Author: Curtis McHale
Speed and Pricing
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When you start any type of work you’re slow. When I started building WordPress themes it took me 2 weeks to get something that I’d barely say is halfway passable (looking back at it now). Now that I’ve been building themes for 5 years I can build a basic theme that would pass all of
The Definitive Guide to Freelance Pricing
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Pricing is damn hard. If anyone tells you they have it all figured out ask them again in 6 months and it’s likely they’re doing something just a bit different then last time you talked to them. I get asked about pricing all the time and to start our Pricing Series we’re going to take
5 ways to get more business when you think it’s time to quit freelancing
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I’d love to tell you that every month of running my own business is roses but I’d be lying. The fact is that there are some months when income is low and I seriously question whether I’m any good at my job. I know from talking to other freelancers that they feel the same way
My billing method is a time management tool
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One of the reasons I love weekly billing is that it’s so easy to overbook yourself with other billing methods. When I work hourly I continually ‘manufactured’ hours simply because I figured I could find time to get things done. That left me over committed all the time. There was no margin in my days.
Charge like you’ve got 10 years extra experience
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There was an interesting question on the WordPress Reddit group recently about turning WordPress in to a business. As a summary a 17 year old person has built a few sites but really wanted to turn it in to a business. My Issue I took issue with some of the advice offered, specifically the thought
Some initial thoughts on CRM tools
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Clients are the life of any freelancer’s business. You should always be marketing to and talking to possible new clients to keep your pipeline full of work. Let it drop off and you’d better go find a fridge box to live in. Enter the CRM If you don’t know what a CRM is lets get
So you want to start freelancing
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Save 3 – 6 months of expenses I lean strongly towards 6 months. Then it’s about knowledge, here are some books I strongly recommend. Get a contract and NDA My Contract My NDA General Reading Quitter EntreLeadership Learn about Marketing Get Clients Now Book Yourself Solid Duct Tape Marketing Guerilla Marketing Learn about Pricing The
I just turned off email on my phone
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I’m a huge proponent of GTD. I use it to run my whole business and pretty much all of my life tasks. GTD is all about removing cognitive load by putting tasks and notes in a trusted system. For me that system is OmniFocus and Evernote. The thing is that I break my own system
How much is your attitude?
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The garden needed to be cleaned. It had a winter’s worth of pine cones and pine needles in it. There were weeds everywhere. It looked terrible. There I stood making the communal townhouse garden presentable grumbling under my breath about the injustice of it all. I’m the one who does most of the snow shoveling
Do you do hosting for clients?
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No is the short answer.
