Category: Business
Credit Cards and a different world
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Whenever I bring up the subject of finances I start talking about Credit Cards. Almost the only point that people ever get stuck on is that I say credit cards are a stupid idea. Somehow I manage to talk to (daily) the few percentage of people who don’t spend more because they use a credit
3 stubborn days of pain
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It was a Tuesday and I’d been fighting a headache since Saturday. I’m not the type to just take a pill at the drop of a hat. Not trying to be tough I just think that we too easily reach for medication to sort out issues that are trivial. Well that Tuesday I mentioned the
Sure you’re fast but that doesn’t mean you charge less
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I was talking to a fairly new freelancer (running for about a year) about pricing recently. Let’s be honest pricing is super hard. I’ve been at this for 5 years (4 fulltime on my own) and I have days when I’m not confident in my pricing. We have all been there and we will all
Pride and Pricing
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I charge $5000 to have a basic WordPress site designed and built for a client. A basic eCommerce site design and build costs $7000. If there is any real custom work (a bunch of custom post types or author stuff or custom plugins) then prices go up from there. If you have a PSD and
Big bad mighty ‘might’
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How many times has a client come to you with an IDEA but is afraid that someone else will steal it? Sometimes they are even afraid that you are going to steal it. How about yourself how many ideas do you have that you are afraid to talk about because someone might steal it? The
Juggling Business
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When you learn to juggle you start with 1 ball and get comfortable with it. Then you add a 2nd and then a 3rd… I dabbled with juggling in my teens but never got good at using 2 balls even. I’ve been thinking about juggling more and more lately as I think about my business.
Sub-contracting and client communication
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I get ‘flown in’ for team augmentation on a fairly regular basis now. The team has something that’s outside of their regular abilities and it’s right in mine so we work together for a week or two. Out of that I’ve had a few experiences with communication with the clients. Setting the ground rules First
Confidence to Change Pricing Models
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I’ve had more than one person ask how I changed to a weekly pricing model. The eaisiest version is that I just didn’t give clients an option of anything else but I suppose there is a bit more. I was nervous I first wrote about weekly pricing quite a while ago. Read the article at
PayPal now accepted and I was a hypocrite
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If you’ve already bought my book or heard me speak at WordCamp Vancouver then you know I’m against credit cards. They are not a great idea at all, at least not how they are typically used. Heck I even blogged about it already. But I was a hypocrite If you did purchase my book already
When is an invoice #paidpaid
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Billing is one of the harder parts of freelancing. You’re done the work and waiting to get paid. Outside of simply not being paid (which has happened a few times and sucks huge) one of the biggest issues clients bring up is how you count when something is paid. Just last weekend (as I’m winding
