Category: Business
My daily scrum with James Strocel
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A friend of mine has been looking for a job lately. To aid in his search he started a great daily scrum video. If you’re not familial with a scrum report, it’s also known as a ‘stand up’. Basically James goes over the things he’s struggling with in his projects and how he’s trying to
We are all Sales people
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Great post from Brian about being a sales person. If you’re freelancing you are not really a developer you are in sales. If you can’t sell yourself then you simply won’t have a business anymore.
I Have the Power
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I wrote last week about Plugging other Developers and how I think it’s an awesome way to market your services. No it’s not as fast but it builds long term fans. Even better is that you can really make someone’s day when you say something good about them. By plugging someone else’s services I have
John’s got it wrong: Auto-updates are a place for innovation
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But one feature that that iOS 7 is bringing to the table is auto-updates for users for their apps – at first glance this seems like a really good idea but I think it’s the exact opposite. I think it’s a terrible idea. John Saddington I should start this post by saying that I’m not
Where’s the total cost of ownership Flywheel
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I love trying out new services but I hate how secretive people are about the prices of their ‘beta’ services. Being so secrective means I’m not even going to bother trying the free account. Flywheel Hosting Flywheel sounds pretty awesome actually. Possibly even worth me moving off my Media Temple GS. Unfortunately I see nothing
ROI on WP Pros
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WP Daily launched WP Pros last week and I was able to get in before launch. In the interest of disclosure, I was given a limited time free account. The real question with any service like this, is how do you decide if it’s worth $20/month (or whatever your particular cost is)? I’ll show you
Mentor Yet?
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The longer I’ve been running a business, the more I want to input in to others. When I think of the type of person I want to hire I often think about the coder that has a bit of experince but needs some molding. When I think about my business, I keep coming back to
Have a Better Monday
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Carrie has a great post about how to have a great Monday next week. My top tip is to not check my email. I decide Friday what I’m going to do Monday till noon and that is what I do. Way to easy to get bogged down with things that just aren’t important.
You Better Say No!!
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A very typical outcause of such an activity as this is that one realizes how impossible it is to sustain such busyness as well as how incredibly hard it will be to move forward with a new project or new career or vocation while having all these other things in tow. Great article from John
I Don’t Ask for Referral Fees
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This week I wrote about why you should be plugging others in your field, today we’re going to address the topic of referral fees. Referral What? For those that may not be familiar with the concept it goes something like this. I send you work and because I was nice enough to send you work,
