Category: Business
If You Avoid Sites like Upwork, how do you find work?
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https://youtu.be/yRl0a6igKnA6 I get why people ask this question, they just don’t have a name yet. No one knows that they provide their services. The thing that Upwork and similar sites provide is clients looking for people to do work. Drawbacks to Upwork and similar sites clients often racing to lower pricing you’re competing with lots…
You need support at home
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For you to achieve extraordinary results, the people surrounding you and your physical surroundings must support your goals. – The ONE Thing According to Shawn Achor, in The Happiness Advantage, the biggest predictor of success through hard times is the support you have around you. Achor was looking at the workplace and hard projects, but…
Sometimes You Forget Why You Started a Business
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I forget the exact year now, but I was employee 6 at 10up. When Jake tweeted about looking for people I was so tired of clients. I was looking for a lifeline. It always seemed like there was some issue with the clients I had. They didn’t pay on time. They always wanted discounts. They…
Follow Your Passion…and Buy My $4000 Bullshit Course to Find Out How
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While I don’t follow social media much anymore, it seems that any time I dip in the best latest article that people are sharing is some guru writing about how you need to follow you passion. They tell you that once they started to just do what they wanted, the money came rolling in. Of…
10 Ways to Stand Out from the Crowd as a WordPress Developer
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We get to work in an amazing industry. We get to work with a number of clients from small businesses where we help make dreams come true, to large corporations on huge projects. But this industry depth also means that it can be hard to stand out as a freelancer or an agency. In fact,…
Why Comparison is Killing Your Business and How to Stop
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There is an interesting study that says we’d rather make $30k a year knowing that everyone else makes $28k than make $36k knowing everyone else makes $38k. This seems crazy to me because in the second scenario we are making $6k a year more. But the research doesn’t lie. It’s been done over and over…
Tall Poppies Provide Value, It’s Time To Be One
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Here’s a baseline fact about selling: People buy from people they like. You will never have the opportunity to pitch your products or services if you’re not first authentically connecting to your potential client. – From Frustrated To Frickin Awesome Do you know who your audience is? Are you speaking to them? A few months…
Making Decisions the Extreme Programming Way
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One of the key thoughts if you want to implement extreme programming is that there are two types of decisions. First, you have business decisions. What features are most needed? What brings the highest value to the business? Second, we have technical decisions. How are the features implemented in the project? Each of these decisions…
Is there a price to freelancer freedom?
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However, the price of such freedom is a precariousness that seems not to subside over time. Even the most successful, well-established people we interviewed still worry about money and reputation and sometimes feel that their identity is at stake. You can’t keep calling yourself a consultant, for example, if clients stop asking for your services.…
How to Get the “right stuff”
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You should never wait to pursue a dream or add value out of fear that you lack the “right stuff.” High Performance happens because of what you deliberately think and do on a routine basis in order to excel and serve at higher levels. – High Performance Habits I started writing WordPress tutorials as soon…
