Category: Business
Awesome landing page by Shawn Blanc for Delight is in the Details
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I’m just working through my landing page for my upcoming book on running a viable freelance business but after looking at Shawn’s page I wonder if I should go back to the drawing board and do some more design. It’s really beautiful.
The power of ‘no’ in bussiness
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I’ve started to read Getting Things Done again and within the first few pages I’ve been struck with one thought. People don’t say no enough Let’s look at a few of my highlights already. All the emphasis is mine. …people have enhanced quality of life, but at the same time they are adding to their
The Old Reader and Hell
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I read this post on The Old Reader and the short story is that once Google Reader announced a shut down the people running The Old Reader got super busy. So busy that the owners became idiots. Yes you read that right they became idiots. Such idiots in fact that they stopped having a life
Adopting a Legacy WordPress Site
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I was asked to provide a guest post for Post Status about client services and I decided to walk through adopting a legacy WordPress site. The post shows you how I walk through getting the site set up for development and how I approach letting the client know something is happening.
Are you selling the dream or a feature list?
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What are you selling me? Yeah sure it’s a service and you’ve got features but that’s not what really sells me on your product. WPtroubleshooter Take a look at WPtroubleshooter, what are they selling? On the surface they’re selling security, backups, development, spam clean up and a few other things. But that’s not what they’re
Inbox 0 with Mailbox and Boomerang
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I try to accomplish inbox 0 each day. It doesn’t always happen but I almost never have more than 2 or 3 emails sitting in my inbox at the end of the day. I certainly don’ think that inbox 0 is the ‘dream’ that some people do. I see it on a regular basis. The
Content consumer vs content publisher
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When it comes to my online presences I am two things. Their order changes based on context. Consumer of content Content publisher I often find that based on context my desires/actions are 100% opposed. Consumer of content As a consumer of content I’m critical of titles. I hate to see something sensational in the tile
New post on WP Realm: Upgrade your client services with documentation
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I’m trying to contribute to some other sites and today I put up an article on WP Realm about how you can improve you clients services (and charge a bit more) by providing proper documentation. Comments are off so if you have stuff to add visit the post.
Shipping often – not just for SAAS
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You need to read this article on shipping software. It’s not just true for SAAS software it’s true for client services. Decreasing your code shipping time can improve your client relationships. Let my walk you through how I deploy code and databases during site development and why I think it helps my client relationships. One
Looking a Medium
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Medium looks really interesting as a content platform. There are reasons that the content seems to be higher quality (and read the comments) than on personally run blogs. At the same time there are reasons you may not want to write on Medium The design card Medium demolishes and destroys Blogger and WordPress.com in design…
