Category: Business
Freelancing and the NDA
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Our first stop in legal week is the NDA. What is an NDA? We’ll start by defining what an NDA is. According to Wikipedia an NDA is: An NDA creates a confidential relationship between the parties to protect any type of confidential and proprietary information or trade secrets. As such, an NDA protects nonpublic business
Legal Week
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Woohooo contracts and legal stuff – said no freelancer ever. Despite how much we may hate dealing with the legal aspect of our business it’s something we can’t overlook. Would you like to forget a contract then have no recourse when someone walks away without paying you? Would you like to set up your business
I think you’re a super hero
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I can’t do everything with WordPress. Want custom rewrite rules, yeah regex is a black art and the WordPress rewrite API is a pain in my opinion. When I need rewrites I hire Brady and he knows his rewrite rules. He rocks. I’d love to tell you that when you’re starting to freelance you say
Familiar fast and worth charging for
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I was talking with a freelancer recently that takes on installing WordPress and a theme to your host. They charge $500 for the service and it’s basically an ‘install and handoff’ service. I know what you may be thinking: Who on earth would pay for that. I mean you click install on the hosts cPanel
Warning: Your Clients check you out
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Part of my client vetting process is to look them up on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other random searches online. It’s simply good practice to do that. You can learn a lot about a person from their interactions when they think no one is looking. If you think that clients aren’t doing the same then
Identify your income cycle
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When you start running your own business you are going to find that some months are awesome income wise and others are less than stellar. I’ve noticed that there is a yearly cycle in my income and I’m going to share it with you today. Yearly Cycle The biggest trend that I’ve noticed is that
Shoe horn client communication
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I love systems, they make things so much easier for me. I can track everything and keep email out of my inbox. A well used PM system is awesome. Most clients don’t like them at all but we (and I used to) force them into using it. We tell them we won’t respond to emails
How I watched my 2 year old learn about exclusion
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Early in September on what turned out to be one of the last amazing weather weekends of the summer my family and I went camping. My 2 year old daughter got to use her Disney Princess sleeping bag and had half of a 6 man tent to herself. It was totally awesome. She got to
What Billing Software to use?
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What billing software I use (or what I recommend) is a question I get all the time. Currently I use Ronin and it’s pretty good. I’ve got a full review in the works that will highlight my loves and hates with Ronin in the next few weeks. Update October 2, 2013: Ronin was purchased by
How safe is your business from your spending habits?
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The new iPhone launched last week and like many of you I’m excited to get it. I’m still on an iPhone 4 (stupid 3 year contracts in Canada) which is a bit slow and getting long in the tooth. I really notice the speed when I have to do something on my wife’s 4s. Despite
