Category: Business
No More Hourly Pricing
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Like many consultants I bill hourly for my time, and it certainly seemed to work fine for the last few years. I’ve been thinking a lot about my pricing lately though and I’m no longer convinced that pricing hourly is really a great idea. Ron lays out a compelling argument as to why cost plus
Writing Good Content, When you have a Passion for it
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While the article in question is not primarily about writing good content, it’s got a few gems for those trying to create it. The most pertinent for me was: Every time you publish an article on your website, ask yourself: “Would anyone share this article for any reason?” If the answer is “no” then you
Looking at Freelance Writing
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It’s not news to any regular that I’d love to take this site full time. I’d love to write and code just the things that I truly have a passion for. To that end I’ve been looking around at writing for some other sites to get my name out in a wider audience. The big
Your Cashflow – Not my Problem
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During my years running my own web business I’ve both taken work on a sub-contract, and sub-contracted out work when I need help. While it can be a great thing, it can also be a big pain in the ass. I’m not talking about the managing of other people, that’s just par for hiring or
Throw Away TODO Items
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Eric Davis asks a simple one line question. What would happen if you threw away 10% of your TODO items every day, not finished threw away. So I took a look at my TODO list and realized that at least 10% of it is simply things I mean to do at some point. They’ve been
Oh the Elusive Blog Subscriber
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First off, props to @matthewlang for pointing out this article which inspired the post. If you’ve been reading for a while you know I’m trying to grow my readership with the far future intent of writing more than I’m coding. Really I want to stop trading time for money and I enjoy writing lots. To
In a ‘surprising’ turn of events – Advertisers are going to act like slimeballs
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Back in the beginning of August I wrote a bit about Microsoft doing the right thing by having do not track on by default. Well recently an advertiser spoke up about it again saying that the industry would ignore IE and do not track. “The industry will not honor that flag,” he says. “I’m not
Yes I Just Marked You as Spam
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In the last few weeks I’ve been getting an increasing amount of emails from all the social networks I’m a part of. Linkedin started doing news, and felt I needed another email. Twitter decided to start emailing me friend suggestions. Further back, they decided I needed some sort of summary email each week. Facebook decided
A Managers Job Should be to Enable Subordinates
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Recently a friend of mine on App.net (who wishes to remain unamed) was lamenting the fact that his manager wanted a list of the tasks he was to perform each day, and a second list of what tasks actually got accomplished. While I could talk about getting treated like an adult and being left alone
Are You Lying on Your Estimates?
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As a self-employeed web developer, I also have to do all my own estimates on projects. This has taught me something crucial. I’ve been pretty bad at it. In the past I’d put down things like ’10 hours for featur XX’ without actually having a break down of what feature XX looked like. This is
