in to some extent. This is the hamster wheel of content creation. Image/brand building. Showing our life off to others in an effort to … what? I’ve been killing…
Blogging Isn’t Dead, You Just Don’t Value It
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As many people have moved to Mastodon or Micro.blog because they feel Twitter sucks and Facebook is the devil, I’ve seen many discussions wondering if any social media platform is good? Blogging is usually brought up as what everyone really wants to come back, but most admit they don’t write. The big question is, why…
When Do You Charge for Calls as a Freelancer?
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I was talking with a group of freelancer’s recently and the question came up of when to charge for calls, and how much to charge for them. Some people always charged for calls, while some never did. Some people had a 30 minute consult for free and charged for the next call. Some people did…
Should we revamp work day to match school days?
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They at least start to ask that question well here. But then they fail by saying that we should be moving a school day to work with a work day. We should be moving a work day to align with what we have for a school day now. We work way too many hours as…
Freelance Friday 022 – Sept 7 2018
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If you missed getting my book The Art of Focus make sure you get it now. Next week I’m marking the price up again. This is going to be your last chance to get it for $.99 What I Shipped Monday I talked about the importance of deliberate practice. If you’re not spending time getting…
The Easy 3 Bucket System to Win at Writing
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It doesn’t matter what you do, you need to attract clients. You need to prove that you’re trustworthy. You need to continue to bring leads in to your pipeline. One of the best long term ways to do this is to start writing and publishing that writing. Yeah I know you’re a “developer” or a…
The “lazy” people we have lauded in the past
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On Darwin: But at the same time, his days don’t seem very busy to us. The times we would classify as “work” consist of three 90-minute periods. If he had been a professor in a university today, he would have been denied tenure. If he’d been working in a company, he would have been fired…
So Author’s and Social Media
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Hrm, need to send this one to my book coach. They tell me I must use social media to make book sales and this, from an author, contradicts that. Social media is not a way to grow your “fame”, it’s a reflection of your fame. Outside of a few outliers like Shit My Dad Says,…
