Category: Business
Shuttered Offices and Retained Earnings
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So Zynga is closing down offices. Not totally a surprise since it hasn’t been doing hot for a while and huge offices with massive banners cost a bunch of money. When I see these companies that rose fast, and are crashing fast I always wonder how much operating cash they have. How much did the
Bigger Must be Better, Right??
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So this article is talking about the math of consumer facing apps when it comes to growth. It basically says that unless you’re viral (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) it’s really hard to get from 1 million users to 10M. I can’t dispute that, it’s an order of magnitude difference. I do ask why 10M is better
Payment on Unfinished Business
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One of the podcasts I’ve picked up recently has been Unfinished Business, which is all about running a web consultancy (or freelance business). Episode 3 talked about getting paid. In Short always take a deposit if you sub-contract work, make sure you have the $$ on hand to pay them always have a contract The
Small Clients
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I looked at my January income but wanted to give you a better behind the scenes look at how the month almost went. Things Change Fast Looking at the last week of January I was sitting at around $6k of income in the month. I had some outstanding invoices that were due in February that
January 2013 Income Report
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It’s time for the first income report for 2013. If you’re not familiar with my goals, here they are. One thing you notice is that I never state what I made in 2012. So sure I’m shooting for $100k but if I did $98k the year previous, it’s a reasonably easy goal. So here it
How Not to Get Work
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If the missed posts on this site weren’t a giveaway, I’m really busy with work. Clients keep coming my way with budgets and cool projects. So I’ve been cautiously poking around to build a bit of a team. How Not to Get Work I work 99% with WordPress. I build themes, custom plugins, and web
Billing for Travel Time
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Deciding exactly what to bill for is a bit personal and a bit trial and error. When I started out, I did not bill to travel to meetings, but that was a beginner mistake. Can’t Bill Anyone Else The turning point came after a year of being freelance. A client wanted me to get in
Charge for Everything
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Going to talk a bit about billing again today, more specifically dealing with email/project management time. Something I always include on estimates is a specific amount of time for dealing with emails and project management. I move the number of hours up or down based on the scope of the project. Now I also state
Review Copies and ROI
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If you don’t know it I released my first product last week, a book called Becoming a WordPress Development Professional. Along with the book has come requests for review copies. This is something I’ve been unsure about how to deal with. On one hand, I’m happy to give out review copies to get the book
Managers Who forget are damaging
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I recently came across a great article about US manufacuring facilities bringing things back from China. Turns out that with rising oil costs, increased wages in China, and innovations at home, they can actually make things cheaper and faster in the US again. While that’s interesting, it’s not the focus of this post, just the