Category: Business

  • 2 Tips to help you become a 6 figure WordPress consultant

    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

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  • Pushing through when freelancing is just another job

    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

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  • 6 Figure Business Expenses

    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

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  • 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

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  • 6 Figure WordPress Consulting

    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

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  • What’s the purpose of your productivity?

    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

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  • My Final Words

    My Final Words

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    OK, so here goes my last and final post of this series… I think it’s important to summarize what we’ve talked about all week. When I think about the things that I could share, there are hundreds of them. What I’ve touched on this week is what I feel has been vitally important to OUR

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  • Support Your Non-Entrepreneurial Spouse

    Support Your Non-Entrepreneurial Spouse

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    I’ve talked a lot about how I support Curtis in his business ventures, but I think it’s important to talk about how he supports me and the things that I want to pursue. Please know that I’m not expert in marriage, but we’ve got 10 years of experience, one beautiful daughter and a second child

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  • Be Your Spouse’s Sounding Board

    Be Your Spouse’s Sounding Board

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    Even before I became a part of the daily to do’s of Curtis’ business I was his sounding board. This falls under support, but I think it’s important enough to merit it’s own post. Whether you are business savvy or not you are your spouse’s sounding board. What exactly do I mean by that? Well,

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  • Boundaries

    Boundaries

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    Something that I am asked often as the wife of a “work at home” man is how it works. What people are really asking me is what the boundaries are. There seems to be this false impression out there that being self employed and working from home offers the ultimate freedom. I think a lot

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